My Indispensable Mac Photo Tools: FlickrExport + Keyword Assistant
May 22, 2006 by alex
Like many Mac users, I use iPhoto to collect all the photos I take and Flickr to share the ones I want to share. For a long time, getting photos from iPhoto to Flickr was a somewhat painful process. The Uploader Flickr provides is very limited in functionality and takes forever to upload a large group of photos.
About a year ago I started using Fraser Speir’s FlickrExport to get my photos from one place to the other. The great thing about his software is that it allows you to easily upload them to Flickr in a few easy steps:
1) Select the photos you want to upload
2) Make any last minute changes (re-size them, give them titles, etc…) or attach Flickr-related metadata (tags, set info, etc…)
3) Send them off!
It’s really that easy. Speirs just released a beta ofversion 2.0 (which will be Shareware - price TBA but you can try out the beta for 30 days) and it looks to be a beauty. I hope the price will be reasonable because I can’t imagine losing this piece of software from my workflow.
The second piece to my photo arsenal is Keyword Assistant - this is a simple floating text-entry plugin for iPhoto that allows you to easily tag your photos with keywords. Why is that so special, you ask? Well… it’s special because those keywords are automatically translated into tags in FlickrExport, and subsequently onto Flickr, thereby making it MUCH easier to get the proper metadata onto your photos at the iPhoto stage, which makes all of your photos in there easily search-able by tags, too! If photos and tagging is something you’re into, give these 2 apps a shot. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
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