Or perhaps I should just say that I’m so in love with iPhoto 09. I don’t remember myself enjoying iPhoto so much until today – OK I did enjoy it but wasn’t really like ooo-ahh, that’s all.
When I got my new iMac about a month ago, it was a very busy period for me and all I did with my photo library was transferring, and full stop. When I first launched iPhoto 09, I did notice some of the new features but didn’t bother to look at them much. I even told darl that ‘nah, I’m not going to learn all these, wasting my time nia‘.
A few days back I wanted to publish some photos on my Facebook and remembered about the Facebook publishing feature on iPhoto 09. So I started my experiment and couldn’t get myself away from publishing more photos and albums since then. It was, so easy!
If you are publishing for the first time, you’ll need to set up your Facebook account on iPhoto. I don’t remember exactly how it went but just follow the on-screen instruction will do. And publishing is never easier than this. Go to your Photo Albums, Events, or your Library, and select the photos that you want to publish – perhaps the right way is to create an album first and then publish but I never organise my photos nicely and sometimes I just wanna upload randomly, so this method works better for me.
To select, either command+A (select all), shift+click (to select photos in sequence), or command+click (select photos not in sequence).
After you’ve done selecting, hit the Facebook button at the right bottom of your iPhoto window.
You’ll be asked to make your viewable by Everyone, Friends of Friends, or Only Friends . Select whichever settings you want and hit Publish.
These icons will appear on your sidebar. They are the Facebook albums that you’ve published via iPhoto. The signal icon on the right side means it’s publishing and syncing.
And then you can change the album title, photo title, etc, if you want – which is what I’m doing because obviously I am always too lazy to update my photos, and always leaving the default photo title (eg: DSC00001) in my library. LOL! You may also add photos to the album from time to time. The nice thing is, whatever changes you make on the published albums in iPhoto, it will automatically change on your Facebook. Updating and uploading took me really a very short while, like merely 15 seconds. Cool eh? :D
I have yet to explore Faces and Places in iPhoto (among the new features) but I’m already deeply in love with it. Now the only problem that I’m having is, I don’t have enough nice photos to upload to Facebook. :/
