Export to a link.

What it does

Adds “exakt” as a destination in Lightroom Classic's Export dialog. Lightroom renders your files as usual, the plugin uploads each one in parts straight to storage, verifies every byte with SHA-256, and hands you a share link. Nothing is recompressed or resized on the way.

Install

1. Download exakt-lightroom.zip and unzip it. Move the exakt.lrplugin folder somewhere it can stay, such as Documents.
2. In Lightroom Classic, open File › Plug-in Manager. Click Add, pick the exakt.lrplugin folder, and click Done.
3. On exakt.space, open Dashboard › Profile › API tokens and create a token. Copy it; it is shown once.
4. Open File › Export. At the top, change “Export To” to exakt. Paste the token in the exakt section and click Check.

Export

• Set your file settings as normal. For photos that leave Lightroom, choose sRGB. TIFF 16-bit for masters, JPEG at quality 90 to 100 for everything else.
• Give the transfer a title, or leave it blank for today's date.
• Choose “Anyone with the link” or “Private”. Private transfers appear only in your dashboard, where you can share them later with a password, invites, an expiry, or a download limit.
• Click Export. When it finishes, the link is shown and copied to your clipboard.

Troubleshooting

• “Yielding is not allowed within a C or metamethod call”: you have plugin 1.0.0. Download the zip again, replace the exakt.lrplugin folder, then in Plug-in Manager select exakt and click Reload Plug-in.
• “That token is unknown or has been revoked”: create a new token on the Profile tab and paste it again.
• “The system hashing tool failed”: the plugin uses shasum on macOS and certutil on Windows. Both ship with the operating system; check the export folder is not on a drive that blocks scripts.
• An export stopped halfway: the transfer is left unfinished in your dashboard. Delete it and export again, or finish it there.
• Lightroom (the cloud version) and Lightroom mobile have no plugin system. Export to a folder and upload from the dashboard instead.