Flickr Trading Cards

Since I have been in this Flickr group for a couple years, but never actually made a trading card, I thought this would be a good toy to play with.


There are some interesting and fun cards there. Some are real people, some historic figures, some are libraries. A couple of my favorites are the Pirate Librarians and the little librarian in training.

Here's how to make a trading card and add it to the pool:

1. You have to have a flickr account, which means getting a Yahoo! account (sorry about that).

2. Join the Librarian Trading Cards Group: click on the little triangle next to the "Groups" menu at the top of the page, and select the "Search for a Group" option.


In the search page that opens type "librarian trading cards" into the search box.

Click on the "Librarian Trading Cards" link on the results page

Click on the "Join this group" link on the right side of the page.

3. Go to bighugelabs.com/flickr/deck.php to make a card.

Click the "Browse" button at the top of the page to select a picture from your computer. Fill in the information you want to display on the card. You might want to browse through some of the Trading Cards already in the pool to see how different people have done this. When you are done, click the "Create" link at the bottom.

4. Check out the result. If you don't like it, go back and try it again. Otherwise, click the link at the bottom to "Upload to Flickr"
This will take you to a page that explains (a little) about the process.


Clicking the "Continue" link then takes you to flickr, where you will be warned about granting access to your account. I decided to go back (click the back button) and click on the link to download the image.

5. Once you download the image, you will have to upload it to your flickr account, of course. Then when you view the image there will be a link at the top to "Send to Group." Click on it and select the group you want to send it to (most likely the Librarian Trading Cards group).

Click the "OK" link that appears when it's been added.

6. Go see your trading card!

Unfortunately, it seems to be only librarians in there (or library students). Perhaps we could create a 23Things trading card group.