Posted by Gary Rosenzweig on 3/25/09.
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iPhoto 09 allows you to create albums that sync between iPhoto and your Facebook account. You can add more photos to an album later on, and receive tag information from your Facebook friends back in iPhoto.
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Hi. This is Gary with MacMost Now brought to you by SquareSpace. For a great way to build your own website, visit MacMost.com/squarespace. On this episode, let’s take a look at the new feature on iPhoto that allows you to sync iPhoto with Facebook. So, a lot of us use Facebook to show off our pictures to our friends and you can go ahead and upload just about any photo up to Facebook and put it in an album now. But, the new iPhoto 09 got’s great functionality to allow you to do all that from iPhoto. You can actually create these Facebook albums in iPhoto and they sync automatically with Facebook. Let’s take a look. Ok, here we are in iPhoto. Now I’m gonna select a few photos that I want to upload to Facebook. Trying to pick some out. And now I’m gonna go to share, Facebook. Now the first time you do this, it’s gonna ask for your Facebook credentials and this will link iPhoto to Facebook. Once you do that, every time you do it you’ll just come up with this simple dialogue box. It asks you just if you want the photos viewable by everybody, your friends, or friends of friends as well. You can also change accounts if you have multiple Facebook accounts. And then you just hit Publish. Now what’ll happen here is it’s gonna create this little mini album and stick it on the left side under Facebook and it’s gonna give it a name, in this case the name of the date of these photos. I’m gonna go and right away change that to something else like MacMost Photos. And you’ll see a little spinner to the right that tells you it’s uploading and once it’s uploading you’ll see a little Transmit button to tell you that basically it’s syncing with Facebook. Now also at the top of this when you have it selected on the left, you’ll see a link directly to that album in Facebook. So you click on that and it’ll launch your browser and if you are already logged into Facebook, it will take you right to that album and here you go. You’ll see those three photos all in that Facebook album. And you can also do all the other things you can normally do with Facebook albums. You can go ahead and edit these photos, change the descriptions for each one. You can go ahead and add more photos. Using another method, you can organize. You can edit info for the entire album and you can delete photos. Then when viewing the photos, you can also go ahead and click on one and go ahead and add tags. Now scroll down here and say I want to “Tag this Photo” and I can then select a face in the photo and go ahead and add a tag. Now, once this happens, it will actually sync back to iPhoto. Now I’m gonna go back into iPhoto and click on names. I actually see that I get that label there with the little Facebook symbol next to it showing that this tag came from Facebook. So this tag can actually come from somebody else labeling themselves or another person in your photos that comes back to you for approval. So you click on it to approve it or you can remove it. It’s up to you what to do for the control of your tags in your iPhoto. And of course, you can also go back into Facebook and control the tags there as well. Now once you have an album that shared between iPhoto and Facebook, you can add more things to it very easily. So for instance, I can go back in and decide to go ahead and add another photo just by dragging that photo over to that item on the left sidebar. It will automatically add that to that album and upload it to Facebook. So you can basically create albums of say family photos, work photos, friends, that type of thing and just keep adding more photos to them as time goes on. So if you use Facebook and you use iPhoto, you’ve gotta use this feature. It’s just such an easy way to maintain your photos at Facebook quickly, add new ones to them. And get tagging going back and forth between Facebook and iPhoto. Til next time this is Gary Rosenzweig with MacMost Now.
