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• You can only upload a thousand photos.
• You can only backup to your computer, one album per day.
• You can download 5 photos per day.
• You can download a limited amount of Pro Shots photos.

For anything that's put up in italics in the list above, be assured that they will be explained in a later post.

So what do you do if you don't want to live with the limitations? Simple -- you either sign up as a Premium member, or upgrade your free account to the Premium level. Having said that, many newcomers to Webshots can continue their free accounts, and upgrade later whenever they start making more use of the site.

For the next few posts, we'll only explore the free accounts although everything explained in these posts will certainly work for Premium members as well.

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1. Visit the Webshots site, and click on the link that tells you to sign up (on the top right corner of the site) as shown in Figure 1 below.
   
   
   Figure 1: The Webshots site
   
   
2. This brings up a login form, as you can see Figure 2 below.
   
   
   Figure 2: The member form
   
   
3. Fill all the fields, make sure you enter a valid email address, and then click the Join Now button within the Free section , as shown in Figure 3 below.
   
   
   
   Figure 3: Joining Webshots (the free account)
   
   Note: You can also click the Join Now button within the Premium section -- but that's something we will explore in a later post.
   
   
4. If the details you filled in the form are valid, you'll see a modified version of the Webshots site as shown in Figure 4 below. As you can see, Webshots allows you to upload your pictures now -- and that is something that I will explain in more detail in a later post.
   
   
   Figure 4: The Webshots home page, after you join
   
   
5. Do check your mail for a confirmation link -- follow the instructions within the email. Also remember to save your user name and password in a safe place.
   

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1. Make sure that you are signed into your Flickr account -- if you don't have a Flickr account, create one -- you'll find instructions here...
   
   
2. Click the picture for which you want to add tags. This will open the Flickr page for that picture as you can see in Figure 1.
   
   
   Figure 1: The Flickr page for any photo
   
   
3. On the bottom right of the photo, you'll find an option called Add a tag (see Figure 1 above). Click this option.
   
   
4. This will show a text box where you can enter your tags -- just type in your tags.
   
   Separate tags with spaces. If you are using a double word with a space such as water lilies, enclose them with the space within inverted commas (double quotes) like "water lilies" as you can see in Figure 2. You can also separate your tags with commas if spaces confuse you (I always use the commas).
   
   
   Figure 2: Add your tags
   
   If you want to choose from tags you have already applied to existing, uploaded photos, click the Choose from your tags option that you can see in Figure 2 above.
   
   
5. When you are done, click the Add button.
   

• Because you name them like folders to identify what's inside the set.
• Because they make it easy for you to find something at a later date--a set named Singapore Vaction August 2005 is so self explanatory that there's no way you don't know which photos you placed in that set!
  

• Because unlike folders, sets don't contain the photo itself--just a link to the actual file you uploaded to Flickr.
• Also, one photo can be placed in more than one set without being uploaded more than once--since Flickr sets are basically only shortcuts (aliases) to the actual uploaded photo.
  

1. Make sure you are signed into Flickr.
   
   
2. In the top navigation bar on the Flickr site (see Figure 2), click the You menu, and choose the Your Sets option.
   
   
   Figure 2: Finding Your Sets in the Flickr menu
   
   
3. This will open a page that contains thumbnails of all your sets--Figure 1 above showed some sets on my page (Psst! Scooby Gooseberry has no sets yet, but we'll teach him soon).
   
   
4. Here's what you can do now:
   
   - The number of photos in a particular set are mentioned below the set thumbnail.
   
   - To edit the sequence of photos in the set, or to add more uploaded photos to an existing set, click the Edit button to open the Flickr Organizer interface.
   
   - Just double-click any set thumbnail to view the photos in that set.