We use Gallery2 to store and share photos of our son, dog, family, etc. While many people use free sites like Flickr, paid sites like .Mac and SmugMug, I like to have my own site that I can control and customize. Some of these sites offer prettier albums, comments, etc., I don’t like giving up control. One of the cool features of iPhoto that is probably underutilized is the Subscribe to Photo Feed option. In the past, I’ve tried to set this up with Gallery, but have failed. My wife wanted to setup her mother’s computer to get updated pictures of her son, so I gave it another shot in configuring Gallery2. Turns out, it is quite easy. Just choose Configure RSS Feeds for the album, change a couple of switches as shown in the picture below and then copy/paste the resulting URL into iPhoto.
One slight note with this; the feed only contains items that are marked as New or Updated. New or Updated is determined by the date. By default, items are considered new if they were uploaded in the last 7 days. I tried to set this up for my sister’s site as my parents really liked seeing the pictures in iPhoto and for some reason it didn’t work. Turns out the newest pictures my sister has are over a month old. So, change the New Items option in Site Admin to 30 or 60 days if you don’t update your gallery too often.