Comments on: Accessing Lightroom’s SQLite DB Directly http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221 Not a photo blog. A personal blog with photos. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:31:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Joanna http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221#comment-38490 Joanna Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:04:50 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221#comment-38490 How would one go about displaying/printing a report of an image's current develop settings? At my photography school, the teacher is always asking what we have done to our images since importing, and it would be nice to not have to create a develop status list by hand for each one. I'd love to hear your ideas and suggestions. Thanks in advance from Joanna in Chicago. <div class='jfriedl'><p>Post processing? <i>Moi?</i> I'm offended! :-D</p><p>All the data about modifications are stored in the XMP embedded inside exported JPGs (or, for non-DNG raw files, in the XMP sidecar created when you <b>Metadata > Save Metadata to File</b>). It's saved as cleartext embedded within the image binary, so you can actually open it up in a text viewer and find it... just don't resave the file! You can also view the JPG in something like my <a href='http://regex.info/exif' rel="nofollow">online Exif viewer</a>. Your teacher should know all this. —Jeffrey</p></div> How would one go about displaying/printing a report of an image’s current develop settings? At my photography school, the teacher is always asking what we have done to our images since importing, and it would be nice to not have to create a develop status list by hand for each one. I’d love to hear your ideas and suggestions. Thanks in advance from Joanna in Chicago.

Post processing? Moi? I’m offended! :-D

All the data about modifications are stored in the XMP embedded inside exported JPGs (or, for non-DNG raw files, in the XMP sidecar created when you Metadata > Save Metadata to File). It’s saved as cleartext embedded within the image binary, so you can actually open it up in a text viewer and find it… just don’t resave the file! You can also view the JPG in something like my online Exif viewer. Your teacher should know all this. —Jeffrey

]]> By: Rob Cole http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221#comment-38245 Rob Cole Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:45:48 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221#comment-38245 Thanks Jeffrey for publishing this info. I'm tempted to write a database app that does some useful things Adobe has not yet implemented in Lightroom. There are things one could do using a database app that would be impossible with a plugin. Rob Cole San Francisco, California, USA <span class='jfriedl'>Two words of caution, though... one is that the schema can change with each version, so take care on that, and the other is that even read-only access, if done at the wrong time, can corrupt the database, so you've really got to take care (and responsibility) if doing this. —Jeffrey</span> Thanks Jeffrey for publishing this info. I’m tempted to write a database app that does some useful things Adobe has not yet implemented in Lightroom. There are things one could do using a database app that would be impossible with a plugin.

Rob Cole
San Francisco, California, USA

Two words of caution, though… one is that the schema can change with each version, so take care on that, and the other is that even read-only access, if done at the wrong time, can corrupt the database, so you’ve really got to take care (and responsibility) if doing this. —Jeffrey

]]> By: Sam http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221#comment-2357 Sam Wed, 09 Aug 2006 22:49:32 +0000 http://regex.info/blog/2006-07-29/221#comment-2357 I'm really happy to know SQLite is actually used for something significant. I've been plenty happy with DBD::SQLite2 for the past few months, as it gives me that sort of instant database I often find I want in my apps without most of the hassles of having to deal with an "actual" database. I’m really happy to know SQLite is actually used for something significant. I’ve been plenty happy with DBD::SQLite2 for the past few months, as it gives me that sort of instant database I often find I want in my apps without most of the hassles of having to deal with an “actual” database.

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