The export plugins for Lightroom 1.3 that I mentioned here and here have now been released:
Unfortunately, I came down with a cold yesterday and I got word that I could release these just an hour before heading off to the doctor (I leave in 15 minutes), so I may have screwed up something in my rush to get these links out. We'll see.
In any case, expect a lot of version churn at the beginning, as bugs are flushed out...
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Wow, sorry about the cold. Get well soon.
Great news about plugin release.
Mel
Thanks a lot Jeffrey! I installed the Zenfolio plugin a few minutes ago and immediately uploaded a gallery to my Zenfolio account. Did not need to read the instructions or anything. - it just worked!
Great work, Jeff! As Michael sair, downloaded, unzipped, exported flawlessly. All in about, Oh, 3 minutes.
If this is how you work with a call, can’t wait for you to feel better!
Dave
Thank you very much for your efforts. I am about to test it as there has been a big disconnect between Lightroom and Flickr. I like Lightroom but have some scratching my head moments in it as there are still many things missing important to photographers just a nice image fame with text without workarounds would be nice and should have been in 1.1 at the latest. Another good head scratcher is why it is named Photoshop as well but you cannot get it packaged with Photoshop. It has nothing that I can tell in common with Photoshop other than the same company developed it. Must be an Adobe marketing thing to latch on the brandname recognition. I thought for sure I would be able to purchase in one of the too many Adobe product suites.
Thank You
Fabulous plugins!
I took a look at the LUA source code for your modules… whew!
Almost as bad as the Klingon based web gallery templates in Lightroom.
dear Jeffrey,
I like your plugin very much, but I am keeping getting this error message when I am uploading to Flickr:
“An internal error has occurred: Win32 API error (unknown error — FormatMessageW failed) when calling HttpSendRequest from private_AgHttpClient_post_L”
I tried lots of modifications, without any exception.
I am using your Flickr exporter and it works great, but what does it do with the local copy of the resized image? I would have thought it would use the same instructions in the original Lightroom Export code which allows you to choose the Export Location. This code seems to be missing in the Flickr Exporter…
Did you get the version I posted recently (20071125.5), which has the new “Save to Local Disk” section?
It don’t use the standard “Export Location” dialog section because then you’d have to select the location even when not wishing to save a local copy. I’d think that most people would not want a local copy, so it made sense for me to replicate it in a way what those who don’t want it can just ignore it. —Jeffrey
Hi,
It seems that you have worked out quite a few Lightroom Plugins. Any considerations to create a plugin for Picasaweb?
I hadn’t thought to, but could do it if there’s enough interest. Does anyone actually use Picasa? —Jeffrey
Regards,
/KPa
Jeffrey
First off, Thank you! I know this is a lot of work.
I am getting the same error as springtian reported, but with regards to loading to Zenfolio. Occurs whether or not I select 1 or multiple images. The first image is uploadeded successfully, though. It does take ~30 seconds (guess) to see it online in Zenfolio once the error does occur.
Thanks - John
Hi,
As for the question, “does anyone actually use Picasa” I have to admit that I have found it rather usefull for uploading few photos that I wish to share with remote friends. As such, I do not use Picasa (the organising tool) but Picasaweb to be exact.
But maybe mix of using Lightroom for organising and developing photos and then “publishing” them in Picasa is not that common? Maybe that’s signal for me to start using “real” web gallery
Regards,
/KPa
Hi Jeffery,
Just wanted to say thanks for this excellent plugin. It’s something I always wished for since using LR. I guess Christmas came early
. I’ve used Picasaweb in the past. It’s quite nice and in some ways better than Flickr. I’d still be using Picasa if Yahoo didn’t give me a free pro Flickr account since they trashed their own Photo site.
Another thought — I happen to use Costco Photo for printing. Any considerations for a plugin to major photo printing service? Costco actually uses Snapfish.
Regards,
-Wes
I’m using Picasaweb quite a lot - and it’s the only reason why I’m still using Picasa for managing my photos. As soon as there is an good working export plugin for LR, I’ll switch.
And I know some more people who would do the same. And I saw quite a lot of “is there a Picasaweb export plugin anywhere?”-posts in some forums when I searched. So, please … 
I seem to be the only one, but I downloaded the plug-in, I see it in Finder, but when I perform your suggested test on an export, I don’t have the SmugMug option — only the original “Export to Disk”.
Just to say a big “thank you”. I have both Smugmug and Zenfolio accounts and both plugins worked perfectly!
I get the same error as “Springtian” but not with Flickr but with zenfolio.
“An internal error has occurred: Win32 API error (unknown error — FormatMessageW failed) when calling HttpSendRequest from private_AgHttpClient_post_L”
When I have multiple photo’s selected for export this error occures after the first one is uploaded (the first photo of the batch is uploaded to zenfolio since I can view it but the others are not uploaded). maybe this helps find the problem.
