Adobe Lightroom Tips and Tricks 002. Exporting directly to Dropbox.

 
Here’s our sec­ond Light­room Tip & Trick: How to quickly export images from Light­room to Drop­box and share the link with your clients. Unless you LOVE burn­ing CDs and DVDs you can really use this one. If you don’t have a Drop­box account, you can get one with 2GB of stor­age for FREE. Yes, you read that cor­rectly. Now, you and I can get an addi­tional 500MB of bonus space each if you choose to use this link which is also free.

This is one way of doing it. Another way is to set up your Drop­box folder as a Hard Drive in Light­room under your “Pub­lish Ser­vices” (see image below).

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I gen­er­ally don’t rec­om­mend the “Pub­lish Ser­vices” approach since dif­fer­ent clients will require dif­fer­ent sizes and spec­i­fi­ca­tions, and I per­son­ally pre­fer to keep my exports neatly orga­nized on indi­vid­ual folders.

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Drop­box has been tak­ing impor­tant steps to become a seri­ous photo-sharing ser­vice. The updated Android app allows users to quickly and eas­ily share entire col­lec­tions of pho­tographs with friends and family.

After select­ing the images you’d like to share from the Pho­tos tab, sim­ply tap the but­ton in the upper right to grab a pub­lic share link that you can send out. The recip­i­ents won’t need a Drop­box account to view all the photographs.”

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