I thoroughly enjoyed the first edition; I thought it read like an interesting novel! I have just ordered the 2nd edition now that I’m using PERL again (parsing logs for a company which supplies telephone directory info in Manhattan).

I was interested to see that you are from Rootstown Ohio…I can’t imagine that there are a great number of people who know anything about Rootstown. I grew up in Garrettsville and had some relatives in Rootstown…spent many happy holidays there.

Regards, Barry

Greetings from your long lost cousins! Michele, Philip and Melisa…Uncle Lee and Aunt Estelle. We googled you and were pleasantly surprised that we could actually write to you! The website is great!

Happy Thanksgiving! Warm wished to you and your family.

The Friedls

hi jeffrey,

was just thinking of you and was fun to read your blog to get caught up. hi to fumie and anthony. miss you guys.

katie

Every few years, I try to re-learn regular expressions and I get up one or two more levels on the learning curve. This summer I spent a few days reading your 2nd edition of Regular Expressions and really love the book.

But I came across a really dumb problem that I can’t figure out:

I’m using Microsoft’s .NET regular expressions which I thought acted as “greedy” match machine. But I’m having a problem understanding how Regex.Match interprets an extremely trivial match problem.

If I’m searching the string “ban” with the pattern b*, the matched string is b as one would expect. But if I change the pattern to a*, there is no match.

Now I would have thought that since .NET Regex is supposed to do a greedy match it would match the first ‘a’ in ban. The only way I can explain the behavior is that the match engine sees the first ‘b’ and says “this is a match because the pattern says match zero or more a’s”. Since zero is a match it returns zero matches.

But if my interpretation is correct, why does the pattern ba* return ba as the match and not just b?

Thanks for any help you might have time to offer.

P.S. I’m also from San Diego, too 🙂

Hi!

Great blog, especially the camera orientated stuff!

I am a programmer myself since 25 years or so ago and have touched on regular expressions once or twice in that time 🙂

I live and work in the UK and spend most of my time writing Flex apps for an american company. Will be in Tokyo on a trip in February and will be toting my D200 . Any tips on what to go see/photograph while there? (assuming you have been there/done that etc)

I am reading your book (2/e) and it is one of the best I have read. I write code for a telephone company, so it could prove useful. Thanx for writing such a good book, I don’t think it is such a “pain” writing good books.

I think the photos you’ve shared are wonderful. The colours of Japan are stunning. A very clean look about your photos (as wellas those of Shimada san). Like someone else has commented, I don’t think your camera was backfocussing. You really can’t tell that easily. At 10 megapixels, the sensor could be “off” by a few hundredths of a millimetre…!

Should you take Japanese politicians seriously? I’m Indian, and we’re used to worse morons and at higher posts…

I wish you all the best. Good to know the tribe of good rechnical writers is still alive. It is a dying art.

Nice Site. I got here while searching for info on NEF compression. I left a comment on your analysis page.

On another note. Will you be giving updates on Sakura and other bloomings? I will be in the Osaka area from March 19 to 29. Hope to catch some early blooms. I really like photographing Japan (this will be my third trip).

ps. I think I recall using your book on Regular Expressions way back when I worked on Unix systems!

Bill

Hmm, I was a reviewer for the 1st edition. Didn’t know about this blog, but will have to subscribe.

Found via “what the duck.”

I have no idea where I first found your site but I have been a dedicated visitor for some time now. I see the adventures of Anthony and the rest of your friends and family through my rss reader so you never see me. That’s why I thought I’d just stop here and let you know I’m stalking. Plus thank you. I love seeing your beautiful pictures of Japan. And, while I am nowhere near being a ‘kid’ person, I cannot get enough of Anthony’s expressive face and wonderful adventures.

Susan Dennis
Seattle, WA

Hello Jeffery,

I saw your name pop up in a google search once or twice and finally followed the link. I’m always a little curious about others with the our last name.

I’m also a programmer from way back. I read and appreciate your books.

Robert

Hi Jeffrey: I hope we can see a chapter on Apache URL rewrite with regular expression in Fourth version of “Mastering Regular Expression”

Thanks.

Che Dong
http://www.chedong.com/blog/archives/001379.html

Hi Jeffrey,

It has been a while we have not been in touch. How is life in Kyoto? I am not sure whether you know, but I am working once again for Panasonic (different division). This time is much better since they allowed me to work from home here in Bellevue, WA. If you ever come to Seattle or Vancouver, please let me know.

Matsunaka-san? That’s cool. Is this just Tsuushoumei or have you became a citizen?

You can take a look at our youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/bianconilo , it has some recent videos of my family.

Keep in touch,

Claude Huss Bianconi

I happened upon your site via Lightroom News as I wanted to try out the uploader to my Smugmug account. Needless to say I was shocked to see you too are living in Kyoto. I’ve been here in Kyoto for about 11 years. If you’d like to meet for a beer and talk about photography feel free to email me.
Chris

Hi there,

Enjoying what you have done here.

I am currently trying to work with the metadata in Lightroom so that I can add text to one field, and in another, the french equivalent shows up. i.e put people in the caption field, and I would like personnell to show up in location automatically, like in keywords when you have a loaded language, and type in the first three letters and the rest of the word shows up.

This is for a database that we designed using IPTC core field.

If you can point me in the right direction for this that would be great.

Best,

Colin Rowe

Hello there, I have been looking through your Lightroom related work. I’m impressed! Have you thought about doing a geotagging plugin for Lightroom? Select a few photos, point the plugin at a log, and bingo!

That indeed would be very nice, but I don’t know of a way to do it with the current API. Until Lightroom allows for it, the best I can recommend is something like this. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey.
I like to congratulate you on a very entertaining Blog.
I noticed that you have not posted any photos taken with your Nikon 70-200 2.8 VR for a long while. Did you ever encounter any issues with the lens; like connectivity with the camera and times when the focusing just stop working? I have not experienced the issues myself, but I am interested in the lens, and there are many people writing about there upset on the Net.
Thanking you in advance.
Alex

Well, I wouldn’t call 8 days ago a “long while”, but my 70-200 is fine. I did experience D200 Dead Battery Syndrome in the summer, which may (or may not) have been related to the lens. I dunno. It’s been fine since that one episode. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

I bought a second hand Nikon D200 not so long ago and I find it a very nice camera. Shooting in RAW (NEF) and using Adobe Lightroom I found that there is a difference in color between my NEF file and the (preview) JPEG. On the net their is a lot of discussion about this subject but none gives me a satisfying answer. In my quest to find an answer I came to your website.
Have you experienced this phenomena? And if yes how do you handle it? I have tried several presets in Lightroom but I think it is better to develop my own preset. Can you advice me with a solid workflow?

Kind regards,
Joost

Hello Jeffrey,

I just spent an hour reading and enjoying your blog (originally came because – or thanks – of the LR tool for SmugMug) and I felt the need to thank you and say hello 🙂

First of all, I am a Nikon user (and LightRoom), I love Kyoto (and Japan in general) and I had the chance to be there a month ago, working for a Japanese company.

Thank you for your tutorials on the 70-200 mm, are you satisfied wth it (after the revision has been done)? And thanks for all your pictures of Japan and Kyoto.

Here are two pictures I took there (you can see them in big on my flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/yes-pictures):

Flying Zen —

Golden Temple

Also, I tried to check your book and I wanted to let you know that the link to the french version (being french myself) is broken. I hope the links to my pictures will work 😉

I now live in the Netherlands, so if you come some day to Amsterdam, let me now and I can show you some nice location to shoot!

Thank you for all your efforts and for sharing your knowledge
Greetings to your wife and to Anthony, and speak to you soon!

Best regards,
Emilien

I enjoy your blog (although I’m on record as wishing you’d write more technical articles instead), and every one in a while I think one of your pictures is great.

Like this one:

http://regex.info/i/JEF_055717.jpg

–Marc

Hi Jeffrey,

I don’t mean for this blog to be posted regularly, but I’m looking for a photo-based blog template and yours is truly the best I’ve ever seen. Did you use a template for yours? A theme? IS there any way I can produce a similar yes customized version of this site. My site tackles the business-making of poor schools. Images of these kids and their schools would make a visually stronger impact than just being text based. You may email me back.

thanks

-K

Dear Jeffrey:

I’m the Chinese-translator of Mastering Regular Expression(3rd). Yesterday, I received an email, in which one reader told me that there’s a mistake regular expression in MRE(3rd).
It’s on Page 378, line 6:
String regex = “(?x) ^(https?):// ([^/:]+) (?:(\\ d+))?”;
Looking at the code below, we found that group 3 is intend to capture the port number(if exists). But, if port number do appear, it must follow an “:”. However, (?:…) is an non-capture parentheses, there is no part to match the colon in url text.
In my opinion, this line should be :
String regex = “(?x) ^(https?):// ([^/:]+) (?::(\\ d+))?”;
Is it right?

Yikes, yes, you’re right. I got the same expression correct in chapters 5 and 10, but this one in 8 somehow slipped by. Thanks! —Jeffrey

HI!
I just found your blog in search for Kyoto snow photos. My husband and I have visited many times and are planning a month-long trip this coming February. In fact, I’ve been reading the “About you” section and screaming across the house to my programmer husband all the things you two have in common. And although he has most of the O’riely books, he’s going out to purchase your today! The one thing we have to tell you…You’re living the dream! We always talk about moving to Kyoto, but never do…You’re lucky! Maybe we’ll see you on the streets of Kyoto with your camera!
Best wishes,
Garin (and Garo!)

Jeffrey, your art is amazing!!! Your photography just blows me away as well as your writings.
I found you when looking for a tool to strip out MetaData and then found your blog.
You have a lovely family as well.

Wishing you nothing but joy.
Tom

Well, last we chatted you were getting ready for the move and it’s been a flurry of activity since we got back from Japan after finishing my Mansfield Fellowship. Dropped you a line to the old address and then stumbled over the blog and wow! your son’s quite a fantastic photographer.. 🙂

Will catch up later again later.. quick note for the beautiful fall Kyoto reminders..

