Wedding Blog

There were some lingering questions over my last Flickr post, so I thought I’d help everyone out by putting the answers all in one spot!

1) How can you download all of the photos from Flickr??

While downloading individual photos from the galleries is quite easy, it would be insane to try and download everything that has been uploaded by your guests that way! Enter FlickrDown and your world just became incredibly easy! Simply authorize your account to use the program, select the photo sets you’d like or just “Select All Photos” and select the folder on your computer you’d like the photos to go into! Your photos will start downloading (even the ones you’ve set to “private” online) and they’ll all be on your hard drive.

2) Did you give everyone access to your private Flickr account?

Well, yes… and no. You see, we started the account specifically for the wedding… in fact the login name and password were specifically created to be really easy for our guests to remember. We printed it out on the biz cards, and in a couple of months, we’ll change the password and it’ll be our own little account for every year that we pay for it.

3) Why didn’t you use (insert commercial printing company here) instead? Isn’t that easier to order prints?

I specifically chose to use Flickr because I didn’t want to be confined to only getting their photos back as prints. Instead, I wanted to be able to digitally manipulate them, use them in a digital photo book (ie. Blurb), burn them to CD for archival purposes AND be able to make prints with any photo studio I’d like. Some people upload and order all of their photos from Kodak, Shutterfly, SonyImageStation, etc., and therefore directing people to those sites is just fine. However, I print almost all of my photos exclusively in albums now, and if I make prints I use a pro lab like Adorama.

4) How do you set the photos to “private” ? Won’t everyone who logs in from your wedding be able to see them?

You won’t be able to hide any of the photos from the people who login using your account information. That’s just sort of impossible to do when you’re sharing an account. Yet, you can set the images to “private” which will hide them from everyone who isn’t logged into your account at that time. From the ORGANIZE menu, simply use the ‘batch edit’ function to ‘change the permissions’ and set the images in those sets to private. You can put the same photos in multiple sets… so in my account each photo actually shows up in 2 sets: one is the set that the person uploaded the photos into, and the other is the set I designated the photo to go into.

Hopefully this helps everyone who is looking for an easier way to collect photos from people!