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FlickrExport for iPhoto

This may have been posted before, but here it is, from the Seattle Times ( URL at bottom of post).


Now, on to something more fun. I'm a frequent contributor to the Flickr (www.flickr.com) photo-sharing site, which I use to post pictures for friends and family to view. It's much better than sending photos by e-mail, which hogs bandwidth, and I can easily click "Photos from your Contacts" to see what my friends have recently uploaded. (You can view my photos at www.flickr.com/photos/jeffcarlson/.)

Flickr provides a Web-based form to upload photo files as well as a Mac OS X program called Flickr Uploadr, but both approaches assume that you're working with image files in the Finder.

Instead, I use FlickrExport for iPhoto, from Connected Flow (www.connectedflow.com), a plug-in that lets me upload photos directly from within iPhoto. FlickrExport for iPhoto costs about $23.

When I select one or more photos and choose Export from the File menu, FlickrExport shows up as a tab in the Export Photos dialog. The plug-in grabs any title or description information I've entered in iPhoto's Information pane, and also adds keywords I've specified to a Tags field; applying tags to photos makes them more searchable in Flickr.

I can set my photos to be public or private, add them to a Flickr category pool (there are thousands, including several Seattle-specific ones), and also add them to one of my own photoset groups (for example, I created one called Olympic Sculpture Park). Lastly, FlickrExport can resize the photos before uploading them, thereby cutting down on the amount of bandwidth I consume (which for free accounts is limited to 100 MB per month; paid memberships offer unlimited bandwidth usage).

Connected Flow also offers FlickrExport for Aperture, a plug-in for Apple's professional photo-management application, which costs about $26. If you purchase FlickrExport for iPhoto and then later start using Aperture, you can get FlickrExport for Aperture at 50 percent off.

OK, so maybe my Flickr habit doesn't count as "getting things done" in the traditional, productive sense of the term, but using these plug-ins does save a lot of time and effort. At least until the Apple TV arrives and I have to spend hours and hours doing research from the couch with a bowl of popcorn.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003598504_ptmacc03.html