Plugins For Online Photo Sharing
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One of the best things about digital photography is the ability to easily share photos with friends, family and strangers alike. There are a lot of options on the Internet for photo sharing including social networks that are more than just photo sites.
In this post I’d like to highlight a few of the more popular photo sharing sites along side the more popular photo editing tools. Some tools are ready to use with their default photo sharing sites (think Picasa and Windows Live Photo), but for most of the tools a plugin is required to easily upload photos.
I use a number of tools and plugins and thought it’d be helpful to bring them all together in one helpful grid. All of these plugins are free to use although some require registration. I hope you can find something useful to make photo sharing a little bit easier for you!
Photo editing software is listed down the left side of the table and photo sharing sites are listed along the top. Match the resources you are looking for and then click on the link in the grid. If you see a missing plugin, please feel free to leave a comment below and I’ll do my best to add it. All the links below are not hosted by Digital Photography School and are subject to change.
| Flickr | Smugmug | Picasa Web | Windows Live | ||
| Lightroom | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t Find One |
| Picasa | Yes | Yes | Yes | Included | Can’t Find One |
| Aperture | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t Find One |
| Windows Live Photo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Incuded |
| iPhoto | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Can’t Find One |
| gimp | Yes (linux) | Kind Of | Can’t Find One | Yes (linux) | Can’t Find One |
29 Responses to “Plugins For Online Photo Sharing” - Add Yours
July 18th, 2009 at 12:46 am
What about Expono?
I help to translate it to spanish and the service has a lot of interesting features.
Check it please.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:47 am
FANTASTIC post. What a great resource. Thanks for putting it together!
July 18th, 2009 at 12:47 am
You can add F-Spot to your list. It can export to Flickr, Picasaweb, Smugmug, 23hq and Gallery.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:01 am
You might want to include F-Spot rather than The Gimp as “the linux alternative”. It’s to lightroom what gimp is to photoshop. There are, of course, dozens of alternatives, but F-Spot comes included with Ubuntu default installations.
July 18th, 2009 at 1:04 am
There’s a ZenFolio plugin for Lightroom, Aperture and IPhoto…
July 18th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Also, pixelpipe has plugins for almost everything under the sun (iphone, windows live photo, etc..) and will upload to loads of sites at once, based on filters.
I use it to upload to 23hq which is the site i migrated to after flickr.
I can’t work out how they make money, but it’s a useful source of plugins for many many sites, especially the smaller ones. .
July 18th, 2009 at 1:22 am
How about a mention of the Lightroom to Gallery plugin?
July 18th, 2009 at 1:58 am
very nicely put together!! Some I hadn’t known about, thanks!! :)
July 18th, 2009 at 2:08 am
this must have taken a lot of work… thank you DPS… your hard work is appreciated…
July 18th, 2009 at 2:35 am
Nice resource. It makes it so convenient when you can upload right from Picasa or iPhoto. If your favorite service does not have a plugin, try to get the email address that you can use to upload to your account. It’s just slightly less elegant, but still much, much better than going to the web interface each time. Picasa works extremely well.
July 18th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Very useful article. I noticed that Photoshop Elements was not included. While I’m not aware of any sharing plugins for Elements, it includes support for Smugmug (and I believe Flickr as well).
July 18th, 2009 at 3:06 am
I’ve never used any app plugin to upload photos to share, would that really make life easier when sharing photos?
I’ve been using Multiply (http://multiply.com) for about 4 years and I never felt like the need of using any upload tool integrated with the computer apps. Maybe, considering the selection of photo sharing services you’ve listed, it would be interesting.
At Multiply you have an AutoUploader that scans your computer for folders you’ve selected and load all the images while you are doing other stuff. So, there is no need to wait for an upload to finish. You just have to go to a private area under the site and select the images you want to share. And it doesn’t have upload limits, therefore it also serves as a backup tool for the photos.
(BTW, Multiply has Plugins for Picasa and Windows Live)
July 18th, 2009 at 3:24 am
using f-spot and ubuntu you can use flickr but irather use ipernity.com
July 18th, 2009 at 4:05 am
I use Elements – I just checked and it does seem to come ready to share with flickr and smugmug (learn something new every day!) but I use fotki.com as my main photo site (great ability to organize folders and albums, set different passwords, sell photos etc) and I use mozilla’s firefox and added fireFTP to the browser and it is SOOO nice and easy to FTP photos from my computer over to any album I choose.
