Shiveen Pandita

Lightroom CC to Google Photos

I use Lightroom for all my edits. I also use Google Photos for all my photo sharing and backups. Until a few months ago, I was using Lightroom Classic. My workflow then involved editing on my desktop, exporting the JPEGs manually, and pushing them to Google Photos.

This was not arduous really, but it required me to keep my computer on for larger edits for the sync to fully go through.

However, after moving to Lightroom CC, I discovered this is a lot easier and genuinely a great quality of life improvement over my previous workflow.

Now, I can simply edit the photos and have them uploaded to the cloud. Then open Lightroom Web, and directly batch transfer to Google Photos. There are actually two share buttons, so you have to choose the right one. The classic share button (shown below) does not have the option.

This button does not share

The correct way is to Cmd+A in your album or directory and then select share from the floating action bar that shows (highlighted below).

This button does share

This makes the process so much smoother than before. My photos are now batch uploaded in the background and available when done without me needing to keep tabs on the operation. This is another solid reason to move to the cloud version of Lightroom.

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