From the course: Lightroom: Social Sharing
Social sharing from the Lightroom desktop app
From the course: Lightroom: Social Sharing
Social sharing from the Lightroom desktop app
- [Instructor] We're going to share an album of images from Lightroom desktop which I have open here. I've called this album Employee Culture. We are viewing the album with Lightroom on a Mac but Lightroom on Windows works exactly the same. Let's imagine that these photos need to get to our company's design department so they can use them in an upcoming newsletter. Before we send them to the design team though, we need to get buy off on the photos from the rest of the employee culture team. Lightroom makes it easy to share these images and receive feedback. I'll be covering that part later. First we need to enable sharing and then we can email a URL link of this album to the team. But before we do that, let's take a pause here and review how Lightroom works. It's important to understand that with Lightroom, not Lightroom Classic, I'll talk about that later too. But with Lightroom all of your photos are already on the Internet because they reside on a Lightroom cloud server. However, the server location of them is private for your eyes only. To create a public link for this album, we need to turn on the sharing. So this is how we do it. With the album selected over here on the left, we go up to Edit, come down to Albums and then over to Share & Invite. There's a much easier way though. There's an icon up here in the upper right that looks like a person with a plus. If you click on that, it takes you to Share & Invite. And then I can click on the big blue button, Enable Sharing and that creates the URL link which we see in the top of the panel here. There's a few options on this panel. First starting at the top, we could use the link access to Invite only which is how it's set right now. That would require us to put email addresses into the fields below. But for this scenario, I think it's easier if we change this up here to say Anyone can view. Then I'll copy the URL to the clipboard by clicking on the clipboard icon here. With the link copied to the clipboard, I can paste it into an email or slack and send it to my teammates with some instructions to provide feedback on the images. And that's all there is to sharing an album. I'll click Done here and the URL link is at the top on the screen as well. We could copy it to the clipboard from here if we forgot to do it in the Share & Invite panel. Also notice on the left hand side here, the name of the album Employee Culture, it now says Shared underneath it. Let's see what this looks like in a browser. We can do that easily by clicking on the link at the top of the window and that'll jump us out to the browser. Because I'm logged into Lightroom, it shows my avatar in the upper right hand corner here and it also has this big blue button option to add even more images. My teammates won't have that option. I'm going to open an incognito window so that we can see what the experience would be for them. I'll go up to File and come down here to New Incognito Window. Because I copied that URL to my clipboard, I can paste it in here and then we can see what this page looks like if we're not logged into an account. So with just a couple clicks, we were able to create this webpage of images. And anyone with the link can view it. Now let's go back to Lightroom and see how to share an individual image. Share & Invite works with individual images too or a selection of images and they don't have to be in an album to start. So in the upper left here, I'll click on All Photos which will show all of the photos in my Lightroom. I can select one or multiple images to share them. We'll just select this first image and then click in the Share icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. And this is where we find Share & Invite. Everything here is exactly the same as sharing an album which we've already done. I'll go ahead and click Done on this. That jumped us to the sharing view. Notice here on the left-hand panel, we're on the people icon here which is sharing. We were in the My Photos view which looks like the library books. Let's come back down to the Sharing view. In the Sharing panel we see everything that has sharing enabled. So far that included the Employee Culture album and the single image. We see the single image nested under the Photos here. I could click on this, it'll collapse that or open this up. I really prefer sharing from albums instead of selections of photos because Lightroom actually creates an album from the image or selected images and then names it by the date shared. This isn't how I like to organize my catalog, so I prefer to create and name my own albums before sharing photos. However, this is a quick and easy method to share one or a few images. So you might find it helpful. That's it for sharing photos from Lightroom desktop application. It's pretty easy to do when you know where to look. And by the way, this functionality works with all the other versions of Lightroom too.
Contents
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Introduction to Lightroom sharing1m 32s
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Social sharing from the Lightroom desktop app5m 26s
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Social sharing from the Lightroom mobile app5m 29s
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Social sharing from Lightroom on the web2m 55s
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Social sharing from Lightroom Classic6m 7s
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Customize share settings5m 16s
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Display customization with Lightroom on the web4m 31s
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Share multiple albums in a Gallery2m 29s
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