garyindc

Q: How do I upload photos to Smugmug from the new Photos?

Does the new Photos app support this functionality?

Posted on Sep 7, 2015 9:33 AM

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Q: How do I upload photos to Smugmug from the new Photos?

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Sep 7, 2015 9:34 AM in response to garyindc
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    Sep 7, 2015 9:34 AM in response to garyindc

    No - neither did iPhoto nor APerture

     

    Use the media browser in Safari

     

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  • by EsJay.Jones,

    EsJay.Jones EsJay.Jones Oct 12, 2015 11:24 AM in response to garyindc
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    Oct 12, 2015 11:24 AM in response to garyindc

    1)  On SmugMug's site, pick 'Upload', and then pick 'Browse'.

     

    2) Finding your photos on your local computer in order to drag & drop: 

    Your photos aren't stored in your regular file directory. Instead of picking Documents or your Desktop or your main directory, Pick Photos underneath Media on the left hand side.  You can navigate to your albums from there. When you get there you can pick manually using the Command Button to select multiple photos or just pick Command-A for all.

     

    ps. The new 'Photos' app doesn't automatically group your photos into Events like iPhotos did, so putting everything that you upload into Albums is the only way that I know of to find photos thru the media browsers that websites use to upload them.  You've probably already discovered that all of your pre-Photos App 'iPhoto Event' photos are grouped together in one place called iPhoto Events.

     

    EsJay

  • by medmonds,

    medmonds medmonds Aug 8, 2016 9:10 AM in response to LarryHN
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    Aug 8, 2016 9:10 AM in response to LarryHN

    Aperture does have a plugin for Smugmug uploading. I too wish Apple would allow this for Photos.

  • by BenIbarra,

    BenIbarra BenIbarra Aug 8, 2016 11:35 AM in response to garyindc
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    Aug 8, 2016 11:35 AM in response to garyindc

    No. Unfortunately there is not exporting tool or command to upload photos to Smugmug. Check in Smugmug  forums, apparently Apple does not want to support exporting multiple photos and Smugmug finds that discouraging.

    I really wanted to like Photos but it is very limited. You might have better luck in a different image manager. There are plenty of options out there.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Aug 8, 2016 11:45 AM in response to BenIbarra
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    Aug 8, 2016 11:45 AM in response to BenIbarra

    gee did you read the responses?

     

    No - neither did iPhoto nor APerture

     

    Use the media browser in Safari

    Photos does not have that feature and neither did iPhoto

     

    You can upload using the media browser and you can export photos from Photos to a desktop folder and upload from there

     

    I doubt that you are doing to find any photo management software that includes a smugmug uploader - I am not aware of any

     

    If Smugmug finde that disappointing then they should contact Apple and work it out with them or provide an extension to do it or some other external method

     

    Apple does support sharing to a number of external services - but certainly not every single one - the service has to make tha thappen

     

    Screenshot 2016-08-08 11.44.44.png

     

     

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  • by medmonds,

    medmonds medmonds Aug 8, 2016 12:39 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Aug 8, 2016 12:39 PM in response to LarryHN

    Not to be a stickler Larry, but as my response pointed out there is/was a plugin for Aperture to upload to Smugmug. I've used it for the past two years to upload sports photography to my son's high school Smugmug page, and it works very well.

    Although I was extremely disappointed that Apple terminated Aperture, I continue to use it solely for the purpose of connecting to Smugmug.

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Aug 8, 2016 12:52 PM in response to medmonds
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    Aug 8, 2016 12:52 PM in response to medmonds

    That was not supplied by apple - it is a third party  plugin and as I described in my post

    You can upload using the media browser and you can export photos from Photos to a desktop folder and upload from there

    You can contact the third party you supplied the Aperture Plugin and see if they have a solution - but Apple does not and has never supported Smugmug - Apple does support Flickr

     

    And many people still use Aperture - it is discontinued and will not be updated but for now it mostly works

     

    LN

  • by BenIbarra,

    BenIbarra BenIbarra Aug 8, 2016 8:28 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Aug 8, 2016 8:28 PM in response to LarryHN

    Larry

     

    I used Aperture for a number of years and I do not remember adding smugmug  plugin. Never. It was integrated in Aperture as Flickr, Facebook, etc.

    Read what smugmug people say about this.

    http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=253136

  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Aug 8, 2016 8:43 PM in response to BenIbarra
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    Aug 8, 2016 8:43 PM in response to BenIbarra

    I barely use Aperture but What ever that is not a feature of Photos which is the correct answer to the OP's question

     

    Good Night

     

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  • by Jeff Morrison,

    Jeff Morrison Jeff Morrison Sep 27, 2016 7:33 AM in response to LarryHN
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    Sep 27, 2016 7:33 AM in response to LarryHN

    Let's be clear on our answers, shall we?

     

    1. There currently is no supported way of directly uploading to smugmug from the Photos app.

     

    2. iPhoto did not include support for this either, but there may have been non-Apple support for it...I'm not sure on that.

     

    3. Aperture, by default, DID include support for smugmug, as well as Flikr and Facebook. iCloud support was limited to a single Apple ID.

     

    My question is this... is there something in the SDK for extensions in OS X or Photos preventing the creation of a plugin to directly upload to other services than Flickr and iCloud? Everyone in my family uses separate Apple ID's to keep addresses and calendars separate. Photos does NOT support multiple Apple ID's, which just seems crazy to me. I'd gladly give Apple my money each month for iCloud storage if it did.