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iMinnesotan
iMinnesotan
Participant
December 26, 2019
Question

Smugmug to Portfolio workflow

  • December 26, 2019
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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.

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Akash Sharma
Akash Sharma
Legend
December 27, 2019

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
iMinnesotanAuthor
Participant
December 28, 2019

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
Akash Sharma
Legend
January 3, 2020

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

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