Flikr

[douglas]

.Up to now I have used Flikr, mainly to upload pictures to DPS and other sites. I am, starting to get more pictures there...I can delete some. I have got Pro now. My problem, and I can't find the answer on the site, is if I store a number of pictures as "set" or "collections" (what is the diferrence, how can I remove the same pictures from my photostream without removing them from the set or collection. I'm probably being thick, but would appreciate help.

[oldwolf]

I don't use Flickr enough to know the answers to all your questions but I think your photostream is everything you have uploaded. So, if you delete something from your photostream then it's deleted out of your sets as well.

Look at it this way. You have a box full of pictures. You sort them out to different categories like bugs, trees, people. Now you go back and realize you don't like this picture of a bug so you throw it away. Well if you throw it away then it's not in your bug category/set anymore.

[dcclark]

A set is a bunch of photos. (Example: "Spring" or "Birthday 2009")

A collection is a bunch of sets and/or photos (Example: "Seasons" containing the sets "Spring", "Summer", "Fall", "Winter", and "More Winter".)

Sets and Collections are just ways to organize your photos. You can put photos into many different sets and collections at the same time. But, all photos are always in your photostream. In fact, your photostream can be defined as the set of all photos you have uploaded. If it's not in your photostream, it's not anywhere else either.

Do you have a particular reason that you want to clean out your photostream? Sets and Collections basically fulfill your apparent need -- to organize your photos, even older ones, into easy-to-find groupings.

[douglas]

Thanks DcClark, I understand. It just seemed a waste to have them in 2 places, but with pro it doesn't matter Douglas