Hi. This is Gary with MacMost Now brought to you by SquareSpace. For a great way to build your own website, visit MacMost.com/squarespace. On this episode, let’s take a look at the new feature on iPhoto that allows you to sync iPhoto with Facebook. So, a lot of us use Facebook to show off our pictures to our friends and you can go ahead and upload just about any photo up to Facebook and put it in an album now. But, the new iPhoto 09 got’s great functionality to allow you to do all that from iPhoto. You can actually create these Facebook albums in iPhoto and they sync automatically with Facebook. Let’s take a look. Ok, here we are in iPhoto. Now I’m gonna select a few photos that I want to upload to Facebook. Trying to pick some out. And now I’m gonna go to share, Facebook. Now the first time you do this, it’s gonna ask for your Facebook credentials and this will link iPhoto to Facebook. Once you do that, every time you do it you’ll just come up with this simple dialogue box. It asks you just if you want the photos viewable by everybody, your friends, or friends of friends as well. You can also change accounts if you have multiple Facebook accounts. And then you just hit Publish. Now what’ll happen here is it’s gonna create this little mini album and stick it on the left side under Facebook and it’s gonna give it a name, in this case the name of the date of these photos. I’m gonna go and right away change that to something else like MacMost Photos. And you’ll see a little spinner to the right that tells you it’s uploading and once it’s uploading you’ll see a little Transmit button to tell you that basically it’s syncing with Facebook. Now also at the top of this when you have it selected on the left, you’ll see a link directly to that album in Facebook. So you click on that and it’ll launch your browser and if you are already logged into Facebook, it will take you right to that album and here you go. You’ll see those three photos all in that Facebook album. And you can also do all the other things you can normally do with Facebook albums. You can go ahead and edit these photos, change the descriptions for each one. You can go ahead and add more photos. Using another method, you can organize. You can edit info for the entire album and you can delete photos. Then when viewing the photos, you can also go ahead and click on one and go ahead and add tags. Now scroll down here and say I want to “Tag this Photo” and I can then select a face in the photo and go ahead and add a tag. Now, once this happens, it will actually sync back to iPhoto. Now I’m gonna go back into iPhoto and click on names. I actually see that I get that label there with the little Facebook symbol next to it showing that this tag came from Facebook. So this tag can actually come from somebody else labeling themselves or another person in your photos that comes back to you for approval. So you click on it to approve it or you can remove it. It’s up to you what to do for the control of your tags in your iPhoto. And of course, you can also go back into Facebook and control the tags there as well. Now once you have an album that shared between iPhoto and Facebook, you can add more things to it very easily. So for instance, I can go back in and decide to go ahead and add another photo just by dragging that photo over to that item on the left sidebar. It will automatically add that to that album and upload it to Facebook. So you can basically create albums of say family photos, work photos, friends, that type of thing and just keep adding more photos to them as time goes on. So if you use Facebook and you use iPhoto, you’ve gotta use this feature. It’s just such an easy way to maintain your photos at Facebook quickly, add new ones to them. And get tagging going back and forth between Facebook and iPhoto. Til next time this is Gary Rosenzweig with MacMost Now.
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Good video!
One question though, it appears that you can’t share albums uploaded via iPhoto ‘09 on your Facebook Wall – the uploaded albums just aren’t there to share when you click on the Photos app in Facebook. Do you know any way to do this?
I certainly see that album in Facebook when I upload. Do you see them in Facebook at all?
Hi, my iphoto was loading perfectly for the first few months. I’ve tried to upload the last album I have but while its telling me its uploading thumbnails and logging into facebook it doesn’t actually happen? the album wont upload? i’m doing the same thing as before, clicking on the facebook icon, and i’ve checked the settings on facebook but nothing is working? can anyone help? Sarah
I’d try logging in and out of FB. Maybe try playing with your FB albums in the Web interface. Re-check your settings in iPhoto for your FB account. Try uploading a single photo, etc. Play around with it to see if you can figure out what the problem is. It could just be that FB was having problems — it WAS having problems this week.
Any anwer?
its a good sharing but one thing is not good , we cannot upload videos from iphoto . please do something to make a real great stuff.
when these photos get tagged in facebook, i cant see the same tags in iphoto, do i have to initiate this somehow?
Make sure you set up your Facebook account inside of iPhoto. But you probably have already done this otherwise you wouldn’t be able to upload from iPhoto directly to Facebook. It may take a few minutes for the tags to appear. Play around with the settings for a bit and see f you can get it to work.
When I try to upload photos to facebook it comes up with a message saying ‘timed out’ I have uploaded photos successfully before but now i’m using firefox as opposed to safari, friends have said this shouldn’t make a difference but can you help?
I would just wait and try again later. Facebook isn’t the most consistent when it comes to access.
Help,
Right now I hate the 09 Iphoto.
When I upload my photos to Facebook I want to delete them from my IPHOTO account.. and keep them on FB, but it deletes them as soon as I do.
What’s the point???
HELP! Thanks
The idea is that they are in sync. That FB album is in sync with your iPhoto collection. Why would you want to delete them from your iPhoto library, though? That’s like having two copies of a printed photo, lending one to your friend, and then ripping up the one you kept.
I want to get rid of them, bc I do NOT have enough hard drive- so I save special photos on an external. Also for instance I just took some photos for a friend of her baby shower- I wanted her to be able to get the album anytime, but I do not especially want to keep those photos.. it was sort of my gift to her…
So what can I do? Please help
You need to upload photos like that to FB independent of iPhoto then. Maybe also burn a CD for her so she has the original high-res photos to keep.
PLUS.. one more thing.. every time I change one thing to the album on IPHOTO- it changes everything and I loose all of my tags! UGG
How can I just do it the normal way again.. FB wont let me now!
You definitely can do it the old way. Just export your photos from iPhoto and upload them via the Web interface of FB. Just do it in a new album, not the one you created with iPhoto.
ok thanks .. I will try this!