As Idea Hive bloggers, you understand the importance of using only images in your blogs with a CC license. You’ve learned how to hyperlink that image to the owner’s url by moving through a series of steps. If one step is missed, the link doesn’t work. Frustrating. Alan Levine has shared a much easier way to do this.
Open this page and click on the green install button (top right corner). This works in Firefox with Greasemonkey and can be installed directly as extensions in Chrome and Safari.
When you find an image in flickr that you want to use with a CC license, you’ll see two boxes with text. As Alan explains…
This script makes giving attribution to flickr creative commons such a simple thing you cannot believe you had done it any other way earlier.
Any flickr photo page you visit that has Creative Commons License applied will display two text fields below the CC license listing (right side of photo). Clicking either field will select it, so you can do a quick command-c to copy.
The first box displays attribution in HTML, including the IMG tag to embed the 500px wide version, useful for pasting into a blog post. The second box has an attribution in plain text, so you can use in presentations, emails, etc.
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by hdurnin
Just copy and paste the first the text in the top box which says Attribution (HTML) and then paste the text into your post. The image will appear along with the owner’s name. Easy!
Make sure however, you’ve switched from Visual to HTML when writing your post, otherwise you’ll only the coding text will appear in your post (I learned from my mistake!).
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by hdurnin
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