Apple Aperture 3.5 User Manual

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Chapter 12

Share photos online

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Upload photos or videos to your Facebook account
After signing in to Facebook the first time with Aperture, you can post photos and video
clips to new albums and existing albums, and upload single photos or a video clip to your
Facebook Timeline.

1

In Aperture, select photos or videos.

Note: You can upload only one photo or video file at a time to your Facebook timeline.

2

Do one of the following:

Choose File > Share > Facebook.

Choose Facebook from the Share pop-up menu in the toolbar.

3

In the dialog that appears, do one of the following:

To publish your items to a new album, choose New Album from the Album pop-up menu.
Type an album name in the Album name box and choose who can view the items from the
Photos Viewable By pop-up menu.

To publish your items to an existing Facebook album, choose the album name from the Album
pop-up menu.

To publish a single item to your Timeline, choose Timeline from the Album pop-up menu. Type
a comment in the Comment box if you want.

4

Click Publish.

Aperture securely saves your Facebook account information to your OS X user account’s keychain
and then publishes your photo or video, along with your comment, to your Facebook account’s
timeline. Any comments your friends post to your photo on Facebook appear in the Info
inspector when the photo is selected in Aperture. For more information, see

Modify metadata in

the Info inspector and Inspector HUD

on page 198.

Sign in to SmugMug and create a new SmugMug album

1

In Aperture, select a photo or a group of photos.

2

Do one of the following:

Choose File > Share > SmugMug.

Choose SmugMug from the Share pop-up menu in the toolbar.

3

In the dialog that appears, click Set Up.

4

In the SmugMug account sign-in page, do the following:

a

Enter your email address.

b

Enter your password.

c

Select the “Remember me” checkbox.

Selecting this checkbox keeps you signed in and prevents you from having to sign in to
SmugMug every time you want to publish photos to your SmugMug account.

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