Hello Jeffrey,
I’m using your plugin’s for lightroom and I’m so happy with it that I wonder if there is any way to get in touch with you? I wonder if you would develop a custom plugin which would be very simple?
It would be great if you could get in touch with me, I really would like to discuss this with you.

Thanks, and Merry Christmas

Hi Jeffrey,
I found your blog thanks to your Flickr and GPS plugins for LR. I use the Flickr plugin regularly, and the GPS plugin when I forgot to geotag the RAW files before importing into LR. Both plugins are really convenient and helpful. I appreciate very much your effort and time.
I also like your blog, and especially I enjoy looking at your photos. Great pictures, and sometimes I get natsukashii (how you say that in English?) remembering the almost three years I spent in Japan between 1989 and 1993.

Cheers, Fabian

Hello Jeffrey.

I will be very brief in asking for some advice. Im using Lightroom 2, I have no trouble editing photo’s and love Lightroom. The problem comes when I export the photo’s, the resulting image looks nothing like it does inside of Lightroom, the colour / contrast are all washed out. I’m sure it is something I am doing wrong, just wondering if you know of any quick fixes.

Thank you in advance for your time

Gary Hoy

You’re probably exporting in the ProPhotoRGB or AdobeRGB color space, but viewing the image with software that doesn’t understand it. The quick fix is likely to select the sRGB Color Space in the export dialog’s File Settings section. The better solution is to read this primer on digital-image color spaces. —Jeffrey

Hi,

I’m in Boston, where spring is almost here! I installed your Lightroom plug-in for Smugmug, and it worked well, with one exception…. I was hoping the photos would show up in the order they were kept in the file in Lightroom. When I checked the gallery in Smugmug, most of the uploaded photos remained in correct order, but some were just randomly scattered about. Is there a way to fix this or re-upload without having to rearrange photos one-by-one? Thanks,

Jay

I don’t know what they do about sorting… I don’t believe I have the plugin do anything one way or the other. —Jeffrey

Thanks for developing such an awesome plug for Flickr. I use it for personal use and it works great. Just registered today!

Hi! I’m from Argentina, but living in the US for the last 5 years, I love your blog, it is really cool, and a lot of information to learn from, and your export plugins are great.

I like very much the how you publish your photos in your blog, with the information of the picture, and the thumbnails with that little timeline. Are you using any available software to do this that I can also use? Or is a personal tool you wrote? Is the hosting of this blog personal or is a free blog hosting?

Thaks, and I really appreciate all the information you make public here.

Victor Wolansly

It’s all personal, cobbled together over time. Thanks for your kind words. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I am very much impressed by your versatility and by your photos. I went through most of your shots and I keep wondering why my results with Nikon D700+24-70 mm f2.8 combo is not even going anywhere distantly close to what you are getting. Of course I am not trying to equal me with you and I understand that having similar gear doesnt necessarily mean the same results. I also understand that results cannot come just by depending on auto program options. I tried the similar settings that you used but the pictures are not coming anywhere distantly near to yours. Do you think the sample variation of the gear could be problem. I could send you some pictures of mine if you are willing to help me find out what could be the problem with them. thanks a ton for your response.
BTW, I live in Yokohama and I lived in Kyoto for 2 years before moving here. I was at Kyoto University as postdoc.

Cheers, Prabhakar

Hello again Jeffery,

Just wanted to say that I use your plugins daily and would likely not be using lightroom if it werent for many of the functions you add. I was a Imatch user with considerable investment in add-on code, etc in that product prior to jumping ship.

Question:
Lightroom seems a bit limited with the export to file dialog box stuff. It allows you to select only a single folder, and no way to dynamically insert a folder name (at least not that I can find)

I find myself repeating steps and making mistakes frequently because of this.
I would like to be able to export using tokens as part of the folder name.
Basically, enable the same functions for folder name that are available for filename.

A common task is exporting images into folders named by their Title, Customer Name, Group Name, color tag, etc.
When I submit images (on a thumb drive) for printing at an outside lab, I have to separate the files into folders that indicate the size of the image to be printed. This would simplify that greatly as well. Instead of doing 5 exports serially, waiting for each to complete, one export could be done to the respective folders.

Can you think of a way to do this? or offer an estimate of cost to develop this?
I’m sure it would be a very desireable add-on.

Thanks for your ongoing help.

Ross

I’ve got to say that this is the first I’ve heard of this kind of workflow, so I’m not surprised that there’s not an easy solution, but it’d likely be easy enough to build into a plugn to do much of what you want. Perhaps it’d make sense for it to be part of Tim Armes’ LR2/TreeExporter… —Jeffrey

The zenfolio export isn’t including the exif information. I want to share this information with photographers with whom I shoot . I shoot RAW (NEF) and then export to zenfolio as jpeg. How do I get exif information to be included with the exported images?

Check that “Minimize” is not clicked, in the “Metadata” section of the Export Dialog. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey.

I live in Norway but travel around the world as a service tech working on propellers. I get to see a lot of airports… but sometimes I’m lucky and have a day off or two. (If I’m even more lucky I bothered to pack my D80 before I left).

I would like to say thanks for both the flickr and facebook plugin for lightroom and I use the all the time. I was wondering if you have gotten any requests about a export to DeviantArt plugin. I use this site together with Flickr to show off any pictures but I tend to not bother because of the difficult importing from DeviantArt.

Anyway, thanx for your good work.

Marius.

I’ve gotten a lot of requests, but they have no API and apparently no interest in creating one. Someone commented recently that they allow FTP uploads, so I may try to go that route, but I hesitate because it’s highly insecure… uploading over insecure FTP while using WiFi allows anyone in the area to skim your credentials. —Jeffrey

Jeff,
Marius is very right, I tend not upload a lot to deviantart due to the arduous nature of the upload process. I use deviantArt to showcase my post-processed images.

Andrew

Hi there, as if you don’t have enough requests! You seem to be the most qualifies for this one of people that I’ve found on the Internet. It also seems that you have tackled the issues that would be needed for this to work, but….
Wondering about a plugin for lightroom that allows metadata to be written to multiple images using tokens, similar to photomechanic, ImageIngsterPro etc. For example I always place the image’s filename into the Title field. In Photomechanic i would use a token, {filename}. Do you catch my drift?

I don’t know of a general way to do that (and I don’t think it’s possible to write a plugin that does it), but FWIW my upload plugins can generally handle it during export (when writing the title and/or description on the uploaded-to-site). Another thing that might help is Tim Armes’ LR/Transporter plugin. —Jeffrey

I’ve been using your Lightroom plugins for a couple years now and just today realized you are the Jeffrey Friedl who wrote Mastering Regular Expressions. I think I bought the first edition nearly a decade ago. Small world! Thanks for both the book and the plugins.

Hello Jeffrey,

Let me tell what I know about the Kleene memorandum 1951. You might be interested in it. If you’ve known already, just ignore this comment.

In 2008, RAND corporation opened a technical memorandum dated back in 1951, authored by S. C. Kleene. It was entitled same as his famous 1956 paper, “Representation of Events in Nerve Nets and Finite Automata”.
http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM704/

If you google the title, you would find it.
You may know that it is mentioned in the first footnote in the 1956 paper.

The accessible version of the memorandum is given in unsearchable pdf format with an
scanning flaw at Page 22. After painful minutes of “eyeball grep’ing”, I concluded that Kleene had never used the term “regular expression” in this memorandum, at least except for the missing page. He only used such words that match this regex,
/(express|notati)ons? for regular events/i

I’m not good at reading English, so I’ve not completed precise review of the memorandum. (I’ll order a copy)

I don’t know why Kleene hesitated to coin the new word as of 1951.

Sorry for horrible English. Hope you got some delight.

Wataru Satoh, BA
Chiba, Japan

Very interesting, thank you for the link. I notice at the bottom of page 51 he refers to the table of nomenclatures as ways to express regular events, so perhaps that’s it. Can you imagine producing that paper? Leaving holes while typing so that you can return later to fill in esoteric operator symbols? It’d be easier to just carve it in stone! —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, thank you for your wonderful LR plugins! This is a question about the “Geoencoding Support” plugin … Where is the shadow data actually stored? I want to make sure that I’m backing it up along with LR’s database. TIA – Rick

Plugin per-photo metadata like the shadow gps data is stored in each LR catalog. Overall plugin options are stored in the LR preferences file. —Jeffrey

I noticed your regex book made #18 in the “Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books, Ever” list:
http://knol.google.com/k/jurgen-appelo/top-100-best-software-engineering-books/z7e4mx2g6lir/3#

Jurgen Appelo, who compiled the list, wrote this in regard your book:
I would like to mention that I had a tough time deciding whether or not Mastering Regular Expressions (#18), by Jeffrey Friedl, actually belonged on the Top 100 list. I told you before that the list is about software engineering topics, and not about specific technologies. However, the book simply kept popping up in numerous searches and references. And I considered that regular expressions are actually not a technology but an (interpreted or compiled) technique or notation, just like UML, and useful for any software engineer, regardless of the type of application. So I relented, and Jeffrey got his #18 slot on the list.

In my mind, this indicates a recognition that the regex (and pattern matching) is acknowledged to be a very useful DSL and you wrote the book! I consider myself an evangelist for regex and I’m always surprised how ignorant many developers are of them.

Hi!
Is it impossible tp modify the EXIF data so as to place GPS data? I shot attached to a GPS at the start of a shooting but then disconnected the GPS (too ackward) and took many more without the GPS but all in about the same location…

Seems to me a low level program should be able to modify the EXIF or is there some additional protection of the raw file?

Thanks,
Juan

Exiftool will write the Exif data of many raw file formats, if you really want to. —Jeffrey

hello.. i just came to your site by accident because i was doing a research on japanese home. i really love most of the fine works of japanese… and decided to make it as my inspiration in making my little farm home. i do love your works… it has inspired me to work more on the japanese style of living…which is for me in one word simple. thank you also for showing me little glimpse of japan. me and my brother also love photography… we are amatures though… but just wanted to tell you how much your pictures of the simple pleasures life made an impact both to me and my brother. i aspire to look into your eyes someday in making such wonderful works of art. thank you… and keep on inspiring more people through your works… God bless.

