Free Online Galleries Built in to Lightroom Classic
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- In this series called "How to Get the Most From Adobe" we're going to go in to full Adobe "shill" and "fanboy" mode, as I get paid millions of dollars, to talk about all of the "extras" that you get with your $9.99 Lightroom and Photoshop subscription. Don't post a comment, because I'll be busy driving my Lamborghini to my beachfront house ;-)
Or... what is more likely the case... I created this series for people who subscribe to the Adobe plan and just want some simple, free info on some things that they may not even know is included with their subscription. And anyone that doesn't use Lightroom or Photoshop or hates Adobe, should probably question themselves for watching a video titled "Get the Most From Lightroom and Photoshop" (Just sayin') ;-)
Check the website for the full list of videos throughout March (mattk.com/blog)
This first video will show you how you can create a free online web gallery for anyone to see right from your Lightroom collections. They won't need a subscription and you don't have to pay for any online services or have any tech background to post it.
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Matt, not only do you post some excellent information on LR & PS you take the time to review and answer comments and questions. Rare with some of the other videos contributors and very welcomed.
Perfect timing, Matt! Aside from the fact that I just upgraded to Lightroom Classic 9.2, I photographed my brother's wedding this past weekend. :) Thanks for the info!
Thanks Matt, I have done this before a few years ago occasionally. Looks a bit better now and easier to use? Anyway thanks again for reminding us about it. This is a very good reason to use Lightroom above other editors as its a powerful tool. Please keep up your videos I have followed you for years, have a few books you have written.
Matt, this is so cool and so easy to use! I've been struggling with how to share pictures with family because I thought I had to export them, then email, etc, This solves it all!
Great video as always Matt. great feature to share galleried with clients or family/friends. keep it up.
OMG!! Thank you so much for explaining this! I have watched several videos and was so frustrated. This is so easy for me to understand. I am just starting to get a business going, so this is going to work great to start with for no cost. I will look for more of your videos and subscribe.
A very helpful video. I have always struggled with this LR option. I now see how to share my images with others and incorporate this option into my workflow. Thanks!!
This is great video, it has opened my eyes to the "connections" between Lightroom Classic and the newer Lightroom(mobile). Two things I did not know, maybe because I'm stupid, or perhaps because I was not looking out for these features. . Firstly, I did not know that if you group photos on Lightroom Mobile into a folder, this folder sync's back to Lightroom Classic, under the "From Lightroom" tab under Collections. Also I finally noticed that all the photos I take on my Pixel phone that I import into the Lightroom Mobile app, they appear in my Lightroom Classic catalog under "Google Pixel". So photos on Lightroom (mobile) can appear twice in Lightroom Classic: in the catalog and in the collections. With two versions of Lightroom it seems a bit complicated at times. Thanks for the video, Matt, I really have found it useful and an eye opener!
Matt! Thank you so much for this. I had no idea such a perk was available! Will be spending much more time working on my collections so I can share them. Take care!
Thanks, Matt, for the explanation... always helpful in expanding my knowledge of LR and Ps.
Thank You so much! This is awesome information! I want to do this with my Holiday photos. You are a great instructor, I love your classes and TH-cam channel!
I always learn something new and interesting from your posts. Thanks
Thank you! You saved me from continued grief and frustration.
Thank you very much, Matt. It is really interesting.
Thanks Matt - my initial mistake was to invite the intended recipient from within the website. Went back and re-watched video and figured out that 'Copy Link" is something different, so I did that and it works fine. Appreciate your help...🙏
A very useful video, Matt. Thanks!
By far the best explanation anywhere! Thank you so much :)
Thank you very much... no more website !!!!
Yippee ki-yay!!! 🥳🥳🥳
This is a great tip, love it. Love your channel.
Thanks! I knew it was there, did not know how to use it, now I do!
Thanks MattK. You da man!🤩
Excellent tutorial! I thought I had to have an FTP page on my website but I use a website service - so no FTP. But this LR online gallery is perfect.
