How to create and manage your Flickr collections

Updated October 14, 2026 14:25

Collections are a convenient way to gather all your content by themes such as travel, cars, or animal photography. Collections can be made up of either albums or other collections.

For example, you can keep all your albums documenting different trips organized in a "Vacation" collection, or group monthly albums into a collection labeled with the year.

Collections are a desktop-only feature. They cannot be viewed and edited on mobile devices, including via mobile web browsers or the Flickr app.

Creating collections

If you haven't created any albums, you'll need to create an album to get started.

Hover over You | select Organize.
Select Albums & Collections.
From the top-left corner, select Collection next to “Create a new:”. Enter a title and description | select Create.

Notes:

Collection depth is 5 levels. A collection containing albums can only be added to another collection that does not contain albums.
You can share collections that have Public photos. To share a collection, simply copy & paste the URL from your web browser. If a collection includes albums with Non-Public photos, only the Public albums will be displayed. The albums with Non-Public photos will not be displayed.

Collection mosaics

Create

Edit

Hover over You | select Organize.
Select on Albums & Collections.
Drag your albums into the collection space on the left-hand side.
Select Create Mosaic to set your collection's cover photos.

Hover over You | select Organize.
Select on Albums & Collections.
In the collection space, hover over the collection | select Edit collection mosaic.

Select Albums | select View collections.
Select Edit mosaic under the collection.

From here, edits you can make include:

Select an album from within the collection that you wish to add photos from | select the images from the Findr (the bar along the bottom of the screen).
Drag images around the grid to change the order.
Randomize the collection mosaic.

Notes:

Make sure your mosaics are made only of Safe photos. Including a Non-Public or Unsafe photo in your mosaic might mean others see it as a gray box.
If you notice that any of your collection mosaics are completely grayed out and contain Safe and Public photos, then your collection may be missing thumbnails. You can head to the Organize feature and manually reset your cover mosaics.

View your collections

Hover over You | select Albums.
Select View my collections.
Select the collection you want to view.

Edit or delete a collection

Hover over You | select Organize.
Select Albums & Collections.
Select a collection listed on the left-hand side and you will be able to edit:

The title and description.
The collection mosaic.
Open/ delete the collection.
Order of albums within the collection by dragging and dropping. The order you create here will also be the order displayed on your collection page.

Remove an album from a collection

Hover over You | select Organize.
Select Albums & Collections.
Select a collection | select the drop-down icon to see the albums on that collection.
Drag the album. When you start moving your cursor, you'll see an area appear at the bottom of the page labeled "Drag a set here to remove it from the collection" | drag & drop the album into that area.