Loved your book “Mastering Regular Expressions” and used it as the reference for a few projects I worked on over the years. Your photography is fantastic – I’m wanting to take the family to Japan now.

Hello Jeff, when is the fourth edition of your book coming out?

No plans for another edition at the moment. —Jeffrey

I installed the facebook plugin and now when I export and work in photoshop I can’t save as a jpg. Any idea what is wrong or how to fix it?

I don’t know what’s wrong, but am sure it has nothing to do with Lightroom or any Lightroom plugin. —Jeffrey

hey mate!

great stuff. im just using the Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer and there is an insane amount of data there! fantastic. i referenced a raw file from my 1dMKIV but cant seem to find the shutter actuation count. Can you help?

thanks in advance

d

It’s not a standard field… it’d be in the MakerNotes section if it’s there at all. It might not be, I dunno’. Send me a 1dMKIV and I’ll check 😉 —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, from Houston, TX. I use your Lightroom plugin for Zenfolio. I also use Mpix frequently for printing. Would love an Mpix uploader.

Thanks for your great work.

Love your stuff, gave some for the old Zenfolio export plugin. Any idea when the new one will be out of beta? I’m wanting to try this publish stuff and I’m also hoping it will be soon so I’ll feel ok about it being in my ‘production’ catalog.

Hint follows…. :o)

How cool it would be to have your PhotoSafe plugin functionality build in to the publish plugins? I would love to lock down what I put online.

Thanks for all your work,
James

You can create a PhotoSafe smart collection that identifies all photos uploaded to a particular service, so the functionality is already there. No ETA on Zenfolio, sorry, I’m just completely snowed under. I hope soon. —Jeffrey

From Wisconsin

Is it possible to export from iPhoto to Lightroom?

OR

Will Lightroom import an iPhoto library?

Thanks.

I can’t imagine why you’re asking me about this, or asking me on this page, but as far as I know, no. But I don’t know… I don’t know anything about iPhoto. —Jeffrey

hi Jeffrey — love the Smugmug pluging for lightroom. but..

with regard to that “upload error”, i’ve discovered a direct correlation between images that are too big for Smugmug (most accounts have a 12Mb limit) and the upload error. there’s a log file that is generated at smugmug and is visible on the site (but not easily reached).

the logfile is at http://www.smugmug.com/homepage/uploadlog.mg?UserID=%5Bwhatever%5D

here’s a typical entry for a LR-smugmug crash:
Info: upload ‘> 12MB – resizing’ using PUT to http://upload.smugmug.com/image.jpg with adobe-lightroom-export-plugin/20100702.165 (jfriedl@yahoo.com) from 76.115.228.25 in /var/www/bzr/SmugMug/live/include/mgphotos.mgi on line 3777 Info:

intuitive? not much. but it does have a yellow triangle bang indicating an error.

i didn’t start having this issue until i began doing some HDR work and other image customizations within LR and PS. once i discovered my images were sometimes way over 12Mb i started doing simple things like converting to 8bit after color processing, resizing for export, etc.

i think maybe the reason folks are having issues is that smugmug might not have been enforcing that 12Mb limit until recently. and more to the point, there is no way to tell (as far as I know) how big the image is that you’re creating via the export and uploading to smugmug. those of us who work with RAW files and use the export function directly to a hosting site are blissfully ignorant of size limits. the only workaround that I have is to eschew your uploader, export to disk, review file sizes, then upload from the folder to smugmug. that’s a PIA workflow.

anyway. hope this helps someone.

regards,
PL

SmugMug is supposed to be quietly resizing oversized images, but since Feb 2009 has had sporadic errors such that instead of resizing, the connection times out, or returns various errors (“wrong_format” being fairly common). So you’re probably running into some form of that bug. You can still get these kinds of errors from SmugMug even if the image is within size, but it’s much more likely to succeed if it’s within size, so that’s a first good start: ensure you’re within size before uploading. Lr3 has an option to try to keep the file under a certain size. In Lr2 or Lr3, you can use Lr/Mogrify to ensure a certain size. —Jeffrey

Do you think you would be able to come up with a plugin that would allow the Nikon D40 to be tethered to lightoom 3. I shoot with a D40 and that camera is not supported. Thanks in advance for your help.

Sorry, no, if it were easy I’m sure Adobe would have done it. Even D200 support is partial. —Jeffrey

I chanced upon your site when searching for some equipment review. Nice reading of your stuff. thanks.

Hey there!

I came to your website by accident when I was searching a new wallpaper for my screen. It’s really interesting to see how many people come here though they searched different things. It’s fabolous.

I just wanted to say that I think you’ve got a really great sense for photographs and that I enjoy to see every single one of them. The pictures of your son are cute and he seems to be a boy who’s really interested in everything. That’s such a good and important quality and I hope he continues to have it until he grows old.

Well, however. I got to say, I’ve never really read your book and also ain’t a fan of lightroom (but my uncle is, he’s, like, a lightroom freak) but the fact that you make so great pictures it seems like they’re connecting people is great!
Just wanted to tell you, actually 🙂 Someday, when I finally have the money (coughs~) I’ll go there as well and make such photos… Somedayyy~ hehe

Have a nice day!

Best regards,

Tanja

Hi Jeffrey,

How are you?… first of all, I would like to thank you for the massive efforts that you’ve done in order for us, the end users, to have an easy life uploading our photos to various online photo gallery such as facebook, picasa and facebook( which I all use using your plugins) from Lightroom.

I hope it’s not too much to ask but do you have a plan to make an upload plugin for PIXELPOST 1.7.3?… http://www.pixelpost.org — there is an existing one but it is not compatible to the newly released LR3. There are many comments about the request to update this plugin but I just learn today that most of the coders/developers of the said software has gone cold.

I’m one of the many users for this particular photoblogging software and the amount of time requires to manually upload, title, tags, categorised each photo is just shocking. When I learn about the problem with the developers I thought of you straight away and said I might have a go in contacting you.

So yeah…. thank you for reading my request and hope to hear from you.

With kind regards,

Larry

I’m feeling so overwhelmed just trying to read the mail I get about my current plugins (not to mention actually responding) that I can’t possibly imagine doing another uploader. I’ve way overextended myself as it is. Sorry. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,
As quite an avid reader, i’ve always wanted to comment on your blog and have finally forced myself to – so here goes =)
I’m a high-school student in Twickenham, London and have been studying Japanese for about a year and a half now, more or less. I stumbled across your blog when looking for inspiration – i find loosing myself in other people’s experiences of Japan helps refuel my own longing to go there and lifts me from the deep chasm of despair that is Kanji learning.
I’ve got to say, finding your blog has been one of the greatest discoveries in my life. Not only are you a highly talented photographer but you offer such brilliant and superbly readable posts and descriptions. It’s so strange being on the other side of the world from someone I feel, if i may say so, i have come to know quite well. I was just pondering that when i realised that you didn’t actually know i actually existed – hence the clumsily written comment.
But anyway, now that i’ve finally written to you (and dare not look over what has been said for fear of severe embarrassment) I hope you and your family are well and that you whole-heartedly enjoy being back home in Kyoto again.
All the best,
Rosie

Thanks for your kind words, Rosie. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,
It’s always such a pleasure reading your blog. Mimi and I are back in Cupertino (with two boys)! Please ping me if you’re ever back in the SF Bay area. We miss you and your family very much. All the best, Rick

Hi. I use your Exif Viewer a lot and it extracts thumbnails and some of the times you can see the image in the thumbnail before it has been edited in photoshop. Is there any way to extract the thumbnail image in a larger size or revert the image back to its original?

The tool displays any information I can find, so what you see is exactly what you get (though be sure to hit the [1:1] button by an image to see it at its actual size). —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I am a fan of your web based EXIF Viewer and wondered whether you have considered the possibility of adding some functionality to generate a histogram(s) of jpg image data?

I’m a moderator on a photography forum and rather than be endlessly downloading people’s pics to check, in an Image editor, whether they have good contrast and their black and white points are correct, I thought (selfishly), that would be a handy thing to have available ONLINE somewhere – except no-one seems to offer it. Since it requires a math based solution, it might be something you either knew of, or had/might consider?

Many thanks

I was feeling productive, so I just went ahead and added it (as of Jan 6, 2011). Hope it’s helpful. —Jeffrey

Thanks Jeffrey, that’s going to be very useful – took me a while to spot the words under the pictures – but not a problem now I know where it is.

Many, many thanks, Dave

I enjoy your Lightroom export plugins. However on a recent app cleaning exercise on Facebook tonite, I was surprised to see that the LR facebook plugin was requesting a lot of access to my FaceBook data that was strictly not required to publish photographs. For example, why request access to the following?

Access my contact information
Access my family & relationships
Access my friends’ information
Access my data any time

I’m not suggesting that anything untoward is occurring but I’m wondering if your Facebook application was configured with too wide an access mask. I know that originally Facebook apps requested a lot more info that was needed but that it was changed recently.

I hope you can understand my concerns.

Thanks!

Most of that is just default stuff that any app gets, I guess. The “any time” is one the plugin asks for explicitly because it’s an offline app (you can upload photos even though you’re not active on the FB site), but I’ve not explicitly asked for any of the others. FWiW, the list of permissions the plugin asks for: photo_upload, publish_stream, offline_access, user_groups, user_photos, user_videos, manage_pages. I’m not 100% sure that publish_stream is actually necessary…. the FB docs are worse than pathetic, so it’s better to be safe than sorry. —Jeffrey

hi jeffrey,

I enjoyed browsing through your blogs. I’m very inspired about your stories through your pictres. Thank you for sharing your stories.

Jep
San diego

Hi. I have been using the Exif Viewer Chrome extension for months with no problems until now. The upgrade to Chrome 11 seems to have messed something up. I get “Aw, Snap!” messages after clicking the toolbar button. It seems to happen only when there’s an actual image open in the tab (as opposed to a Web page with images on it — that seems to be OK). If you go to the official extensions page at Google.com you’ll see in the user reviews section that someone else is experiencing this issue too.

