Lesson 3. Organizing Photos

There’s more to creating a photostream than just uploading a pile of photos. When you’ve got a pile of photos, you don’t have much organization—just a lot of photos, some related, some not.

Flickr lets you take your piles of photos and organize them for easier access. You can create sets of photos and organize your photos by adding them to the sets. If you’re a Pro user, you can also create collections—that is, collections of sets—and you can also create maps of photos.

We’ll take a look at bringing order to the chaos of a mass of photos in this lesson. Then in the next lesson, you’ll learn how to share some of your organized photos with others.

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