Discover new artists by quickly converting Flickr JPG orphans to full Flickr pages
Surely you’ve come across a dreaded orphan Flickr JPG in your days perusing Tumblr or skimming through bit.lyied URLs on Twitter. It’s the worst feeling to find a really cool photograph but be completely without power in finding the photographer. Naturally you want to see more photographs from this artist, but the image links to the direct JPG instead of the Flickr page. Damn the Tumblr-ettes and -ites for their complete disregard of proper attribution!
The Flickr URL Converter by projectdxtr (naturally of the Netherlands) can take your standalone Flickr JPG and re-direct you to the original source of such artistic beauty. The tool is a thing of wonder and performs this miraculous conversion seemingly by magic. To take your Flickr JPG image conversion needs one step further, you could install a Firefox extension offered by the author that allows you to right-click on an image and select convert from the context menu.
Even better though, you can utilize the search box on the Flickr URL converter page to create a keyword search that makes finding the Flickr source as easy as appending a keyword sequence in front of the JPG URL. Simply navigate to the Flickr URL Converter page and within the search box, right click and select “Add a Keyword for this Search…” as shown in the screenshot below.
After that, you will be presented with a dialog box asking for you to fill in the details concerning your new keyword search. Give your keyword search an appropriate title and a nifty keyword sequence. This is key because it needs to be something you can remember that is also unique. I call mine “flcon.”
After that, converting an orphaned Flickr JPG is as easy as appending your keyword sequence in the front of the JPG URL in the address bar.
The process is functionally the same in Opera except the context menu item you would select is called “Create Search…” Presently, both Internet Explorer and Google Chrome lack the feature to manually add search forms from the right-click menu though with Chrome, you could potentially add the search engine from a keyword search manager if you can figure out how the form operates.
Flickr URL Converter [projectdxtr.nl]
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