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 think these a good advanges of having the newest lightroom . I have the last one out and do like it. It seems to be more user friendly and if posting to flickr is that easy I think I would post more often.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this one. I look at Zenfolio , opened an account and fine it hard to set up. So will wait until the snow flys.
I wanted to know about presets. I looked at some that were free for elements 8 and yes I use it and dont laugh but to install them would look like a job for a computor teck . Hard as can be. Going into so many setting .. way to many and Im sure there is a risk of crashing a program.
I think I need to have the newest light room.
I might have to upgrade my computor first as I run XP and may need windows 7 that I want anyways. Thanks for this one.
Maybe sometime you could write a blog on the presets , how they work and how to install them.
Its an idea and I know you have limited time.
Thanks again for the helpful hints.
I know there a a few people on flickr that use the lightroom and the presets. I didnt even know what they were until about a year ago.
ReplyDeleteLisa,
ReplyDeleteLoading presets is pretty easy in LR 3.0. Here is a video that walks you through it.
I found it on www.PresetsHeaven.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liePXd2SlBA&feature=player_embedded#!