The last two articles I covered how I get my images into the computer and how I catalogue them to find them for later.
This article I will cover my usual workflow for exporting my photos so I can share them with the world. There are many sharing it, such as printing but I wont cover that. The usual way I do it is by uploading to flickr, and linking to that if I want people to see the photos.
I am using Lightroom 2, and there is no direct interaction with flickr (unlike what I have seen the beta of Lightroom 3), but Jeffrey Friedl has made a very nice Lightroom plugin for exporting to flickr called Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin. His site gives you the installation instructions.
So when I want to export a photo I select the photo, or set of photos and hit export (ctrl+shift+e), then you will get up an export option. In the top there is kind of an image banner with the destination. If you click this his plugin will show up as well.
You can set the different options you want, such as set and groups to upload it to, as well as adding or rating by keywords. This is quite easy to figure out. Doing it this way means I upload my photo, and the title and keywords are set to what I did in Lightroom. This is easy and saves me a lot extra tedious work for sharing my photo. It also means I will actually do it instead of just thinking of it.
This was only covered shortly, but I think it is fairly easy to figure out.
The other thing I want to cover is how to make flickr work with my website. It is fairly simple. I use wordpress and then I use the Flickr Photo Album it works well and enables me to make a gallery as well as including photos in my posts. The problem with it, is that it doesn’t seem to be updated anymore. Yet I haven’t found something better yet.
The last plugin I will promote here is the Thumbnails for Excerpts which enables me to get my photos into my rss feeds. Just the way I have solved it. If you do it otherwise, let me know 
This really reduce the amount of work I have to do share the photos with the world, and lets me do what I like rather than spending time retyping keywords and moving files.
/Kristian