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Post edited 4:27 pm – June 7, 2009 by lauragibbs
Here's a question one of the Latin Tarheel Reader authors asked on the Latin teachers list – is it possible to reuse a Flickr image from one reader in another reader without having to search for it all over again? Here is her question (below); I'm not sure if she means an already-created page in ANOTHER reader, or in the same reader. I know how to make copies of pages in the same reader by holding down the control key, so I wrote and told her how to do that… but is there any way to reuse a Flickr image from a DIFFERENT reader…?
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Salvete omnes! If one wants to use a picture from an already-created page for a new page, is there a quick way to get it from the old page without having to search for it on Flickr again? Cut and paste or something? I used a picture of a dog from about p 35 of Flickr and looking for it again is annoying!
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4:38 pm
June 7, 2009
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Gary
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It is harder than it should be but it can be done. Go to the book with the picture you want and click the Photo Credits link below a picture. You’ll see thumbnails of the pictures from the book with a link by each. Click on the link for the picture you want. This will take you to its page on Flickr. Now scroll down the page on Flickr and look at the tags. Choose some unlikely ones and put them in your query separated by commas.
For example one of your books uses a picture of a fox. I went to its Flickr page and picked tags “Eric Begin” and “Fox”. So I typed “eric begin, fox” in the query box. That took me to a small collection of fox pictures.
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Aha, super – that will work! I was thinking there might be a way to use that long impressive-looking ID number that shows up next to the Flickr photos – but searching with some extra term to throw the search the right away is fine, too! Thanks, Gary!
P.S. I really like the “do math” alternative to the captcha thing to prevent spam at the forum here. That is really nice! Sometimes I have trouble with the captcha images (which is frustrating – because I really am a person, not a machine!). The math thing is much less frustrating! 
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8:54 am
June 14, 2009
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annapmagistra
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Is there anything to prevent you “saving as” and putting the desired image on your own computer, so that you can upload it easily to another book? You could create your own album of images you like (Roman woman, etc.), which would make searching easier.
Thanks for all your help!
Ann Martin
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9:38 am
June 14, 2009
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Gary
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Nothing in the system would prevent you from doing that (saving a picture from Flickr and uploading it) but that would violate the terms of use at Flickr. We are required by the terms of use to include a link to the photographer.
Also, uploading pictures repeatedly uses lots of disk space at the site. When I get a change I'll try to modify the search so it will accept the picture ids.
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Aha, Gary, I had not thought about the load on Tar Heel from uploaded images – I had been building my library of Aesop images harvested from Project Gutenberg et al. at Picasa, rather than Flickr, but for my future Tar Heel books, I'll create albums at Flickr of my illustrations for that fable first, and then pull them in via Flickr. Picasa was nice for me because I am a hardcore user of Blogger.com which is integrated with Picasa, but I sure am impressed by Flickr now – especially since my stories and proverbs are about animals, there are so many great images of live animals to use!
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