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How to Manage Your Photos - Part 2

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Here are the settings I use for the official Flickr plug-in in Lightroom 4.1. Extraordinary care needs to be taken at this step. If not set up correctly, all the existing Flickr photos might need to be re-published and that might take a long long time.

How to Manage Photos

Flickr Title

  • Set Flickr Title Using: IPTC Title
  • If Empty, Use; Filename
  • When Updating Photos: Leave Existing Titles
  • note: Title should be set differently from filename. Filename is used to index photos in an album and give a unique identifier/handle to a photo. Title is used to give a more descriptive caption to a photo. Filename needs to be unique, while title can be anything. Caption is another item that often confuses and complicates this love triangle of filename-title-caption. I'll just leave caption blank.

Filename

  • uncheck everything
  • note: Renaming can be done in this Lightroom-to-Flickr as well, but I'd suggest doing file renaming within Lightroom, where you can have almost 100% control of what happens.

Video

  • uncheck everything
  • note: I keep videos separate from photos. All my videos get uploaded to youtube.

File Settings

  • Set Quality to: 100
  • note: The default is 60%. So make sure you change it to 100% to preserve the raw quality.

Image Sizing

  • uncheck everything

How to Manage Photos

Output Sharpening

  • uncheck everything

Metadata

  • Choose: All
  • uncheck everything else

Watermarking

  • uncheck all
  • note: If you're a professional stock photographer, you might need to adjust this setting to stamp a watermark on your photos. It's not necessary for photos about families and friends.

Privacy and Safety

  • Privacy: Private
  • Safety: Safe, check "Hide from public site areas"
  • Type: Photo
  • note: It's critical to get this one right. You don't want to upload photos as public albums by default.
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