Help with iPhoto

June 22, 2007 11:44 AM

How can I use iPhoto to put my photos online?

I want to make a web album of all my pictures. I have everything sorted out the way I want it to be, but iPhoto only lets me export to a .mac account I don't have and don't want.

Since everything is already laid by and sorted into album, I pretty much want something that will create the HTML, dump it and the pictures into a folder, and scale the images back for me a bit. Being able to mess with the templates would be nice, as well. I don't want to have to sort everything out again (by using something like JAlbum).

posted by triolus to Computers & Internet (10 answers total)

You can use iPhoto to export the album to an HTML page, or you can use it to export the album to iWeb. Once in iWeb, you can publish the album to a folder on your disk. No need for iMac anywhere along the way.

Going from iPhoto to HTML will give you a lower-weight page. iWeb adds all sorts of javascript that makes the result prettier but clunkier.
posted by alms at 12:01 PM on June 22, 2007

Best answer: In iPhoto, File > Export > Web Page. The resulting pages are very bare bones, but you might be able to style them up with CSS or something.
posted by aparrish at 12:23 PM on June 22, 2007

If you want to use Picasa, they have a tool that lets you upload right from iPhoto.
posted by heh3d at 12:37 PM on June 22, 2007

There's a flickr plugin for iphoto which is pretty nice. There's a standalone app that plays nice with iPhoto and uploads to a lot of different photo-sharing websites, ftp, etc.
posted by adamrice at 2:42 PM on June 22, 2007

How about exporting to a Flash-based gallery? Simpleviewer does a nice job, I think.
posted by emelenjr at 2:46 PM on June 22, 2007

Best answer: If you have a hosting account which supports Gallery you could install that, and use the fine iPhotoToGallery software.

I have four or five installs of Gallery, and I used to use iPhotoToGallery until I switched to Aperture, and now I use ApertureToGallery.
posted by tomierna at 3:18 PM on June 22, 2007

seconding the picasa plugin for iPhoto.
posted by Industrial PhD at 3:52 PM on June 22, 2007

there's also an iphoto->facebook plugin that i've gotten some mileage out of
posted by prophetsearcher at 3:58 PM on June 22, 2007

Response by poster: Wow, you can use export to make HTML pages now.. must've been something in one of the new upgrades. Thanks. =)

Just for the sharing of knowledge: on OS X, It's "Share -> Export -> Webpage"

I'll check into gallery, tom. I can probably install it on my apache server.

Thanks all!
posted by triolus at 7:04 PM on June 22, 2007

I use and have been quite pleased with BetterHTMLExport, which gives you a lot of control over HTML templates, photo sizes, and so forth. It works from iPhoto or the command line and is well worth the $20 shareware fee.
posted by bradlands at 11:50 AM on June 23, 2007