Poster – Mac App Review
Poster, available in the Mac App Store for $9.99, is a simple to use photo and video uploader for use with social sharing sites such as Flickr, SmugMug and Facebook.
Read our great review below, to learn more…
At this time there’s no support for other sites, and video can only be uploaded to Flickr but that could change. We’re thinking if it’s to appeal to professional users then uploading to agencies would be essential, but we can see how difficult it would be to tailor the app to meet each site’s specific requirements. For all that, Poster uploads images complete with the metadata intact (for captions and keywords, which is essential for pro-image makers).
In the meantime, Poster’s strength is its simplicity. Upon downloading and installing you’ll be asked if you want to install two plug-ins, one of iPhoto the other for Apple’s pro photo workflow tool, Aperture.
Poster’s two export plug-ins are available for download, either as a free 15-day trial or for keeps, so long as you’re prepared to part with $9.99.
Once installed, Poster is launched from the main menu from within Aperture or iPhoto using the File > Export > Poster command.
Whether you choose to use the plug-ins or not Poster works in much the same way. Whether you’re exporting images from iPhoto or Aperture or you’ve dragged and dropped as requested, you’ll see the Poster window appear.
It’s a simple interface, but don’t waste your time looking for options and preferences now as you’ll need to authorize the relevant site-sharing account first.
Poster allows you to choose between profiles you administer on Facebook or Flickr, and allows easy uploading of your profile picture to Facebook (that’s particularly handy if you’re managing and creating accounts for business) as well as adding photos to your albums and to your Wall.
Flickr has some additional functionality. It will, for instance, auto complete tags, you can moderate images, as well as add to the description and create and choose sets and groups and change privacy settings. If posting images to SmugMug then it add images to existing galleries although you can add new ones.
Images can be tagged rotated and resized if necessary all before uploading. Once you’ve authorized the various accounts Poster works a little differently, offering a choice of account to upload to, but you can’t upload the same images to several accounts at a go, you must up-load each separately.
What’s more, if individual video clips are larger than 150 MB or longer than 90 seconds then they can’t be uploaded to Flickr.
Despite the few niggles we’re always cautious when it comes to recommending up-loaders, as few are stable, efficient or that quick to upload, but we’re happy to report none of those negatives apply to Poster. And that’s perhaps reason enough to justify the $9.99 asking price.
If you would like to give it a try out, you can download it by clicking here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
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