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Your photos don't want to be confined to your hard drive; they want to be on the web where they can flourish and be seen by friends and family. Thankfully, iPhoto has made it even easier--and more worthwhile--to connect with services like Facebook and Flickr.
To add an account, head up to the Menu Bar and select iPhoto > Preferences. In the Accounts tab, you can start linking up any services you wish to add.
Enabling your Facebook account is officially worth your time.
You can easily select and upload entire albums to Facebook. Find the photos you want to upload and click the Share > Facebook button in the bottom right corner.
You can upload the images as a new album, add them to an existing album, or just post them to your Wall.
If you only have one image selected, you'll also be given the option to upload it as your new Profile Picture.
Before you send it off, make sure the privacy settings are as you'd like them to be.
Once your photos are on Facebook, you can monitor their activity right in iPhoto.
Photos that you've uploaded to Facebook from iPhoto will remain in-sync and the comments will be visible in the right sidebar.
Additionally, you can tag Facebook contacts in your photos the same way you would tag someone with Faces--and Facebook will recognize that tag upon upload.
Once you enable Flickr, your Flickr Sets automatically sync with your iPhoto library.
In Album View, you can see that Facebook and Flickr albums are now synced with iPhoto and are displayed under our main albums.
When we tried to add content from Flickr albums to print projects we were greeted with the following dialog box:
This means is that those files are still living in the cloud. In order to use them in projects such as Books or Cards, we would have to re-download them and import them to our library.
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rtdunham
October 31, 2010 at 9:03pm
very nice summary. makes it easier to jump in. but a couple questions:
1) i've seen books with "spreads" or "double-trucks"--an image that spans two pages. how dey do dat? the illustration in your article on page formats doesn't show one like that in the formatting sidebar.
2) i also don't see a page format like the ones shown in the accompanying book mockups with facing horizontal images that are full-page wide but have white space above and below. Do the book layouts automatically include some page designs that cannot be selected manually and imposed?
3) a comment: to send a non-full-res image in a non-themed email, just drag the photo to the mail app in the dock: that'll open mail, create a new email, and place the photo in it. You can then choose the size for the image.
4) And this final question:when sending themed emails with images, there's a checkbox bottom right for whether or not to attach the image, with only two size choices, both of which create very data-intense attachments (4-5 MB compared to, say, 150kb for a plain-jane email with the same photo). That checkbox seems to click on and off arbitrarily. Has anyone found a way (I can't find it in prefs) to set it to a default of off, or unchecked?
