It seems like most photos

at some point show up on social media sites

such as Facebook. I'd like to show you

an amazing feature that will allow you

to share directly from within Lightroom. Then we'll take a look at

how to do the same on your phone

or your tablet. In the library module

of Lightroom, just below the folders

and collections, you'll find an area

called Publish Services, and that's where you can set up posting to various

social media sites. In this case,

we're gonna look at Facebook, but the settings

for the other sites are in general the same. On the right side,

I find a choice called Set Up. And if I can click that,

it brings up this screen. At the very top you have

a choice of Publish Service. And if you click there,

you can name it. And as you'll see later, it will just have

the name on the left side. Below that we have

our Facebook account and that's

the most important part. There's a button called

Authorize on Facebook. If you press it, it's going to send you

over to your web browser after just giving you a warning, so you're not surprised. When you get

to your web browsers, as long as you're signed

into Facebook, all you need to do

is click a Continue button. And you're simply

telling Facebook that it's okay that Lightroom can have access

and can post things to your Facebook account. It's never going

to post anything without your permission though, so you don't have

to worry about weird things showing up. It's just going to be

the images you choose. After you click continue,

if you return to Lightroom, you'll find that

instead of having the Authorized

on Facebook button available, it shows that it's already been

authorized. Now the other settings that are

in this screen are very similar to what you have when you set up

an export preset. Let's just look at

our few of the settings that are specific

to social media. One of those is the album On Facebook you can organize

your photographs into albums. And if you've set up albums

there, you could choose the album

you'd like to upload to. I'm gonna have

mine set up for mobile uploads, so this shows up

in the same place as photos I upload

from my mobile devices like my phone or tablet. You can also

click on any of these other sections

to customize them, the main ones

you might want to think about would be Image Sizing 'cause you probably

don't want to post your full size pictures

to Facebook. You probably

want to get them scaled down so they're a reasonable size

and that's where you can do it. But otherwise,

these other settings are very similar to what you get

when you're exporting. The ones that are

specific to social media are mainly near the top. When you're done, on the right side

you click Save, and once you do,

you will find that in that area called Publish Services,

now Facebook is set up and it will give me

the name of the album that I chose on Facebook. If you remember, mine was called

Mobile Uploads. Now let's see

how we can post our pictures to Facebook

directly from Lightroom. It's all set up. All we have to do

is show them which photos we'd like to be posted

to Facebook. If I click on any photograph

from any section of Lightroom, I can drag it on top of the name

of that album. And when I do,

the number on the right side that is currently at zero

will increase to indicate how many images I've put there. If I click

on the name of the album, then I'm gonna see

all the photos that I've put inside them. Once I've done that,

you'll find just above it, it says new photos to publish, which means this photo

is not yet on Facebook because Lightroom never wants

to do it automatically, it wants to make sure

you're doing it on purpose. So you look at this,

click on the image and in the upper right, you'll find a Publish button. The moment

you click that Publish button, it will connect to Facebook

and post this image. Then above the photo, it will indicate that this is

a published photo. If you were to go to Facebook,

you'd see the image. And on Facebook,

if you click the Like button or start typing in comments, those comments will also be

tracked by Lightroom. And if you return

to Lightroom and you click

on the name of that album, click on the photo,

then on the right side that's where you're gonna

find your comments. And what's nice is in

this comments area, it will tell you

how many likes you have, you can read the comments

that were posted on Facebook and there's a field above where you can

type in your comment. So if I were

to respond to a comment, I can click there,

type in some text, then if I went back to Facebook,

I would see the comment as if I typed it right here

on Facebook, even though

I entered in Lightroom. So few other details, and that is if I returned

to Lightroom and I choose

another photograph and drag it

on top of that album, the number to the right

will go up again, drag another photo over

and I'll then see that this is divided up

into two parts. It will show me on the bottom the images that have

already been published and could be viewed on Facebook, and above that it will show me

new photos that have yet to be published. If I want to post those images, I just click on them

and hit the Publish button. The other thing

you might need to think about is what if after I post the image

to Facebook, I come in here to Lightroom

and I change the image, maybe I'll make it

black and white or I crop it differently. Well, most of the time

when I do something like that, I don't want to

repost the image on Facebook because I've already posted it, I have already got the comments and I don't need to

keep them too up to date. So if you ever drag

an image over and later on make a change after it's been published,

then you can right click on it. If you right click on it,

you will see a menu of choices and near the bottom

will be a choice called Mark as Up-To-Date. If you choose that, it will not attempt to upload it

again to Facebook. But if you don't mark it

as up to date, it's going to mark it

as an unpublished photo and you can hit

the publish button to post it yet again. So now you know

how to get Lightroom to help you post to your favorite

social media sites.