Receive comments and likes

- [Instructor] When you share images from Lightroom, you can receive comments and likes from your viewers. I really love this feature. The best part is that their comments show up right inside most versions of Lightroom. I have an album of images here with portraits to be used on an About Us page for a company website. We're viewing these with Lightroom on the web. The portraits started off in Lightroom Classic. I edited and cropped these in Classic, then synced the Classic collection with Lightroom so they show up at Lightroom on the web as an album. Each team member had more than one portrait taken during the photo shoot, and I'd like them to select their favorite pose for the About Us page. First, we need to enable sharing for this album. I could've made it public from within Classic, but I haven't done that step yet, so we'll do it here. I'll click on the Share and Invite icon. And then Enable Sharing. Let's switch back to the Invite settings here. I want to make sure that I change the link access to Anyone can view. And then I'll copy the link to the clipboard. This way I can paste the link into an email with some instructions to the team members to pick their favorite portrait. Anyone with a link to this album can comment or like, but they must first sign in with an Adobe, Facebook, or Google ID. Let's see what this experience looks like for somebody who received the link. I'll paste it in here. Now I'm going to play the part of the company president, Claire, who's received the email and clicked on the link to view the portraits. Claire likes this first image here. So we'll click on that, and then the option to give it a like is down here in the left corner. We'll click on the heart. But in order to like an image or comment on it, Clair has to sign in. So I'll click on Sign in. I'm going to sign Claire in with her Google email address. Okay, now we're signed in. I can click the heart to like this image. And click the speech bubble, either over here on the right or down here in the left, and that opens the comment field. We'll put a comment in. I like this one. It looks professional. And then post the comment by clicking the button here. Everyone on the team can leave comments or likes. The comments and likes show up with the commenter's name and avatar if they have one. This is why an account is required for reviewers to leave a comment. Our teammates have reviewed their photos, so we're going to go back to Lightroom Classic and see how the likes and comments show up there. Right now, of all the Lightroom applications, Classic offers the best experience for reviewing comments. Here in Lightroom Classic, we see the About Us portraits collection, and there's a yellow speech icon on the collection. That tells us that there is unread comments. We can jump to the comments by going up to the menu here where it says Library. And then coming down here to Review Comments. That jumps us to the first photo in the collection with the most recent comment or like. It also sorts the collection by comment time. We can see the sort option here at the bottom where it says Sort last comment time. The Comments panel is found in the Library module on the right-hand side towards the bottom. We can see that Peter liked this and he left a comment. He said this is great. And if we go up to the image here, we see that the speech bubble is back to gray. It's no longer gold. The other images that have the gold speech bubble means that we haven't actually read those comments yet. So I can click on this image and we see Shelly's comment, Please remove the curl hanging on my forehead. And then Claire's comment, I like this one. It looks professional. And now all of these comments have been read. Your own comments can be added here in the comment field, too. If we clicked in this field, we could leave a comment. Any comments you add here will show up in the public view with your name and avatar, along with the comments left by viewers. This is a nice feature, allowing you to leave comments for your viewers. However, there isn't currently a way for the viewer to be notified about comments you might make back to them. But if you have installed Lightroom on your phone, you can be notified when viewers post their comments to you. I'm going to switch to Lightroom on the iPad next so we can look at the comments there. Now we're viewing the company About Us portraits album here on an iPad. Comments can be viewed on an iPad, but unfortunately there is currently no way to view comments with the Lightroom desktop app. All other versions of Lightroom allow you to view comments, so I have to believe the functionality will be added to the Lightroom desktop soon. With Lightroom Mobile, the comments are viewed in what's called the Activity panel. We'll tap in the upper right-hand corner where the More options are. And here we see Activity. I'll tap on that, and this shows us the list of all of the activity for this album. And if I tap on a comment, it'll jump to the image where that comment is. You can also turn on an activity overlay. I'm going to back out of this image by tapping in the upper left-hand corner there. Then I'll tap on the More options again. And we'll go to View options. And here we want to turn on the Overlays at the top. I'll tap there where that switch is. And then we'll choose Activity Overlay. And then I'll just tap to close out of that. And we can see the images that have likes or comments have the speech bubble and the heart overlaid on them. There's all kinds of great uses for commenting and likes feature. If you have an album of images for a marketing campaign, other members on your team can leave comments regarding design direction or image choices for ads. If you're a photographer, it's a great way to share a recent shoot with a client. Lightroom makes it really easy to share images and receive direct feedback.