Big Bowl of Weeds

[livingdeb]

I can now illustrate my journal!

Here is the bowl of weeds I told you about that was used as a centerpiece at that conference I attended.



Warning: The rest of this entry is just more whining about the difficulties of making easy technology do my bidding.

It turns out that one of my other common user names and passwords works for Yahoo, so Yahoo and Flickr aren't perfectly tied together after all. That wasn't enough extra information to allow me to figure out how to use the software to upload a pile of pictures. So I'm just doing them one at a time via the web.

I still don't even know how to find my pictures properly browsing my own computer files. I've carefully put my photos into all these folders in iPhoto to make them easy to find, but when you browse from Flickr to look for them, you have to remember which year and which randomly-numbered folder (based on camera downloads, I'm guessing) it's in, and maybe the thumbnail will be big enough to let you select the right one.

I decided to find a photo I wanted the easy way so I can see what it's called. The names seem to be assigned in numerical order, so I can move in on the target photo from Flickr using the guess-and-check method of folder selection.

Then, once I got an image on Flickr, I had to figure out how to get it on here. It's not so easy to find the URL of the image. It's not like you can just click on it or anything.

It turns out you have to select the picture you want and then click the "All Sizes" button above it. Because, you know, you want to explode your photo into all possible sizes, hoping that one of them will land in your journal entry.

Actually, this makes some sense because then you get a list of sizes, each of which has its own URL. Then you pick the size you want and then it finally deigns to reveal the URL. Still, it should have been labeled "URLs" and then told me I had to pick a size first.

Comments

[raaga123.livejournal.com]

Have you tried Picasa?

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

Nope.