I just discovered one additional tidbit on the Publish to Flickr tool in Adobe Lightroom 3.2.
Because this publishing is an on-going relationship between Lightroom and Flickr, when someone makes a comment on a photograph on Flickr, that information comes back into Lightroom.
Here’s a screen shot. Thank you to Lisa for making comments and thus making this discovery possible!
Closer:
I’ll have to see how this plays out over time to determine how valuable this is. For now, it is just “cool!”
I’ve been putting off creating a presence on Flickr for a VERY long time. With a rainy Labor Day keeping me inside and working, I started to look into it again.
The timing is pretty good as the newest release of Adobe Lightroom has a “publish” feature that allows me to post photos directly to Flickr (and Facebook, SmugMug and other sites. A plugin is also available to do the same thing on Zenfolio – one of the sites I use).
Thought I’d just walk through an example and post a photo out to Flickr. For a more detailed explanation/demo, you might want to check out this video from Julianne Kost at Adobe TV.
I do more and more of my work in Lightroom and this feature makes it so easy for me to get my working photos off my computer to the web without first having to do a bunch of file handling (sizing, naming, metadata entry, etc.) All these items are set up in my publish settings. This means, all I do is drag my photo for the Library Module in Lightroom to the appropriate site to publish to and essentially say “go”! Sweet.
Here is a screen shot of some variations on a photo I talked about in the last post. If I want to quickly post the photo with my logo to Flickr – here is what it looks like.
1. With my photo selected in the Library Module, I just drag the selected photo to the Flickr section under Publish Services.
2. Next, clicking on the Photostream section, I can see the photos that have been published and those needing to be published. Clicking on Publish is all I need to do.
3. With my publish settings in place, you can see all my metadata is also uploaded with the photo!
I guess I have all the tools in place. Now it is just a matter of getting the appropriate photos posted to Flickr!
Hope everyone had a great Labor Day Weekend.
I don’t think there is a more valuable tool in my digital darkroom than Adobe Lightroom. I’m using release 3.2 these days.
A couple of weeks ago I had serious problems with my laptop. A corrupt user profile – if you’ve ever had to deal with that issue, you know how frustrated I was with that! However, to try to find a positive slant to this, it did require me to reload a few things. I guess once you get things set the way you want, it is easy to forget that there are other settings or opportunities available.
Today I reloaded some free presets for Lightroom developed by Photoshop Guru Jack Davis. I was fortunate to see him speak a couple of years ago at Photoshop World in Orlando. Anyways, what a great pack of tools AND you can’t beat the price. I downloaded the presets from the onOne software site (one of my favorite Photoshop add-on’s.) If you use Lightroom and want to try these yourself, click here.
The photo at the top was achieved by applying three presets called Wow-Antique 1, Wow Antique 2 and Wow-f_Vignette_Lt_07. Finished with a thin black ‘Edge Treatment’ in onOne’s Phototools.
Here is the original and a two additional pre-sets.
Original, c_HSL-Only Brown (Jack Davis preset) and Creamtone (LR preset).
This photo was taken in Custer State Park in South Dakota with a Nikon D300. ISO 200, 1/1600 sec, f/4.0, 55 mm.
