Blow Up
Your flickr just got a lot better looking.
Frequently Asked Questions
Using Blow Up
Viewing your flickr account with Blow Up is easy. Read below if you are having trouble with your account.
Blow Up says my username does not exist, or keeps asking me to enter a username.
- Make sure you are using the flickr account name that displays on your flickr profile page.
- Make sure your photos and sets are set to "public." This can be changed in the Your Account section on Flickr..
- Make sure "Hide your profile from public searches" is set to No. This can be set in the Privacy & Permissions section of your Flickr account.
My flickr username still doesn't work.
Do you have your photos categorized into albums? Are your albums made public? Flickr users who were migrated over from previous yahoo.com accounts can actually have two usernames. You want the username provided at the top of your profile page, next to your icon, where it says "About Username". Usernames can have spaces and periods in them.
How do I view Blow Up fullscreen?
Right-click anywhere in Blow Up and select Fullscreen from the menu.Downloading Blow Up for your website
Read below for some common issues encountered when deploying Blow Up for the first time.
Nothing appears on my html page when I view it in a browser
The page is probably not referencing the external swfobject.js file correctly. Make sure that the script is being imported:<script type="text/javascript" src="js/swfobject.js"></script>
And that the src="" value contains the correct location of the swfobject.js file.
My flickr username doesn't work
Do you have your photos categorized into albums? Are your albums made public? Flickr users who were migrated over from previous yahoo.com accounts can actually have two usernames. You want the username provided at the top of your profile page, next to your icon, where it says "About Username". Usernames can have spaces and periods in them.
I get no response back from flickr at all.
Make sure crossdomain.xml is configured correctly on your server.
I've downloaded Blow Up, but there is no source code.
Blow Up is configurable via the CSS file. The actual Actionscript source code is not yet available to the public.