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

From Safari on a Mac log into smugmug and go to a gallery and click Upload --> Browse Computer.

Then find the "Media" tag and under there go into Photos and you'll see your data organized as it is in Apple Photos app.

Select the photos and they'll import into Smugmug.

George

Hi,

I'm from PicBackMan team, we have our product named 'PicBackMan' (www.picbackman.com) which will allow you to upload your Apple Photos or iPhoto library to SmugMug.

You need to go through following steps:

1.Download & install PicBackMan into your Mac.

2).Once registration done, go to 'Account' tab of the application.

3).Connect your SmugMug account. (We use oAuth)

4).Go to 'Photo' tab, click on 'Associate Apple Photos' button.

5).Go to Apple Photos location and select/click on the icon of Apple Photos.

6).Check the checkbox corresponds to SmugMug. Hit 'Upload' button.

7).PicBackMan will pick up all your files and upload them to SmugMug automatically.

You need not to extract or export folders from Photos library. Just select the whole library.

Note: PicBackMan will create the same folder hierarchy on SmugMug according to your Photos library structure.

PicBackMan is listed in SmugMug third-party uploaders list.

http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/84267

In case if you need any help or have any query feel free to write us at team@picbackman.com, we help you right away!

That's correct,

1) the recommended method to upload from Photos to SmugMug is to first export your photos to a folder. There is no direct upload functionality.

2) I do not believe there was ever support for iPhotos/SmugMug integration (direct or 3rd party).

3) To answer your 3rd question, based on the link provided above to the SmugMug thread, here's what a SmugMug representative had to say:

"Apple allows integrations for "Photos", similar to what they allowed with "Aperture" except there's a few limitations that they imposed on "Photos" that they didn't impose on "Aperture". Within Photos, any integration can only upload 10 photos at a time. They want people to use iCloud and not other services, so they don't allow other services to operate well. Can you imagine how annoying it would be if there was a SmugMug Plugin for "Photos" that only allowed you to upload 10 photos at a time? Because of this we haven't invested effort into building a Photos integration, however, if they remove this restriction (would love for you all to request it with Apple), we'd be more than happy to build an export extension. We want to make it as easy as possible to get your photos to SmugMug."

In response, I posted the following to Apple a couple of weeks ago as a long-running/last-ditch effort to perhaps eventually get that restriction lifted. But, not expecting much to come of it:

Photos integration limitation impacting SmugMug integration

No - neither did iPhoto nor APerture

Use the media browser in Safari

LN

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

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

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.

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

LN

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.

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

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

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

LN

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.