It’s been a while, a long while since I last did a Lightroom tutorial so today you are about to experience a new tutorial. This specific tut. (I did that cause it sounds like something else hehe) will deal with a feature that is similar to the export plug-ins in Aperture but are setup in a different way.The first step to creating a post pro export action is to find a program that you want to export to. For this example let us use the Flickr Uploadr program for Mac. You’ll find the program in the Applications folder. Once found, right click on the app. and go to the menu option that says “Make Alias” and click. You’ll notice that you now have a duplicate of the icon named “Flickr Uploadr Alias”. Now is the fun part, finding where to put this alias so it shows up in the export window of Lightroom.

You will find the export actions folder in the Lightroom folder hidden in a special place. That special place is as follows: user > library > application support > adobe > lightroom > export actions. Once you have moved the alias to this specific spot you will now notice that when you go back to Lightroom it shows up in the pop-down menu on the post pro export actions menu.Now you know how to create custom export actions in Lightroom. If you are wondering what programs work with the export actions, almost any program will work that opens an image file (photoshop, mail, camino/safari/firefox, etc.). Creating many export action alias’ will speed up your export workflow to the point of wondering how you ever worked without them!