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Little Syncr synchronizes all of the JPG images it
finds in a path of your file system and that path's subdirectories. Here are
technical details.
What Gets Synchronized?
By default, all images. But if you're using Microsoft Digital Image Suite
2006 Library, you can also configure Little Syncr so that it
only uploads images that have been tagged with a special Keyword Label
in Microsoft DIS2006 Library.
Are the photos visible to the public?
By default, yes. But you can change their visibility, either using Little Syncr,
or by using Digital Image Suite 2006 Library to tag images with special Keyword Labels to
customize visibility for a particular image.
How can I add flickr "Tags" to a photo?
For this, you'll need Microsoft Digital Image
Suite 2006 Library. Add Keyword Labels, People Labels, and
Place Labels to images and these will be synchronized as Tags on
Flickr. If you want to use spaces in your labels, like "Birthday Party," don't
put quotation marks around the Labels. Actually, don't use quotation marks
in Labels
at all, please.
How do I add my photos to Flickr Photosets?
You can use Little Syncr to do this for you. Or, it's also convenient
to use Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 Library.
Add Event Labels to images and these will be synchronized as Photosets
on Flickr. (If you'd
prefer, you can also turn off the Photoset functionality, and have your photos'
Event Labels
turned into flickr Tags as well.)
What if I update information locally after I upload images to Flickr?
It will update flickr by adding any
new Tags that you've
added locally. It will never remove Tags from Flickr's copy of your photo,
though. Ever.
Will it update the Title and Description of images on Flickr if I change them
after uploading?
Yes. It considers the local copy to the be authentic
one. Unless - and this is the exception - if the local Title
or Description is blank, and flickr contains a non-blank Title or Description.
Then flickr wins.
Why make it complicated like that?
Because say you're looking at photos online, and you want to quickly update a Title
or Description that you didn't bother to set locally. I like my local interfaces,
but I'm still all for the Web 2.0!
But what if I use Flickr to
change the Title or Description of a synchronized photo, and that photo
already has a local Title or Description?
The next time you synchronize, it will replace your flickr Title and Description
with your local information. In other words, you should update the Title and
Description of your photos locally, unless you haven't set them before.
 What's this Label
stuff anyway? What's a "Keyword Label"?
In Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 Library, click the "Labels" button on the
toolbar. The Label Painter will appear. You can paint Labels onto images
to describe them. For the special Keyword Labels that you can use to adjust image visibility (see above),
you'll need to create them the first time. Just
click "Create" a few times, and use the interface to add Labels called Flickr, FlickrPrivate,
FlickrFriends and FlickrFamilly. Make sure they're under the "Keywords"
heading. It will look like this when you're done. Then
you can "Paint" these labels onto your photos.
How does it work technically?
Here you go - click here for technical information.
Here's an example.
Take a look at this photo of some pillars on a bridge, which is being viewed from
Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006 Library. It's been painted with a bunch
of labels.
If you synchronized it with Flickr using Little Syncr now, you'd end up with the
results shown in the Flickr screenshot below.
Check it out:
- On flickr, it has the
following Tags: Architecture, Cool, Friends,
Phil, and Dublin.
That's because it has those Labels locally.
- Its visibility is Private, but Friends and
Family can see it, because the FlickrPrivate, FlickrFriends and FlickrFamily
Keyword Labels were applied in Digital Image Suite 2006 Library.
- It was added to the Photoset
named Birthday Dinner on Flickr. That's because "Birthday
Dinner" is an Events Label.
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