![]() ![]() So just tilt your head while you're adding tags. If you try to fix them yourself with the jUploadr rotate button, the upload will get screwed up as Flickr rotates them one more time. It also doesn't seem to always respect the metadata (available with some cameras) that indicates whether your photo was taken in portrait or landscape mode, so it won't show the photos rotated in the preview. No sorting options or re-arranging available. Worse, if you drop a group of photos in there, it uploads them backwards- the last one you put in is the first one that gets uploaded, which will mess up the chronology of your photostream if you don't plan ahead and carefully drop your photos in there, one-by-one, in reverse chronological order. ![]() And if it crashes, unlike the official Flickr Uploadr it doesn't try to save your data. I hate having to right-click on an image to get the metadata options to show up- and they do so in another window. It meets all my requirements, and then some (it has a nice option for adding geo data). Of all the Linux-friendly software I've tried, jUploadr has one of the best sets of features. The worst part is, on my netbook running Lucid (10.04), Shotwell crashes as soon as I try to upload anything. No assigning titles (nor renaming the photo within Shotwell), descriptions, or sets permissions are limited to visibility. Other than that, Shotwell suffers from all the same Flickr uploading shortcomings as F-Spot. Being able to assign comma-separated tags is a major improvement over pre-populating a database. You can add a description for Flickr in the "Comment" field (at the bottom in the "Edit Image" view), and you can fiddle with the privacy settings, but there's no way to identify the content type or add the photo to a set.Īs a photo organizer, Shotwell is a step up from F-Spot. I've got far too many tags for that to be plausible additionally, the tags are only saved within F-Spot, so if you switch software, you lose your tags. The tags you assign in F-Spot carry over when you upload the image, but you have to pre-populate the F-Spot database with the tags. A bit of Googling appears to have confirmed my suspicion that you can't rename photos in F-Spot- not to mention giving the photos new titles specifically for the upload. I've switched to Shotwell (and so will Ubuntu, in 10.10) and been much happier with it.į-Spot really falls short on the Flickr uploading front (Photo > Export to > Flickr). ![]() Annoyingly, even though Ubuntu offers to import the photos using F-Spot when you attach your card reader, it'll only do the date-based organization if you start the import from within F-Spot itself. I initially used F-Spot for importing images and automatically organizing them into date-based folders, like I used to do in Bridge CS4. My recommendation on Lucid would have to be jUploadr- it's a bit annoying to use, it has a number of shortcomings (see below), but the features are there and it won't crash your machine. If you're running Lucid, and the official Flickr Uploadr isn't an option, here's a comparison and description of the other software I tried. On my work Mac, canceling an upload in Flickr Uploadr (intentionally, or through losing the wireless connection) not-infrequently meant losing all the work I'd done on the remaining photos, but the Windows version on Wine consistently saves data, even when you shut it down in the middle of an upload, or lose connectivity. Solid Flickr uploading software is a must, and in Karmic, the Windows Uploadr works like a dream. Largely because of this issue, I'm hesitant to upgrade my Karmic machine to Lucid. On Lucid, it installs fine but throws an XULRunner error, "Couldn't load XPCom", that I haven't been able to get around. Fortunately, the official Windows Flickr Uploadr (v. Long story short, none of the Linux-native software I was able to get working (on 64-bit Jaunty or Karmic, or 32-bit Lucid) made the cut. I import, edit, and upload 200-ish photos a week, and I need a piece of software that lets me: One of the major hurdles in doing so was figuring out what to do about Flickr. In April, I switched to Ubuntu for my main (non-work) machine. It does everything I was looking for, and more- I highly encourage anyone looking for a Flickr solution on Ubuntu to go download it. It's the Flickr uploader for Ubuntu I've been waiting for. Uploading to Flickr on Ubuntu: the options aren’t amazingĢ/24/11 UPDATE: The recent release of Frogr 0.4 makes this post obsolete.
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