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Inspiring
May 11, 2026
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P: Add Publishing to Sharing Plan of Choice to Lr Desktop

The Adobe website assures users that it is "incredibly easy" to "export your photos from Lightroom to your sharing platform of choice.” However, that does not seem to be the case.

When I was a Lr Classic user, I loved how “incredibly easy” it was to post photos to my Flickr account from Lr Classic. If I remember right, I could even queue them up for publishing whenever I wanted. However, that was then. Since becoming a Lr Desktop user the story is much different.

Incredibly easy? Not any more. In fact, it seems to be absolutely impossible.

Yes, I know that it’s relatively easy to post to Flickr from my iPad, but I do all photo editing in Lr Desktop. So I’d rather post from that program than switch devices. 

For me, it’s become a tedious process of exporting the photo from Lr to my Mac’s desktop; opening Flickr; using Flickr to upload from my desktop; and then going back to my desktop to delete the uploaded photo. (Unless I forget that last step and the file just sits there eating my storage space.)

would really love it if I could actually duplicate the Publishing process from the Classic version. Surely it couldn’t take much of a coding change to duplicate what you’ve already done. Please and thank you!