It works fine for me, but the Chrome extension was written by someone else (to interface with my site), so if it’s not working for you, it’s best to report to the extension author. —Jeffrey

Jeffery,

I love your blog. I was in Japan for a little over a year and your pictures take me back to that time. Thanks for the memories and for the Lightroom plug-ins.

Dale
North Carolina

Hello Sir,

The Chrome extension for your Exif viewer has been oudated for quite some time and the dev was irresponsive. I took the liberty of creating a new one:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/glpbdeclgjmeoojlmhpamjddandmplki

Thank you and best regards.

Dear Jeff,
I ust returned from holidays and am sorting the bunch of pictures.
A common task is that I move exposure rows (which become tone mapped effect images eventually) into a separate folder so that they won’t obstruct my main catalog.

My question is: Do you have any idea (or tool :)) to automatically find exposure rows in a folder [with subf0lders] and do something to them [I personally move them to other folders, but I think the easiesst would be to just select them so the user can decide what to do with the selection)
I don’t think it is difficult to find exposure rows – just find 3 (or 5, or 7) images that have the same delta-EV value and a very similar timestamp (+/- 2 secs should really be enough).

In my case I’d “auto-select exposure rows”, move selection to a new folder, rescale my lightroom window so I see only 3 pics in a row and do a little visual check if I have reall yonly exposure row images. I’ll move all false positives back to the main folder myself. For the rest, I’d perform some batch processing over that folder.

Would be glad to heare from you!
All the best, Gernot

You might try the auto-stack feature (“Photo > Stacking > Auto Stack by Capture Time”). Stacking is a great way to handle bracketed exposures, but any kind of automatic grouping will be fragile, working for some but not for most. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey
I’ve just bought the X100, to run along my 7D but am having a problem with streamlining importing from both into Lightroom, and wondered if you’d seen a way around the following?: (posted onto Adobe Lightroom’s user forum at http://gsfn.us/t/2fmos

I have a nice workable import routine set up for the files that are imported from my Canon 7D with the following points:
The Canon utility brings the images from the 7D to my HD
Folder name created by Canon’s import utility is YYYY_MM_DD
As the files are already where needed I use an “ADD” style of import into LR, (so the files don’t move)

I have just bought a Fuji X100, but its import utility (from camera to HD) creates dated folders of YYYY-MM-DD, and this means that when I go to import X100 images on a day that I have already imported Canon 7D images, (or vice versa) I get TWO sets of identically dated folders because they have the different style of date ( _ versus – )

All other issues appear OK (file names, presets applied on import etc)

I cannot find a way to streamline this either in the import utilities, or at the Lr Import stage, and this is a really annoying problem that seems so easy to put right, if only I could!!

Many thanks for any suggestion you can offer on this.
Regards
Edward
Perhaps forgo the camera import utilities and import directly from the camera (or mounted camera card) via “Copy”, where Lightroom creates/maintains the dated folders for you. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

In one of your future blog posts, I’d love to see one of your technical reviews of the Adobe Lightroom lens profiles. Your technical / calibration posts are some of the most balanced (between pragmatic reality and exacting pixel pinching) and informative that I’ve read regarding Lightroom. They’ve finally got Lens profiles for my Pentax lenses so I’ve been trying them but am not sure if I’m using them correctly. I’d love to see what your experience has been using the adobe lens profiles and some of your good glass.

Regards. Ron Evans

I don’t have anything technical to say about them, but on the practical side, I like them, but often don’t use parts of them for artistic reasons (such as wanting to keep the natural vignette). I don’t have a profile for most lenses I shoot with, though, and have been too busy to make them myself, despite a desire. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the prompt reply and the suggestions Jeffrey. I’ll give the multiple service route a try for the time being. I may try a few things to see if I can work around the plugin’s can’t control plugin limitations. ( since most plugins seem to be wrappers around cmd lines, recreating that plugin gui as part of a conditional script shouldn’t be too hard… even if it’s just passing on a cmd line and doing some basic token substitution… )

Cheers
Ian

If you don’t mind doing the heavy lifting in a script, you could use my “Run any Command” plugin to process the image, passing in the temporary export filename and info that you want to key off (e.g. keywords), and have it invoke the appropriate mogrify commands…. —Jeffrey

any chance making a plug-in for lighroom 3.6 adobe revel

I’ve no plans for one, sorry, but I’m sure Adobe has this on their mind. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

How about a renaming plugin that can do string replacements? Is there anything technical in LR that stands in the way? The time I waste renaming image files externally and then re-importing is frustrating. Doesn’t Adobe use some of its own products?

Greetings from Germany!

Eric

I don’t quite get what you’re referring to… Lightroom has ways to rename, but since you mention search and replace, perhaps this plugin is what you’re looking for? —Jeffrey

Friend Friedl,

Today the blogosphere and the gadget/tech/nerd blogosphere were all abuzz with the announcement of the Nikon D800. If there has been any one website in my opinion that has been an advertisement for the D700 (and Adobe Lightroom of course) it would be your blog. You’re images are a testament to the depth of both technologies. You’ve also had some of the most insightful comments about different lenses, Apple technology, etc.

I hope you’re not insulted by requests, but I’m sure some of your readers including myself would love to hear your take on the D800. I saw Fake Chuck Westfall’s hilarious, ridiculous and obnoxious rants about it today… but found myself agreeing ever so slightly with his accusations of Renoir-like image quality. I found myself wondering, “What’s Jeffrey Friedl’s take on this much anticipated camera.” All ears over here in North New Jersey.

I’ve had my head pretty deeply in plugin development lately so haven’t followed the D800’s release closely, but it doesn’t seem to be something I’d be interested in. I think the name is unfortunate because it’s not at all the followup to the D700… its really its own camera (e.g. given Nikon’s history, a “D700x” name would have been more appropriate, I think). —Jeffrey

thank you very much for all those superb pieces of artwork!
you are gifted man – some pics are burnt in my mind now, must go to japan immediatly.
came to your site by some wiki link and spend 3 hours now here 😀
greets from germany+thanks again!

Thank you for sharing your Exif viewer online!

Hi,jeff
I began to read your reg book,3rd edition,from this month.Actually i read less and less print book these years. But your book is so impressive that I read it more than three times (Chinese edition and English edition).
Thanks for your work and book that make me clear what reg is.

A reader from Shanghai,China

Great Blog, I’m not a programmer or photographer. but, my wife is Japanese and we have a 3 year old son. We are moving to Japan next year. Your cultural insights and photos are a great resource for me. I learned a lot from your blog. Thank you and keep up the good work. You’ve inspired me to write more on my own blog.

Hi again Jeffrey.
Re Pinterest, basically it’s Twitter for images – where people share (“pin”) favourite images in themed collections (“boards”) they create for others users to see. You can follow other people’s boards as you can follow another person’s tweets on Twitter. If you like someone else’s image/s you can share them with your followers by “repinning” them to one of your boards.
It’s the latest big social media network, but the first dedicated to images of all kinds, not just photos. It’s taken off massively with marketing people – both the big brands and smaller SMBs – as a channel to market products through product shots. So it’s essential for PR & social media people to be able to post client images to it at the times of day when they know their target customers are active on it (for B2C marketing – late in the evening like 9-11pm).
Photographers like me are also marketing themselves using it.
So our wishlist would be a Lightroom plugin that allows us to schedule certain images to be exported and published to Pinterest at set times of day in advance for up to a month ahead, as we can with tweets using using Tweetdeck or Hootsuite. If anyone can create the standout app for this, you can. Seriously, your Lightroom plugin for Flickr is SO much better than what Adobe integrated into v3.0 (I know you consulted on that, but clearly they wanted to keep the options simpler than your v2 plugin).
There’s a massive need for this out there NOW and if you could meet it, it would make a lot of photographers and marketeers happy…and create another consulting gig for you with Adobe – so they could integrate it into Lightroom v5, or an earlier v4 update.
Most of all it would allow startup SMBs like me (started my company April this year after losing my job in newspaper restructure April 2011 and quitting an agency PR job April this year because the pace of life – 14-hour days + Sundays – was killing me) to get an essential job done well and with ease without losing sleep staying up late to post manually.
As previously, I will donate $20 per plugin – they’re worth at least that.
PLEASE seriously consider doing one for Pinterest.
Check it out at http://www.pinterest.com
Thanks in advance!
P.S. All the best to you and your family for 2013!

Your enthusiasm is delightful, but unfortunately they don’t even have an API yet. —Jeffrey

Hello Mr. Friedl

I am hoping to begin doing contract work for a number of people, and load images onto their Flickr/Zenfolio albums using your plugins (which work wonderfully- thank you for those).

My question is:

Is it possible to create multiple Flickr, Zenfolio etc accounts in Lightroom using your plugin tools, or would I just have to go in each and every time and change the login info for each specific account? If I ended up with 25+ accounts, would this create problems?

Thanks

Michael Schmidt

It should be fine. You can create Export presets or Publish Services that bake in a specific account, or choose the particular account from the login pulldown at each export. —Jeffrey

I have sent multiple requests for a revalidation numbers as I use both mac and pc for lightroom…but primarily the Mac.

Is there any way you can get back to me on this? i have waited nearly a month and have not had any response from you.

Scott Pam

I’ve replied to you multiple times, Scott. Check your spam folder. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

My suggestion for a plugin. Many of we professionals sit for extended periods using Google Image Search or similar manually, dragging each individual image across and dropping it into GIS. Could you develop a plugin to automate this task, please? I’m told the main problem is that Google has to give permission for such a plugin to work. Thanks. John

Jeffrey, I really appreciate your info on the blog. I have d/l some plugins for Facebook whice works well. My problem is other plugins fail to install. I d/l the file, unzip, and then run. A quick blip on the screen happens but no install. What am I doing wrong?

