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Is there a way to create another login for a guest to my online Lightroom photos? Or how can I share my photos for someone else to look at, comment on, rate, etc.?

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johnjohnlin said:
Is there a way to create another login for a guest to my online Lightroom photos? Or how can I share my photos for someone else to look at, comment on, rate, etc.?

Thanks!
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As Ken wrote earlier - you could create a second, free Adobe account ID under a different email address and then give that to your guests to use.
 
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johnjohnlin said:
Does that mean a second account ID that is part of my account? Or is it someone else's account?
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You can create a free Adobe account using another email address, but it will be entirely separate from your existing account. Here’s how you can do it:
  1. Sign out of your current Adobe account.
  2. Go to the Adobe website (adobe.com) and click on Sign In.
  3. Select Create an account.
  4. Enter your alternate email address, create a password, and fill in the other required details.
  5. Once done, you’ll have a new and separate Adobe account connected to your alternate email.
This new account won’t be linked to your existing one. However, you can still use it to access free Adobe services or trials, but it’s treated as a completely different user. So, you won’t be able to share subscriptions, libraries, or assets between the two accounts unless you manually transfer or share them.
 
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johnjohnlin said:
Thanks!

Is there a way for me to like/heart/favorite a photo in LrC so that the person I'm sharing it with can see what I liked/hearted/favorited?
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No, not in Lightroom Classic. You’ll need to use the Lightroom Web interface for that. However, in any public shared collection, you can add comments instead of likes
 
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johnbeardy said:
That's what giving them Edit rights does. The changes come back into your catalogue.

You may like that, but equally it may not appeal to you. So what you might do is create virtual copies and add them to the collection that you share with them.
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The virtual copies idea: most excellent, thank you
 
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I guess I don't fully understand how Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Web work together (or not)

Basically, we have an assistant who is helping us with creating some photos books (we share a bunch of photos with her, we go back and forth about what photos we like, she edits and then creates a book). I'm trying to figure out the most seamless of doing that.

Does it sound like I should sync my photos from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom Web and from Lightroom Web, I interact with her and she interacts with me about what photos we are going to use? After moving photos from Lightroom Classic, should I just plan to use Lightroom Web for this kind of interaction and communication back and forth?
 
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johnjohnlin said:
After moving photos from Lightroom Classic, should I just plan to use Lightroom Web for this kind of interaction and communication back and forth?
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "moving photos from Lightroom Classic." Syncing to Lightroom Web doesn’t actually move any files—they remain in your Lightroom Classic catalog.
And yes, using comments, likes, or favorites is a fantastic way to interact with collaborators, providing valuable feedback on which photos to include in the book
 
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johnjohnlin said:
I guess I don't fully understand how Lightroom Classic and Lightroom Web work together (or not)

Basically, we have an assistant who is helping us with creating some photos books (we share a bunch of photos with her, we go back and forth about what photos we like, she edits and then creates a book). I'm trying to figure out the most seamless of doing that.

Does it sound like I should sync my photos from Lightroom Classic to Lightroom Web and from Lightroom Web, I interact with her and she interacts with me about what photos we are going to use? After moving photos from Lightroom Classic, should I just plan to use Lightroom Web for this kind of interaction and communication back and forth?
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A lot depends on what software the assistant will be using when she edits the selected images and then creates the photo book. If both of you have your own Adobe subscription then using collaborative editing is the obvious method to use, i.e. sharing an album of the selected images with the assistant and giving her edit rights. Any edits she makes you would be able to see, and the edits would sync back to the original images in LrC.

You could also use collaborative proofing in LrWeb to get to the agreed set of selects to be used for the photo book.
 
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thommy said:
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "moving photos from Lightroom Classic." Syncing to Lightroom Web doesn’t actually move any files—they remain in your Lightroom Classic catalog.
And yes, using comments, likes, or favorites is a fantastic way to interact with collaborators, providing valuable feedback on which photos to include in the book
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Sorry, I meant “sync”
 
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Jim Wilde said:
A lot depends on what software the assistant will be using when she edits the selected images and then creates the photo book. If both of you have your own Adobe subscription then using collaborative editing is the obvious method to use, i.e. sharing an album of the selected images with the assistant and giving her edit rights. Any edits she makes you would be able to see, and the edits would sync back to the original images in LrC.

You could also use collaborative proofing in LrWeb to get to the agreed set of selects to be used for the photo book.
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Would it be best for both of us to have paid subscriptions for the fullest set of features?
 
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johnjohnlin said:
Would it be best for both of us to have paid subscriptions for the fullest set of features?
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Of course. I guess it would be possible for your assistant to operate without a subscription, but that would entail her downloading the shared album contents which produces jpegs only (so if the album contains raw files, the benefit of using raw would be lost). Then she would have to use some other editing software, then save the edited files again as jpegs, then send the edited jpegs to the book printer of your choice.

But with both having access to the same non-destructive editor the collaborative aspect of the workflow is much more seamless.
 
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Jim Wilde said:
Of course. I guess it would be possible for your assistant to operate without a subscription, but that would entail her downloading the shared album contents which produces jpegs only (so if the album contains raw files, the benefit of using raw would be lost). Then she would have to use some other editing software, then save the edited files again as jpegs, then send the edited jpegs to the book printer of your choice.

But with both having access to the same non-destructive editor the collaborative aspect of the workflow is much more seamless.
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Thanks!

When I am trying to work back and forth with her, is it better if we are both using LR for the Web, or can she be using LR for the Web while I use LrC (that is synced to the Web)?
 
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If your assistant does have an Adobe subscription to work on albums shared by you, then she could use either LrWeb or the Lightroom Desktop app (assuming she has access to a desktop system) or Lightroom mobile. Their capabilities are broadly similar, but LrD is probably better for things like batch-editing.

You would be able to use LrWeb, or LrD, LrM or LrC. The disadvantage of using LrC, however, is that it would not be able to see any of the "versions" that either of you could create when using LrWeb or LrD or LrM. Similar to snapshots in LrC, the "versions" feature allows one to create multiple versions of the same image and those versions will sync to all other clients in your cloud ecosystem apart from LrC. But if you don't use "versions" then you can stick with LrC.
 
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