July 18th, 2009 at 4:10 am
Any such plugin for photoshop to flickr?
July 18th, 2009 at 5:31 am
I’ve been using the SmugMug and Facebook plugins for Lightroom for a couple weeks–awesome tools. Many thanks to Jeffrey for going out on a limb and putting them together with only a “donation” gig to pay for his efforts. They are HUGE time savers.
July 18th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Wow, thanks for this. I use Picasa and Flickr and I was feeling frustrated that Google wouldn’t just bite the bullet and admit that Picasa needed to be able to upload to Flickr. Picasa Web Albums really isn’t very good.
So I’m really glad that I can now do that with the click of a button. Thanks again!
July 18th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Awesome post. Thanks for sharing!
July 18th, 2009 at 9:09 am
Great list and thanks! but best I’ve been able to tell, the Aperture to Picasa Web Albums 1.4.2 is a demo from Ubermind, Inc and you get just 15 days free, then costs $25 to continue using… or am I missing something because that’s the only reason I haven’t tried it.
Thanks again.
July 19th, 2009 at 12:13 am
Zach,
Unfortunately you are not missing anything. The Ubermind Picasa Web Albums plugin is only a demo of a paid program. You may wish to try this free alternative..
http://code.google.com/p/aperture-picasa-plugin/
@Everyone: An addition to the list would be pBase. There is an Aperture to pBase plugin which can be found here…
http://davidholmes.org/aperture-to-pbase.html
July 19th, 2009 at 12:54 am
Expono has plugins for Twitter, Facebook and Lightroom. Check it out at http://www.expono.com
More coming!
Pål de Vibe
Expono
July 19th, 2009 at 1:17 am
I’ve recently made a commitment, both personal and financial, to get a real estate blog up and running (about 1/2 way there now), but good pics are hard to find (aka, expensive when hiring out). I’m a real novice at picture taking, but enthusiastic with some classroom time under my belt and a versatile, simple camera– Canon Powershot S5IS. I purposely bought it so I could point and shoot vs changing lenses and missing the moment, but getting back into real estate sales earlier this year now presents a new wrinkle or two…
Couple of questions I could use help with:
1. Canon does have both a telephoto and wide-angle lense available for this camera–are they worth the added expense? Wide angle is a real must for house photography, but is this a good way to go or would Photostitch do a better job on a few select pics and later trade up for an actual DSLR?
2. Is there a plug in for a blog/website, Facebook, plain old email, etc. that easily presents the viewer with a “wall” or gallery of photos similar to Cooliris without the viewer needing to download anything or give any information in order to view–just click-and-view? Cooliris is a great presentation, similar to HP’s touchscreen photo presentation, but I would need something available in one click with no commitment on the viewers end (that doesn’t take forever to load). Am I just dreaming or is this possible to accomplish for the average blog reader/picture viewer with average internet speed?
Thank you!
July 19th, 2009 at 3:53 am
I use digiKam on Linux to do my photo management. It can upload direct to:
- Smugmug
- Gallery (a photo website engine you can have on or in your own website)
- Picasaseb
- Flickr
- 23hq
-Facebook
I can also export direct to:
- A stand-alone HTML website that it builds on request
- An Flash FLV file for a video slideshow
July 19th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Thank you so much! I think this is exactly the sort of post I like seeing- expanding our knowledge of what capabilities and programs are available to us. Many of which we might not already be aware of. =)
July 24th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Thank you very much for this fantastic post! Terrific plug-ins and so easy to install and use! :)
July 24th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
`Picasa` is a wonderful and found to be the best so far….try once!
nice time.
July 24th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Regards ‘Picasa’ I use it all the time and agree it’s the best of alll free downloads.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:06 am
I use Corel Products-they are much more instinctive, not to mention cheaper, than Adobe Products. Can you add Corel to your matrix?
Thanx
Glenn
September 22nd, 2009 at 7:20 am
picasa is a horrible photo storage application. if you have high res images — you will get a lot of noise on the upload; flckr is much better than picasa ; smug mug turns out to have the best quality when uploaded, but requires a fee to use the service ($40 per year).
flckr and smug mug have similar upload quality, however, smug mug still gives you a better quality upload than flckr
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