Another way to embed Flickr Slideshows in your blog

by Brad Linder Dec 4th 2007

Looking for a good way to show a whole bunch of photos on your blog or website without creating a single page a million miles long with picture after picture? Last year we showed you how to embed a Flickr Slideshow on your web page manually. Then earlier this year someone managed to create a tool to automate the process.

But while the default Flickr slideshow looks great in some situations, we've found that the slideshow just doesn't display properly on some blogs. Fortunately, there's another way to embed a Flickr slideshow. You won't have all the same cool transition features you get on Flickr's site, but them's the breaks.

Pictobrowser lets you create your own slideshow using images that share a tag, fall into a set, or are part of a group. The only catch is that you need a Flickr account and you can only create a slideshow using your own images. Check out a sample slideshow after the jump.

[via Digital Inspiration]

Tags: embed, Flickr, Pictobrowser, slideshows

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Ross said 3:23PM on 12-04-2007

I have been using PictoBrowser for a while, and the creator just made some major improvements that make it a really nice slide-show tool to use.

One correction though - you can make a slide show with anyone's public pictures - you just need their flickr username to enter into the configuration page. Since it doesn't ask for passwords, you can access anyone's public pictures, but can't access anyone's (including your own) private pictures.

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