Thursday, March 18, 2010

Finding pretty images on Flickr

Everyone knows that in order to become a good searcher, one must learn how to narrow down the results to get the most beautiful images.

For the recent assignment in this class we need to find Creative Commons-licensed pictures on flickr.

So Say you search for "ice cream."
(550,198 results)

Okay. Too much to handle. Narrow the results by using Advanced search to get Creative Commons-licensed content only.
(69,848 results)

Still far to many. Well, there is a magic button you can hit that will give you the prettiest pictures first.
Ahhh the Interesting button. Where you can find This:

Holsten's
("Holsten's Uploaded on October 3, 2008 by EJP Photo)

Mister Softee
("Mister Softee" Uploaded on July 30, 2008 by Pabo76)

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