Bloom – Possibly the Best Facebook Photo Uploader Alive Today
As I was researching for another article (How To Automatically Insert Photo Captions When You Upload To Facebook) I came across a really cool application that makes uploading photos and videos to Facebook really easy. It’s called Bloom (their Facebook presence) and I think you’ll like it.
As I said before, Bloom makes uploading photos and videos to Facebook really easy but it does more. You can also use it to download photos and albums of your friends and view their photos in a whole new way. Let me introduce you to the basics.
Once you download the program, install it, and run it, you’ll be asked to allow access to your Facebook account (how can it upload photos to it without allowing it to?). Once you are signed in, you are ready for the good stuff. It will download your photos and albums including your friends photos and albums. This will allow you to browse everything.
Uploading is as easy as dragging and dropping. The easiest way is to click the “Create Album” button and drag and drop a folder of photos into the appropriate place in the program window.
Then fill in the fields off to the right. Name the album, state the location where the photos were taken (if applicable), give a short description of the album, set the privacy settings, and finally write a caption for each photo. When you’re finished, click the “upload photos” button.
The cool part is that the album, including the photo captions, will automatically be set up in your Facebook account. Bloom makes the whole uploading process simple.
The other cool part about using Bloom is that you can download and view all of your friends’ photos in one place. Just click the “friends” button along the top, choose a friend in the left sidebar which should now be available, and double click on an album of theirs.
This should allow you to view the photos in that album. Double-clinking on one of the photos should open a viewer letting you easily browse through the photos, even letting you view them full screen.
From this viewer you are also capable of downloading the photos and even tagging people in them for Facebook (which the program will update for you).
OK, so you can save your friends’ photos from within Facebook by right-clicking, that is true. I just like how Bloom just makes it simpler and puts all of these features together into one program.
So in other words Bloom brings some of the aspects of Facebook to your desktop as a desktop application. This desktop application is cross platform meaning it can run in quite a few different operating systems including Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. This is possible because it runs on Java (check out the system requirements page for more details).
Now I know there are other tools out there that help in the use of Facebook, in particularly in the photo department. Please share with us whether or not you use a desktop application to help you manage photos for Facebook and what that program might be.
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