{"id":2450,"date":"2015-05-30T08:53:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T15:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=2450"},"modified":"2015-05-31T10:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T17:36:37","slug":"tip-integrating-lightroom-with-google-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/30\/tip-integrating-lightroom-with-google-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Integrating Lightroom with Google Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

My teammate & fellow Photoshop veteran Aravind Krishnaswamy has shared a few notes on his setup:<\/p>\n

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Most of my photos are in Lightroom but I also take the occasional picture with a phone and I like having a unified view of everything. I also like stuff like search & explore and the creations made from both my LR photos as well as my mobile ones. \u00a0I don’t really have an interest in doing major editing on a phone and having sync back to Lightroom or anything like that, I just really like the idea of having access to all my photos on my phone as long as I have an internet connection.<\/p>\n

For this I use Jeffrey Friedl’s Folder Publisher<\/a> to auto publish to a Drive folder which then syncs to Photos<\/strong>. \u00a0The folder names get indexed in search and come up in auto complete. \u00a0And if for some reason I want the folder structure they are still Drive (haven’t wanted it in the few months I’ve been doing this). The only downside is that it requires storage on Drive: my 100k photos take up about 460GB. But I shoot with high megapixel bodies (36, 80) and the plugin is configured to export full size, high quality JPG. If I resized them to something more sane, that number would be smaller.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Note that that amount of storage would cost you a princely ten bucks a month & still leave you with more than half your Drive space free.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: A couple of readers have asked why Aravind exports from LR instead of just uploading the raw originals. You can certainly do the latter (as I do), but only Lightroom & Camera Raw can interpret the edits that LR applies & stores as XMP metadata. (Google Photos & other raw rendering engines just ignore one another’s parameters.) If you want to see the results of those edits, you need to render out JPEGs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My teammate & fellow Photoshop veteran Aravind Krishnaswamy has shared a few notes on his setup: Most of my photos are in Lightroom but I also take the occasional picture with a phone and I like having a unified view of everything. I also like stuff like search & explore and the creations made from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450\/revisions\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}