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iPhoto Blog Integration

jonathan366 - 12:13pm Aug 29, 2005 PST

I just set up my recently retired mother with a blog on Blogger so she can keep the family updated on her new projects, etc. She seems to be able to post to the blog just fine, but when it comes to uploading photos we run into difficulties. Having to browse through the folder structure that iPhoto creates and find the images she wants among all those similar-looking and--to her--meaningless names is clearly impossible. Has anyone come up with a solution to make uploading a photo from iPhoto to Blogger (or another blogging site) as simple as sending a photo using Apple Mail? It doesn't necessarily need to be a plugin such as the one she uses for Shutterfly, just a means of making the process simple while avoiding browsing through the image files on the hard drive. Comprehending that there are files that correspond to what she sees and has carefully filed in iPhoto, yet are organized in a different structure, is (understandably) beyond her. Honestly, having to resort to managing (or even browsing) music or image files directly at this point seems archaic and not something I am much willing to tolerate myself.

Thanks for any suggestions anyone might have.

[You can just drag a photo out of iPhoto to feed it to other applications, or to the Desktop to export it. It's a Very Bad Idea to be messing around inside the iPhoto Library folder; one mistake and she'll mess it up seriously and will need to do a lot of tedious fixing. -Adam]

Jonathan

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Khoi Vinh (apparently) - Aug 29, 2005 1:56 pm (#1 Total: 7)

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Re: iPhoto Blog Integration

> Has anyone come up with a solution to make uploading a photo from iPhoto to
> Blogger (or another blogging site) as simple as sending a photo using Apple
> Mail?

No, not that I know of. But a roundabout way may be to use a combination of
iPhoto, Flickr and Blogger. Here's what I might do:

1. Continue to use iPhoto as her principal method for organizing photos.
Switch from ShutterFly to the superior Flickr as her venue for sharing
photos over the Web.

2. Upload the photos she likes to her Flickr account. This can be done with
Flickr's own quite serviceable upload tool. Or for even better ease of use,
with the excellent and free FlickrExport plug-in, which will allow her to do
it right from iPhoto. Just be sure to teach her how to upload
reasonably-sized images if she has a camera with several megapixels' worth
of resolution.
<http://connectedflow.com/flickrexport/>

3. Configure Flickr to publish items directly to her blog. This can be done
once, and forever after, she can just use the "Blog This" button above each
of her pictures. It works very well.

It sounds complicated -- and in truth it's still more complicated than it
really should be -- but it's not that hard, really.

Khoi

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Mike Cohen (apparently) - Aug 29, 2005 1:56 pm (#2 Total: 7)

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I use Flickr Photo with the Flickr export plugin for iPhoto. I upload
my pictures to to Flickr and use their blogging feature to post the
newly uploaded picture to my blog.

jwblist (apparently) - Aug 29, 2005 1:56 pm (#3 Total: 7)

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> [You can just drag a photo out of iPhoto to feed it to other
> applications, or to the Desktop to export it. It's a Very Bad Idea
> to be messing around inside the iPhoto Library folder; one mistake
> and she'll mess it up seriously and will need to do a lot of
> tedious fixing. -Adam]

Dragging to the desktop is OK if the image has already been reduced
to a sensible size (both file size and on-screen size).

Using Export... (from the Share menu in iPhoto 5; from the File menu
in iPhoto 2) gives an opportunity to change the format, display size,
and file size. In one sample here, setting the size to 320x<whatever
kept the proportions> and keeping JPEG encoding got the file down
from 1 meg to 58K. If her friends and family have dialup, they would
probably appreciate such adjustments, even if she has "broadband."

--John

jonathan366 - Aug 30, 2005 8:08 am (#4 Total: 7)

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It sounds like Flickr is the way to go. A bit of a roundabout trip, but not too bad. Thanks for the suggestions.

Just a thought, has anyone tried Blogger's mobile posting system from a standard email account with an image attachment? That might be another approach. I'll test that out now myself and see if it works....

Just for the record, the Mail-to-Blogger function doesn't support image attachments and Blogger Mobile doesn't accept posts from systems that don't use the wireless gateways from the major companies (which means my Treo 650 set up with my own SMTP server is blocked as well). Not very convenient. Flickr it is!

Jonathan

Mike Cohen (apparently) - Aug 30, 2005 6:24 pm (#5 Total: 7)

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Re: iPhoto Blog Integration

On Aug 30, 2005, at 11:08 AM, jonathan366 wrote:

> It sounds like Flickr is the way to go. A bit of a roundabout trip,
> but not too bad. Thanks for the suggestions.

Flickr's email to blog function works very nicely. I've used it both
with my cameraphone and by emailing from iPhoto.

angus (apparently) - Aug 30, 2005 6:24 pm (#6 Total: 7)

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Re: iPhoto Blog Integration

I use Ecto for my MovableType blog, but I believe they have support
for blogger as well (though I couldn't find a list of supported blog
systems on their web site).

<http://ecto.kung-foo.tv/>

With it you could drag a picture from iPhoto as Adam suggested
straight into Ecto, and it can resize it for you. The easiest way is
to set a default size for pictures, and it will scale them down and
upload them. Very handy.

Steve Cochran

macmaarten - Sep 6, 2005 2:54 pm (#7 Total: 7)

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Re: iPhoto Blog Integration

There is an iPhoto plugin called Photon, which can post directly from the familiar surrounds of iPhoto to Movable Type, TypePad, Blojsom and WordPress blogs. Or so it says on the site.

Since it's XML-RPC, it should theoretically work with Blogger as well.

Maarten.

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