Guestblog - Per Zennström

Lightroom + Flickr -> Facebook & Glossom =  true !

by Per Zennström

Hello all FotoTv viewers / readers

Recently I upgraded my workflow cornerstone Lightroom 2 to Lightroom 3 and here are some things that I really would like to share with you.

This is just a quick reflection on the ease with which I know can upload and publish images to social media sites seamlessly from within Lightroom 3 to Flickr and from there on to other, secondary, sites like Facebook and Glossom just to mention a few...

It used to be a bit of a hassle to have to maybe create a folder with the right size images and then publish these images to various other sites, not forgetting the tags and keywords etc etc. Now thanx to amazing Lightroom 3 it's all a snap !!!

Lightroom 3 now sports a function called "Publish Service" which I assume is a descendent of the good old "Export" function which by the way is my last great discovery, (how did I do it before I knew about "Export" ???)
Anyway, "Publish Service" functions almost identically but with the aim to publish the selected images to various photo sharing sites = Flickr.

It's mindblowingly simple, and once You have linked Lightroom with your Flickr account You publish them instantly, it's that fast and simple !!!
Best of all, all Your keywords show up as Flickr tags so You don't have to worry about doing all the tagging once againwhich helps people find Your images based on their keywords.

Another great thing is that your Flicr account could be linked or bridged to yet other photsharing sites...
Yes, Flickr now automatically uploads my images to my Facebook account and nowadays I publish images to Glossom via Flickr !!!

It's all a great time saver and best of all the important keywords tags along for the ride.
If You have other tips on workflow solutions especially involving Lightroom, please feel free to share.

Important !!!
Adobe has just today released Lightroom 3.2 which in addition to numerous bug fixes and additional camera support also sports the option of publishing directly to Facebook.
Happy to see the folks at Adobe hard at work improving an already great product !

Best

pz