In the previous article, Creating iPad Albums With Lightroom, I talked about using Matt Kloskowski’s export presets to create albums for your iPad. This method is accessible by both Lightroom 2 and Lightroom 3 users.
However, if you have moved on to Lightroom 3 you can take advantage of one of its great new features—Publish Services. (Thanks to John Beardsworth whose comment on the previous article motivated me to get this article out of draft sooner rather than later!)
A lot of the attention Publish Services has gotten revolves around the link between Lightroom and online services such as Flickr, Zenfolio, SmugMug, etc.. But the other side of this feature is the ability to create links between Lightroom and your drives. And it is this aspect we will exploit here.
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Since Publish Services debuted in Lightroom 3 Beta 1, Adobe has adjusted some of the issues identified in the first beta. For a full description of what Publish services can do I refer you to my two previous articles Lightroom 3 Beta’s Publish Services – Part 1 and Lightroom 3 Beta’s Publish Services – Part 2.
The two biggest (and welcome) adjustments deal with how the Flickr Publish Service works. Previously, users who only had a free Flickr account had problems if a published image was deleted from the photostream in Lightroom or modified in any way, Lightroom couldn’t deal with the changing the image up on Flickr or removing the images from the Re-Publish or Deleted sections.
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Seán McCormack over at Lightroom Blog presents another creative use of the new Publish Services feature in Lightroom 3 Beta. Check out his article on Using Lightroom for your iPhone Photos.
Already Publish Services is proving to be a flexible and useful addition to Lightroom’s feature set. As this feature matures and third party developers get their hands on the SDK for Lightroom 3 I think we will see new and exciting ways to use this.
Mark Wilson over at rusticolus images has a new article that shows you how to use Lightroom 3 Beta’s Publish Services to publish your images directly from Lightroom to the cloud. It’s a creative use of the Hard Drive connection to link to Dropbox. Take a minute to read Lightroom 3 Beta – Save photos to the cloud. You’ll be glad you did!
