Publishing from Lightroom Classic

In short

If Lightroom Classic is where your photos live, the ZebraSnap plugin skips the export-then-upload step: you publish photos directly from your catalog to a ZebraSnap album, with your edits applied.

Before you start

The plugin signs in with your ZebraSnap email and password. If you signed up with Google, Apple or Facebook you don't have a password yet: create one with Forgot password first. See Your account.

Create the album on ZebraSnap before publishing, so the plugin can find it: Create and publish an album.

Install the plugin

1. Download the plugin from your album's upload page (open the album → Upload → Lightroom), from Settings → Integrations, or from the Downloads page.
2. Unzip the download if your computer didn't already. You get a folder called ZebraSnap.lrplugin.
3. In Lightroom Classic, open File → Plug-in Manager.
4. Click Add, select the ZebraSnap.lrplugin folder and confirm. ZebraSnap appears in the list, enabled.

Connect your account and choose the album

1. In the Library module, find the Publish Services panel on the left and click Set Up next to ZebraSnap.
2. In ZebraSnap Account, enter your email and password and click Login.
3. In Album, choose the album to publish to. If you just created it and it isn't listed, click Refresh Albums.
4. Save. The ZebraSnap service now shows in Publish Services.

To publish to a different album later, edit the service's settings and pick another album, or set up another ZebraSnap service for it.

Publish photos

1. Drag photos from your catalog onto the ZebraSnap album in Publish Services.
2. Click Publish. Lightroom renders each photo with your edits and uploads them, up to 12 at a time.

Photos are processed on our side (previews, watermark, face and bib recognition) and appear in the album within a few minutes, the same as with any other method.

Good to know

• Re-publishing an edited photo replaces it in the album. Fix a crop, click Publish again, done.
• File names must be unique in an album. Every photo in an album is identified by its file name. If a different photo has the same name as one already in the album (for example DSC_0001.jpg from two cameras), the plugin skips it with "Duplicate file name" instead of replacing the other photo. Rename it (a Lightroom rename preset with the camera or a sequence works well) and publish again.
• The plugin uploads JPEGs rendered by Lightroom, so your export settings (size, sharpening, color space) apply. Keep each photo under 16 MB. Videos can't be published from Lightroom: upload them from the web, the desktop app or SFTP.
• Big events: rendering thousands of photos in Lightroom takes time on its own. An alternative is exporting to a folder and letting the desktop app upload it with a watched folder: every photo you export uploads by itself.
• Sections: photos published from Lightroom arrive without a section. Move them afterwards from the album; see Organize an album into sections.

All upload methods

See How to upload photos: all the ways, explained to compare them.