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Lightroom offers a Quick-upload button to Facebook and
Flickr by default but there are more services available from
the Adobe Add-on store if you’re prepared to trawl through
it. Use the Library module to collate the images you plan to
upload to your social media platform – let’s use Facebook in
this instance.3
When the image is looking its best, click back into the
Library module and expand the Publish Services section,
in the panel in the bottom left of the Lightroom interface. You
can see the buttons available for both Facebook and Flickr, in
keeping with this tutorial, click on the Set Up link shown on the
Facebook button.2 Once you have chosen an image you want to upload,
it may be necessary drop into the Develop module to
make any adjustments and fine-tune the photograph to make
it sharper, more saturated and containing plenty of contrast.
Remember the tips we looked at in the previous section when
applying any updates and edits to an image.4 This, as we’ve seen previously, launches the Lightroom
Publishing Manager window. This time, however, notice
that the Facebook service is highlighted to the left of the main
Settings pane. There are a number of settings fields that will
need to be filled in.Publishing to
Social Media
Publishing content to social media is very simple. However, some images
are not always looking their best before they’re gracing your Facebook
Timeline. Lightroom can help you get the best results for your images
and make uploading them to the likes of Facebook extremely easy.
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