You don’t “run” the plugins… you install them from within Lightroom (see the “Installation instructions” link on each plugin’s page). —Jeffrey

Hi there,
I spent many years wanting the regex book, finally bought it a couple years back. Since then I evangelize the thing like crazy, particularly that the first 3chapters are enough to make people productive.
I was more of a Ruby user, but these days more Objective-C. Please include its wacky flavor in the 4ed mix!
If you’re ever in Tokyo, let’s have ramen!

My name is Loraine Bolen and I am from Fredericksburg VA. I came across a youtube video talking about focusing issues with the Nikon D7000. I purchased this camera about 2 years ago. I have had focusing issues the whole time. I thought it was user error and have been working hard to do a better job. Not much success:( When I came across this video this photographer turned me to your blog and a chart he got from your blog ( I think) used to help fine tune my camera. I thought “what the heck, it’s worth a try.” I have used your search box and nothing comes up. Is there any I can get this chart. Sometimes I just want to throw in the towel with this camera, but if this fixes the problem it would be much more cost effective than a new camera. Maybe I should have gone Cannon??

The focus chart is on this post. Good luck! —Jeffrey

Hello,
I’ve uploaded your Picasaweb plugin to upload photos to Google+.
When I try to authorize through Google+ plus Firefox gives me an error message ‘problem loading page. The address wasn’t understood.’
Any ideas on how I can overcome this?

Is it while trying to load a “lightroom://…” URL? If so, it seems that Lightroom’s URL handler didn’t get registered properly with the OS; re-installing Lightroom usually fixes it. —Jeffrey

Just going to take a quick moment to say “Thank you” for the Lightroom plugins you’ve developed and perhaps more importantly, made available for a reasonable fee.

Jeff,
So I tried using your lightroom to smugmug uploaer because the lightroom version kept telling me it could find my files, even though it worked just last week. When I tried setting the plugin with my site I got a message indicating that lightroom could not connect to the internet even though my internet connection was fine. I added Lightroom to my firewall and still nothing. I have Smugmug trying to figure out the other uploader issue. Any ideas. Win7 64 bit that never had issues previously.
Thanks

Check out this networking FAQ… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff
Hope all is well.
Your doing amazing work and I thank you.
Question is:
Will you try to make a plugin for instagram?

Thanks
Shawn

Last I checked, they did not allow uploading images except from their app. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey – just a quick note of appreciation for your plug-in for Flickr from down here in Helmand Province, Southern Afghanistan, where we are gratefully using your plug-in manager for our Flickr webpage. Although I am active duty British Royal Air Force, I am working in the civilian/military Helmand Provincial Reconstruction Team here in sunny Lashkar Gah. We assist the Afghans in developing governance,rule of law, infrastructure and agriculture projects, amongst many others. I have included our Flickr address above, so you can see how your work has helped us create some kind of permanent archive through Flickr of the good work that has been going on here for quite some time now. We registered with you just today (M Thayre). Keep up the good work up there in Kyoto Jeffery, and we wish you well for the future. Regards Neil Fitz (Flight Lieutenant RAF)

I’m not really sure how I arrived at your blog but a shortcut was on my desktop this morning and now I know why I created that anchor. I am simply wowed by your accomplishments that positively and directly affect me as a photographer. Really enjoyed reading your ” About Me”.

Thanks you!

Gregory Childress
San Francisco de Dos Rios, Costa Rica

Jeff,

Since reading and enjoying a number of your articles I have decided to start a photography blog. At present I am testing out the most efficient way of doing this across various platforms. So far, I have managed to set things up as follows:

I use Flickr Schedulr to queue images to be uploaded once a day – add titles, descriptions and tags. This part is then automated to upload an image a day to Flickr.

I have then set up IFTTT to post to Tumblr, Twitter, Blogger and Facebook (recently disabled facebook). I haven’t set up a 500px or wordpress account yet but it’s also on my list of todos in the attempt of maximising exposure.

Thus it seems that I will be able to set up a daily ‘base line’ blog to each platform in advance for when I’m traveling around or requiring space away from the computer.

However, I can not automate a post/upload to G+ (proving to be a pain). Furthermore, Flickr Schedulr seems to mess up my tagging sometimes (but could be IFTTT messing up the tags). I have tried using Hootsuite for automated posting/uploading to schedule posts but was frustrated that I couldn’t upload high-res images which is essential for flickr.

I hate the thought of wasting time and posting separately so wondered whether you had a ‘master’ plug-in in the making (which includes scheduling). I’ve heard that Polar Bear are developing something but who knows what will be born. I do however understand that you have been developing apps for a long time and probably have a better idea of what is possible.

Obviously, my dream would be a plug-in/app for lightroom. I’m guessing that there are loads of photographers hobbyists and professionals who ‘blog’ and upload to cross platforms who would like to be able to schedule pics, with suitable titles, descriptions and tags.

I’m not sure if this is your thing, but feel that you are the sort of person who not only continues to develop useful tools, but openly corresponds with those interested. I look forward to hearing a response.

Once again, thanks for the time and effort you put into this site (and plugins).

Regards,

Timothy Selvage

This would not be easy to do within Lightroom, at least not in the obvious way, because a plugin can’t say “publish this photo”… it can do it only on a collection-by-collection basis. And, of course, for it to work you’d have to leave Lightroom running all the time. The best I can think would be for a plugin to control two special collections, one a waiting queue and one a published queue, and based upon some schedule the plugin would move a photo from waiting to published and then actually publish that collection. In theory that might work but many pitfalls along the way that might make it impossible… —Jeffrey

Glad to have found your blog. Living here in Kyoto I appreciate the pictures even more.

Hi Jefferey, great blog and great plugins. Using two of them and would like to ask for one more if that’s ok…
I shoot a lot of wedding decoration (before the guests arrive) where the lighting is difficult… low light everywhere and then spotlights in the important stuff. Not enough dynamic range means shooting HDR, which I do a lot.
When importing to Lightroom, I like to group the different exposures of a HDR photo. The problem is, when you have many HDR photos, each with 3 or 5 exposures, it’s a pain to group them. LR offers to group by time, but that’s not enough as I get many photos in the same stack that don’t belong.

What I’d like is a plugin to add the following options with AND/OR capabilities in stacking/grouping photos:

* By apperture (HDR photos have the same apperture)
* By zoom (HDR photos have the same zoom)
* By time in relation to the previous photo, not in relation to the first photo, which is what I think LR does right now.. either way, choose by time in relation to first or previous photo.
* Every N number of photos (ex, stack every 3 photos together)

Does that make sense? Hope you see a need in this and come up with another awesome plugin.

Thanks!!!
– Joao

Unfortunately, Lightroom doesn’t give a plugin the ability to adjust stacks, so there’s nothing I can do here. As far as the current auto-stack-by-time, IIRC, that bug you mention was fixed in Lr5. —Jeffrey

I would like to create a smart collection of images that matches a certain date AND images that have been exported (in this case using FTP), but I can’t seem to find a native or plug-in that supports this. I suspect part of the problem is that Lightroom is storing this metadata in the Develop History (which seems odd to me).

Any ideas?

The best I can suggest is to use a minor feature of my Snapshot on Export plugin that allows you to set a keyword during an export. You could then key the smart collection off that keyword and the date. —Jeffrey

From Los Altos Hills, CA.
I notice you wrote a filter search enhancement. I wonder if you have something in your bag of tricks that addresses folder search as in the following:
I label my folders by year-month_tripname: e.g., 2011-12_China. The each day of teh trip gets a separate folder identifying the date and specific location of that day.
Often, in pulling together images for a collection, I want an image from a prior trip; being of a certain age, I can’t remember the year but I do recall the trip name or specific location. Is there some quick way within LR to retrieve the folder(s) that bear the supplied trip or location search string?

Choose “All Photographs” in the “Catalog” section in the upper left of Library, then invoke “Library > Find…” and type in your search string. —Jeffrey

I stumbled upon your blog while looking for images of japanese archery. You made my day with the worlderfull photos you make. Thanks for such an inpiration! /Eduardo, Lisboa Portugal

Hello, Jeffrey!
Thank you for you book, one of the best IT books I’ve ever read!

WBR, Igor Telnov (Sihanoukville, Cambodia)

I’m using your plugin for making my own metadata panel in LR and it is working just fine.
Now, after putting metadata on about 5000 Pictures, I’ve got a searching- problem.
I’ve been looking at Your Lightroom Data Explorer for Fields you can search in.
I want to search in the IPTC Ext Field “Person shown in the image” to quickly find all pictures of a certain person.
I do not find this Field in your list, neither does LR 5.3 search in that field when using Library text search.

Yours Kindly
Ole M. Mikkelsen, Norway

I’ve wondered about the utility of that field, since it allows for only one person and photos often have more, but I’ve gone ahead and added it to the plugin. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffery,

I’ve been trying to track a stolen camera of mine and I am not sure how to find the serial number from the exif viewer. The pictures are from facebook page and I dont really know how to find the serial number or the information needed to go on to stolen camera finder and track it. I am hoping you’d be able to help.

Thank you.

Facebook strips all the metadata, so even if your camera was one that included its serial number in the image metadata, you won’t find it in the copies available at Facebook. Sorry for your loss. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff, I am not sure where to ask this question, but I sent an inquiry to zenfolio and they said to contact you. I am trying to upload pictures from Lightroom 4 to my Zenfolio account and I keep getting the error message that the destination file for this opeartion is missing with the file name. Apparently when I first set up the transfer of photos to Zenfolio from Lightroom, I told the system to put the photos into a destination folder which I now need to change because I no longer have the folder in Lightroom (the pictures are stored on a backup and on Zen, so why keep them on my computer?). This would explain why I have been having issues with uploading into new galleries. Everything is under the one gallery and this is why! I didn’t realize when I did the initial set-up that all future photos would be put into this file. I simply go into Zenfolio and move them where I want them, but it is a pain. What do I do now? If I start over again and establish a new destination folder, all of the previous links with photos and lightroom will be lost. Is there a fix to this problem?

