Maintainer: Vardhman Jain
FlickrExport Kipi-plugin allows the user to upload photos to the Flickr web service.
Flickr is an online photo management application on internet. Flickr is a way to get your photos to the people who matter to you. With Flickr you can show off your favorite photos to the world, blog the photos you take with a cameraphone, and securely and privately show photos to your friends and family around the world.
The FlickrExport plugin can be used to upload image collection from your host to the remote flickr server using internet.
Plugin intialization on First access
On accessing the plugin for the first time the user is taken through the process of obtaining a token. Which is used for authentication purposes. Following dialog will popup and a browser window will be launched where user will signup in to Flickr.
On successful signup FlickrUploadr will be allowed to send photos to flickr website. The user will be presented with the following page on successful signup.
Simply close the browser windows and return to the host application Dialog. On clicking Yes, user will see the interface to upload photos to Flickr. Described in the next section.
The Regular Plugin Usage
When the flickrexport plugin is invoked for second time or later the user is greeted with the following dialog, which shows the current access permissions flickrexport plugin has. The uploading process requires "write" permissions. The plugin doesn't allow any other permission as of now. User is asked if he wants to proceed with his current permissions.
On clicking Yes, user will see the interface to upload photos to Flickr.
On clicking No, the authentication process is repeated.
This Main upload dialog is shown belows.
The Add Photos button should be clicked once user has set in the other options in the dialog. On clicking this button user a image selector dialog opens up, user can select the photos he wants to upload and click ok. On clicking ok the image uploading starts.
The Tags field can be filled with a series of words (comma seperated) which will be assigned as tags to the images uploaded.
The Public, Friends, and Family Checkbox can be checked to have appropriate access permission on the images you upload. By default the images upload are private.
If the Resize photos before uploading option is selected, the photos will be resized before uploading.
The values will be read from the Maximum dimension combobox.
The Maximum Dimension combobox can be used to adjust the maximum height to which the photos will be resized before uploading.
The width calculation will be done so as to have the aspect ratio conserved.
Finally user can view the uploaded photos by visting Flickr website.
