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Publish to Facebook with Adobe Lightroom 3.2

This is the last post on “publishing to Facebook” I promises, at least for the next few weeks, unless I suddenly get the urge to do a “Publish to Facebook with the iPhone” post.

To my surprise shortly after Adobe released Lightroom 3.0.1 comes 3.2 and this is more than bug fixes, under the hood enhancements and Camera Raw 6.2 Update too, built in is a Facebook publisher place under Publish Services along with the trusted Flickr and new SmugMug services, they must have been spooked by Apple’s Aperture 3.

So how hard is it to use? Well it literally takes 2 minutes to setup and you are ready to go, see bellow. Click on “Set up…”, authorize LR on Facebook with your login, pick a default Album, a few other settings and you are done.

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to create a new album is just as easy, right click on the Facebook button, select “Create Collection…”, drop in the photos you want to upload then right click the newly created collection and select “Publish Now” and LR will do the rest.

Now what if you do not have Adobe Lightroom 3? There is a plug-in available from Jeffrey Friedl, you can find it here. He has a few more plug-ins so have a look around.

By the way you can download the update / trial for Adobe Lightroom 3.2 for Windows from here.

The quick way to publish to Facebook with Windows Live Essential

For those that are as lazy as I am there are easier ways to upload photos to Facebook or any other social sites. If you happen to have Microsoft Windows XP or greater and do not have Windows Live Essential yet download it now!

The important part of Windows Live Essential in this case is the Photo Gallery once configured it will allow you to upload your photos to Facebook in a second without having to worry about resizing and installing Java on you machine and so on. And if you realy adventurous have a look at the beta, not covered here.

So now that you have the Windows live Photo Gallery installed, what now? Open it and let it index your Image folder, it may take a while so prepare a tea for yourself.

Now comes the harder part, close Windows live Photo Gallery. Head over to http://liveuploadfacebook.codeplex.com/ download it and install it.

Open Windows live Photo Gallery, go to Publish –> More Services –> LiveUpload to Facebook in the menu, follow the instructions and voila, you are ready.

Enjoy the uploading…

Uploading photographs to Facebook – Step by step using a browser.

Today I am going to take time off photography and talk a bit about sharing your photos, this is really for beginners but are we not all beginners at something?

There are some issues you should consider before uploading any images to any online services, one of these is the licence and copyrights of the service. In the instance of Facebook, you are giving them a lot of rights by uploading any images to it. Please read the Facebook Statement of Rights and Responsibilities carefully before you upload any images to it. Particularly section 2, which states (last updated on April 22, 2010):

You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").

Now that we have the legalities of of the way, here are a few tips before you upload any images to any social sites:

1. Resize your images to a maximum of 600 pixels on the long side.
2. Compress them to at least 70% and save them in JPG format
3. Make sure you save them in a separate folder that you can easily find again (I called mine Facebook) and do not overwrite your original photo.

Now, here is how to upload images to Facebook, for cross operating system compatibility’s sake I will be using Mozilla Firefox as my browser, though this should not matter.

First, to create an album go to your profile and click on Photos ad the following screen will appear:

Fill it in and click on Create album, this will bring you to this screen:

If you click “Select photos” the process can be lengthy and not very friendly, I advise using the Java Uploader. You will need the Java plugin to do this so allow it to download. Click “Install Missing plug-ins…” on the right top corner of your browser. Should you encounter a problem you may acquire the Java plug-in here: http://www.java.com/en/download/inc/windows_new_xpi.jsp

Once Java is installed you will get the obligatory “waiting for…” screen

But it is well worth the pain.

Now you can select and rotate your images at will before uploading them as shown bellow.

When you ready to upload, click Upload and you will get this screen

Followed by “Upload Successful!, click OK

Facebook will then redirect you to the Edit Album Screen, edit your caption here.

Then click “Publish Now” and you are done, you have successfully created an album.

There are many more function feel free to explore.