Uploading using Adobe Lightroom

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Table of contents 1 Installing the Plugin 2 Running the Exporter 3 Uninstalling 4 Detailed Usage Instructions 4.1 Upload to an Album 4.2 Create a new Album 4.3 Manage Sections 4.4 Hiding Photos

Phanfare has released an upload tool to move your photos from Adobe Lightroom to your Phanfare albums. Click here (http://www.phanfare.com/apps.aspx#Lightroom2) to download the plug-in.

Features include:

• Creation of new Phanfare albums and sections
• Albums can optionally be published to your site when the export completes
• Phanfare captions can be set from the caption field in Lightroom
• Optionally hide photos below a certain star rating

Installing the Plugin

• Move phanfare.lrplugin to a location of your choice.
• From Lightroom's File menu, select Plug-in Manager and choose Add.

Locate the Phanfare plugin and select Add Plug-in.

Running the Exporter

• In Lightroom, select the photos you wish to export to Phanfare.

From the File menu, choose Export.

• Click on the top title bar. By default this says "Files on Disk".
• Select "Export to Phanfare".
• Enter your Phanfare account information to sign-in.
• Select the album and section to which you would like to export.
• Click "Export".
• When the export completes, the album will be opened in your browser.

Uninstalling

• From Lightroom's File menu, select Plug-in Manager.
• Select the Phanfare plugin and click Remove.

Detailed Usage Instructions

Select the photos that you wish to upload to Phanfare. Uploads go into one Section in an Album. If you wish to load into different sections/albums, each of those will be a separate export.

• Open the export dialog under File --> Export.
• Select the Exporter by clicking on the title bar in the upper left, then selecting Export to Phanfare from the dropdown list. Note: You have to click the image bar to find the export to Phanfare option. Here is a mini-movie to show you where to find it if you can't: http://screencast.com/t/xuDmpGhT
• Login with your email address and password as you would to Phanfare.
• Click Sign in and it will authenticate your login and pull your album information

Upload to an Album

• Select the album from the dropdown. You will see a summary of the number of photos and album permissions.
• Choose the section that you want to place the photos into

Click Export at the bottom.

Create a new Album

• Select the New Album button. This brings up a dialog box similar to the one on the web site
• Enter an Album Name (required) and an optional description.
• Change the permissions if desired. By default Friends and Family are selected.

Manage Sections

• Once an album is selected you can manage the album’s sections. By default the Main Selection is always created. An Edit option is given so you can change the first section if you are creating more.
• To add sections simply click the ‘New Section’ button and fill in the section name and description
• The first section only shows in your album if you have two or more sections. Changing the Main Section only will not reflect in your album until you create a second album

Hiding Photos

• To aid in archiving your photos you can use the star ratings in LightRoom to only show some of your photos. Check the ‘Hide Images’ option and select a start rating from the dropdown. The exporter will load all of the selected photos to Phanfare, but mark any below the starred rating as hidden. You will be able to see them in your edit album view, but they will not display in the album view. In this way you can easily upload all of the photos from a batch for archival reasons, but only display the ones you want on the web.