How to Export your Photos to Flickr using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom

June 5th, 2007 by Xof

If you’re a Flickr user, you were probably frustrated not to be able to use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to export your photos. Aperture users could already use the Flickr plug-in for Aperture or even iPhoto with Flickr Export.

But here is a little hack that allows you to use Flickr Uploadr with Lightroom!

First, you need to create an alias for the Flickr Uploadr application (select the App then right click > Make Alias).

Then you need to locate the “Export Actions” folder, which is in your Home/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/

Once the alias moved into this folder, all you need to do is to select “Flickr Uploadr” in the Post Processing options tab from the “Export Photos” dialog box and voil?†…

One advantage is to perform batch actions in LR (like resize for example) and upload the batch straight to Flickr. Another big advantage is that Flickr will display the IPTC tags added in LR!!

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of my first choices of social photography sharing networks, so I never felt much the need for interaction between both. For those of you who feel this pain on a daily basis, Xof at Digitalfreak.net reports a simple and easy to implement solution to export your photos to Flickr from Adobe Lightroom.

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Very nice trick. Had no idea about this one. But again, I’m not a Flickr “power user”. Nonetheless, seems to be extremely useful as more and more photographers switch to Lightroom.

Comment by A Marques — 06/05/2007 @ 3:27 PM
Nice ass.. Got anymore of her? haha

Comment by Matt — 06/05/2007 @ 6:43 PM
[...] For those of you who feel this pain on a daily basis, Xof at Digitalfreak.net reports a simple and easy to implement solution to export your photos to Flickr from Adobe Lightroom. [...]

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Plenty eheh!

P.S. I have to agree with you :p

Comment by Xof — 06/06/2007 @ 3:36 PM
Very true man! Thanks for the comment!

Comment by Xof — 06/06/2007 @ 3:37 PM
This also works for lightroom windows

got to

C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Export Actions

And copy the windows flickr uploader.exe to this location, and it will work.

What a great trick, I am so happy now

Comment by Paul — 06/09/2007 @ 8:40 PM
Thanks man!

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