I’ve been playing with Aperture 3 for quite a while, but today is the first day in which I uploaded photos to Facebook directly from Aperture 3.
Uploading to Facebook is a fairly simple process. Just select the pictures you’d like to upload to Facebook, and hit the Facebook button on the toolbar. You’ll see a fairly straightforward dialog box asking you to link Aperture 3 to your Facebook account, and your photos will begin uploading to a new album. This is an awesome and easy way to upload a series of pictures from a vacation or party, and way faster than the Facebook uploader.
Under the Library tab in the Aperture Inspector, you’ll see a new section at the bottom predictably called Facebook, which you’ll see at the bottom left of this screen: (click to make bigger)
What’s cool is that you can re-edit your photos, add new pictures, or delete old ones, and Aperture 3 will update the album on Facebook. To resync, just click the little icon to each Facebook album in the Aperture 3 Library tab.
However, there are a few things I’d like to see added to Aperture 3′s Facebook-integration feature. First and foremost, we should be able to tag people directly within Aperture 3 so we don’t have to waste time doing so on the traditional Facebook site. (maybe the Faces feature can do this?)
Secondly, I don’t see an obvious way to add photos to an existing Facebook album that’s not synced with Aperture 3 without starting over with a brand-new one. And finally, I’d like to be able to publish albums directly to other people’s Facebook Walls from Aperture 3.
In other words, I’d like it if Aperture 3 made it so that I never have to play with Facebook’s photo management system, which I find confusing and cumbersome at times.
Overall, I’d give this feature a 7 out of 10. I’m happy not to have to export photos into a folder, and then upload to Facebook. Uploading photos directly from Aperture 3 saves us a step in the process, and it’s not like I didn’t have to tag all my photos manually anyway.
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Faces works with Facebook – as long as the email address in faces is the same one the person uses for facebook.
How do you add comments or the titles of pictures with aperture before you upload them?
One thing that is also missing is syncing to a Fanpage…. Apple seemed to leave out a few features from a Pro program that people may need, such as syncing to facebook fanpages and watermarking photos synced to mobile me.