Flickr has the ability to upload photos and videos through a variety of different channels including email. Flickr creates an email address to upload photos and videos via email. An email address is the combination of some random words and numbers followed by @photos.flickr.com. You can change the email address by clicking on the 'Reset' button located at the bottom of the page under 'Refresh your address' on Upload By Email page.
Here are the steps to Upload Videos to Flickr Using 'Email Upload':
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Flickr has an 'Email Upload' feature, which allows you to upload photos to Flickr by using email. Flickr creates a unique email address for you to upload photos via email. By using the Flickr email address, you can upload photos from your computer, mobile phone or internet appliance or when you don't have access to the web. To learn how to upload photos to Flickr using 'Email Upload', check out the steps below.
Here are the steps to Upload Photos to Flickr Using 'Email Upload':
- Open the Flickr App on one of your devices.
- If you don't have the Flickr App installed on your device, you can simply download it within minutes. Android users can download the Flickr App from Google Play Store and Apple users can download it from the Apple App Store.
- If you don't wish to download the Flickr App on any of your devices then you can simply put up the Flickr URL at the address bar of your device browser which is - https://www.flickr.com/ and open Flickr without downloading it.
- Once you open Flickr sign into your Flickr account using your Flickr username and Flickr password.
- After logging in to Flickr, it will take you to the Homepage.
- On the Homepage of Flickr click on "Upload-by-email" (https://www.flickr.com/account/uploadbyemail/) link.
- Find the email address beneath "Email your photos to this address" located on the right side of the page.
- Go to the "Add these tags each time:" text-box and add tags which you want to use.
- Click on the "Save" button.
- Copy the email address listed on this page.
- Open the email client and compose a new message.
- Paste the Flickr generated email address in the "To field".
- Add tags in the subject line.
- Enter the description of the video in the body of the email.
- Add the videos to be uploaded as an attachment.
- Click on the "Send" button.
- This is how you can upload videos to Flickr using 'Email Upload'.