Comments on: Flickr introduces illustration filtering

By: Ape Lad

Ape Lad — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:31:58 +0000

The people who made the website do not only want it to be a place for photographers, and here is proof: doodlegang a group dedicated to drawings and administered by one of the founders of flickr.

By: Ape Lad

Ape Lad — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:31:00 +0000

The people who made the website do not only want it to be a place for photographers, and here is proof: doodlegang a group dedicated to drawings and administered by one of the founders of flickr.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:02:50 +0000

You make a good point, fabulousrice, and I pretty much agree with you. If it’s a photo site, it’s a photo site, but the folks at Flickr have been pretty grey about the whole issue and have always said that they weren’t necessarily against illustrations being posted on the site, but that it wasn’t the initial purpose of Flickr. If they took a stand one way or the other, that would be great, but until now they haven’t. It looks like they have made a firm decision in favour of allowing illustration, and accepted that technology evolves as people find new uses for it. Flickr is a phenomenal tool, and now that it’s more friendly to illustrators is reason to celebrate!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:02:00 +0000

By: fabulousrice

fabulousrice — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:50:17 +0000

The way I see it… What if the people who made the website only want it to be a place for photographers? What’s wrong in that? I am both a photographer and an illustrator, and I believe it isn’t too bad an idea to separate the two sometimes, and if I don’t feel like seeing any illustrations, I’d go this way or if I’m going to search for ideas or inspiration for drawings, I’d go the other way… Who said the two mediums had to necessarily connect with each other? They don’t!
Besides – I can hear they scream at the word I’ll just say – “deviantart” is more meant for illustrators than not, and yes it has commercial features, and yes a LOT of people strive for recognition there, but then there’s other websites of the sort, fotolog, etc… So what if Flickr in-charges want Flickr to stay what it was created for?
In the long run, Flickr might try to push forward its users’ photos on search engines more than it already does, and this illustration thing is what could be the worry hidden behind all this.

By: fabulousrice

fabulousrice — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:50:00 +0000

By: sakraft1

sakraft1 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:46:33 +0000

I love looking at illustrations on flickr. I knew of their former policy, so I would occasionally search for myself to see if I had been censored from public search yet. In addition to using Organizer, you can change the content type on a photo’s (or illustration’s!) page by hitting the Flag button (It says “Flag your photo”, its not an illustration of a flag).

By: sakraft1

sakraft1 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:46:00 +0000

By: fragmentedm

fragmentedm — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:21:23 +0000

this sounds like a great solution for this. i like (and use) flickr for both illustration AND photography. additionally, i am inspired by both the photography and the illustration i see there. i can’t imagine it being any other way. yay flickr!

By: fragmentedm

fragmentedm — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:21:00 +0000