There are quite a few features in Lightroom to help you automate your workflow. In every module you will find things to make your life easier! Well, workflow-wise anyway. Publish Services offer a streamlined way to keep your catalog and remote sites in synch. Develop presets let you quickly apply settings you have honed over time. Publishing a website? The Web Module assists you in putting it all together and even has FTP built in to get your masterpiece up on the web in no time! And so the list goes.

Still. There are opportunities to take your workflow to the next level using other technology in concert with Lightroom. We took a look at one technique in a previous post Abbreviating Lightroom. There we leveraged the power of text expanding utilities to make text entry quicker. Let’s take a look at another way to automate and streamline our workflow.

Before we begin I have to apologize to the readers who use Windows. The sample workflow solution I am writing about will only work on a Mac. But please don’t stop reading if you use Windows. Take a look at the workflow automation here and let us know if there is a way to accomplish something similar on the Windows platform. Use the comments section. If you are up for writing an article contact me. We like having guest authors and our Windows colleagues will appreciate it!

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Tags: automate, Automator, Lightroom 3