Upload to Google Photos from Lightroom

The Google Photos app automatically uploads images taken on your phone, but you can also add images that were shot on a different camera. If you’re an Adobe Lightroom user, an easy way to do this is using Jeffrey Friedl’s Export to Google Photos add-on, available from pcpro.link/306lr.

To install it, open Lightroom and click File followed by “Plugin Manager…”, then click Add and select the downloaded file. The plugin needs to be authenticated with Google Photos before first use, so open a browser window and log in to Google Photos.

Now return to Lightroom and select an image to upload. Click File followed by Export, then select “jf Google Photos” from the dropdown menu beside Export To. Click “Authenticate to

Google Photos”, click to grant the requested permissions and return to Lightroom: the plugin should have been enabled.

You can now start creating and adding to Google Photos albums direct from Lightroom. If you use the plugin regularly, you can save time by configuring it as a preset. To do this, return to the Export dialog and click Add. Give the preset a name, then select “jf Google Photos” from the dropdown. Work through the various sections of the form, optionally reducing the resolution to bring your images within the 16-megapixel limit.

Finally, click Export: again, the plugin will export whatever was selected when you established the preset and the preset will be saved, ready for future use.