Not so with Publish which will ask if you want a re-edited image updated and, in some cases, will even pull back information such as comments into Lightroom. Well, exporting is a one-time, one-way event. What’s the difference between exporting and publishing? A good question. The LR Facebook Publish service only works with an FB profile whereas Jeffrey’s will publish to pages and groups as well.
I already mentioned SmugMug but take a look at Jeffrey Friedl’s excellent range. Magic.Īs well as the built-in Publish modules that ship with Lightroom, there are dozens available from third parties. Instantly, all my 5 star images are in my ‘Dropbox 5 Star’ folder and available on my phone and tablet. I also publish to Google Drive and Dropbox, using the Hard Drive Publish function and the ‘Smart’ criteria which is based on an automatic colour coding and starring system. Within seconds, my original file has been uploaded to several social media locations and with absolutely no duplicates on my local drives. The presets contain all the relevant information on size, watermark, sharpening, meta tags etc. Using Publish, I set up different services which means I can drag and drop my master file on presets for Facebook, Flickr, SmugMug etc. I don’t store a selection of different-sized files for different purposes with a variety of watermarks – for Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, website use etc.
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And I only store locally the original RAW or PSD files – OK I have some JPGs in the catalogue as well but these are my original full sized-images when I shoot JPG in camera.
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I can even find all the images I took at a certain ISO with a selection of camera bodies.
As well as being an excellent RAW convertor, it’s a brilliant organiser of images – I have over 250,000 in my main catalogue and I can rapidly locate anything using a variety of search criteria. Why? How? Well let’s start by taking a quick look at the nature and functionality of Lightroom. But really, the humble Publish function in LR has to be one of the best tools a busy photographer can have – and it’s been hiding in plain sight if the folks I talk to about it are anything to go by.
Sleeping in later, enjoying extended holidays, spending more time with the kids etc. Question for you: who uses the Lightroom Publish services? If you do, you’re probably already enjoying the time it’s saving you.
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