PictureSync is a convenient utility that simplifies annotating and uploading your photographs to online services—directly from your folders or albums in image-management applications, and whilst preserving metadata.

PictureSync for Windows Public Alpha

Although we're still working on it, we'd love to hear your feedback, so we're making this early but incomplete version available for public download. Do let us know how you get on with it (in PictureSync simply choose Help>Email Us) but please be aware that, there are certainly still bugs in this version.

If you're unsure about using Alpha software, or prefer to be notified when we release a final version, simply leave us your email address and we'll let you know when it's ready.

What you can do

• Add and edit IPTC/XMP annotations for your photographs
• Upload photographs to photosharing services (and create new albums)
• Automatically map metadata to keywords/caption on upload

What you can't do (yet)

• Browse or download the contents of your online albums
• See what you've uploaded (uploads are not remembered)
• Upload non-JPEG files
• Move/organise files within PictureSync

Usage

• Click an image to show the annotation inspector
• Start dragging an image or click in a blank area to hide the inspector
• Right-click an account to create a new album, remove it or change its settings (resizing, keyword/caption mappings)
• Drag images to reorder them manually, or use the View>Sort menu
• Drag images to the tray to organise, annotate and sort them before uploading, the tray contents are not remembered between launches
• If you drag a file from outside PictureSync to an online album, only the file is uploaded and it's metadata will not be read (to ensure metadata is uploaded, add it to the tray first, or select it from a folder )
• Select images in MediaPro/Expression Media then swap to PictureSync to upload
• Annotations are saved to your actual files (without altering/recompressing the image)