Comments on: Do You Use Publish Services?

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 14:30:58 +0000

In reply to Keith. Found the answer, think have to go to hard drive first and set it up,, little confusing

By: Paul Votava

Paul Votava — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 17:17:33 +0000

In reply to Don McCallister. This is a reply to a post over a year old, but if you could elaborate on your SmugMug maintenance with keywords and color flags, I would really appreciate it!

By: Keith

Keith — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 14:47:16 +0000

I need to export my photos maintaining the folder hierarchy

Jeffrey Friedl, has a plugin that can add this capability. It’s his Folder Publisher plugin.
Have installed it, but in the publisher screen, I have set the root tree folder ( empty) bit won’t let me save says I havnt setup the root tree folder…???

The reason I am using the export option is that, in grid view select all, right click metadata save to file, appears to do nothing. The bar moves across, but all the face tagging I have done is not present in the tag field, in the source files….I have asked everywhere but can’t seem to get an answer why this won’t work, files are tiff and jpg thanks.

By: Rob Sylvan

Rob Sylvan — Sat, 29 May 2021 16:03:42 +0000

In reply to Don McCallister. Thanks, Don. Excellent reminder about smart collection functionality in there!

By: Don McCallister

Don McCallister — Fri, 28 May 2021 23:56:35 +0000

I, too, find the publishing services essential to maintaining my SmugMug site. What Rob doesn’t mention in his post is that the published folders can also be smart collections. So with a combination of color labels and keywords, I can designate which images go to which SmugMug galleries. The keywording is just part of my normal import workflow and it doesn’t have to be elaborate. After an editing session, I just check my published folders to find which have image updates and click the “Publish” button.

By: marc labro

marc labro — Fri, 28 May 2021 04:01:47 +0000

I often find that a export on disk and sending files manually from smugmug,… works better and allows to work from anywhere without playing with collections,…
I am missing instagram publishing service however and some tutorial how to configure lightroom and proceed for 4:5 export different from 16:9 export for printing,…

By: Eric schurr

Eric schurr — Thu, 27 May 2021 20:43:43 +0000

I use publish services a lot. Mostly I use or to export photos to a hard drive location that I then display on my TV with a screen saver and a chrome cast. I like knowing that is u update or delete a photo LRC will echo that on the hard drive location

By: Marty Cohen

Marty Cohen — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:54:42 +0000

I have been using Publish Services in Lightroom Classic for quite a few years and have found it very useful. My goal has been to create collections of images I want to publish on my different websites. To do this I use a pair of plugins from Jordy Meow at https://meowapps.com . Specifically there is a Lightroom Plugin “WP/LR Sync”, and a WordPress plugin “Photo Engine” (formally WP/LR & Lightroom Sync) that work together.

“WP/LR Sync is a Lightroom Publish Service for WordPress. It exports your photos to WordPress, along with the folders and collections, and it keeps them synchronized. Any changes applied to your photos (post-processing, metadata, watermark, etc.) or your folders and collections will be replicated. Your WordPress website will be always synchronized with your Lightroom.”

The author of these plugins offers great tech support. He has been very helpful to me if I run into a problem (which is infrequent). I love that Publish Services automatically recognizes any changes to the image file and designates it to be re-published. This set up has saved me hours and hours of time on my multiple websites and it keeps my image files organized in WordPress. I can set up a Publish Service for each different site to utilize WP/LR Sync and Photo Engine independently for each site. I’m very grateful for these plugins.

By: Mickey Rountree

Mickey Rountree — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:13:55 +0000

I’ve been using the publish service for Smugmug for years, and I can’t imagine keeping my site up to date without it. I create and mange almost all of my galleries through Lightroom.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 27 May 2021 12:24:00 +0000

I have been using Publish Services for many years. It is great for uploading and keeping track of all the images I have on my Zenfolio website. I also use lr_instagram for publishing to Instagram. Since most of the images I post on Instagram are taken with my “real” cameras and processed in LR, this is the next logical step–no hassle with Dropbox and my phone.