LR6 - Any way to post directly to flickr?

I haven't really used my flickr account in years, but now i was thinking i may post images to it occasionally - is there a way to post directly from LR6?

Yes. There's a flickr add in for lightroom that works on 6. Just drag a photo from grid view into the flickr published collection, click on the collection and press the publish button. There's no need to create a separate .jpg.

http://regex.info/blog​/lightroom-goodies/flickr

TerryMiller wrote in post #17552693
Yes. There's a flickr add in for lightroom that works on 6. Just drag a photo from grid view into the flickr published collection, click on the collection and press the publish button. There's no need to create a separate .jpg.

http://regex.info/blog​/lightroom-goodies/flickr

Thanks. Nothing offered by LR itself? I am a bit wary of installing 3rd party paid s/w, specially where I would have to register via paypal..... Is this the only option?

starlights wrote in post #17552862
Thanks. Nothing offered by LR itself? I am a bit wary of installing 3rd party paid s/w, specially where I would have to register via paypal..... Is this the only option?

LR4 had publish to Flickr as a built in function, I haven't been using LR6 long enough to set that up yet though. I have though just checked, and LR6CC has brought all of my Publish Services over from LR4, so it looks like they are still there. In the Library View they are the bottom group of the left hand tool set. IIRC all you have to do is click on the + sign next to Publish Services and a dialogue box pops up, where you can choose between several different services, FB and Flickr included. If you add a Publish Collection or Smart Collection to the service, on Flickr it automatically sets it up as a Flickr collection once it is uploaded. As with the add on, it does this without the need to a local JPEG file being created.

Alan

I've been using Jeffery's stuff for years. They work well and the paypal process is simple. I use his Smugmug plugin probably once a week and just paid for the latest since I upgraded Lightroom to the CC version.

My install of LR6 (CC) already has the Flickr link in the 'Publish Services' menu.

Been there since version 4.

BamPhoto wrote in post #17553568
Been there since version 4.

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Perfect! Thank you!!
Even though I have been using LR since version 2, I never used the publish service and had no idea about how to utilize it since i never needed it - i will play around with it a little tonight.

Can someone suggest a work flow to automate the process? Can i create a collection / smart collection? Any help is highly appreciated!

Be careful when deleting collections out of Lightroom, it deletes the collection from flickr as well... The pictures don't delete... Also, if you want to have the picture in multiple albums, you need multiple collections... Which in turn uploads multiple photos... At least it did in my testing...

Jeffery's stuff is far more intuitive it seems... I haven't given it a go though...

Just a heads up...

Yes under each publish service you are able to create Collections/Smart Collections in the normal way. As I said in my first post each collection/Smart Collection is automatically turned into a Flickr collection for you. The only thing I have not been able to do is find a way to have LR upload changes automatically. You have to go through each collection individually and tell LR to export for you. It dose though keep a record of changes etc, so that it will sort that out for you when you do the upload. Depending on how fast your system is, as well as you internet connections speed will determine how long each upload takes, as LR generates the files on the fly as it is uploading. You have all the usual export options, except for the final file location, as that is the Flickr server.

Alan

BigAl007 wrote in post #17553859
The only thing I have not been able to do is find a way to have LR upload changes automatically.

Maybe I'm not thinking of the same functionality but that would seem a bit scary to me, if I edited a photo and the change on Flickr was automatic.

From my experience when I edit a photo in a Flickr collection / set, it will be marked for re-publishing and you just need to hit the re-publish button to make those changes. During editing I will usually visit the photo at least a couple of times because I usually forget something silly like the title.

Yes I guess in a program that does not specifically require a save to update the image auto upload would be daft. it would be nice if you didn't have to hit the upload button in each individual collection though. My computer is quite slow, and gets really bogged down if I start more than one upload stream. If I were to go through my eight or nine collections and hit upload one after the other LR would try to process them all in parallel, and then fall over dead, or at best simply time out. I'd be happy to just start them all going in series though, as I could leave it to get on with it while I did other things, like sleep. You can't really do anything else on the computer while it uploads, the strain is too great.

Alan