Aperture Facebook Uploader.. Warning!!

[John Dagys]

I thought I'd post this in case you guys aren't aware of it already...

I've used the Facebook plugin in Aperture 3 since it came out, and everything has been fine until I suddenly notice a new link embedded in each photo page "Download High Resolution".. I think, 'Hmm, this is interesting.'.. I download one of my images and it's nearly in full-res!!! (2048x)

Aperture apparently gives Facebook a 2/3rd size file to upload.. I guess the change happened around October (luckily, I haven't uploaded many galleries since).. But after finding out, I immediately disabled the ones that I did..

I'm now back to manually uploading photos to a gallery - the safe way, with watermarks, etc.

Just thought I'd give you guys a heads up, as it certainly caught me by surprise!

[John Thawley]

Yep... real eye opener, that one.

It's ridiculous.... both Facebook and the Aperture Plugin. But in fairness to the plugin, it was designed around Facebook resizing everything to a default size. Now Facebook comes along and decides, "won't hi-res be fun?" Well, not if you're a photographer.

Hopefully the plug-in will get an update with sizing and watermark add ons.

[Daniel Buck]

there's something to be said for doing things manually instead of relying on someone elses automation :-)