How To Transfer Pictures from Facebook to Google+
July 10, 2011 in Featured, Google+ How To's, How To's, Video
Wish you could get all of your Facebook pictures over to Google+ easily? Fortunately, there is an easy way to do just that using a simple Facebook app. Here’s how.
I. Setup FotoLink
1. Click and install the Facebook App called FotoLink and Allow it access to your Facebook account.
2. Once you have granted it access, click on the app to see all of your albums on Facebook.
3. Click on Photo Accounts at the top right of the app and click on Picasa.
4. Login with your Google+ email and password (the name section at the top of the form, you can just call Google or whatever you want)
II. Create the Albums in Google+
Since you can’t create an album of copy an album to Picasa using FotoLink, you have to create one first then copy the photos to it.
1. Head to your Google+ account and click on Photos.
2. Click Upload New Photos and choose any picture you want (we’ll just delete it later).
3. Make the Album name the same is it is in Facebook (or change it if you feel like it).
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3, uploading just one picture per album until you have all of the albums you originally had on Facebook.
III. Copy the Pictures Over
1. Head back to the FotoLink app on Facebook and refresh the page (you should now see all of those albums you created in Google+ just now under Picasa on the left side).
2. Click on the Facebook album you want to copy and then click Select All at the top right.
3. Then click Copy underneath that.
4. Select the Picasa album you want to transfer them to and then click Paste.
5. Repeat steps2 through 4 until you have copied all of your photos over. Enjoy!
Xmlmagician said on July 10, 2011
you sir are awesome:-)
Steven Davis said on July 11, 2011
too much work to create each album.
George Nichols said on July 11, 2011
there has got to be an easier way to do this. anyone else has better suggestions?
Zz2randomzz said on July 11, 2011
what about the tagged pictures?
Primadesk said on July 13, 2011
Yes you can copy the tagger pictures also. There will be an album called tagged photos under your facebook account. You can copy the pictures from there to your Picasa album. You can also copy pictures from your friends albums (assuming it is your picture.) directly to picasa.
Hope this helps.
Intense2004 said on July 11, 2011
Do the captions come over?
David Cogen said on July 11, 2011
Unfortunately no… just the pics themselves.
wrsanim8r said on July 12, 2011
Oddly enough, I’ve found that the captions do come over, but you can only see them if you access the ‘Photo details’ option under the ‘Actions’ button while viewing the photo.
primadesk said on July 13, 2011
Primadesk will be releasing another version in a few days that will allow you to create Picasa album in Fotolink itself. That should alleviate some pain. We are also working on copying Albums directly. Stay tuned…
David Cogen said on July 14, 2011
Ha, considering your plugin helps people and your PS, of course. We’ll allow it
Matt holder said on August 4, 2011
hey. thank you!