Smugmug to Portfolio workflow

[iMinnesotan]

I've been using the Smugmug plugin in LR Classic to sync photo to my Smugmug-hosted website, which simply displays my photos in a hierarchy of albums with navigation. I was considering migrating to Portfolio but don't know how to do this and also preserve all of the photo descriptions, which took time to write. Is there a workflow that would allow me to recreate my Smugmug hierarchy of photo albums in Portolio? I noticed that in LC classic I cannot drag and drop any photos from a Smugmug collection into any other collection.

[Akash Sharma]

Hi there, 

It is possible to use the SmugMug publish service plug in to sync galleries to LR desktop. It’s safest to do it one gallery at a time all the on-line photos will be matched to the original in the Lightroom catalog.

Lightroom uses a catalog which is not readable by other apps directly without a plugin or other service. You'd need to migrate your images by exporting them with edits and then import into other apps. You may refer this article for more details: https://theblog.adobe.com/introducing-portfolios-new-integration-with-adobe-lightroom/

Thanks,

Akash

[iMinnesotan]

I discovered that in LR Classic I can create a new collection within the "From Lr Mobile" collection and then be allowed to drag and drop photos from the SmugMug Publish Service folder into that collection. Then I right click "Sync with Lightroom" on my new collection. It's going to be time consuming to do this with all of my SmugMug albums but things could be worse. If I can more or less recreate my SmugMug site within Portfolio then I can probably drop another annual service fee, even though Portfolio has far fewer features than SmugMug.

[Akash Sharma]

This could be a featyre that can further improve the Lightroom-Smugmug workflow. 

It would really help if you can share your feedback on our community:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/categories/photoshop_family_photoshop_lightroom

Thanks,

Akash