#6 revisited - even more flickr fun

It appears that my effort at excercise #6 "more flickr fun" did not demonstrate that I did what was required. So I've decided to have a play with another flickr mashup. I decided to make a magazine cover.

It was relatively easy to do although a fair bit of trial and error was required. You have to enter the text while looking at a template (that does not include your image) to get a rough idea of how it might look. You then create the new image to see if it worked out. If it needs adjustments, you go back & try again. It would have been much simpler with real time changes being visible on the final product.

Having said that, it is a wonderfully fun thing to play with and I could see myself wasting plenty of time on it :-)

#6 - more flickr fun

I had a poke around to look at some of the different flickr mashups out there. To really have some fun with most of them I would have prefered to have a bunch of my own pics up there already. One that cought my attention and worked well with other people's pics was photo wall.

It basically scatters a bunch of thumbnail pics over the screen and gradually changes them over. You can select pics in a number of ways. I chose to search by tag and tried "cape breton" - homeland of my lovely wife. It turned out to be a nice way to see a bunch of pics of the countryside, although at times it did end up showing a large number of the same photo. They are small and you don't get a lot of detail but it's an interesting way to browse the pics. You can click on a pic to see it in more detail if you so desire.

#5 - flickr

Childrens Library Seattle Central Library
Originally uploaded by brewbooks

For this exercise, we have two options: post a pic to flickr or find a pic & blog about it. I don't have a camera with me at work today so I'll take the second option.

I decided to the flickr's "blog this" function. It makes you write the blog post within flickr so I'm not exactly sure how it will organise the layout, although I seem to recall it asking if I wanted to set a layout template when I linked my blog to my flickr account. I guess we'll see what happens.

I chose a picture of the Children's section of the Seattle Central Library taken by flickr user brewbooks. I visited the library earlier this year and thought the kid's section was pretty cool. Lots of computers for them with signs saying they were for kids only.