Lightroom & Flickr Uploadr set up

March 27th, 2007 by May

If you use Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and flickr, it might be in your workflow to upload your finished photos to flickr.

At first, I would export the photos from Lightroom and upload to flickr separately, but I found a slightly faster way. (I only know this works on OSX, no clue what to do with it on windows.)

1. You must use flickr uploadr. I make an alias to flickr uploadr.

I take this alias and put it in the following directory:
/users/~yourlogin/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Export Action

2. When you go into your export file dialog, Flickr Uploadr is now an option in postprocessing:

et voila! Uploading to flickr is now an option for post-processing. Saves me a couple of steps. Hopefully it’ll save you a few steps too.

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19 responses so far ↓

1 pketh Apr 8, 2007 at 6:15 pm

wow, I’m gonna try this at home. looks just what i was looking for!
2 LB Apr 18, 2007 at 2:46 pm

Works VERY well! Thanks for the tip…
3 NatCk May 7, 2007 at 12:45 am

Works in Windows XP too. Put Flickr Uploadr shortcut here…

C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Export Actions\

You can also just go to the Export Dialog and select “Open Actions Folder” or something similar in the post-processing section and the correct folder will be opened.
4 May May 7, 2007 at 8:13 am

Thanks for the info for Windows XP.
5 Holger May 17, 2007 at 9:44 am

Thanks, that worked! Even the tags are imported by flickr.
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7 enef Jun 1, 2007 at 2:53 am

Also works on Vista, but you have to use a tweak util to open the folder: “C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom
8 iJuice Oct 17, 2007 at 10:43 pm

What if I only want to export to Flickr and not to another folder on my PC?

I can’t figure out how to arrange the export to do just that.
9 May Oct 17, 2007 at 11:26 pm

I haven’t found a way to do it directly into flickr and then have the files be erased automatically. But doing that haven’t bothered me enough to attempt to explore or script it.
There’s been quite a few times when my uploads have hung or failed in flickr uploader and I’ve had to upload again. I’ve used the exported files to do so, I can see how they are helpful in that regard.
Maybe it should be a feature request to have a ‘clean up’ option for the export to upload or email types of settings.
10 Michael Oct 19, 2007 at 2:53 pm

@NatCk: Thanks for the tip. On my first test, it worked perfectly.
11 Chris R Oct 25, 2007 at 4:24 am

@May: If you are using OS X, set the export directory to be /tmp and the operating system will clean up the files for you!
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13 diesalher Dec 17, 2007 at 8:04 pm

thanks a lot
14 Thomas Feb 4, 2008 at 10:27 am

Hey,
Thought y’all might be interested, this guy wrote a Lightroom preset to export directly to Flickr:
http://regex.info/blog/2007-11-21/642
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17 Joisey Mike Jun 18, 2008 at 4:46 pm

Thanks man, I figured out how to do this in Vista based off your version for the mac… then saw someone wrote about it in the comments
18 Dawn @ My Home Sweet Home Jul 10, 2008 at 10:06 pm

Thanks so much! I’m new to Flickr and Lightroom, and this is just great!
19 mh14 Jan 16, 2010 at 10:13 pm

Pretty cool! Thanks

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