How to Download papers & overlays from Flickr (updated APR 2015)

Some of you lovely people have asked how to download files from Flickr (where, incidentally many of my as-yet-unblogged paper sets are hiding themselves away as they await their own blog posts). So, I thought I'd share a tutorial showing the details of how to download from Flickr.

The following pictorial is sure to work for PC users,
but hopefully Mac users can download this way too.

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You can find my Flickr gallery here.
(It's a mix of all my blog photos, like the ones used in this tutorial,
as well as card photos, free papers and overlays, templates, etc).


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How to download my free
papers & overlays from Flickr:



Step 1) Go to Flickr. You can see all of my sets in one spot here:
 

Step 2) Click on the image of the set that you'd like to look at,
it will open up a page that looks something like this:

Step 3) Click on the thumbnail of the colour you want (or the overlay) and it will
take you to the page for that particular image. You can then do one of two things:

1) Add it to your flickr favorites (if you have a Flickr account.The basic account is free). This option is nice, since there is no need to take up space on your computer by downloading.

or 2) you can save the file to your computer, if you like, this way:

 Step 4) To easily save a file on Flickr, click on the arrow symbol at the bottom right-hand side
and select 'original' for the best quality (or choose whichever size you prefer):

Step 5) Once you click 'original', simply select 'save file' and then hit 'okay'.

And that's it!
(It takes about 30 seconds) :-)

Not familiar with flickr? Here's a little bit of
rambling info based on my experience with it...

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Why use flickr?

Did you know that Blogger converts & reduces images to 72dpi? This usually doesn't matter for viewing on the computer, but it makes for horrible printing if you're sharing free digital images or papers. So, to get around Blogger's lower quality images, I pay for a pro account on Flickr and host my printable freebies there where they images can remain at 350dpi for great print quality.

What is flickr?

Flickr is an image hosting site where people upload their private photos or images they want to share. There are some lovely people with flickr galleries that have share alike settings or other settings
that allow you to use their images for different things.

What do those settings mean?

Each photo has a license setting.

You might see "all rights reserved" on an image;
that means it's one that we shouldn't save or use in any way.

But some images have a creative commons license - which means you are allowed to use the image (sometimes with exceptions). You can read all about the various types of licenses here, if you like:

http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons They'll let you know what uses different flickr members

have allowed (or not allowed) with their images. :-)

How do I find things on flickr?

Try searching on flickr using the keyword free... with any of these keywords: digital image, collage sheet; printable; paper; free vintage images; template; pattern; and so forth.

I hope this has been helpful to those who want to download
from flickr, and if you have any questions at all, please fire away!