Flickr Guide for artists, illustrators and designers

Di Giorgio | 6 de March de 2009 | 1 comments

Flickr for designers and artists

The author of the guide, Natasha Wescoat is an 'artist and illustrator with a passion for community and social media.

Author of the blog Natasha's Art Candy, his official website is at http://www.natashawescoat.com/

The original article is found (in English) on Mashable.com

Flickr is not just a place to share photos of your children with their grandparents, but also an incredible tool for creative professionals. Its user-friendly interface and the excellent speed of loading Flickr makes an interesting and effective tool for professional use.

If you're an artist, photographer or designer, you can use Flickr in a variety of ways to present and promote your work, as well as connect with colleagues, business partners, potential customers, and business. The possibilities are endless. And you do not have to even worry about passing hours to upload and organize your work: Flickr will facilitate everything and you can take part in the course of belly dancing, taekwondo, ballet or rumba you've always dreamed of subscribe.

Here are 4 ways to use Flickr to promote your work:

1) USA COLLECTIONS OR SET FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO

The organization tool for Flickr allows you to modify each batch of photos and organize them in sets or collections.
You can also set the rules of privacy for each collection to your liking. There is the possibility of offering the opportunity to see the private collections at your discretion, which is particularly suitable for designers and artists who work on commission and require a degree of discretion.
Sets can be organized in an intelligent, as the photographer Linda Plaisted, who has separated his work on People, Places and Objects.

Linda's Photostream

2) USA IN FLICKR collaborating with Blurb FOR CREATING ART BOOKS

Some creative, like the talented Tommy Oshima use Flickr and Blurb together to produce books professional, high quality photos that are uploaded on Flickr.
This service makes it really easy to give your visitors and your professional book design very well done.

Blurb

3) USA FLICKR FOR CREATING BRAND AWARENESS

Upload pictures and allow others to share and reuse helps to expand the scope of your exposure.
But insists to request permission for reuse and to award the credits of the work.
L 'illustrator Juliana Pedemonte offer his images for bloggers, with the possibility to download, but protecting its copyright.
On Flickr, you allow the download of your works in the settings.

Colorblok's photostream

4) SHARE YOUR EVENTS (and your world)

You can share photos from your last show, the design of your project or your last photo session with your friends through Flickr.
Give your visitors a virtual tour of your studio via Flickr Video, let them come into your world to have a concrete vision of your work and know as the creator.

3 Things to remember

1) Munisciti a Pro Account
With a free six limited to 200 photos, and you have all other privileges of a Pro account. And it must be said that the cost is not as high 24.95 dollars a year.

2) Appointment and benefits in the photos properly.
An appropriate tag helps users in finding images on Flickr or on search engines like Google.
Using effective keywords, tags, descriptions may help to direct users to your work and improve the likelihood of new opportunities.

3) Join groups (which reflect your interests)
One can not overlook the importance of networking. Join groups and participate in conversations opens all kinds of new opportunities in our business and gives us the opportunity to improve our competenze.Il networking is a key component for business success. The groups on Flickr as Design Is Love are out there in order to bring together graphic designers and illustrators to collaborate and share.
The groups on Flickr can be found for the number of subscribers, for relevance to the recent activity or by date of foundation. Many groups offer lists of techniques and practices to become a creative professional and better.