Manage your Flickr, Facebook, and SmugMug accounts

After publishing an album to Facebook, you can change its name as well as the restrictions for who can view it. For example, if you recently published photos of your latest family vacation on Facebook and made the album viewable by everyone, you can use the Facebook pop-up menu in the tool strip to restrict viewing to friends only.

You can also disable access to your Flickr, Facebook, or SmugMug accounts and then enable access to them again from within Aperture at any time. When a web account is disabled in Aperture, all of the disabled account’s albums are removed from Aperture. However, the albums and their photos are retained and still appear in the web account online.

Change the settings for a published Facebook or SmugMug album

Select the Facebook or SmugMug account containing the album whose settings you want to change.
Double-click the Facebook or SmugMug album to open it.
In the tool strip, choose Settings from the Facebook pop-up menu, and specify new settings in the dialog that appears.
Click Change Settings.

Add multiple Flickr, Facebook, and SmugMug accounts to Aperture

In Aperture, you can share photos with multiple web accounts.

Choose Aperture > Preferences, or press Command-Comma (,).
In the Preferences window, click Accounts, and click the Add button (+) to add an account.
In the dialog that appears, select the account type, and click Add.
Do one of the following:
- To log in to a Flickr account: Click Set Up.
  Your browser opens. Follow the onscreen instructions to sign in to Flickr using your Yahoo! ID and password, and authorize the Aperture Uploader to post photos to your Flickr account on the following page.
- To log in to a Facebook account: Enter your email address and password, select the “I agree to Facebook’s terms” checkbox, and click Login.
- To log in to a SmugMug account: Click Set Up.
  Your browser opens. Follow the onscreen instructions to sign in to SmugMug using your email address and password, and authorize the Aperture Uploader to post photos to your SmugMug account on the following page.

You can now share photos with the new web account. Flickr sets, Facebook albums, and SmugMug galleries created outside of Aperture can be downloaded to the Library inspector. For more information, see Update your Flickr, Facebook, and SmugMug albums.

Disable and enable Flickr, Facebook, and SmugMug accounts

When you disable an account in Aperture, a form appears asking whether you want to import the photos in the account’s albums into your Aperture library. If you choose to import the photos, Aperture places them in a new project in the Library inspector. If you choose not to import the photos, Aperture places the contents of the albums in the Aperture Trash. Any sharing history that appears in the Info inspector for the disabled account is deleted.

If you regularly enable and disable your web accounts in Aperture, and you want to permanently import content posted to these accounts outside of Aperture, drag the content you want to import from the web album to a new or existing project in the Library inspector. Aperture generates new copies of the media and places them in the selected project.

To disable a single Flickr, Facebook, or SmugMug account: Choose File > Web Accounts > Disable [account], and click Disable.
The account is disabled, and all its albums are removed from Aperture. However, the album configurations are saved in case you want to reenable the account later. The sets, albums, or galleries and their contents still appear in the disabled Flickr, Facebook, or SmugMug account online.
To disable all of your online accounts: Choose File > Web Accounts > Disable All Accounts, and click Disable.
All of your online accounts are disabled, and their associated albums are removed from Aperture. However, the album configurations are saved in case you want to reenable the accounts later. The sets, albums, and galleries and their contents still appear in the Flickr, Facebook, and SmugMug accounts online.
To enable a single Flickr, Facebook, or SmugMug account: Choose File > Web Accounts > Enable [account].
The enabled account appears in the Library inspector. Select the account to view its published albums.
To enable all of your Flickr, Facebook, and SmugMug accounts: Choose File > Web Accounts > Enable All Accounts.
The enabled accounts appear in the Library inspector. Select an account to view its published albums.