Flickr vs. Lightroom

[danbob6]

I've begun taking photos and would like to get C&C in order to improve. Unfortunately, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to post photos on TPF. I did read Overread's post from 2017, but I'm wondering, since I use Lightroom 5, whether it's possible to upload and/or embed photos using Lightroom.

Thanks for any advice.

Dan

 

[TCampbell]

There is a Flickr plug-in for Lightroom that lets you publish images to Flickr albums directly from Lightroom Classic CC.

Once the image is hosted at Flickr, view the image in your browser (so it's the only image on the screen ... not in an album-view mode) and in the lower right corner you'll see the sharing icon (the arrow that curves up and points to the right).

A small sharing window will pop-up asking how you want to share. Pick 'BBCode'.
There's also a menu that lets you pick the size you want to use when sharing (pick a reasonable size).
Copy the BBCode string in the box ... and paste it to your post back here on TPF.

 

[zulu42]

Or, skip the Flickr step.
I re-size and export photos from LR to a folder on my computer called "To Post"
Then click "Upload a File" at the bottom of the TPF screen. Browse to my "To Post" folder, select the photo I want to upload, and there it is, on TPF

 

[JonFZ300]

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[danbob6]

Or, skip the Flickr step.
I re-size and export photos from LR to a folder on my computer called "To Post"
Then click "Upload a File" at the bottom of the TPF screen. Browse to my "To Post" folder, select the photo I want to upload, and there it is, on TPF

Thanks for your reply. I followed your advice and was able to upload a photo successfully!!!!!

Despite this 'amazing' feat of magic, I still have additional issues I hope you could help with:
1. I normally shoot in RAW, so my files tend to be in the 13-17MB range. When I export an image from LR as a .jpg the file is about 60 KB. When I export the same image as a .dng, then the file is described as a 'digital negative photo' and is in the 20MB range. Do you know if TPF can accept .dng files?
2. Are there file size limits on uploading images to TPF?

Thanks again.
Dan

 

[ronlane]

Why would you want to upload a 20MB file to TPF? By skipping the flickr step you aren't getting as much compression on that small file.

 

[zulu42]

Or, skip the Flickr step.
I re-size and export photos from LR to a folder on my computer called "To Post"
Then click "Upload a File" at the bottom of the TPF screen. Browse to my "To Post" folder, select the photo I want to upload, and there it is, on TPF

Thanks for your reply. I followed your advice and was able to upload a photo successfully!!!!!

Despite this 'amazing' feat of magic, I still have additional issues I hope you could help with:
1. I normally shoot in RAW, so my files tend to be in the 13-17MB range. When I export an image from LR as a .jpg the file is about 60 KB. When I export the same image as a .dng, then the file is described as a 'digital negative photo' and is in the 20MB range. Do you know if TPF can accept .dng files?
2. Are there file size limits on uploading images to TPF?

Thanks again.
Dan

I also shoot in raw, but export as .jpg sized to 800 pixels on the long edge. Fine enough quality for forum viewing, and the smaller files keep the pages loading quickly for everybody. As a personal preference I size vertically oriented images even smaller, 600 px, so that the entire image is displayed without scrolling.

I like your flower pic in the test post!

 

[danbob6]

Or, skip the Flickr step.
I re-size and export photos from LR to a folder on my computer called "To Post"
Then click "Upload a File" at the bottom of the TPF screen. Browse to my "To Post" folder, select the photo I want to upload, and there it is, on TPF

Thanks for your reply. I followed your advice and was able to upload a photo successfully!!!!!

Despite this 'amazing' feat of magic, I still have additional issues I hope you could help with:
1. I normally shoot in RAW, so my files tend to be in the 13-17MB range. When I export an image from LR as a .jpg the file is about 60 KB. When I export the same image as a .dng, then the file is described as a 'digital negative photo' and is in the 20MB range. Do you know if TPF can accept .dng files?
2. Are there file size limits on uploading images to TPF?

Thanks again.
Dan

I also shoot in raw, but export as .jpg sized to 800 pixels on the long edge. Fine enough quality for forum viewing, and the smaller files keep the pages loading quickly for everybody. As a personal preference I size vertically oriented images even smaller, 600 px, so that the entire image is displayed without scrolling.

I like your flower pic in the test post!

Thanks for your explanation regarding posting, as well as your comment regarding my test post.

 

[vintagesnaps]

My digital camera is DNG and the files are too large to post. My camera creates an automatically generated JPEG for each photo but I don't use those often.

I usually go to Photoshop where I can save the DNG as a PSD copy, then save that as a JPEG copy (or edit the PSD copy as needed then save that as a JPEG). Sometimes I've downsized from there if needed; in Photoshop you can resize if you need a smaller file.

I upload from my folders of my photos on my computer. I usually use a downsized lower res JPEG copy to post. I click on 'Upload a File' before I 'Post Reply'.