Now that all of the photos from the shoot have been rated and developed, it is time to Export them as JPEG's for use on my web site.
Photos destined for my Blog page are those photos that have a 4-start rating as well as those with a 5-star rating. These photos have been assembled for me by the Smart Collections that I have set up.
Photos destined for my Blog page are those photos that have a 4-start rating as well as those with a 5-star rating. These photos have been assembled for me by the Smart Collections that I have set up.
As stated above, I make heavy use of Smart Collections to automatically gather & categorize photos for use on my web site. These photos will be in the current sort order. This is not usually the order in which I would like them to be displayed on the web site.
Thus, I have created a parallel series of Collections to complement the Smart Collections. Once I am ready to export the photos, I select all of those photos from a Smart Collection and drag them into the corresponding Collection. I then drag and drop to reorganize the order of those photos. The Collection name is the date followed by a brief description of what the photos represent, e.g., 01-04-Winter-Trees.
This next step is to Sync this Collection to the Adobe Cloud. Once the Sync has completed, I right click on the Collection name and then "Lightroom Links" - "Make Collection Public". I then right click again on the Collection then "View on Web". There I tailor the page used to display this Collection (called Albums in the Lightroom for Web program) and obtain a link that I use as a hyperlink on my website.