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(Remember: if you want to work with all your Photos, Comments, Favorites etc. you first have to retrieve all data from Flickr. See the note in Quick Start.)

Analyze
 
 
- Find the people that commented most on my Photos
  - Go to the "People" Page
- In the list click twice in the column header for "Comments"
- The list gets sorted by the number of comments descending
- Find the top commenter in the first row of the list
 
- Find the people who added Tags to my Photos
  - Go to the "People" Page
- Below the "Filter..." button check the toggle for "Added Tags"
- Make sure all other toggles are unchecked
- Click the "Filter..." button
- The list now only shows the users that have added Tags to your photos
- If there are no such users, the list is empty
 
- Find all Friends who made Comments on my Photos
  - Go to the "People" Page
- Below the "Filter..." button check the toggles for "Friend" and "Made Comments"
- Make sure all other toggles are unchecked
- Make sure the "AND" is clicked, which means that both criteria must match
- Click the "Filter..." button
- The list now only shows the users who are Friends and who made comments
- If there are no such users, the list is empty
 
- Find all Notes a specific person has added to my Photos
  - Go to the "People" Page
- Browse for the person and select the row
- Below the list the buttons become active
- Click the "Notes..." button
- flickrAide switches to the "Notes" page and shows all Notes found for the specific person
- If there are no such Notes, the list is empty

Create Mosaics

 
- Create Mosaics for all my Favorites and upload automatically to Flickr
  - Go to the "Favorites" Page
- Click into the top left corner of the list, this selects all rows
- Click the "Add to Clipboard..." butten below the list
- This will add all selected rows to the Image Clipboard and flickrAide switches to the Clipboard page
- There click on the "Mosaics..." button
- flickrAide switches to the "Mosaics" page where you define the looklike of your new mosaics
- You can now define various aspects how your mosaics will be drawn, simply play with different options
- Press the "Preview" button to get a preview of the first mosaic
- If you're not satisfied, change the settings and try again
- Check the toggle "Upload" so all your mosaics will be uploaded to Flickr automatically
- To add the mosaics to a new Set, check the toggle "Add to set" and enter the name of the new Set, for example "Test"
- Now start the creation, you are prompted to give a folder on your PC where the mosaics will be saved
- When done, go to Flickr and check your uploaded pictures and your new Set
- Upload Mosaics with Notes that have individual free texts
  - Get the photos you want to create a mosaic of
- Add them to the Image Clipboard
- There you can add a "Free text" for each photo
- Enter in the rightmost column in the list or in the text field below the list
- Special strings in the text will be replaced with actual values in the final Notes:
     <URL>  will be replaced with a link to the photo page
     <NAME> will be replaced with the name of the photo
- Click "Mosaics..." and follow the instructions as given above
- Don't forget to check the toggle "Add Free Text inside Notes"

Find/Add borders

 
- Find all of your Photos with a specific border (ie. full white border)
  - First let flickrAide retrieve your photos from Flickr (see the 'Read/Save Data' page) or load previously saved data
- Select all or some Photos from the "Photos" page (select all by a click into the top left corner of the list)
- Click "Add to Clipboard" to load the selected Photos into the Image Clipboard
- Click on "Border" to switch to the Border page
- Define the kind of border you are looking for:
    check "Border 1" with a minimum size of 1 and a maximum size of 50 pixel. The color is White
- Click "Remove Photos without border from the Image Clipboard"
- Click "Find borders" and let flickrAide run. This can take some time because it involves a download of the original Photos from Flickr
- Once finished you are prompted with a result message
- When you return to the Clipboard page there should be only Photos that have a white border now
 
 
- Add a border to some of my Photos
  - You can select the Photos or perform a "Find border" Action, see above
- In the Clipboard page you should have all Photos you want to add a border to:
    + only these Photos are manipulated
    + only your Photos can be manipulated
- Go to the Border page and switch to "Add borders"
- Define the kind of borders you wish to add:
     check "Border 1", select a black color and define the size as 1 pixel
- Define two directories where the Photos are stored: the original and the modified
- You can now press "Preview" to get an idea of the results. Only 1 picture gets manipulated and displayed
- If all ok, click "Replace Photos in your Photostream". You can skip this for testing, though.
- Click "Add border" and let flickrAide run.
- This can take some time because it involves a download of the original Photos from Flickr
- Your Photos will be replaced but none of your Comments, Favorites or Views will be lost
 

Download

 
- Download all my Photos from my Photostream in their original size
  - Go to the "Photos" Page
- Click on "Show All" to surely display all available Photos
- Click into the top left corner of the list, this selects all rows
- Click the "Add to Clipboard..." butten below the list
- This will add all selected rows to the Image Clipboard and flickrAide switches to the Clipboard page
- Click the "Download..." button below the list
- flickrAide switches to the "Download" page where you define how the Photos will be saved
- Choose the size by clicking "Original"
- Choose the format by clicking "JPG"
- No start the download, you are prompted to give a folder on your PC where the Photos will be saved
- Depending on the amount of Photos this can take a long time!