Yes, unfortunately, Lightroom doesn’t allow the local-disk location to be changed once the Publish Service has been created. Indeed, “temporary” makes the most sense, so I wish they’d let it be changed. Your best bet is to make sure that what you have is currently Published up to date, then leave that Publish Service alone and make a new one, being sure to do the populate step when creating Publish collections. If you’re lucky and the stars align, everything will work smoothly and you’ll have replicated everything, but this time set the location to temporary. You can then simply delete the entire first publish service. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I have come across the following thread on the Adobe site:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/inconsistent_dates_for_files_missing_date_time_metadata

This seems to be an interesting challenge, and to date without solution.

I was wondering if you know about any technique or plugin which could help with correctly ordering images on a lightroom catalogue, or at least allow those which do not have sufficient metadata on them to be ordered in a specific collection, which can then be batch-edited to have a more suitable date?

Thanks
Francisco
I’ve no solution. If they simply let you update the various date-related fields via a plugin then there might be something that could be done, but despite having requested it for years, it remains unfulfilled. It’s maddening, particularly with videos. —Jeffrey

hi Jeffery
If I use your exif reader page (which is great) the photo is uploaded to your server it seems.
The image resides at similar address below
http://regex.info/exif-data/longnumber.jpg

what happens to the photo after someone uses the exif reader and leaves.
Where are they stored and for how long.
Are they kept on your provider’s backups.

thanks

PJ

A robot cleans them out every day… they are not backed up or otherwise retained in any way. (The server software is backed up, but not the data.) —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,
I like the map, how did you do your photo map?

If you mean my interactive blog-photo map, I programmed it myself using the Google Map API. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I’ve enjoyed using your plugin for the past year!
About 3 months ago changed my email, and had to update the username and password of my Zenfolio account with my new email, and now I can’t upload photos using your plugin. I’m assuming I need to update my new zenfolio username within the plug in somehow, can you direct me on how to do this? I’d really appreciate it!

You can log out from Zenfolio in the top section of the Export dialog, then enter new credentials there to relogin. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I see a lot of your interesting plugins for Lightroom, unbelievable work!

but I miss plugin which show me focus point from Nikon camera
and do you think that will be possible to filter photos by LR edited and not edited photos?

Thanks!

Someone else has made a focus-point plugin. My Data Explorer plugin lets you filter by number of edits (including zero)…. use “edit” in its dialog’s search box. Also, you can make a smart collection that identifies photos that do/don’t have adjustments, crops, etc. —Jeffrey

Your LR plugin •Preview-Cache Image Extraction made my day. Saved thousands of pics, which were totally lost by a total crash of an external hard drive. Thank you so much and again for this!

HI, I am a user of your export to flick rLr5 plugin. I publish image in flickr to share them on a forum. I use the BBCode from flickr to insert images on that forum. Whenever I do a small change, your plugin want to re-publish (for ex, just reorganizing my keywords that gets exported would do that, they are set as “modified photos to re-publish”). I know I can use “Mark as up-to-date” to prevent updating on flickr. However, sometimes, I wouldn’t notice some pics are flagged for re-publish, and that would update the flickr image, so the flickr link in the forum get broken… Why is it like this ? I found this annoying, as I have to search thru the forum in question to edit all my postings… any solutions for this ? thanks

Sylvain
Quebec, Canada

I assume that you’ve disabled keywords as something that triggers a republish, right? That’s supposed to stop the republish, but Lightroom is very buggy in this area so there’s not much we can do but hope they get around to fixing it, and paying close attention to republishes. It is indeed very annoying. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I would just like to drop a few words to thank you for those splendid pictures of Kyoto and Japan.
Browsing through your blogs brings back memories and a feeds a craving for coming back to Kyoto.
Your skills and eye truly do Kyoto’s beauty justice.
Thanks again.
Xavier

Such a wealth of plugins – thank you! But now confused which one to use and how! Google drive, folders or collections….
I want to publish images to (location) chapters in a series of ebooks that sit on Google drive with following hierarchy. /ebooks/Book1/images/location1/ ….location2… location3 etc

In LR, I currently have Hard-Drive publisher with smart collections that follows /ebooks/Book1/Location1 (i.e. without the /images/folder included). The smart collections pick up the images fine, but The publishing service only lets me specify a single location (e.g./Book1/) and sublocation (e.g. /images/). I don’t then seem to be able to get the sub-sublocaiton (e.g. /location1/

which of your plugins should i use? Am I being daft – I can’t seem to find coherent answer on line shallows me to be so prescriptive about the folders I want to publish to

It sounds like Collection Publisher is what you want. You’d replicate the smart collections in there so that each exports exactly where you want it. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I found the answer on your blog … sorry for that. Sio it’s great that the funcitonality exists. I’ll test the plugin after my trip to Mongolia.

Regards
Céline

Hi Jeffrey, I just wondered why your website is listed on this Pinterest List…. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/403353710353058013/ for data hidden in photographs?

As you can see it is a fairly general list for universal appeal.

However, I did home in on your entry and I understand that there is indeed data hidden in photos but it is not apparent how to find this information on your website….. if at all….

Best regards from Australia

They’re probably referring to my image metadata viewer. It’s one minor tool I’ve made among many; they should put its full URL rather than just the server name. &dmash;Jeffrey

Hi, Jeffrey,
I’m writing from southeast Michigan in the USA, and I found your link on a facebook group, Sony A6000/a7000 Gary Fong group. (just so you know how far-reaching your blogs are!)
I just found your blog and I am so happy I did! Your photos are wonderful, I so enjoyed the tofu-making blog with photos! What a delight!
I also want to thank you for your blog on how to install plug-ins to LR (which I have so far been leery of ) and I especially want to thank you for the warning on there, pointing out that they can get into your system. Although I inherently know that, every once in a while something looks so great that you forget about that aspect. And it IS important!
So, thanks again for pointing that out.
Thanks again for your interesting blog,

have a great day,
Debbie 🙂

Now that Perl6 is coming up, and Microsoft visual studio’s regular expression search syntax has changed significantly since 2010, would there be an upcoming new version of Mastering Regular Expression?
Thanks

Not from me, no, but I’d expect O’Reilly would bring someone in to do updates at some point. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,

What a great website. I lived in Kyushu for nine years, and have been in Taiwan since 2008. Do you use Strava regularly? I am looking forward to trying the Exif Viewer – very slick.

Yeah, I’m on Strava here. All my rides are there, though I’m still in the process of trying to figure out how to get the vertical-climb data correct. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffery,

I am having difficulty uploading Modified Photos to Re-Publish. There are 33 of them. When I attempt to Publish, I get the following error message:

“Unexpected HTTP reply from
http://up.zenfolio.com/michaelwilde/p581684416/upload2.ushx?replace=2866436873546386143:
503″

After I received the error I sent an email to Zenfolio and there was a message that they were having issues with the upload service. I contacted support they said those issues have been resolved, so I tried again … the same error. I tried to Re-Publish a single image from another collection and it worked fine. Not really sure what is going on here, but its the first time I have had issues with Re-Publishing photos. Any thoughts?

By the way, I love this plugin. It makes my life easy! Thanks.

Mike Wilde

Yeah, this happens a lot… their servers have temporary issues but customer-support doesn’t know about them. It’ll eventually get cleared up. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

Quick query regarding your LR export to Twitter plug-in. Just curious as to if you plan on including the feature where one can tag up to 10 people within the uploaded image rather than using up characters within the tweet itself? One can do this on iOS’s Twitter for iPhone and also on oSX on the Mac if using Chrome – but would love to be able to tag up to 10 people using your plug-in directly if this is ever a feature.

Any thoughts please?

Thanks
John

I’ll investigate it… —Jeffrey

Hello.
I recently discovered your ”Jeffrey’s Exif Viewer” i think it a great website-program, though i noticed that when i upload image it is saved in http://regex.info/exif-data/”name.extention” (some random numbers and letter as a name ) and after couple of days, when i upload exact same image and click on it i get directed to same http://regex.info/exif-data/”name.extention” link with same image name as before. So my question is, if images are deleted from servers and if so, why do they appear in same exact name as then they were uploaded before?

Thank you for you ansver in advance.

The name appears to be random, but it’s actually computed from the content of what’s uploaded. Two people uploading the same photo will see it at the same name (which is fine because it’s the exact same photo). —Jeffrey

”Suppose” doesn’t sound too confident :D. anyways, out of curiosity could i ask you in what principle image name is created exif viewer? ofcourse if it’s not a secret :).

It’s been a while since I paid attention to the code, sorry, so I’m not sure of the exact timings and file-size thresholds I used. The point is they don’t stick around long, but long enough to ameliorate heavy load when an image view gets linked from a high-traffic site. The filename used internally is derived via MD5 from either the url or the image data, along with a private string for good measure. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey!

Recently I was looking at a photo and it seems like the metadata has been scrubbed; in place was this:

Special Instructions: FBMD0f000777030000452300003a740000577d00009586000066d00000925d0100058e0100

Any input as to what this all means?

And the color space profile; that has nothing to do with the metadata, correct? Thanks for an awesome tool!

It seems that Facebook adds that bit of metadata (and strips everything else) on uploaded photos. No one seems to know what it means. I’m not sure what you’re asking about the color space… the file’s color data is meant to be interpreted in a particular way, and that can be indicated with a profile and/or metadata tags; see this long writeup for more. Facebook tends to replace whatever was sent with the image with its own custom sRGB-like profile. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffery. Many thanks for the plugins for LR to ZF. Currently I can’t transfer images. When I click to create a new gallery I get the following message and can’t go further. “Create new gallery at Zenfolio aborted: Unexpected HTTP reply from http://api.zenfolio.com/api/1.6/zfapi.asmx: Deprecated API version – upgrade required to at least version 1.7.” I emailed ZF and they told me to contact (you) the software developer. Can you help me get back on track. As of right now I’m out of business as my contracts hold me to ZF online viewing. Thanks much.

