will47 Loc: Indianapolis, IN

I have a photo that is displayed on Flickr. Somehow I lost the original file. How can I get the file that is on flickr into photoshop cc. I have tried several things to no avail. Or can this be done? Thanks

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

I just did that to make sure it could be. Click to thumbnail to display the image you want. When the image comes up, right click and select save page. There should be a folder in your download directory labeled something related to the image. Open that folder and the image will be in there. It will be whatever size you posted.
--Bob

will47 Loc: Indianapolis, IN

That didin't work. I am guessing the reason it didn't is because there is nothing related to this photo on this computer. This photo is on flickr and nowhere else. What I am trying to do is to get the photo on flickr into photoshop. This photo was taken in 2011 and somehow the entire file was lost. The only place this photo exists is on flickr.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

That's the only place that photo I tested was. If you give me the address of the photo, I'll get it and email it to you.
--Bob

will47 Loc: Indianapolis, IN

Math78 Loc: Scottsdale, AZ

In Flickr, in the lower right, there is a download arrow. Click it, and you will have an option to get the original file.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Here you go. Very nice photo, by the way.
--Bob

(Download)

will47 Loc: Indianapolis, IN

Thank you. I think this was the first week-end they let the baby out for viewing.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

You're quite welcome, Will.
--Bob

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

Works even for me, and I have nothing to do with flickr or this photo!

JD750 Loc: SoCal

If you lost the original file you can simply restore it from your backup drive. Oh, wait, you don't have a back up drive do you?

I am glad Bob was able to return you photo to you. It is a nice photo.

The photo seems to have some value to you. So does this experience make you think you should back up up your computer?

Morning Star Loc: West coast, North of the 49th N.

I stopped in at the computer department of a local store to pick up a 4TB drive to make an extra back-up of all my data. One drive recently crashed - right after I had updated the other two drives!
OK, this is the plan I have recently worked with: One 4TB drive lives at our son's place (grandson is the "caretaker" - he gets a kick out of it when I give him a dollar or two when we visit "for room and board for the HD"). Second one lives at home, in a small safe, supposedly fireproof for 1/2 hour, and waterproof, and on the opposite end of the house from the computer.
The third one is near my computer, and used as my "working drive" quite often.
So after I have downloaded photos from my camera to the computer's HD and edited them, they all get copied to that "working drive" and also to the drive in the safe.
When we go visit our son & family, the drive from the safe goes with us, and is swapped out with the one my grandson keeps. Home again, I promptly update that one and put it in the safe.
I feel quit comfortable that this way I will never lose more than a week's worth of work.
In case of a special event (wedding, school grad, etc.) I back up more often to all three drives, even making a special trip to our son's place.
Before someone tells me to use cloud-storage: No thank you. I don't trust the cloud, and I believe that in the long run having my own HDs is less expensive.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

On flickr, in the bottom right is a download button, A down arrow with a line under it. Click it and you will see several sizes you can download.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

If you know the exact file name, why don't you use Finder or Windows File Explorer and do a search of your entire hard drive. It's probably there or it could be in the trash.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

Log onto your Flickr account, navigate to the image and get the large version of it on your screen. In this view, the background around the image should be dark gray. Now look in the lower, right hand corner of the gray are for four icons. One of those is a "download" link. When you click on that you're given choice of several sizes to download, including "full size" or "view all sizes". If you click "full size" it should download the largest possible version of the image to your computer. If you click "view all sizes", you'll see the image against a white background, along with a list of the different sizes available to download. You can either click on any of those or right click on the image itself and choose "save as" from the menu that pops up.

If you plan to do any work on the image in Photoshop, for best quality results you should make a point of downloading the largest version possible.

If they've protected their images, you cannot download other peoples' photos from Flickr. The above method only allows you to download your own (hence the need to log on first) and other peoples' images if they have downloading enabled.