Notes and Tips

What iPhoto publishes. When you publish a photo, its title becomes the photo’s title on Flickr. If you gave the photo a description in iPhoto, the description becomes the photo’s caption on Flickr. And, if you use keywords, the iPhoto uploader turns them into Flickr tags.

Editing published photos. When it comes to editing and adding to published albums, the same basic concepts on page 96 also apply to Flickr. If you change a photo in an album you published—edit it to improve its appearance or type a title or description—iPhoto syncs with Flickr and updates the set to which the photo belongs. Note that you can only change photos in iPhoto Flickr albums that you uploaded from iPhoto; photos downloaded to iPhoto from Flickr are read-only ...

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