See that picture at the top of this post. I’ve been working on adding some pep to my blogs by adding similar pictures at the beginning of posts. I’m getting them from Flickr and searching for photos with Creative Commons licenses that allow the pictures to be edited and used.
I was originally dreading keeping track of what I was doing on each of my blogs until I came up with a simple plan.
I use Gimp to crop them into the wide and short format and then I resize them to 550 X 150 pixels.
I’m using a spreadsheet that I keep on my DropBox directory to keep track of the local filename that I give the files, the URL from Flickr where the original photo came from, and the URL of my post where I use the photo. I’m keeping track of all of that in case anybody contacts me to ask me to take down a photo or in case I want to try to see if that photographer has any new photos that might come in handy.
In one of the cells of the spreadsheet, I have a sample of the html code that I’m using to give credit to the photographer. I just cut and paste it into my post and change the Flickr URL, image title, and author’s name.
Just like that, I have easy access to tons of photos and a way to keep track of where I’m using them and where I got them from.
photo credit: striatic
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Thanks for sharing i ll try using it next time when i start blogging