Tim Christie

Flickr has officially launched its Uploader 3.0 software. You can download it here. What a long awaited improvement it is on the old one.

For all of you Flickr addicts out there who upload mountains of photos all at once, you will be able to set titles, descriptions, keywords and sets all before you click the upload button. No more having to manually edit individual photos once they are on the server. It still has the great drag and drop interface from the original version.

Heres what the Flickr Blog has to say about it:

The all new version for Windows and Mac OS X makes it easy to add titles, tags and descriptions to photos, add them to sets and adjust each photo’s privacy settings. Plus, for the first time ever, you can reorder your photos before uploading by simply dragging them into place!

When you start Uploadr for the first time you’ll have to authorize it with Flickr (just like the old Uploadr). But, you don’t have to do this right away. Version 3.0 lets you work offline while adding and organizing your photos. When you’re ready, you can click Sign In and you’ll be taken to Flickr to finish up. When you get back, you’re all set and Uploadr will remember your account for next time.

Drag your photos into the Uploadr to get started tagging and describing. When you’ve got everything just so, click the big Upload button and away they’ll go. Once you start an upload in version 3.0 you can immediately add more photos and start to tag and organize them, all while the first batch is being sent to Flickr. You can continue to upload new batches like this to your heart’s content!

I have already downloaded my copy and cant wait to upload new photos. I have had a look at it all and it looks great but since I have been so busy lately with the blog I havent been out to take any new photos. Tomorrow night I am off to see the Christmas lights and plan to take my camera along so I will test run it with those. Expect a tutorial on Photographing Christmas Lights as well.

Another great addition to Flickr Tools is the addition of Stats for Pro accounts. I have activated mine but wont be live until tomorrow so I will let you know how they go while I’m at it. To activate yours go to your Flickr homepage and hover you mouse over the ‘You’ heading. In the dropdown menu click on your stats. Just follow the prompts and you will have your Flickr Stats up and running in no time at all.

Update:

Stats are up and running quite successfully. As it happens it only took about an hour instead of the day that they estimated. The results are quite interesting too. The majority of my views come directly from Google Images while Flickr itself sends me the majority of the rest. The statistics go into quite a bit of detail as well being able to see graphs of viewing trends for individual photos as well as search terms and referrers. Excellent addition Flickr, I am very impressed.

Interestingly though I did find that the Chairpage.com forums for Silverchair fans has sent quite a bit of traffic my way for my ‘hotness’ photo of Daniel Johns from the Groovin The Moo Festival in Maitland last year. Its amazing how far your images can make it across the globe from downtown Newcastle.