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This is a Tutorial on using PhotoCopy to copy photos and albums from iPhoto to Flickr . Before you begin you will need to have iPhoto 6 or 7 installed on your computer. You will also need a working Flickr account. PhotoCopy works with both free and pro Flickr accounts. For more information on how free Flickr accounts affect PhotoCopy see 'Free Flickr accounts and PhotoCopy' .
1. Launch PhotoCopy and the main window will appear. In the iPhoto info panel in the upper left corner of the window, you will see the name of your iPhoto album and the number of items and albums in it. 
2. Setup your Flickr Account by clicking on the button in the Flickr info panel. Follow the prompts to allow PhotoCopy to access to your Flickr account. The Flickr info panel should now show your Flickr buddy icon, the number of items and sets, and your remaining upload quota. After your Flickr account is setup, clicking on the button in the Flickr info panel will open your web browser to your Flickr photostream page. 
3. At this time PhotoCopy does not set the privacy settings of any of the items it uploads to Flickr. Configure your default privacy settings in Flickr so that items uploaded by PhotoCopy will have the permissions you want. We setup our Flickr permissions so that only friends and family will be able to see our uploaded photos. In your browser, log into your Flickr account and goto www.flickr.com/account/prefs/photoprivacy/?from=privacy. For more information on this see 'Flickr privacy settings' . 
4. In iPhoto we create a new album named 'Vacation' with 5 photos in it. To quickly switch to iPhoto when in PhotoCopy, click on the button with the iPhoto icon on it in the iPhoto info panel. 
5. Select the 'Vacation' album for PhotoCopy to copy to Flickr. If you do not see the album 'Vacation' in the list, click on the 'Update List' button so the list will be updated from iPhoto. For more on this see 'Select iPhoto items to copy' . 
6. Decide if you want to backup all photos in your iPhoto library. For this demo we left 'All photos' unchecked as we just want to upload the 'Vacation' album. For more information on this see 'Select iPhoto items to copy' .
7. Check that the copy options 'Upload photo resizing' and 'Do not upload movies' are setup to your liking. For our tutorial we are choosing to downsize the images to 800 pixels. For more on these options see 'Copy options' .
8. We started a copy by clicking on the copy button (the green button) on the right side of the Copy panel. PhotoCopy will upload the 5 photos in 'Vacation' album and put them in a new set named 'Vacation'. It also copies each photo's important information from iPhoto, such as title, date, time, rating, keywords and description.
9. Once the copy is complete, the last copy info panel will display details of the last copy. In this case it shows that PhotoCopy uploaded 5 images, and created 1 set. Click on the 'View Log' button to view more detail about what PhotoCopy did on the last copy.
10. When a copy completes without warnings, PhotoCopy will open your browser to your photostream page. You can also click on the Flickr button in the Flickr info panel to open your browser to your photostream.
11. Now, lets make a few changes to our album 'Vacation'. We added a new photo into the middle of the album and changed the titles of the photos in iPhoto.
12. We started another copy in Photocopy. The new photo was uploaded and inserted into the correct position in the Flickr set. Also the titles we changed will be updated in Flickr. PhotoCopy makes the necessary changes in your Flickr set to make it match your iPhoto album.
13. The last copy info panel shows that on the last copy 1 image was uploaded, 1 set was changed, and 5 images were updated. So as you can see, PhotoCopy only made the changes required to keep the Flickr set matching the iPhoto album.
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