If you don’t care how many images they pick as favorites, tell you client that every time they see an image they like, click the “heart” (favorite) icon in the bottom LEFT corner (marked as #2 here). Now have them click at the bottom right corner of their Web browser on the little file cabinet icon (marked #1 here) and a little gray panel slides out from the right side of their browser (as seen here).
STEP THREE: Now once they log in with that user name and password you provided, have them click on any image to see a larger view of the image (as seen here). Like “Here’s the Web address, and use user name to log-in with is and the password is “proofing.” You will use this same password for all your proofing clients (unless you’re a security freak, in which case you’ll make up new ones for each client). I can share this with my client, when I share the Web site. Adobe IDs are free, and you’re only making up one extra for use by your studio.Ībove: for example, here I made up an Adobe ID with the user name and I gave it a password.
Or….you can do this for them, and you really only have to do this once for all your clients - make up a fake Adobe ID that you only use when you want a client to be able to provide feedback.
When they click that link, here’s what they’ll see (above) - just that one collection you shared. HOWEVER, they can only see them - they can mark their favorites or leave you any comments back on these photos unless they have signed up for a free Adobe ID. REMEMBER: This doesn’t share all your collection - only that one you clicked on. Click on “Shared” at the top and you see that Web address that appears below it? That’s the address you’re going to share with your client, so copy and paste that address and email, text, etc. In the list of Collections on the left side of the screen, click on that one collection you want to share, then click the Share button at the top left of the thumbnail grid. That brings up the Share dialog you see above. You’ll see a list of all your sync’d collections on the left side, but don’t worry - we’re not going to share all these collections with your client - ONLY the one single collection you choose to share with them - the one with their proofs. STEP TWO: Now, in your Web browser go to to go to Lightroom Web, and log-in with your Adobe ID. STEP ONE: Go to Lightroom on your computer choose the collection of images you want to make available to your client for proofing (they can the images they want retouched, pick final images, etc.), and sync that collection to Lightroom Mobile (even though we’re NOT going to use a mobile device in this process at all, you still have to turn on Sync (as shown here).
Anyway, today I wanted to do a post on how to use Lightroom Web for doing online client proofing. Hi gang – and greetings from New York City (I’m doing a shoot this morning at the New York Public Library before they open to the public – a shoot for my book “The Great Indoors.”).