If I’m uploading to a site such as Flickr, I export a full-resolution image. That size option depends on where you’re posting the image. For Size, choose Small, Full, or Custom.Pick a destination from the Location option.Select one or more images and click the Share button or choose File > Save To.In Lightroom CC, exporting photos is pretty bare-bones: I’m also talking just about the built-in export features if you use Lightroom Classic, it’s worth checking out Jeffrey Friedl’s plug-ins, which add the ability to export directly to some of the services. Uploading to Flickr, SmugMug, Google Photos, or other sites involves similar steps. The second task is related to image size: although you can upload an image of any size to these services, some of them recommend specific sizes for the best display.įor our purposes here, I’m going to focus on saving files for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, the three most popular services for quickly sharing images. So, the first task is getting photos out of Lightroom or Lightroom Classic, which is fairly straightforward. Part of the reason is external Facebook used to allow apps to upload directly to its service, but ended that option last year, forcing developers to yank the sharing features they’d included. Ideally, we’d be able to share photos directly to services from within either Lightroom or Lightroom Classic, but those options don’t exist. Right away, we’re presented with a couple of challenges. If you use Lightroom, let’s look at how make the process easier to share your creations with the world. Sharing photos from Adobe Lightroom or Lightroom Classic to services like Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter still involves several steps, especially on the desktop versions of the software. Surprisingly, our software hasn’t entirely gotten the message. The modern, realist part of me tells that other fuddy-duddy to shut up, because to be a photographer or designer in this day and age means having some sort of online presence. The old-fashioned part of me wants to say that social media is a distraction, and that chasing likes and followers is folly that shouldn’t be undertaken by serious photographers.

Uploading photos to flickr