PhotoCopy Mirrors iPhoto Albums to Flickr
For all its built-in multimedia software, one thing Mac OS X doesn’t really offer is a way to move from the desktop to the web. Take iPhoto for instance, it’s an easy way to organize your images and even offers some passable editing tools, but going from iPhoto to an online service like Flickr is still a wholly manual affair.
Even if you use the very nice FlickrExport iPhoto plugin, selecting and uploading files is still manual.
If you’re looking for an automated solution, check out the brand new PhotoCopy, a standalone app that mirrors your selected iPhoto albums to Flickr. Using Photocopy is pretty simple, just authorize it to access your Flickr account and then select the albums to mirror.
Once the initial images are uploaded, PhotoCopy keeps track of any edits (including metadata changes) or new photos and then syncs those changes to Flickr in the background. It’s about the easiest way to get photos synced with Flickr that we’ve tested.
PhotoCopy’s uploading options include the ability to resize images on upload, and you can even mirror your entire iPhoto Library if you want an off-site backup of your images.
The main downside to PhotoCopy is that there’s no way to control the Flickr privacy settings on individual photos. Once you select an iPhoto album and tell PhotoCopy to mirror it to Flickr, all the photos (plus any you add to that album in the future) will be public photos (or whatever you default Flickr privacy setting is).
It would be nice if PhotoCopy added a little more fine grained control over which images are uploaded, but despite the shortcomings, PhotoCopy is one of the easiest ways for Mac users to get their images from iPhoto to Flickr.
If you don’t mind the manual workflow, FlickrExport definitely offers more control, but PhotoCopy wins when it comes to automation.
PhotoCopy is $20 and there is a 30-day free trial, but be aware that the trail version will watermark any photos you upload to Flickr.
[via Webware]
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