How can I keep the order of photos in an album when I upload it to Flickr?

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How can I keep the order of photos in an album when I upload it to Flickr?

When I share an iPhoto album on Flickr, the order of the photos in my album is lost. Apparently Flickr uses the photo date, but that defeats all the manual arranging I have done in my album. How can I preseve the photo order on upload?

Also, the description of each uploaded photo appears in small print and not in the main Flickr label box. This means the description cannot be seen if a photo is viewed in full screen mode. How can I automatically transfer the iPhoto descriptions to the main Flickr label boxes?

Is there a better way to share iPhoto albums on the Web (Picasso)?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Dec 13, 2011 9:06 AM

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LarryHN

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Dec 13, 2011 9:37 AM in response to Bill999

That would be a question for Flickr support. Photos to not have an order - the program that displays them determines the display order - in iPhoto you can sidplay accroding to several sort orders - likewise in the finder you can display by several (but different) sort orders - how Flickr (or Picasso or any other service) displays the photos is determined by their software and the settings you make in their software

Sometimes knowing how the final service is going to sort allows you to set things in iPhoto so the sort in the service is what you want - for eample if Flickr sorts by photos date then you coulc select an albuim in iPhoto and use the batch change command to make the photos date order the same as the iPhoto display order so Flickr will then match your iPhoto album order

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Bill999 Author

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Dec 13, 2011 1:36 PM in response to Bill999

Actually, one of the principal reasons for using albums--a feature of the iPhoto software application--is to impose an arbitrary, user-selected order on a set of photos. Of course I would like to maintain that order when I use iPhoto to upload my album to Flickr. Too bad the combination of iPhoto and Flickr software doesn't currently support this.

That said, I found an excellent solution. I downloaded the PicasaWeb upload tool for the Mac from Google: http://picasa.google.com/mac_tools.html Once installed, this upload tool is accessible from iPhoto's Export menu. It works like a charm, preserves the order of photos in an iPhoto album, and correctly transforms the photo descriptions into captions on the Web. (An added advantage is that Picasa provides much more free space for photos than does Flickr.)

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LarryHN

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Dec 13, 2011 2:38 PM in response to Bill999

I'm glad you found a solution

For for others and you in the future it is important to understand

Albums are a way to VIEW photos in your desired order within iPhoto - the photos do not have any order (in fact they are in files scattered essentially randomly accross your hard drive)

When you move the out of iPhotoand view them in another program that program determines teh order they are viewed in

An easy to see an example is the finder - files exported from iPhoto and viewed via the finder can be viewed in many different sort orders including name, date created, date modified, size, kind and label - none of these have any relation to the order the photos were in the album UNLESS you cause that to happen (like by exporting using sequential file names so teh finder name sort matched the album order) - the order you see photos in is totally determined by the program you are using to view them - if you understand how it views them then you may be able to export them so that the destination program view martches the iPhoto view

To make suggestions to Apple re exporting to Flickr (or any other outsidside service) - iPhoto menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback - and to make suggestiont to thrid party suppliers like the Picasa export plugin contact the developer of that plugin

LN

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