11 Interesting ways to browse Flickr images

Flickr is a great tool but there are so many ways to view the images located on Flickr with these exciting mash-ups, some let you browse by specific colours while others let you browse by tags.

In Suggest

This tool allows you to search a specific word and then pick your favourite images to return photos that are related and have been liked by other Flickr users

Related Tag Browser

Similar to tag galaxy, this returns related tags to a specific word for you to browse the images associated with each.

Tag Galaxy

Enter a tag to be searched and it will return a host of related tags taht you can search and view the images from Flickr

Flickr cc

Search for creative commons images as well as for commercial use images

Compfight

Search for tags, or text and returns a huge galley of images to look through

Montager

This service allows you to search a specific tag and your results will be returned in a mosaic style, you can even upload your own.

Flickr Color Selectr

Choose a colour and it returns images of the same, you can also enter RGB values too.

Colr Pickr

Anouhter tool to browse flickr by colour

Interestingness

Check the most interesting pictures from a specific date on Flickr

Flickr Hive Mind

A more extensive Flickr search, using contacts, tags, and dates

Pixel-Peeper

If your into cameras this one is for you, you can select a specific camera model and browse the photos that have been taken using that camera.

Author of this post: Max Stanworth

Iam the creator and editor of Design Shard, I created this blog to post my inspirations, work and free resources that I hope others find interesting too. See all posts by: Max Stanworth

10 Comments (Leave a Comment)

billy

June 30, 2009

Hey very nice blog!! I will bookmark your blog and take the feeds also…
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Max | Design Shard

August 18, 2008

@ Stimul8d Ive just installed piclesns toolbar for FF and i must say i didnt belive it was that good, but it truely is amazing, i would sujjest that any one install piclens it takes less than 30 secs and you can browse a whole host of images galleries
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Stimul8d

August 18, 2008

Rather than browsing flickr with the sidebar, i’d suggest using the PicLens FF add-on. The main feature of interest being the fact that it seamlessly handles the de-pagination of search results. It’s an absolute winner. http://www.piclens.com/
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Max | Design Shard

July 30, 2008

there is an addon called Flickr Sidebar 0.2 this allows flickr to be searched in a side bar of your firefox its located

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1717

might be of help to some people
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Clay McIlrath

July 30, 2008

Is there a firefox extension for browsing Flickr? I would like to find something like the greasemonkey script that lightboxes google images.
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Lucie

July 30, 2008

Great Response, i totally agreee
i find some of these quite interesting and most i have not heard of.
Thanks.
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Max | Design Shard

July 30, 2008

yea i see, future articles like this will be more in depth, i saw piclens this look too popular and would be nothing new to most people, i wanted to try and show people other quick ways of browsing flickr without additional software.

Thanks Max | Design Shard
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Anonymous

July 30, 2008

Most of them are only considering just a few images, mainly those tagged “interresting” by flickr itself (means boring for a lot of people)
You’re not talking about PicLens who is the best way to browse anything on Flickr
Descriptions and pro/cons would have been great.
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