Once configured, click Save to seal the deal. In my case, I directed them to a folder within my Dropbox account to facilitate sharing them with friends and family.
Once named, the Publishing Manager should remind you of the Export dialog, as it basically has all the same options (that said, you may/will see different options for publishing to Adobe Stock or Flickr or some other service).Ĭonfigure those options based on how you want to create these published (exported) copies. I suggest giving it a meaningful name, especially as you may decide to create more than one of these. If you’ve never set one up before, you can select the existing Hard Drive service, but I clicked Add to create a new one from scratch so you can see those steps. So I set one up.Ĭlicking the + sign in the Publish Service panel, I chose Go to Publishing Manager, which opened the aptly named Lightroom Publishing Manager. The more I thought about this long forgotten (to me) part of Lightroom Classic, the more I thought about one way that it could be useful without a big investment, which was to create a local hard drive publish service to a folder in my Dropbox account, and then share that folder with friends and family, as a way to make photos available directly. I didn’t want to invest a lot in a service that I might have to start over again later. They do get included in the backup copy, which is more important, but I have found over the years that sometimes it can be helpful to export an entire catalog and leave behind the “cruft” that had built up in the old one. Meaning, if you export that catalog, publish services don’t come along for the ride. I primarily stopped using them years ago because they are essentially locked into the catalog you create them in. I suppose if you like tracking exports for a given purpose, this could also be useful to that end. The cool(er) thing about publish services over export is that if you later make a change to one of the photos you originally published, you can easily re-publish that photo with the changes. Once you’ve gathered the photos together, you click the Publish button and copies are exported based on the settings you configured when you created the publish service in question. It is a managed form of export, in that it allows you to group photos together (think collections) and publish (export) them to either your hard drive or some online service (Adobe Stock and Flickr by default, but you can add others). You can think of publish services as a form of export.
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