Aperture export to Facebook

Hello. I'm forever taking photo's and running them through aperture to do all the adjustments I want, then exporting them to the desktop in order to upload them onto my Facebook account. As you can imagine this can take a long time and is very tedius.
I recently found a plug in for Aperture using Google, made by some guy who worked on the iPhoto plug in apparently, so I have downloaded this but it does not seem to work. There are two steps, preparing the images and creating the album, however it only ever does the first step and then just stops.
So is there anyway of sharing all of the photo's in Aperture with iPhoto so that I can use the iPhoto plug in, but without making duplicate copies, i.e so that everything is still stored in Aperture but I'm able to export the versions from iPhoto? Unless there is an easier way to export directly from Aperture.

Hi there - not sure if you subscribe to this, but someone might find this answer useful!
You can use the Facebook Exporter for Aperture plugin from:
http://seanfarley.org/aperture/
to upload your pictures, create albums, even tag people before they go up!
james

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I've download the Export to Facebook plugin for Aperture, and it works...most of the time. But one thing I can't seem to do is export my Aperture photos into the albums on my Mark Knowler Photography Facebook PAGE. I can only do it to my own personal photo album under my own name. Just wondering if anyone has tried the same thing or has any ideas?

This may not be possible using the Facebook API. Another plug-in developer says:
Note: the Facebook API currently allows only uploading to personal pages, and does not allow uploading photos to business pages, and as such, your business-page galleries will not show up
If the developer tells you they can't, they may be right, there may be nothing they or Apple can do.
(as if Facebook didn't mangle photos enough already)
If it turns out that way, the place to aim complaints is Facebook photos feedback:
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?showform=photosbug

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I have control over both when I export to my hard drive (or a flash drive, etc.), as you can see below:
I can't find the option to control the resolution when I try to export to Facebook. Before I got Lightroom 4, I would create whole new low-resolution files of images I wanted to post online using Photoshop. The image size settings I would use are a longest edge of 10 inches at 72ppi, and I would like to continue doing this. If I can only set the longest side to 720 pixels (I can't even seem to set the longest edge to an inches value - I can only choose a pixels value) and not change the resolution from 300ppi to 72ppi, then my photos' longest edge will only be less than 3 inches long (right?). Thus, I really want to be able to upload low-resolution photos to Facebook via Lightroom with the ability to change both the resolution and the image dimensions. Any idea how to do it without having to export to my hard drive first? Thanks!

Rob Cole wrote:
I'd be inclined to set it to zero so it obviously doesn't mean anything
You can set it to whatever you like, and it makes no difference. Most of the time (depending on how you saved it), it will still open as "72".
When you save an image for web, the resolution is usually stripped from the file. It's simply not there anymore. That's probably what happens in the Lr facebook module, and that's why there's no entry for it.
But when you open that image somewhere else, that default of 72 ppi is assigned. Most apps need to know what to do with a file if asked to print it out. So there is a default, and that's usually 72, mostly by convention. With that default ppi, it prints out at a comparable size to what you see on screen at 1:1 display.
And when people see that, they think "hey, web images are 72 ppi". But they're not - that figure is just inserted there by the opening application.

Exporting to Facebook - why can't I use the old plug-in?

It's nice that iPhoto '09 tried to help us with the Facebook exporter built-in. But why couldn't they make it useful? Why can't I tag people before I upload them? Why can't I upload photos to an existing album? I wouldn't mind so much, but they seemed to have disabled the existing (working) plug-in that was available. So now I have to export the pictures to my desktop and upload them through Facebook. Hmm...doesn't seem too user-friendly.

Exporting to Facebook - why can't I use the old plug-in?
Have you considered asking the author of the plug-in?
It's nice that iPhoto '09 tried to help us with the Facebook exporter built-in. But why couldn't they make it useful?
Millions upon millions of people do find it very useful
Why can't I tag people before I upload them?
You can - have you watched the iPhoto tutorials?
Why can't I upload photos to an existing album?
You can IF the album was created by iPhoto
Do you have an iPhoto question that one of the iPhoto users who volunteer here might be able to help with?
LN

Export to Facebook

Hi there,
I have Bridge CS5 (v. 4.0.2.1) running on Windows 7 Ultimate.
On my laptop, I have the option to "Export to Facebook" (along with a few others, photoshop.com, flikr, harddrive).
On my desktop, I do not have this option, only "Export to Harddrive".
I've gone out to Adobe Exchange, and didn't see a module for it.
How did this option get enabled?
Follow up question, when I use "Export to Facebook" it doesn't recognize any of my photo albums. I can create a new one and place photos in it. But when I return to add more, it's not listed; requireing me to create a new album.
Doesn't seem correct, but maybe that's v.1.0 design?
Anyhow, I would love some assistance on this - and I didn't see anything about this so far on the forums, except one item in the Macintosh section (with no answers).
Thanks much,
Christopher

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Partly correct. You can upload to an existing album IF that album was already created via Aperture. In other words, you can make changes and additions previously created Aperture FB albums. However, in spirit with TT5's post, I don't think you can arbitrarily choose an existing album to post into yet.

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Although I haven't encountered this problem, please read the following thread and you may reconsider the built-in Facebook syncing:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2625405&tstart=100
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As mentioned in an earlier post, I just bought an Epson 3880 printer and some Epson Hot Press paper, so now I have to pay attention to PPI (term used for displays) and DPI (term used for printers).
In Aperture however, files being exported require DPI specs(!), while files being printed require that we specify PPI specs. How is that?
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*If you cannot select your paper, you have not selected the correct paper size in the "Printer" section of Aperture's Print dialog. Note that the "Paper Size" selection includes not only the paper size, but also whether the feed is by sheet-feeder or manual, and whether or not the print is borderless. (I didn't design this; I assume there are reasons to have shoe-horned these options into the "Paper Size" selection.
This is all tricky on top of being actually complex and next to being new. It takes everyone time and mistakes (read: ink and paper) to canalize a flow that works for producing the prints they want. I hope this gets you there a little faster. Report back with what doesn't work.
—Kirby.

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