From Phone To Flickr, Resized and Fast

November 30, 2014 7:02 PM

I'm a food blogger and my photo editing process takes way too much time to justify at this moment in my life (normally I spend a long time on Photoshop saving everything for the web and resizing to a 605 width so it fits my blog). Is there a way I can do that straight from my phone and publish on to Flickr directly? That would be a huge help!
posted by adrober to Technology (4 answers total)

Have you tried the Flickr app?
posted by COD at 7:20 PM on November 30, 2014 [1 favorite]

Personally, I still haven't found anything quite as fast/convenient for single photo uploads as just emailing them to my secret flickr e-mail address - you can set that up under account Settings > E-mail and Notifications; it gives you a unique email address that you can add to your contacts. When you want to post a photo to Flickr you just pick it from the camera roll and email it as an attachment. It uses the subject line as the title and the body as the description, and I believe it has some support for tags too. (And you can have it automatically apply certain tags to anything uploaded by email.)
posted by usonian at 7:55 PM on November 30, 2014 [1 favorite]

RE: Resizing, I'm not sure what apps there might be on the phone side to resize to specific dimensions, but of course Flickr resizes everything automatically into multiple sizes. Depending on your blogging software you could probably just download the 'medium' size (640px) from Flickr and use that; I think Wordpress and most other WYSIWYG platforms that let you insert images let you manually set image dimensions, so you could override it and force it to 605px wide. I remember having to manually scale everything in the early days of the web, but if my images are in the ballpark sizewise, I've gotten pretty lazy; modern browsers do a great job of scaling photos.
posted by usonian at 8:06 PM on November 30, 2014

What phone OS? (iOS/Android/etc?) Googling says that iOS has some apps that resize to specific dimensions and, and some of those support export to flickr. I am sure Android has similar.
posted by misterbrandt at 8:12 PM on November 30, 2014