Lightroom2Tumblr

Lightroom plugin to export pictures from Lightroom to Tumblr.com

Prerequisites

• Lightroom 4 or later
• Lua 5.1 (later versions will not work with LR4)
• Tumblr account
• PHP-enabled webserver to host the callback script called by Tumblr in the OAuth app authentication process

Installation

1. Create a new app in your Lightroom account settings and note the "consumer key" and "consumer secret" generated by Tumblr for the app.
2. Copy the file src/Info_Template.lua to src/Info.lua and insert the consumer key and secret in the appropriate places in Info.lua.
3. Install the PHP script in callback/lr2tumblr.php to your webserver and insert the URL to this script into Info.lua.
4. Build the plugin

cd src
make dist

5. Unzip the generated archive lr2tumblr.zip to your Lightroom plugin folder. On a Mac, this will usually be ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Plugins.

The following steps 6-10 will only need to be done once at installation time:

6. Open the "Plugin Manager" in Lightroom and add/enable the plugin.

7. In the Lightroom "Export" menu, create a new setting for exporting to Tumblr.

8. Enter your blog name and authenticate the plugin to Tumblr by clicking on the "Authenticate button" in the plugin export settings.

9. Your browser will open a Tumblr web page, on which you will need to confirm access. You will then be redirected to your script (installed in step 3) which will display a verification code.

10. Enter this code in the dialog box shown by the Lightroom plugin.

11. The Lightroom to Tumblr export plugin is now ready for use.