Paul Gorman

Sounds like you’re using an ancient version of the plugin; please upgrade. —Jeffrey

Jeffery,

I am a novice with a problem with my Nikon D5300 in RAW Uncompressed mode and my Adobe CS3 Photoshop. It can’t see the file, only if I convert to TIFF or JPEG. I read an article that said I could use your EXIF Viewer and change the model version of camera on the file and then CS3 would open the file. I have downloaded your EXIF Viewer file, I think, and folllow the directions for a file on the harddrive. and no luck. Could you please provide directions for a Dummy on the proper download and how to bring up the D5300 RAW (Uncomrpessed) file so I can see it and play with it in RAW before converting it to TIFF or JPEG. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

My Exif viewer is a web-based tool, so I’m confused as to how you might have “downloaded it”. Anyway, it’s not surprising that Photoshop CS3 didn’t include support for a camera that wasn’t released until 5½ years later, but Adobe gives you a way to work with modern cameras in your old software, via the Adobe DNG converter. The “update the model version” trick is almost certainly going to lead to bad results in this case. What that does is have the software treat the image sensor data as if it’s one of the sensors it does know about, but since CS3 came out in 2007, the “best” you could do would be to have Photoshop pretend your circa-2013 image data is really from a completely unrelated circa-2007 sensor. Sensors are completely individual beasts, so (for example) so even two modern sensors from the same camera company can’t be interchanged. Your best bet is to use the DNG converter, or pony up $10/month or whatever it is for a modern Photoshop CC subscription. Or, perhaps, try Lightroom. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
Thank you very much for the light room plug ins. I am a photographer in northern California, shooting mostly motorsports. I’m in the process of refining my workflow. The goal is to shoot car racing, tag cars with their numbers, then have them ready for drivers to view within an hour. I’m a newbie compare to others who work in my area. They seem to have a specialized/secret software that does this, with fancy networked monitors for viewing. Your collection publisher will help me get very close to what I need, so thank you very much!

When adobe announced they have some sort of image recognition, I was hoping they come up with a way to recognize and tag text (car numbers) in all of my photos. I guess face detection is a good start for most people.

Hi Jeffrey,

Just wanted to say a big thank you for the exif viewer, which enabled me to recover a 1080 X 1440 preview of a photo I took on NYE and which has great sentimental value to me. After spending about 3 hours searching for ways to recover this corrupt file, I finally found your site and was easily able to do exactly what I needed.

Pete

Hi Jeffrey, I’ve just discovered your website, you’re doing a massive amount of work, thanks for all that!
I’d like to buy some of your Lightroom plugins, but first I’d appreciate a little help with planning my workflow. I shoot film, have my films scanned in a lab (those come with no metadata at all), then do everything manually. I edit metadata using AnalogExif tool (it basically fills in EXIF data, some of them as direct EXIF, some as XMP within EXIF). Then I just use some other tools to make corrections, create webgalleries manually, etc. Painful and long process.
So I’m thinking about changing my whole workflow – after filling neccessary film metadata with AnalogExif, I’d import files into Lightroom 6, add GPS metadata, make corrections and let some of the plugins do their work automatically. But I don’t know how and which plugins would be useful for me.
I found out, your Metadata Viewer plugin can see all metadata from AnalogExif, but it’s all I can do. I’d like to access the metadata (like film type and developer process) in webgallery generator, but they’re not accessible, Lightroom can only see User Comment field (which contains all XMP data), but I can’t access it from Web module. So, is there some way to access custom metadata in Web module, like some gallery plugin? I also organize my photos in chronological folder structure, but default gallery templates only generate flat galleries, without subgalleries, which is useless. Is there some template, that allows making structured galleries, using custom metadata?
Which ones of your plugins do you think would be useful for me? I’m kind of lost.
THANK YOU and anyone else who brings some idea.

I’m afraid that I don’t have any good news for you (except that my plugins are free, so you can use them all without buying). I don’t use/know the Web module, so I can be no help to you there, sorry. The best I can suggest is while working in AnalogExif, to stuff the fields that are important to you into otherwise unused fields that Lightroom does give access to (e.g. stuff the film type into the “Job Identifier” field). It’s an affront to data to use fields this way, but it’ll allow you to get your job done. —Jeffrey

I just have a question about your nifty EXIF viewer. Do you also have a pluginto reveal the File Properties values that come up in Bridge, or for that matter when viewing an image file in a computer’s finder?
Thanks

Sorry, no. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,
I’ve taken pics with a smartphone that has geo-tagging and GPS built in but no matter how I view the EXIF, the GPS coordinates of where the pic was taken never show. Any ideas? Thanks.

First you’ve got to be sure that the location is actually included with the photo… with an iPhone, for example, if you disable Location Services for the Camera app, the location is not recorded. Then, even if it’s recorded with the original photo, it might be stripped out when you export it from the phone, depending on how you do it. If you send it via Facebook as a photo attached to a message, for example, I think that all metadata is stripped, but if you send it as a file attachment to a message, it’s included. (I think; I haven’t tested recently.) —Jeffrey

Hi – love your plugins and have been using them for years. I have a question.

When posting album, I add tags to identify the album/service. For instance I add tags “The Outrigger Project, FB, Flickr” for the folders associated with a project my wife is doing.

Then I would create a smart album in the jf Facebook plugin called (for instance) “The outrigger Project 2015-10-16” with “match all rules” as:
Keywords contains all The Outrigger Project, FB
Capture Date is 2015-10-16

Similar I would create a smart album in the jf Flickr plugin called “The outrigger Project 2015-10-16” with “match all rules” as:
Keywords contains all The Outrigger Project, Flickr
Capture Date is 2015-10-16

This allows me to take the pictures in and out of services/projects really easy – ONCE all the Smart Albums are created.

QUESTION (finally!):

Do you have an easy way to add smart albums to Lightroom? In other words, how would you do the above, either someway of auto-generating the smart albums, or maybe I am complicating the whole process way too much (very likely).

Again, thank you for your plugins! I got a full license for capture one, but I’m sticking with LR *because* of your plugins!

Good work!

Thanks for the kind words. About the smart albums, it sounds like you’re doing it the correct way now. A very specialized plugin might be able to do some of it automatically for you, but what you’re doing now doesn’t seem too arduous. —Jeffrey

Hi Gary,

Go to Google Images
https://www.google.co.uk/imghp?gws_rd=ssl
drop the image you have into the box. Google Images will then show you any other shots which look like it (which were taken from a similar spot). The data and/or caption attached to those should tell your where they were taken.

Hi Jeffrey,

Have you considered a plugin for Amazon S3? If doable, it seems like it would be popular.

Thanks,
Chris

Jeffery,

I can find no other way to contact you. I do use several of your plugins.

How can I assign an image as a “wallpaper” in IOS 9.3 so that it is not enlarged?????

I have tried a number of suggestions seen on the WEB but none works. I am ashamed that I am angry at Apple because of this, possibly I am simply not clever enough. Could you be so kind as to make a suggestion as to how to fix this? If not will you join me in my aggravation ? (a semi-joke).

thanks,
vince

My blog home page has a “Contact Me” section. I suspect that if you make an image the exact pixel size of your screen, it won’t be resized when set as the wallpaper. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,

Just found your blog: “Digital-Image Color Spaces, Page 1: Introduction”. Well done, wish I had found it back in 2006. I have been programming graphics and working in lighting topics since 1996. I can’t believe I have programmed for this long without understanding Colorimetry. But now that I am knee deep in trying to understand it, I can’t believe how complicated it is:) Doesn’t help that I am colorblind:)

Anyway, just wanted to thank you for you exceptional blog and say that I love your pictures as well. Keep it up!

Kevin

Hi Jeffery. I have registered for your Facebook, and Flickr plugins. Just wondering if you have any plans to make one for Googles Panoramio?

You do great work…..thank you

I’d love to, but no, they don’t want one. They were one of the first places I contacted (almost 10 years ago now!), and astounded me with their ignorance of geoencoding. They weren’t interested in a Lightroom plugin. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,
I have been using your plugin exporting images from Lightroom to Zenfolio. Thanks so much for creating it. I am wondering, is there any way to not have to export to a folder and just upload to zenfolio? Thanks! Lisa

I’m not quite sure what you’re asking. All photos at Zenfolio must live in an album, so when uploading you must supply a destination. On the Lightroomside, you don’t need to make a Publish Service, though… you can just select photos and “File > Export” directly. —Jeffrey

Good Day Jeffery, I am test driving the LR “Folder Watch” plugin. I have to enable the scan everytime I open LR. Is this by design or should the box “Enable Scan” supposed to stay checked once I click on the “Done” button in LR plugin manager?

Thanks!

Robert

Just below that option is a separate “Automatically restart scan every time Lightroom starts” option. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey-

This is Alan from Salem, Oregon. Really love your work. Don’t know how you know so much but I’m glad you share. After 10 years your article on color spaces is still the best.

I’m wondering if any of your plugins or utilities can count and report the number of colors in an image? I understand .jpg has the capacity for up to 16.8M colors but usually there is a great deal less in any individual photo.

Thanks again for all your work.

Alan

Thanks for the kind words(!) I don’t know of any plugin that does that, but it wouldn’t surprise me if you could figure it out via Image Magick. —Jeffrey

Regexif is sorely missed. Might a little fund-raising bring its return? I’ve got $5 sitting here to toss in. Just sayin’, your fans are out here. Thanks for the many years of service to the puzzle-solving geocaching community! (yes, there is such a thing, and your site has become a critical tool in our solve-box.

Whatever you do, take care!

Give this version a try… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffery

I am from Cleveland Ohio USA, and stumbled upon your site from a post on Manual Lense Forum regarding vintage Mamiya Sekor lenses, which linked to a sample of your photo’s… which btw are beayoutiful and I just wanted to say Thank You for sharing your photographic vision with the rest of us..!

Steve

Hi Jeffrey,

I’m having an issue with the export to Google Photos (Picasa) application. I get :

Unexpected HTTP status from Google: 501
Insert is no longer supported

I’m sure I’m doing something wrong, I’d appreciate any guidance here

Thanks
Garry

Google is shutting PicasaWeb down. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Re PicasaWeb, yes I realise this is being shutdown but this App was being used to publish to Google Photos and no longer appears to work. You wrote “Uploads had suddenly stopped working, and it seemed like it was because Google had abandoned PicasaWeb, and that may still be the case, but thanks to Rob Jones over at Lightroom plugin provider New P Products for cluing me in on an upload method that still actually works.”, however I don’t see that it does work. Can you explain how we should configure the App.

