You can now export your photos from an event directly to your Flickr account, in addition to being able to export photos to Facebook. You don’t have to download them from Full Photo Swap then upload them back to Flickr, you can send them there directly. Further, you can limit the dimensions of the photos transferred to speed the transfer and save storage space in your Flickr account.

To use this feature, check off the photos you want just as you normally would, then from the “More Actions…” drop down menu select the “Send to Flickr” option. This will launch a pop-up window where you can log into your Flickr account and give Full Photo Swap permission to communicate with your account. You can then select an existing set for the photos or give them a new set, and select the Maximum Photo Size to use for the photos. Then just keep an eye on the status bar until the export is complete.

This is probably the coolest feature we’ve added yet.  You can now export the photos you like from an event directly to your Facebook account.  You don’t have to download them from Full Photo Swap then upload them back to Facebook, you can send them there directly.  Further, we automatically downsize the photos to the maximum size at which Facebook displays photos, so the transfer is really fast, even if the original images are 10 megapixels.

To use this feature, check off the photos you want just as you normally would, then from the “More Actions…” drop down menu select the “Send to Facebook” option.  This will launch a pop-up window where you can log into your Facebook account and give Full Photo Swap permission to communicate with your account.  You can then select an existing album for the photos or give them a new album.  Then just keep an eye on the status bar until the export is complete. Once complete you can visit Facebook to view the photos and approve them.

You can now download sets of images from events at the dimensions of your choice.  So if you don’t need the full-sized files you can specify the size you want for a smaller, faster download.

To take advantage of this feature, check off the images you want from a given event as you normally would but instead of hitting the download button, use the “More Actions…” drop down menu and select the “Download smaller” option.  In the dialog box that pops up, select the maximum size for the images you want, and click the “Download Resized” button.

We’ve recently finished moving Full Photo Swap to a new web server environment.  This new setup should provide increased upload and download speed, as well as faster processing of image resizing and faster zipping of multiple images together for download.  It also has the storage space we need to continue to grow the service.  Enjoy!