Comments on: Adobe Lightroom 3: Beta Plugin Info

By: dan

dan — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:15:46 +0000

I think I’m doing something wrong as everyone is raving about your plug-in. I’ve not been able to get it working, nor can I get the lightroom plug-in to work. When I attempt to enable it, I’m requested to update the catalogue, I click yes…it fails and give me this: “Jeffrey’s Flickr plugin needs access to flickr.com to upgrade the catalog; please try enabling again once you have Internet access” I obviously have internet access….isn’t this that where I am now? Any tips would be much appreciated.

You probably have some kind of security app on your system that is stopping Lightroom from accessing the internet. —Jeffrey

By: Stephan

Stephan — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:25:55 +0000

First of all thanks for your great work.

I’m glad to hear that there are plans to use the new publishing feature in LR3 as this is a quite interesting feature. I hope that Adobe will be able to provide a flexible interface for complex plugins

All the best wishes from Germany,
Stephan

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:26:13 +0000

Fist of all thank you for your great plugins

i use them extensively with LR2 & LR3

what are your plans if any to make it compatible with LR3 default plugin?
I would love to be able to use yours for export as it has much more features, but to have ability to populate the uploaded images in LR Flickr catalogs

Thank you

Eugene

Other plugins won’t be “compatible” with Adobe’s example Flickr Publish plugin, they will be “competing”. Adobe’s plugin is very simple, which is great if “simple” is an important feature for you, but if features and flexability are important, people will likely want something a bit more beefy, such as my Export plugin (that you can already use in LR2 and LR3b). I’m still working with Adobe on trying to make the Publish infrastructure more flexible to allow something complex and full-featured to work in Publish as well. We’ll see. —Jeffrey

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:05:45 +0000

Hi Jeffrey,

Have you attempted an export plugin for 1x.com?

Regards,

Carlos

Have never heard of them, so I guess the answer is “no”, sorry. —Jeffrey

By: Ron Donson

Ron Donson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:11:15 +0000

Thanks, Jeffrey.

It looks like a previously deprecated class (with CatalogDo) truly no longer exists in LR 3. I’m not sure that’s a bug as much as changes to the plugin infrastructure. Oh well…. I can drop back to LR 2.5 for exports to SmugMug. Just thought I’d like you know.

By: Ron Donson

Ron Donson — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:37:32 +0000

Just an FYI…..

Davidson, NC USA

LR3 beta – got this trying to run the latest (125) plugin – works fine in LR 2.5

Plug-in error log for plug-in at: C:\Documents and Settings\Ron\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Modules\smugmug-jfriedl.lrplugin

**** Error 1

The plug-in had an internal error while opening the Export dialog.
LrCatalog:withCatalogDo was marked deprecated in Lightroom 2.0 and is not supported as of Lightroom 3.0. Use LrCatalog:withReadAccessDo instead

Yeah, that’s a LR3beta bug…. don’t think there’s anything I can do about it, though I’m not sure since I’ve never run into it myself. I wouldn’t expect much from the LR3 beta WRT plugins…. Adobe tends to give the plugin infrastructure some love after they’ve shipped a public beta… —Jeffrey

By: JW Stephenson

JW Stephenson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:41:50 +0000

As always, thank you for all your timely work.

I know it is difficult to get a full grasp on the new publish plug-in structure at this time, but will the auto galleries be able to work like the export plug-in? Specifically, if I have a “smart folder” under the SmugMug publish icon that includes all 2009 images which are in 15 folders, will I be able to specify that each images is to be placed/synched automatically with a “gallery” of same name or will I have to set up 15 collection/folders under the Publish icon? The current plug-in does this (or it used to, I have been away for a few weeks) but couldn’t figure out how to get the new plug-in to recognize the new “smart folders” and to set up auto galleries different for each smart folder. Thank you in advance for your input.

Jeff

I haven’t looked at the collection stuff in Publish at all yet, but the auto-destination stuff has been a concern because it didn’t smell as if would work. We’ll see. —Jeffrey

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:12:52 +0000

Thanks for the great work on the plug-ins. It’s really disappointing to hear that you get hate mail, but I’ve come to believe that there are just some really angry people out there who live to complain and scream (but not face to face, only through electronics).

By: Ian Fuller

Ian Fuller — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:06:37 +0000

Thanks for the update. I have finally downloaded the Beta to Bangkok on the 4th attempt. The internet is unreliable here.

I think in addition to not using LR3 Beta for production work, I will create a new Flickr account to test the Publish tool. Strange things may happen as Adobe sort out that feature.

Thanks for all your work on the plugins! I really appreciate it.

By: Aaron Hockley

Aaron Hockley — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:55:31 +0000

Thanks for the update. When I saw that LR 3 was going to include the publish features at first I was concerned that it would make your plugin obsolete… but it looks like they’re only offering some basic services and that we’ll continue to be able to take advantage of the large set of options and customizations that your plugin provides. Glad to hear you’ll continue to be improving your plugin for LR 3. Thanks!