{"id":12371,"date":"2011-07-15T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=12371"},"modified":"2012-10-29T12:38:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T19:38:21","slug":"lightroom-with-shutterfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/07\/15\/lightroom-with-shutterfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom with Shutterfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Calendars on the fly.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There are few better ways of sharing your pictures than with a calendar.  You can be sure the recipient will display each of your twelve snaps for a month, which is a lot more attention than they command on your website or blog!<\/p>\n<p>Further, forget the tired system that has the year beginning in January &#8211; your calendar can start any month you want.<\/p>\n<p>Don McKee has an excellent and free Lightroom export plugin for Lightroom available <a href=http:\/\/www.don-mckee.com\/lightoom\/shutterfly-upload\/ target=_blank>here<\/a> &#8211; I have tested it with the current LR v. 3.4.1 with Mac OS 10.6.8 and can confirm it works fine.  (Update October 2012 &#8211; works fine with LR 4.2 and OS Mountain Lion 10.8.2, but you have to re-download and install it into LR after upgrading from LR3 to LR4). Don says it works with Windows and he has tested it back as far as Lightroom 2.1.<\/p>\n<p>The quickest way to assemble your calendar is to go into Library view in Lightroom v2 or v3 (hit G to go to Library Grid view), click a picture you want to add and hit B, which places it in a Quick Collection.  Then, when you have your 13 pictures selected (12 + 1 for the cover), go to Catalog->Quick Collection in LR and:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Select all the pictures &#8211; Command-A\n<li>Hit Command-Shift-E to bring up the Export dialog.\n<li>Select Shutterfly at the top of the Export pane and fill in your account details.\n<\/ul>\n<p>I like to export JPGs sized 1600 x 1600 so as not to run into quality issues.  800 x 800 restricts prints to 5&#8243; x 7&#8243; whereas 1600 x 1600 takes you to 20&#8243; x 30&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Shutterfly_Export.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"846\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>The LR3 Shutterfly Export dialog. Note the Post-Processing action at the bottom.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p> When the export is complete you will be automatically transferred to your Shutterfly page if you followed the above settings.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Shutterfly_manage.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"816\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>The Shutterfly page with the pictures exported from LR3.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Thereafter you can arrange these as you see fit. If the quality of an image is deemed poor, you will be warned, and will probably want to export a higher quality version.  Another reason to export larger size images than you think you need.<\/p>\n<p>The Calendar function in Shutterfly is superb and there are many formats to choose from.  I like the simple Photo Gallery, one photo per page.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly and ordering took me all of 15 minutes for a truly professional looking result.  This one runs from August to July.  If you choose, Shutterfly will mail these to your recipient of choice.  I had to pays sales tax on one sent to Massachusetts, but none on one mailed to California.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Shutterfly_calendar.jpg\" width=\"749\" height=\"672\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>The completed calendar &#8211; two for $57, shipped.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Order to shipping was under 24 hours for the three calendars ordered.  Impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calendars on the fly. There are few better ways of sharing your pictures than with a calendar. You can be sure the recipient will display each of your twelve snaps for a month, which is a lot more attention than they command on your website or blog! 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