Love this. Thanks Matt.
Thanks Matt, the process has a lot of quarks, I fiddeled lightly with it for some time and then used it on a big project big mistake... Some oddities 1) if I upload a collection that is edited in raw the donwloads made public are tiny jpegs. 2) if I use the mobile app from phone to upload on the go jpegs they download as same jpegs i put up, but it seems i have to sync them back to my pc (8000 photos)..not sure because since i thought i was smart creating a catalogue just for the job, well that backfired because i had to merge it into my master catalogue to move on..otherwise no more syncing. 3 if I export a raw to jpeg fron lightroom classic to pc and manually upload them i can create a gallery and share it but my images are a little greyed out and the gallery visible to me with a valid link appears empty to whoever uses it...so weird I will be watching a lot of videos on this because I'm a little lost...and now waiting for 5000 images to sync back to my pc that I don't need and already have on another catalogue. Anyways thanks to you and others I will figure it out.
Another underutilized Adobe subscription included feature is the Adobe My Portfolio website. Essentially, a completely free customizable website. It's great!
Yep! Check my other videos :-)
I subscribe to Lightroom Mobile and share links to my friends and clients. They can download directly the results of my work. Same with the tutorial above. Thank you for sharing brother.
Problem with this is you can't sell any prints, canvas, metal, acrylic, etc to your clients.
Well done. Associated with the collection link is a photo that appears with the link. Is there a way to determine, change what that photo is?
Another great video Matt, uncovering a feature that I had not been using. I just tried this out and it works very well, but leaves me with a question. Is there any way that those invited to share (or public) can view the keywords? That's how I identify places or animals, etc.
Thanks and keep up the informative videos.
so good 😊 what such an wonderful tool
Very cool. Thanks!
All my photos don’t sync. Out of 16 photos only 6 synced and 10 are in Sync Issues and are blank.
Hi ! thanks for this video. I have also a question. When I play the slideshow I get my picture with no border and I think It's not look very nice. Is there an option to correct that ?
Hey Matt. I had no idea this feature existed. Thank you! I do have a question for you. What resolution/quality setting do they get if they choose to download? I've found that it's much easier to share web sized (2048px) with people than full res. For quick loading and downloading, along with sheer storage size. Do they offer any way to limit this? I could see Adobe building out a very robust proofing/deliverable platform here for amateurs and professionals if it had a couple more features.
Hi Daniel - Glad you like it. I think they're around 2000-ish pixels, but you could always try it for yourself, download it, and see so you're absolutely sure what size is delivered. Thanks!
One limitation that makes this not quite as useful is that you can only sync one lightroom catalog at a time with Lightroom Classic. If you use catalogs as a way to organize images from major shoots (e.g., establish a separate catalog for each shoot or genre of images). This means that if you change the catalog to be synched, previous images are un-synched...
Hi Mike. I would never suggest anyone use multiple catalogs. It's just asking for trouble. It'd be like a book library having multiple cataloging / computer systems to find books. It makes it much more difficult to find things and organize, and there's really no upside to it when LR includes everything you need in one catalog to segment your photos any way you need. Everyone's workflow is different, but just about everyone agrees that LR is best used as one catalog (yes, you'll always find some one who disagrees). Your mileage may vary but just realize it goes against the grain, so you won't find much support or options for it if that makes sense. Thanks!
@@MattKloskowski Matt - thanks for the input...
Matt, another terrific video- thank you! I'm glad you're making a choice to "share what's good." (And I'd say that even if I wasn't a former Adobe employee ;) One question-- do you know if it's possible to create a link to an album that automatically brings it up in slideshow mode? I've used Google Photos extensively to create and share albums with folks, and found myself wishing this existed. Didn't see it here either, but one can hope. And hey, next time you're "up on the mountain" talking with the gods, perhaps you can plug it! Thanks again
Hey Joe! I don't think so but it's worth a mention to them :-) Thanks!
