Say you use Lightroom, and you love it. Say you also use Flickr, and you love it. But what you don't love is processing a batch of photos, then getting them uploaded to Flickr by hand. A laborious and time consuming process if there ever was one.
What if I told you there was a way to export photos from Lightroom to Flickr?
What you need:
Lightroom
Flickr Uploadr
How to do this with Windows Vista:
1. Go to the folder that Flickr Uploadr has been installed to. In most cases, this will be "C:\Program Files\Flickr Uploadr". Right-click on "Flickr Uploadr.exe". Select 'Create Shortcut" from the context menu. Select the newly created shortcut and hit ctrl+C to copy it.
2. Go to the folder Lightroom stores its application data under for Windows Vista. (this was a bit of a pain to find, and it's the entire reason I'm writing this post). The folder will be "C:\Users\YourUserNameHere\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Export Actions". Paste the shortcut into this folder.
3. Start up Lightroom. Click on a photo. Then select File > Export... Scroll down to the bottom of the Export settings box. Under 'Post-processing', there's a setting 'After export'. You'll see options like 'do nothing', 'Show in Explorer', etc, etc. If you pasted the shortcut in the right folder, you'll see an option that says 'uploadr' (or whatever you named your shortcut). Select this.
Now when you export a batch of photos, they're automatically loaded into the Flickr Uploadr. Yay!
(for how to do this in Windows XP, refer to this post in the Flickr Adobe_Lightroom users group)
No comments:
Post a Comment