Publish from Lightroom Classic into a client gallery

Latentshoot sits in the Publish Services panel beside your other publish services. Make a collection set under it and choose the shoot it is for. Each published collection you put inside becomes a set in that shoot’s gallery, with the same name and the same order.

When you edit a photograph that has already been published, Lightroom marks it to publish again, and publishing replaces it in the gallery. The proofs and the retouched files reach the client on the same link.

On the shoot day, publish between set-ups into a gallery opened for today and the client picks from the new frames as they arrive. That is part of Studio. Proofing on the shoot day.

Each collection set has to be linked to a shoot, because the gallery takes its title, the client and the shoot date from that shoot rather than from anything typed into Lightroom. The settings list your shoots with the wrapped ones first, and you can create a new shoot there if the one you want is not listed. What a gallery holds.

Lightroom exports each photograph, and the plugin uploads it from your computer straight to the gallery’s storage.

If your storage is already full when you publish, the plugin stops before exporting anything and tells you your plan and its storage limit. If the storage fills part-way through, the photographs that fit are published and Lightroom lists each one that did not. A photograph with the same filename as one already in the set is not uploaded, and the message names the file.

The plugin fixes the export settings on every publish, as sRGB JPEGs with a set long edge and a maximum file size, so a preset left over from another job cannot change them. Lightroom’s watermark setting stays as you set it, so leave it off if the gallery has a watermark of its own in Latentshoot, which marks the copies the client sees and leaves the published files clean.

Your star ratings and your picks and rejects go with each photograph, whatever the export’s Metadata setting is. Latentshoot uses them only on a photograph you have not already starred or flagged there, so a cull you started in Latentshoot is kept.

On Pro and Studio, a collection can send each photograph’s RAW file as well, so that Develop can edit from it. It is off for every collection until you turn it on:

1. In the Library module, right-click the published collection and choose Edit Collection.
2. Tick Also send the RAW file. The plugin sends each RAW file after its JPEG.
3. For photographs published before that, choose Library > Plug-in Extras > Send missing RAW files.

The plugin is one zip for Mac and Windows. Unzip it, and in Lightroom Classic choose File, then Plug-in Manager, press Add and choose the folder. Latentshoot then appears in the Publish Services panel, and the first thing it asks you to do is sign in.