Joe, if you start a slideshow and then copy the link and then send that to someone and they paste it into their browser it starts as a slideshow. At least it seems to work in Win 10. I also believe that the timing you set for the slideshow in LR will be maintained, but didn't test that part. Here is a link to experiment with lightroom.adobe.com/shares/54206763ccad4a5eb43ce99e659da9f6/albums/d31adbb27ff0b67bddde6c23ba2f8d5a/assets/c463be44e15227c689c380f1aadbc517/slideshow
Hey James, thanks for the tip! I'll give it a try :)
Great help, Matt. Thanks! Does this count against adobe cloud storage limits?
Nope.
One of Lr Sync's biggest shortcomings, for me at least, is that it can't sync smart collections.
I can't recommend Jeffrey Friedl's plugin to overcome that strongly enough (located at regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/smart-collection-sync).
I use smart collections extensively and it's quite nice to have e.g. a "5 stars streetlife" album online that gets updated automatically as I rate and tag imported images.
Also, something else worth mentioning, you said you can't do anything else (other than view your photos) on the web albums, and that's quite wrong. You can actually edit them, it's a sort of a (non-classic) Lightroom on the web.
Cool!
Well, since this video, I've consolidated some of my LR catalogs and started using the gallery capabilities to share images. Unfortunately, as of today, my LR Classic is no longer syncing to the cloud. I've tried everything I can think of - - AND spent 2hours with Adobe tech support - - but my LR Classic is no longer synching... And for me anyway, this is the reason I've never been willing to move content to the Adobe infrastructure - - stuff just stops working and no / minimal access to tech support to fix.. No need to respond and sorry for venting, but over the years, this experience is more typical than not. Oh well, back to my dedicated web site ;-)
Hi Mike. I guess one thing to consider is that as a classic user, you don't really have anything to "move content to the Adobe infrastructure". Classic doesn't backup to the cloud or anything. You'd use it to simply share a gallery, etc... There's a reason Adobe doesn't put Classic as the "cloud backup" program. It wasn't built to do it and there are bugs. I don't have 'em, but I know people that do. Best I can suggest is to go in to Prefs and unsync and resynce the whole thing.
Again though, if you're a classic user thinking you'd use ANY of these features to "move content to the Adobe infrastructure" that would be wrong. The only way to move to the Adobe infranstructure is to go with the "cloud" version of Lightroom. Do a google search and you'll find people don't have sync issues there as it works great because the program was designed from ground up for it. Good luck!
So I tried to do this and could not make this happen. I sink to LR mobile with no issues but for the life of me, I could not do this. It seems that I am missing something.
Not sure Bob. If you could point out at what point in the video what you see isn't like what I show, then that may help troubleshoot. Also make sure you have the latest version of Lightroom Classic (subscription version) installed. Thx.
Me too. My name does not appear at the top left.
Well, Matt's instructions are absolutely correct. I just spent 2 hours online with Adobe unraveling our problem which we tracked down to a corrupted file in the program. I now have use of this great feature. Thanks, Matt
Thanks for the video! Can I change the download size so it is not just a small jpg? I would like to offer people a full size jpg? Thanks!
I've watched this 10 times since it came out last March. I can't do this. I'm thinking that I am on a Microsoft Exchange program that blocks the sharing. Our IT guys got lost in this as well.
Great tip! One question: Can my people download the developed picture which is only existing as RAW file on my computer (and not yet exported as jpg) ?
Hi. No, it's only a JPG. But the best thing to do so you know what happens is to give it a try yourself. Thanks!
Sorry, but this does not seem to work. I have the Adobe Photography Plan, 20gb of storage. I am logged into my account, and there is no such thing as a drop down that says Syncing, and when I right click on a collection in LR there is no such thing as a Share option. Connected to the web, running at 50mb data speed. Running LRC Release 10.1.1, suggestions on how to get this to work would be appreciated.
