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.
