- [Instructor] Now that we have turned on the syncing
for our catalog,
we're ready to sync some of our photos to the cloud.
Note the cloud icon in the upper right hand corner
now has this green check mark.
This tells us the sync is enabled
and the sync must be on before you can sync photos
from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom Cloud.
Let's review what is going to happen
before we start the process,
When photos are synced from Lightroom Classic
up to Lightroom,
the large original master photos remain
on the local hard drive
and smaller high res smart preview JPEGs
are sent to the cloud.
This is especially nice
if you have the inexpensive photography plan subscription
that only provides 20 gigabytes of cloud storage.
Even better is that the smart previews
do not count against your storage space.
We're going to sync one of the collections
that we made earlier,
because I think this is the best practice for syncing.
And the sync option only works with regular collections,
not smart collections.
If we look to the very left of the collection names,
we get a hint of this.
It's pretty hard to see those
so let me zoom in on my computer.
Notice these boxes that are next to the regular collections
and the one star rating smart collection we made
doesn't have that box.
And if we hover over any of these boxes,
we get the icon to sync the collection.
So you could click right there to sync on it.
You can also do a right click
or control click on a collection,
and you'll see the option here to sync with Lightroom.
So let's do that for the best of travel.
Notice we get the message that it was synced.
Again, I think syncing a collection is the best practice.
Let me show you a couple other methods though.
First of all, if you go and create a new collection,
by clicking on the Plus,
we now have this option here to sync with Lightroom
right when we make the collection.
That option wasn't there earlier
because we hadn't turned on the sync.
Once you've turned on the sync,
you'll see that option and you can just automatically
set it up to sync.
And finally, if you come up here to the catalog panel
in the library module,
you'll see this option, All Synced Photographs.
We're seeing 27 photos now.
Those are the 27 photos from our collection that we synced.
But you could always come along and just take an image
from the all photographs.
We can take any one of these images
and just drag it into the all synced photographs collection.
And that will sync that photo as well.
Let's click on this to see all of them.
So we have all of the best,
actually the one I picked was already
part of that collection.
So let's pick something else.
I'll pick a Grand Canyon image and add that to all synced.
Notice it went to 28.
And so if we check this collection,
we'll see that the Grand Canyon photo
has been added up here.
So that's another method to sync an individual image,
but I really recommend collecting your images
and collections and syncing those.
Photo synced from classic to the Lightroom cloud
can be viewed and edited from anywhere
using the Lightroom app on any device
or with Lightroom on the web.
And any edits made elsewhere will automatically sync back
to the Lightroom classic catalog, which is really awesome.
Give it a try for yourself.
I think you'll quickly get hooked
on syncing your favorite photos like I am.