question for the designers: exporting images directly to web server

[cutout]

Sounds like there are a fair amount of web dev people here, so I thought I'd ask.

I'm on a new MacBook and just learning my way around. Is it possible in Photoshop to "save for web" and put the images on a web server directly, as opposed to saving them locally and FTP'ing them?

[erika]

Hmmm... not that I know of. And it seems to me that you would have a potential security hole there... at some point you would have to enter a username and password to access your server. If not, then I would think your server is unsecure and could easily be accessed if someone hacked into your computer.

I know that on Windows you can just save for web then drag and drop the items onto your server after logging into it. It's still FTP but you don't have to run a whole new program to do it. XP has it built in.

Is there another reason you want them to go directly onto the server? Or is it just speedier?

(One more thing is that it's always good to store local copies of whatever you're uploading... backup)

[cutout]

I'm used to exporting images to internal development servers that are visible (in Windows) as separate shared drives - thus no need to FTP.

For part of this summer, though, I'm working abroad on a Mac laptop and finding it time consuming to keep FTP'ing everything. I'm trying to find a way to create a virtual drive/shortcut kind of thing that lets me log in once then mirrors the server so I can upload images without the intermediate step of FTP'ing.

[yesno]

there are ways to mount servers as though they are disks-- works better with webdav than regular FTP. Just try opening the remote server in the finder and see what happens.

[colonel panic]

this looks promising:
http://editkid.com/upload_to_ftp/

[yesno]

Finder, choose connect to server, put in FTP address.  If I remember correctly (I'm on a windows machine now) it supports FTP but not SFTP.

Also, Transmit and a number of other cool programs support features like "edit in place" where you can make changes to a file in a program of your choosing as though it were right on your own computer.

[cutout]

Hmm, using the Finder to connect/browse looked like it was gonna work, but as I saved the image, Photoshop said: "Could not write the file. You do not have permission to write to this file."

[moonshake]

Hmm, using the Finder to connect/browse looked like it was gonna work, but as I saved the image, Photoshop said: "Could not write the file. You do not have permission to write to this file."

Finder will only read from ftp sites, not write.

[yesno]

I forgot about that.  I think read/write webdav is supported out of the box.

Use MacFuse (and ftpfs) to allow every kind of magic, though:

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/

http://code.google.com/p/macfusion/

etc.