This is the one app that I’ve wanted the most since I started THAR; It lets you upload a photo either taken with your iPhone camera from within the app, or from your camera roll to an FTP server.

 

Graphics and Interface: This app’s graphics are nothing to get excited about, but they do the job. The photos hanging from the drying line at the top of the main screen sway; this is a creative touch. By tapping on any four of the icons in the main screen (photos, settings, server, and the camera) you can perform any action that you would need to upload a photo to an FTP, and all the menus are easy to navigate. The only interface bug I got was that the app complains about the nonexistence of a camera on an iPod Touch every time the app is launched.

FTP: You set up FTP Picture Upload just as you’d set up any other FTP client, and you can even set a specific folder on your FTP to upload to. There’s a ‘test connection’ button in the server settings pane which is very useful when you’re first entering your FTP settings, and there’s also an error log file you can examine if a photo refuses to upload. In the photo settings pane you can change the quality setting of the .jpg that is uploaded, and even have the app automatically resize your photo before it uploads it to your FTP. This is the most useful part of the app for me, but unfortunately the quality of the resized photo isn’t great, (the photo on the left above was resized and uploaded using this app) no matter what jpg quality setting you use. When you pick a picture to upload you can also set a custom file name for it.

Bottom Line: This is the app that has been the most useful to me in running THAR; until now, to get screenshots off my iPod Touch I had to either connect the iPod to my mac and download the photo from iPhoto, or email the photo to myself and download it from my email. This app simplifies the process of downloading my screenshots, resizing them, and uploading them to the FTP, even though the resized photo quality isn’t the best. The app’s graphics also aren’t that good, but $2 is a reasonable price for this app.

I give FTP Photo Upload 3 out of 5 fuzzy photos



Price: $1.99



trumcgowan

“The app isn’t degrading the image quality, it’s adding bokeh”