I just installed the Flickr Upload Demo plugin for the Adobe Lightoom SDK to quickly see how the integration with Lightroom looks.  I gotta say, I’m pretty impressed.  While, I’ll admit I’m not a massive power user of Flickr, and the Flickr plugin included in the SDK is only for demo purposes (it requires you’re personal Flickr API key), it does seem to work well.

Here’s what the main dialog looks like (for those of you who haven’t installed Lightroom 1.3, the Export dialog has changed quite a bit, probably to support the SDK):

As you can see, it supports a lot of what you’d expect: The resizing of images, the managing of the Flickr account, the naming of files, the inclusion of Metadata, whether the upload should be public/private.  What looks really appealing is the ability to include metadata from Lightroom and adding other tags just for the flickr upload.

Something I’d like to see on a Flickr upload plugin, is the ability to map tags.  For example, if I have an image tagged bob_smith, I’d like to have a mapping file that changes all my bob_smith tags in Lightroom it to just Bob tags in Flickr. 

Here’s a shot of what Lightroom looks like during the image upload:

As you can see, the integration is top notch.