Upload via the Facebook native uploader
The quickest way to upload photos without having to install extra apps is via the browsers, within your
Facebook account.
In your Facebook account, click on the “
Photo” link under your profile photo.
Click on the Upload
Photos button.
Create a new album.
You can then select and upload your photos.
Upload via Desktop Photo Managers
F-Spot
The default photo manager – F-Spot in Ubuntu also comes with Facebook
upload feature. If you are using F-Spot to manage your photos, you can
use the following method to upload photos to Facebook.
Open your F-Spot. Go to “
Edit -> Manage Extensions” (The upload to
Facebook feature is not activated by default).
Click on the “+” beside
Export to reveal a set of export plugins. Highlight the “Facebook Export” entry (it should be greyed out by default) and click the “
Enable” button.
Back to the F-Spot gallery, select the photos that you are going to upload. Go to
File -> Export to -> Facebook.
Click on the big Login button. You will be directed to your browser to login to your Facebook account.
From then on, you will be able to create new album, or add your
photos to existing albums. When done, just click the Add button to
upload your photos.
Shotwell
Shotwell will replace F-Spot as the next default photo manager in
Ubuntu, so it is good to know that it supports upload to Facebook
function as well.
I have tried the Facebook upload function in Shotwell 0.5 (the
default version in Lucid repository) and it doesn’t work. You will have
to upgrade to the latest version for it to work. To upgrade your
Shotwell version in the repository, open a terminal and type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yorba/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install shotwell
In Shotwell, select the photos and go to
FIle -> Publish. Similarly, it will prompt you to login to your Facebook account.
Once done, you can then create a new album and publish your photos to Facebook.
DigiKam
KDE users can use
DigiKam to export your photos to Facebook.
Desktop Facebook uploader app
If you are not a fan of photo managers, you can still use
Bloom
to upload photos to Facebook. Bloom is a java application, so it is
cross-platform compatible (to run Bloom, you will need to install java
in your Ubuntu).
Download
Bloom to your desktop and double click to run it (assuming you have already installed java).
On the main screen, click the
Login button to login to your Facebook.
Once you have login to Facebook and granted permission to Bloom, you
can then drag and drop photos to the main pane, enter the album info,
set the
privacy level and lastly upload the photos to Facebook.
Bloom also allows you to view and download your own (or your friend’s) photo albums.
That’s all for now. If I have missed out any useful apps, tell us about it in the comments.
Starry
Hope Uploader is a simple Facebook photo uploader that runs in Ubuntu.
Its main goal is to help you upload images to your Facebook account from
Ubuntu quickly and easily. In this short tutorial, I will show you how
to install and use Starry Hope Uploader in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick
Meerkat.
