Lightroom Publish

Not if you have Photoshop, which is a more comprehensive editor. Convert to tif, work of the image in PS, save as (or batch convert to) jpg.

Sometimes the workflow changes for the better depending on the tools you use.

Or do you mean the 5 image limit on uploading? I think it's a good thing for the site overall, though yes occasionally inconvenient when the internet goes rickety

Think of event photographers who shoot thousands of photos, but sell only a very small proportion. Encouraging that sort of high storage, low sale environment would be a much smaller return on website investment. Fine Art America is a site that attempts to seek out the Fine Arts print buying customers. If you're cranking out a lot more than 5 at a time, is it really art? With some of the shadow alternate websites, there IS less emphasis on Fine Art, but the owner has long declined any upgrade along this line. That's my take on the situation, anyway.

I'm confused. What is it about LR that doesn't work with FAA? The lack of an uploader? I use LR and I don't have any difficulty managing where my work is available. Then again I use ACDSee Pro for the DAM portion.

Is that lack of uploader why its taken you over two and a half years to get 13 images loaded?

A direct publish plugin would be nice but only for keeping things in sync. Exporting from LR and using the FAA uploader is just as fast. And FAA ingests keywords, title and descriptions which not all sites do.

So if you have things properly done in LR it really is quite simple.

Try setting up an export preset just for FAA and I think you will find it goes quite smoothly.

No Lightroom plugin for FAA is almost a deal breaker. It's almost 2016, get with the times.

Any Lightroom user probably already knows this already but I literally can (and do) come back from a shoot. Import my RAW files into Lightroom, edit the shots I like and upload them to my Flickr account, my social media accounts, AND high res versions to my SmugMug account all without creating a single JPG on my hard drive. Now if I want to add any of those photos to FAA I have to export a jpg, save it into a separate folder, and upload it manually.

This fact alone makes me not even bother. FAA says it's because they only want our best work. Well, their not getting my best work. They get a few secondary images when I fianlly have time, usually months after I've automatically uploaded my BEST work to m SmugMug account through the Lightroom plugin.

I'm even okay with a upload limit if they're worried about mass uploads. With "technology" they could do that too.

It's call technological advancement. Those who don't keep up get left behind.

I use Lightroom and upload to FAA all the time - it's easy. After processing (in LR and PS), just go to export. I've created an export preset that converts the image to JPEG for FAA. Then when I want to upload to FAA I go to that folder and upload. Not a problem at all. If I can do it, anyone can!

I would love to see a plug-in for Lightroom. It's much more than simply a way to upload photos - it's a tool to manage the photos on the service. any changes made to the photo, including comments and likes are downloaded, allowing you to manage the files in Lightroom, refresh the images, etc. if you haven't experienc d the joys of a plugin, just give it a try on a service like Flickr or Facebook. If FAA/pixels.com is concerned about the number of images loaded, they could put limits on the number of uploads and still enforce the current image requirements.
Alisha
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I also would love to see a plug in for Lightroom.

Lindley, we all who use Lightroom have to save our images to our hard drive to upload to FAA. It's not difficult, just a PIA, when Lightroom allows direct uploads. However, if FAA would create a plugin for Lightroom we could just upload directly from Lightroom to FAA, without needing to save the edit images to our hard drive.

It's a bit of a pain the way it is but IMHO it is better that way. There are already 10 million plus images on the site. Flickr and Facebook are for sharing and hosting, FAA is for selling and the site would likely get swamped and end up with a ton more low quality images that would never sell and probably never even show up in the search results.

Hi Adam,
As I mentioned, FAA can put limits on how many images could be uploaded per day, week, month or total.

Currently for the paid subscription, they say they allow unlimited uploads, but their strategy for limiting it is to just make it difficult to upload (selecting 1-5 images at a time). As a result, there are users with plenty of time on their hands who have hundreds or thousands of images (often of poor quality) on the site, while others are more discriminating.

Personally, I'll rather see FAA set hard limits on the number of images rather than take the passive approach of limiting it by making it hard to upload and manage images.

Alisha

This time of year stock sales slow to a crawl because businesses are busy with holiday parties. My guess is every stock photographer and his brother is looking for new avenues in these final weeks of the year.

We will not allow mass uploads. I'm sorry