Import from Flickr
Move finished photographs from Flickr into ISO100 without publishing them immediately. Review the photos, edit any details, then import.
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Prepare your Flickr export
Download selected Flickr albums, or request your account export. Upload the original ZIP downloads together. Include the account-data ZIP to restore album membership, ordering, titles, descriptions, and dates supplied in its JSON files.
- Download selected albums
On Flickr in a desktop browser, open You > Albums. Open an album, select its download icon, and choose Create .zip file. Download the ZIP when Flickr sends the link. Repeat for each album; Flickr applies a 500-photo limit to album downloads.
- Or request your account data
For an account backup, open your profile photo > Settings. Under Your Flickr Data, select Request My Flickr Data. When notified, return to settings and download all photo and data ZIPs before the links expire.
- Check the image resolution
Ordinary Free-account album and bulk downloads are limited to 1024px. The full Your Flickr Data export includes your own original files on Free and Pro. Use that full export or your local finished originals, and check the image dimensions before importing.
- Select the photo and data ZIPs together
Keep the downloads unchanged. In ISO100, choose Flickr, then Choose ZIP exports and select all photo parts and the account-data ZIP from the same export. Album downloads without account data use their folder or ZIP names. Check the proposed names in review.
Prepare the files for ISO100
Upload the ZIP files exactly as downloaded. Select all photo and metadata parts from the same export together; you do not need to extract, rename, or combine their contents. The combined upload must fit the 250 MB limit.
ISO100 reads supported metadata and gallery folders, and uses ZIP names when a gallery download has no named folder. Check the proposed gallery names before importing. It leaves recognized smaller renditions and repeated files unchecked.
- Keep the original downloads
Save all ZIP parts and keep a backup. Select them together using Choose ZIP exports in Studio. If two ZIPs have the same filename, give one a distinct filename so both can be selected.
- Use a folder for loose photos
If the provider gives you individual files, choose the folder containing those files. You can use one subfolder per intended gallery, or assign the photos to galleries during review.
- Check the review
Review the photos, gallery names, captions, dates, and order. If a warning says files or export parts are missing, check your downloads and start a new import with the complete set. Do not confirm both copies of the same import.
- Choose finished image files
For local originals, export RAW edits as finished JPEGs in sRGB. Check Studio’s supported file types and limits. Website XML exports, videos, and metadata files alone are not photographs.
Preview the migration
When the export includes albums.json and per-photo JSON files, ISO100 matches the photos by Flickr ID and restores the supplied album names, descriptions, membership, ordering, titles, captions, and dates. A photo shared by multiple albums keeps those placements. Missing image files are reported before import. Tags, comments, and social activity do not transfer.
Studio shows proposed gallery names, selected photographs, storage use, unsupported files, and plan limits before it prepares any ISO100 content.
- Rename galleries or uncheck their photos before importing.
- Deselect files that do not belong in the portfolio.
- Check image quality before importing; a small web copy cannot recover the detail of your original.
Review and import photos
- Open the importer
In Studio, open Photos, open More, then select Import portfolio. An empty library shows Import portfolio directly.
- Choose Flickr
Choose the platform, then select all downloaded ZIP parts together, or choose a folder of photo files.
- Review and import
Uncheck photos you do not want. Open a photo to edit its details, or choose Import photos without editing. Selected galleries are created with Public visibility but remain unpublished. To keep a gallery private when you later publish your portfolio, open Gallery details and set its visibility to Draft.
- Check before publishing
Review processing, crops, titles, captions, alt text, and gallery order. Publishing remains a separate action.
What remains at the source
ISO100 does not delete or modify the source account. Themes, custom pages, commerce, comments, followers, passwords, client activity, and domain settings are outside the photo migration.
Open Studio to make the change.
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