Facebook Exporter for iPhoto

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Facebook Exporter for iPhoto

by Jason Clarke Oct 27th 2008

If you've ever wondered what the easiest way is to send photos from iPhoto to Facebook, the answer is Facebook Exporter for iPhoto.

Since Facebook is the largest photo website on the web in terms of images served, it makes sense that people would want to streamline the process of uploading photos to it as much as possible. Using Facebook Exporter for iPhoto, the process couldn't be more simple. just choose the pictures that you want to upload, optionally add an album and picture descriptions (and you can even tag people!), then press Export. You'll have to approve the photos on Facebook, but the plugin pops up a dialog with the option to go straight to your new album and do so.

You need to log the Facebook Exporter plugin in to your Facebook account before using it, and I had a little trouble logging in the first time, but once I was logged in everything was smooth sailing. I suspect I was experiencing a PEBCAK error.

Tags: export, Facebook, Gmail, image-exporter, iPhoto

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

JM said 1:59PM on 10-27-2008

Is this working now? I haven't tried in a couple of months, but my macbook running 10.5.4 (at the time) would not authenticate against Facebook's API. I sent a message to the Facebook team and they informed me they were working on a fix. Anyone know if this happened?

Eric said 2:19PM on 10-27-2008

I used it last weekend on 10.5.5, and it worked fine.

Maff said 3:59AM on 10-28-2008

this is news?
the wife's been using it on her Mac for many months

cat said 2:24AM on 11-17-2008

ive installed it and everything but it doesnt come up with a "facebook" tab when i go to export photos :S

help please!

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