Since this was a big trip for me I think it would be cool to show people a larger selection of my images. It definitely not every single one because it that would be ridiculous and embarrassing. But is shows what I was looking for when I was creating images there. Now I could just use a bunch of blocks in Squarespace but Lightroom actually has a great solution for this if you’re website doesn’t have great gallery options. Click the button below to experience india and keep reading of you’re interested in using Lightroom for shareable galleries.
I’m probably behind the curve but I hope someone learns a cool new thing Lightroom can do like I did. They’re called Lightroom Collections which are basically folders that you can fill with images you want in the same place. Personally I collect all of the images above a certain rating for a given multi day trip in the same folder for quick access. But what I didn’t know is that you can make these collection public so that clients or friends can access, download, comment/like, or I can even edit images real time all from Lightroom! Here’s how you can do this:
Open Lightroom Classic and make sure that you are signed in and have Lightroom CC downloaded. This enable the Adobe cloud sharing within Lightroom. Once signed in when you click your name at the top left corner it should given another section for Sync with Lightroom.
Now on the left column of lightroom under the Navigator panel scroll down till you see Collections panel where you can click on the plus symbol and to create new collections. For this gallery we just want a collection which is at the top of the list. I will then prompt you name the collection, make sure the sync with Lightroom is selected.
To add photos to the collection simply drag and drop images from anywhere on Lightroom. It effectively creates a virtual copy so no data is lost and images don’t move around. Yay! Remember you can use the shift/click method for multiple images in a row, command + A to select all in a folder, or command + click for multiple images.
Once the collections is filled with what you want you can make it public by clicking the Make Public box on the upper right corner of the library panel. This creates a shareable url that you can now send to whoever.
Now if you want people to be able to download you can follow the prompts after clicking the url or I find using the Lightroom app on my phone is the easiest. Either way you can now share rating, let people comment/like, and even share metadata.
What’s great about these galleries is that they are fully customizable in terms of what the client sees. You can change the background spacing almost everything. You can eve show what your rating for the images are. The best part it is all directly connected to Lightroom Classic so any change made on your desktop are automatically updated in the online collection. The only thing that would make this better is if these updates were truly real time, currently the updates are slow but workable.
So there you go a new (or maybe old) tool lightroom offers. It’s a great way to showcase images to clients and have images on hand if people ever ask.