iPhoto -> Gallery

So, I've been using iPhoto to manage my pictures ever since I got my first mac. And while I'm not always happy with it, iPhoto does allow me to at least keep track of the pictures that I'm taking with a minimal amount of effort. iPhoto really falls down when you want to export your photos to the web. I don't have .Mac, so the only other option is some canned HTML that looks kindof funky.

So, I have been using Gallery to fulfill my pictures-on-the-web needs for some time now. However, one pain point has been getting my photos from iPhoto into Gallery. Basically, I have been doing a lot of manual effort, which has consisted of exporting pictures from iPhoto, scp'ing them to my server, then manually importing them into Gallery. The whole process is slow, repetitive, and generally sucks.

I had been thinking about trying to make things easier via Automator, when I stumbled across the free iPhotoToGallery software. This software does exactly what I want -- it provides an easy-to-use interface for exporting my photos directly from iPhoto to Gallery, without any of the annoying pain in-between. It seems like this software is a little rough around the edges, but so far, it has been working for me.

To celebrate, I have posted two new galleries of pictures: July 4th pictures from Chicago, and pictures from my trip to Antioch last Friday.

-Andy.