Add me to the list of people who would love a Picasa export plugin. Picasaweb is my preferred host for all my remote sharing, mostly because they make it more painless than anyone else. I have a Flickr account, but never use it. I guess I’m a sucker for almost anything Google gets their hands on =)
I’ve just written and an export plugin for Picasa Web, and I’ve got to say that the complexity-to-functionality ratio of doing so was vastly higher this time than with the other services. And in a race among all these services to have spotty, incorrect, or generally lacking documentation for their APIs, Google won hands down. (Zenfolio’s was by far the best.) On the plus side, someone from Google responded very quickly when I posted a question to the API discussion group. In any case, it seems to work, so I released it, so give it a try… —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
I’m using your flickr plugin and first let me say, thanks a lot! 2 things I’ve noticed though:
1. The resize image doesn’t seem to work. I resize my ‘long edge’ to 1600 and my images are coming through at their original size.
2. It’s very slow. Previously, I was exporting to disk and using the ‘After Export’ option to run the flickr uploader. This is far, far quicker than exporting via your plugin. Any ideas? I’ve got a good machine with 4Gb RAM and I’m running lightroom 1.3.1 on Leopard if that’s any use. My upload link is pretty decent as well, 1.3Mbits/sec. Like I say, the official uploader is plenty fast so I don’t think it’s anything on my end. Are there any debug files I can take a look at?
thanks again for all your effort, it’s much appreciated.
cheers,
Matt
One more vote for Picasaweb export plugin, please
Cheers,
Øystein
Okay, okay, I’ve started working on it. I’m out for the weekend, but hopefully I’ll have something by mid next week…. —Jeffrey
Here it is
one more vote for fotocommunity
I’m delighted to hear that Picasa export plugin may be on it’s way
Real “dream to come true” would be possibility to add command line tool execution to it as at the moment only way to good quality web export is (for me) to use ImageMagic (resize + USM sharpening) as Lighroom resize (down scaling) results to artefacts, and there is no export sharpening (and I do not own Photoshop CS).
But anynow big thanks (even in advance) for Picasa plugin.
Regards,
/KPa
Jeffery,
Thank you so much! This is just what I was looking for. I usually us Phanfare to display my photos but they are changing their business model and the site is changing its focus leaving pro users like myself out of luck. However, you may want to consider their site for an uploading plug in.
Again, great work.
Thanks,
Jay
Thanks for creating the Flickr uploader. Unfortunately it only works about 50% of the time for me, especially when I select multiple photos. I keep getting the http errors. If it would it help you to have the logs, just drop me email and I’ll send them.
Thanks again.
Happy Holidays,
Stew
Just downloaded the plugin for Lightroom (1.3) and it works great going to Flickr - thanks!!
Jeff, you rock!! This is exactly what I have been wanting for a long time. The Uploader from Smugmug is good, but I have been dying for a way to export to Smugmug WITHOUT having to export a copy of the image to my hard drive first. After all, isn’t that the whole purpose of Lightroom?? To not have to have redundant copies of your photos all over the place?? (And of course, if I still want to export that copy, your plug-in allows me to do so.)
Now if Adobe will just improve how LR handles JPEGs, I will be set!
Can I put a bug in your ear for a Fotki export plugin? Great work on the others. I use the Flickr export all the time and love it.
Hi Jeffrey,
I’m dying to put the smugpug LR plug-in to use, but for some reason, the export function fails to see my existing galleries on Smugmug, and will not allow me to create new ones. The ‘Export’ button remains dimmed out and I can’t export anything . . . I must be doing something wrong, but cannot figure it out. Any help would be appreciated.
Thx,
Robert
Hi Jeffrey,
Thanks for the great work. I just wanted to add to the Fotki request. You just can’t beat $.09 prints and unlimited storage.
thank you Jeffrey
+1 on the Fotki request here as well. Pretty please with a cherry on top
Hi,
I am very excited about this as well, but I have been getting the same error as a few of the others. If I try to upload multiple images the first uploads and the rest fail. I am on a Powerbook and going from Lightroom to Zenfolio. Any ideas on what to try/change to get it to work?
Thanks,
Nice post, I love this blog
Hi Jeffrey,
I need help BADLY. I am a GREEN person - not an energy saving type - in knowledge about the use of downloads. Yesterday I downloaded Jeff’s Flickr dodad, found it on my hard drive in a subfolder of Lightroom1.3.1, tried to bring it into lightroom with no success. Flickr in Lightroom is greyed out. Somehow I redownloaded Lightroom 1.3.1 and could no longer open up Lightroom - error message ” see further instructions for missing…”. Panic set in. I wnt to Adobe web site and saw that there was a Lightroom 1.4.1 available for download. Did it and was able to open Lightroom - all seams to be O.K. However, I still have greyed out Flickr. The download is still on my harddrive along with Lightroom 1.1, 1.3.1 and 1.4.1 - as far as I am concerned, all garbage - I thought that when one dowloads a revision the old version is replaced - not so with Adobe. IF SOMEONE CAN HELP ME I would be most appreciative. I need hand holding and a detailed walk through.
I would like to Export from the Lightroom Library module directly to my Flickr pro- account, after any adjustments have been made - in a small size, without having to send to a spot on my hard drive - which I later can not readily find.
THANKS in advance to whomever can help me. NOTE: I am going to place this site in my favorites and also set up an RSS - wish me luck.
Have you looked into creating an export to Kodak EasyGallary? This is built into Adobe’s Bridge and I really miss it in Lightroom.
Hi,
Thanks for the Picasa plug in for Lightroom. Is there any possibility that you could create a plug in for uploading to Costco’s site for photo printing