iPhoto® '09 Portable Genius

Chapter 9. How Can I Use Facebook to Share Photos?

Facebook has quickly become a social phenomenon. What started as an obscure online service used mostly by teenagers has become a social network environment used by people of all ages. Facebook enables people to easily share information, to communicate, be entertained, and to participate in activities with people designated as friends. Of course, friends can share photos with one another on their Facebook pages, and like most everything else having to do with photos, iPhoto can help you with this.

Getting Started with Facebook Photo Sharing

To share photos on Facebook, you begin by selecting the photos you want to share. Then you use iPhoto's Facebook tool to publish an album containing those photos to your Facebook page; the first time you do this, you can create a Facebook account if you don't already have one. After you share your photos, your Facebook friends can view them by visiting your Facebook Web site. After the first time you share photos, you can share additional photos even more easily because iPhoto gets linked to your Facebook account so you don't even need to log in to share.

Adding your first Facebook album

Here's how to create your first Facebook album to share:

1. In your iPhoto library, select the photos you want to share on Facebook. The easiest way to do this is to create a photo album containing the photos you want to ...