Tranquility
A beautiful scene in China taken by my brother Alan, which I have framed with FD's Flickr Toys Framer (using Brushed Edge). It makes it appear more like a painting and I think could be used to great effect with lots of photos. The possibilities are endless!

#6 More flickr fun

From FD's Flickr Toys site I used the Badge Maker to make sure that Aden's lovely dog Shadow could have her own library card.

It was a really straightforward process using a photo of Shadow sent to me via email attachment by Aden's mum.
I created the badge on the Flickr Toys site, saved it on my computer and then uploaded it as an image to my blog.

There are lots of interesting possibilities in the Flickr toys. I'd love to have more time to play with them but I guess I had better move on to the next step in the training!

# 6 Flickr fun

Tonight I looked at lots of Flickr mashups and 3rd party sites and found some amazing things that you can do with your photos. I created this trading card of Aden having fun at Christmas time a few years ago.

FlickrFont sounded interesting - where you can turn text into graphics using photographs of letters from Flickr to spice up headings. But it came with a warning that "it is not recommended from a usability, design, engineering or aesthetic point of view". Greg Hill, PhD candidate in IT at Monash University who developed it, says on the site "In fact, it is so gimmicky with such garish results that I refuse to use it myself"!!

#5 Flickr

I have finally managed to thoroughly explore the Flickr site after reading the instructions for this week, listening to the podcast, and looking at the Flickr tutorials. I signed up for a Flickr account and uploaded some photos. I checked out some amazing photos on Flickr but decided to upload some of my own photos to my blog. Now I hope to utilize another Flickr service and add a Flickr badge - if I can work out how to do it without taking all night! This exercise has been really interesting and actually straight forward when you come to finally do it. It is sifting through all the maze of information that takes a lot of time. Thank goodness I have broadband at home now as there is no way that I have time to do this training at work.

A photo of tulips taken by my 8 year old nephew Aden at the recent Tulip Festival.

Aden enjoying the tulips at the Tulip Festival.

This beautiful red flower is a tulip photographed by Aden at the Tulip Festival. He has a good eye for taking photos and seems to be quite at home with the technology of digital cameras!