Deliberate.Serendipity

My husband’s got a proper tripod, and I have one of those small foldup mini-tripods in my camera case, but sometimes neither of those seems to do the job. Enter The Pod, which is essentially a beanbag with the added feature of a tripod screwmount built in. John, over at photodoto, has a new review of the Pod, complete with photos. It looks like a good purchase. I wonder if it’s available here in New Zealand. If it isn’t, I see that the Pod folks will ship internationally. Something I’ll have to keep in mind.

How do I remove photos from a set?

There are two ways to do this:

1. From the photo page, click the Add to Set button. Scroll down to the set and click the [x] next to the set name.
2. In the Organizr, open the set. Click and drag the thumbnail down into the bottom area. You will see that as you start to drag, a message will appear that says “Drop a photo here to remove it from a set.”

As anyone who uses Flickr with any regularity probably knows by now, Flickr moved from Beta to Gamma during the week. And the Help, Ideas, and Bug Forums have been running pretty hot since then. Lots of questions seem to be popping up about how to use the new Organizr, so I thought I’d summarise some of the answers here.

First, some things to keep in mind. The top half of the organizr is the workspace. Any of the commands you use will only affect photos in that space. The bottom strip is called the Findr. It is here that you can see the photos based on the search criteria that you specify, such as by tag, set, privacy, etc. In order to do any editing, you need to select the photos you want and move them up. To move photos from the Findr to the workspace, simply click and drag one of the selected photos and all selected photos will move up into the workspace (and become a “batch”).

How to Edit a selected batch of photos

Open Organizr, make sure the Batch Organize tab is the one open. Go down to the bottom, click the dropdown box (that defaults to All your photos) and choose your primary selection there (recent photos, set, etc). That’ll load those into the Findr strip.

Select the photos (if it’s all, click Select All; if it’s most, click Select All then ctrl-click the thumbnails you don’t want; if it’s some, ctrl-click the ones you want). Once you’ve got the ones you want selected, grab one of the selected thumbnails and drag it up to the main workspace. All the selected ones will come along too.

Click Edit Photos or if you want to add tags, click Add Tags.

My Findr has too many photos. How can I quickly scroll to some earlier ones?

The Organizr has a “jump to” date function.

On the right hand bottom side, you’ll see an arrow with Jump to Date and then a choice of date taken or date uploaded. Click the arrow and a calendar will appear. Select the date you want, and the Findr photos will scroll to that point in your photostream.

How can I see my photos by their privacy setting?

The new Organizr has some advanced search features, so that you can say “search for my family only photos tagged with xyz” or “show all my private photos”, etc.

At the bottom of the Organizr, next to the Search button, click the >More options link and the privacy filter will pop in. You can choose to show Public Only, Friends Only, Family Only, Friends and Family Only, and Private Only. Once those photos have loaded into the Findr strip, you can narrow down your search by tag or full text search within those results.

I’ll have more tips in a later post.

Once more, I’m trying out another new WordPress theme, this on called 5ThirtyOne by Derek Punsalan. I’m finding it very easy to read but with a few little popout surpises. Let me know what you think as I continue to tweak.