Flickr Pro account - hide original size?

joeKel73

Hey guys,

Just recently upgraded to a Flickr pro account as they'd started hiding my older photos on the free acount. The Pro account has "Original" as one of the sizes.... I can't seem to find any way to keep the previous size options available while blocking the original for general viewing.....

Anyone know how? Do I need to just uploaded a resized version... that'd be a pity as I was hoping to use Flickr as a backup resource.

Joe

DaireQuinlan

I was lookin for this just recently, I could have sworn there used to be a checkbox on some prominent page marked "hide original size" so that you could make all the other sizes visible but hide the original, but I wasn't for the life of me able to find it. The profile/privacy/preferences pages are a bit of a mess, they're spread over several different pages accessible from different places.

joeKel73

If it can't be done I'd actually be happier with the Free account. Can't see why Flickr can't sort that as well as providing a few more size options... should only take a few lines of code.

DK32

Hi,

This should help
http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/downloads/

joeKel73

Afraid that doesn't help DK32!

There seems to be two options;

1. Allow "All sizes", which annoyingly includes "Original" or
2. Only show the small version and have all other sizes hidden.

DaireQuinlan

I was just looking through the help forums about this and it looks like you're out of luck. There -is- no way of doing it. People, as a workaround, hide the all sizes for everyone, and then put a link in the pictures description to the large size, thus hiding the original size.

It also looks like I was obviously mistaken aswell, doesn't look like there was ever any way of doing it either.

Pint

Shot in the dark as Im not very familiar with flickr but bighugelabs might provide a workaround to this. I always see users linking to larger versions of their photos using this so maybe there's an option to link to the original as well?

AnCatDubh

I know its not the original question asked but a wee tale of woe in the same concern space over here

DaireQuinlan

Pint wrote: »

Shot in the dark as Im not very familiar with flickr but bighugelabs might provide a workaround to this. I always see users linking to larger versions of their photos using this so maybe there's an option to link to the original as well?

Problem is that the OP is trying to do the exact opposite he's trying to make available all sizes without making the original size accessible.

GavinZac

It's labour intensive, but you can use something like Flickr Downloadr to download all your images in 'large' or 'medium' size, and then replace them on flickr, uploading only the maximum size you want people to see.

joeKel73

Came across this and it automatically places links to the large version in the photo descriptions. Gave it a go on a small set and it worked well. I did put a question mark linked back to their site though, but doesn't too long to run through and delete them.

Ridiculous setup Flickr has for this!

What's the story with Pix.ie in this respect? Can you decide what size options are available?

DaireQuinlan

foto joe wrote: »

What's the story with Pix.ie in this respect? Can you decide what size options are available?

From what I remember pix.ie is even worse, doesn't even give you the limited options that flickr has to hide your large sizes. Although I could be wrong, I people were at them for ages to fix it, they might have done by now.

AnCatDubh

foto joe wrote: »

What's the story with Pix.ie in this respect? Can you decide what size options are available?

As Daire says pixie doesn't attempt to protect the source image, so you only upload what you are prepared that people may rip off - accepted that they still are protected in law through copyright. The other way of looking at this is that screens will probably be most popular at a resolution of 1024x768 so anything more is just a waste (other than to serve as a back up which neither flickr or pix.ie purports to be). Yet another way of looking at it is that you save on pix.ie uploads. I've yet to hit the monthly upload limit with pix.ie - actually uploading 800px max on longest side, i've rarely gone above single digit percentage of upload used figures.

Freddie59

GavinZac wrote: »

It's labour intensive, but you can use something like Flickr Downloadr to download all your images in 'large' or 'medium' size, and then replace them on flickr, uploading only the maximum size you want people to see.

Looks like the only way round it alright, as some people have done.