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Oryk HAIST
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February 9, 2023
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Export to the cloud

  • February 9, 2023
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Hello.

 

How is it possible to export photos to the cloud without using any space on my desktop?

Is there any publishing plugin?

Background: I need smal, watermarked jpgs from my raws/dngs in the cloud, but not on my desktop.

 

-Oryk 

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JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2023

It also depends on what cloud. Any at all? A certain cloud service in particular? There is the Lightroom Classic Flickr plugin, for example. This plugin publishes directly to Flickr, without leaving a local copy somewhere. The only thing is that Flickr isn't just any cloud service, so you may not want what they offer.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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Oryk HAISTAuthor
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February 9, 2023

... I mean Adobes Creativ Cloud

 

-Oryk

Jim Wilde
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Jim WildeCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2023

No. You could export to the Creative Cloud Files folder, which gets them into the cloud for sharing, but that means they are stored locally as well.

Sean McCormack
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Sean McCormackCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2023

@JohanElzenga is absolutely correct. Even if I were to program a custom plugin that uploaded images somewhere online, there still as to be a point where Lightroom renders the file before upload.

Sean McCormack. Author of 'Essential Development 3'. Magazine Writer. Former Official Fuji X-Photographer.
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Oryk HAISTAuthor
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February 9, 2023

... ok. But you can email a file and the rendered file will be deleted after sending. Or not?

 

-Oryk

dj_paige
dj_paige
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February 9, 2023
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... ok. But you can email a file and the rendered file will be deleted after sending. Or not?


By @Oryk HAIST

 

Try it and see.

 

But seriously, what is the REAL problem here? That you have almost no space free on a disk? Is that the problem? Where are your photos stored, on that same disk? Where is your catalog file stored, on that same disk? Those are the problems you need to be addressing.

JohanElzenga
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JohanElzengaCommunity Expert
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February 9, 2023

Services like Dropbox offer online only options, but it means that you export to your desktop first, and then move the image to online. A small zero bytes alias remains on the desktop computer.

 

-- Johan W. Elzenga
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