Hi Bill. Syncing has moved slightly since this tutorial came out. You can poke around the top of the interface and look for a cloud icon. Or If you do a Google search on "where is syncing in Lightroom classic" you'll find a few articles that help.
www.google.com/search?q=where+is+syncing+in+Lightroom+Classic&oq=where+is+syncing+in+Lightroom+Classic&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i22i29i30l2.4260j1j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Yep, thanks for the information............found that the new version now has a cloud icon in the top right of the window for turning on and off syncing, and several of the right click dropdowns and options windows look different as well.............BUT the concept works and my many thanks for bringing this great feature to light!
At top of your web gallery, how do you add your identity plate/ your name on 2nd line? This is such a great video!! thanks
Hi David - fastest way to find out. Just do a quick search here on TH-cam for "How to add your own identity plate". You'll find plenty :-)
@@MattKloskowski Thanks Mat thought it was something different, or a new option
Great video. I have an issue that you may have experienced. When I share a link everything works well except when the photos are viewed on an iPhone. For example, you titled yours as "Landscapes by Matt Kloskowski". When the photos are viewed on a computer or tablet that heading, just like it was in your video, is above the photo. When they are viewed on an iPhone the heading is at the top of the photo but inside the actual photo (so it covers some of the photo). I've reported this to Adobe but I'm not sure how that all works. I was hoping you could tell Adobe to fix this. LOL! Thanks for all the training. I can't tell you how much I've learned from you over the years.
Hi Kent. I just looked on my iPhone and everything looked good. Not sure about that one.
@@MattKloskowski Is there a way I could send a link to you and have you take a look at it. I just created one on Tuesday and had my wife and kids all test it out to make sure what I'm experiencing is correct. It definitely covers part of the photo. It must be something I'm doing wrong in Lighroom.
Kent - feel free to post a link here. How much text is it. If it's too much maybe it's just not meant to fit well on a phone.
@@MattKloskowski But you said your's worked on your phone. That's what is so confusing. Here is a link. adobe.ly/2VQasPh It's less text than what you had on yours. Would you try this out. Thanks.
@@kentaufderheide8454 Hi Kent - I've had this same problem. The name of the gallery appears inside the photo when the gallery is viewed on my iPad or iPhone. Have you been able to find a fix? Thx.
How is this different from Adobe Portfolio? Is is subject to the same storage capacity?
I found the answer in your video on Adobe portfolios. I should’ve know you’d have one about that too. Thanks!
Just watched your video. I set up a Test Collection. I didn't see Sync w/LR, so I went to the top left of the screen to turn on Sync and got the message that I can only sync a single LR catalog and the one designated is LR Photos.lrcat. What am I doing wrong?
Dan Ayala Hi. That is correct. You can only sync from one catalog which means you have more than one and are currently syncing it that one instead. You’ll have to go to that catalog or unsync it and sync a new one. Best advice is to always just use one catalog to begin with. Good luck!
OK, I've synced LR but when I right click on the collection but I don't see "Sync w/LR - LR links - Make Collection public"
There is no option to sync as described on the dropdown next to the name. Done before I got very far.
Hi. You’re watching a video that was created before Adobe updated Lightroom and moved the feature. I have a Lightroom Update video done in June that shows where the option now is.
@@MattKloskowski Thanks!
Looking for a personal opinion on this Matt. Would you consider this an option to sharing photos other than Facebook or instagram?
Hi Curt. I'd use it for exactly the purposes I said in the video. When I have a group of photos I want to share with a person or group of people. It's not a portfolio, so I wouldn't use it as one (stay tuned this month for a video on that). FB and IG are social sharing platforms. You share a photo and it organically goes out to your community. A gallery is a little more deliberate in that you have a specific group you want to see these photos for one reason or another.
Thanks Matt, I just hate having to mess with images and having to deal with how Facebook and Instagram mess with them.
No Sync with Lightroom option.
Can people download any of the photos in the gallery?
Hi. There’s an option for it that I show in the video. Thx
@@MattKloskowski Thanks Matt. I missed it the first time around