Thanks

Google seems to be dismantling things bit by bit. There is no information from them about it… things just stop working. The new way to upload worked when I posted that comment, but since then new things have stopped working. It’s ABUNDANTLY clear that PicasaWeb is being shut down, Google doesn’t care about those that had been using it, and Google has no interest in having photographers use Google products. This plugin is dead. Google Photos looks destined to follow the same left-to-die-on-the-vine path. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey! I traveled to Dubai (amazing!!) two weeks ago and since taking 1300+ photos, have decided to open a zenfolio account for sharing….and downloaded lightroom to start editing. I am having trouble downloading your plug-in to my Mac….I am following the specific instructions, have saved the plug-in to a desktop folder labeled plug-ins- but can’t unzip???

According to your instructions, I need to unzip before using plug-in manager? Geez….I must be missing something simple….any help would be appreciated!

Thanks so much-
Chrysa

Perhaps your browser unzips it automatically, leaving the plugin folder all ready to be moved to wherever you want it to live on your system? —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,

I recently tried to reproduce the never-ending recursion of parsing CSV, that you so eloquently discussed in The Perl Journal. (Back in the day!) Despite my attempts, I could not get any regex engine to hang on the bad input. Does this imply that Larry Wall (and other wizards) have improved their algorithms to detect simple mega-recursion cases like this?

I was trying to illustrate to a CS class what could go wrong with recursion. I fell back on Fibonacci, but I really think that the students are much more likely to use a regex in the rest of their lives than calculate Fibonacci numbers.

P.S. We met way back at an ORA author’s signing thing. Mine was about Objective-C, so you know that I am now obsolete. Fortunately, all the best features of Obj-C were carried along into Swift, so in fact I love Swift.

I know that Perl eventually got quite good at it, but don’t recall other engines that were good at it (except of course DFA-based engines), but it’s been more than a decade since I really looked into this stuff. —Jeffrey

Hi
i tried the Metadata-Wrangler and intend to use it and give a reasonable donation to the program …because its great and your are generous.
unfortunately, I was unable to solve the main problem i have: i need the the original image size in the metadata and not the exported size. Is that somehow possible at all?
example: image ist 4500×3000 pixel orignal dimensions; it will be exported 1500×1000 pixel; but this exported image should have the original dimensions in the metadata.
would appreciate your help

You could use the OriginalWidth token to add the data to one of the fields that MetadataWrangler can write to, e.g. “original size: {OriginalWidth}x{OriginalHeight}“. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I just downloaded your zenfolio plugin (thank you so much!) and am trying to match the existing galleries from zenfolio into LR galleries.
Looks like LR matches the images and I get “53 already-associated images were reconfirmed, but no new matchups were found.” but in the collecitons it shows “0” for images. I tried all galleries and one by one gallery.

I was able to create a new gallery from LR into zenfolio and it works fine, but not for the galleries already existed on zenfolio prior to the plugin.
thanks for your help!
Olya

It sounds like you’ve yet to do step #3 (Populate) mentioned here. —Jeffrey

Bonjour Jeffrey.
Bravo pour votre site, votre travail, vos photos.
Je me permets de vous écrire en français, je suis sûr que vous apprécierez.
Mon problème:
J’ai installé votre module “Google Drive”, après installation, je le configure le module en validant authentification sur GDrive.
Apparaît ensuite la mention suivante :
“fetching folder list from Gdrive” et ensuite rien ne se passe, ça affiche “not enought memory”, puis ça plante.
J’ai 16GO de ram ^^
Merci pour votre aide Jeffrey.
PS: You can reply in English if you wish

I don’t read French, sorry. Perhaps use Google Translate in the future. Next time you see this error, please send a log. Since Lr is crashing, be sure to see the last paragraph of that FAQ entry. —Jeffrey

Raleigh, NC, thanks for all of your plugins. Do you have anything to make the stacking ability more controlled by my input rather than reading all of the metadata. I shoot real estate and I always shot brackets of 3 but auto stacking is hit or miss and it takes a while to scroll through and unstack/restack and inevitably I miss an incorrect stack or two. It would be nice to have something that I can tell LR to stack them by whatever number of brackets I have shot. Mostly, in my case, every three is a stack. I always make sure that I complete a full bracket even if my flash misfires or I see a change I want to make. It seems so simple. Enfuse offers it but I am having trouble getting Enfuse to work on my mac as a standalone. It works fine as a plugin if it would only offer to create stacks in 3s.

The only thing I can think of that’s even close is the Adkins on September 10th, 2017 at 9:10am JST (6 years, 7 months ago) — comment permalink

FYI – I tried using the insert for Metadata Wrangler, but that seems to only strip after exported. I need it to strip before it uploads to Zenfolio otherwise it fails. Just curious if there was a quick way to do this. I am using the old rcPlugin that that lets you combine multiple export actions into 1. Right now I have it setup to FTP files to my vendor, then create master copy locally, then create a websized with copyright locally all within the single rcExport preset. My intention is to add export to Zenfolio as a 4th item to the rcExport preset.

Thank you again for your help.

I’m disappointed to have downloaded and paid a donation for the Picassaweb uploader a day or so ago only to find the first time I used it that I get a message essentially saying “It doesn’t work , get stuffed”.
I now see that there is a wishy washy cop out on the page about Picassaweb being disabled but the fact is I looked at the version history and you have LR 7 updates so I just went and got the update as I always have in the past.
I really think you should simply disable downloading of this uploader completely rather than taking peoples money under somewhat false pretences.
I am not concerned about the money and I will definitely be continuing to use and recommend your Flickr uploader but this does leave something of a bad feeling from s customer who has been using your products since I think LR4.
Just wanted to let you knwo my feelings.

Richard

hi jeffrey just installed LRClassicCC when installed it apparently wiped out my connections to Flickr, Facebook, Zen, etc. that i have purchased from u. not sure what to do now. in the past on each program i have been allowed to reauthicate, but do not get that message. have attempted to re download but to no avail. appreciate your comments and recommendations. jeff lantz images.

When you say “wiped out my connections”, what exactly do you mean? Lr7 (LR Classic CC) upgrades your Lr6 catalog, and all the publish services should be intact… there shouldn’t be any changes. However, if you’d placed the downloaded plugin files inside the Lr6 app, as some people do but no one should, then you’d have to re-download them, unzip them, move them to where they really will live (e.g. a “LightroomPlugins” folder in your “Documents”), then point the Plugin Manager at them. Now everything should be as it was in Lr6. If this is not the case, please send more details (and perhaps screenshots). —Jeffrey

hi jeffrey. i downloaded ur update last week. though i was not asked for the receipt # of paypal. messages i get now 1 when attmpting to reload all of ur programs flickr, facebook, zen. smug. “the versionof flickr u have does not work in LR upgrade” 2. when attempt to connect each of them “error occurred while reading schema for PM for flickr. when i attempt to add in LRplugins above messages. thanks. sorry to be so much trouble. love the programs have used them for yrs. jeff lantz

It sounds as if you’re not pointing Lightroom’s plugin manager at the newly-downloaded plugin copies. Perhaps it’d be most safe to delete all copies of all plugins that you have on your system, to ensure that there are no old copies lying around, then download fresh copies, unzip them, move them to where you want them to live on your system, then point the Plugin Manager at them. Your plugin data will remain, as it’s in the catalog and not the plugin files. If they had been registered prior to your Lightroom upgrade, you’ll have to re-register them (as described here), or leave them unregistered, but you can generate new registration codes with 1-cent transactions, if you like, so it shouldn’t be such a big deal. —Jeffrey

hi when i download the flickr app i copied the registation number, went to LR plugin mgr clicked on add but there is nothing on the screen which allows me to add the registration #. it would not let me add anything from u. it went to a previous plubin in the system but would not let me add your registration # in fact there was no reference to you at all. i do have a flickr and facebook reference in the plugin section but not yours. i have various plugin On1,Maphn,HDR,Perfect clear etc. but can not add u. help jeff

Could you be confusing my plugin with Lightroom’s built-in Flickr plugin? —Jeffrey

I’m moving from Lightroom CC (v6) to Classic CC (v7.2). I’m currently running both while I test out v7.2.

I’ve got the new versions of all of your plugins that I use and they show as registered in v6 and demo in v7.2 (as expected).

I’m about to do the PayPal registrations, but I was wondering if registering in v7.2 will unregister them from v6? Or do you store the registration numbers separately for each version / catalog? (The plugins are in the same folder for both, since the new ones seem to work fine with v6).

The plugin files are almost always backwards compatible, so the same file can work with multiple versions. Registrations are indeed associated with each major Lr version, so registering in Lr7 won’t have any effect on what happens in Lr6. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey
I really enjoy exporting from LR to Zenfolio.
Is there any chance you might prepare a similar Zenfolio export plugin for the On1 Photo Raw program? This is something I really use a lot these days.
Thanks again.
Doug

I’m not familiar with On1 Photo Raw, but if it’s a standalone app that works with an image one by one (e.g. such as Photoshop), then Lightroom’s standard “Edit In…” should work, no? —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffery,

This is very strange, hope to figure it out before getting busy – Exported 169 photos to Zenfolio and there ended up being 5 random photos duplicated but thrown in here and there AND then I exported a full res 169 photos. and same thing happened but with different photos. Any feedback?

Thanks

It’s hard to guess what’s happening…. “random photos” means what? Another user’s photos? Photos in your Lightroom library that weren’t selected? Something else? Perhaps send a plugin log the next time this happens, with explicit info about exactly what images went amiss. —Jeffrey

I have used your Zenfolio uploader for a couple years without incident and have found your plugin to work well. However, this week, the plugin has started throwing up a message that the Zenfolio website is not responding due to technical difficulties after from zero to ten photo uploads. It has often taken me an hour to upload forty images by repeated attempts, being thrown out over and over again. Consequently, the plugin is virtually useless to me, and I have gone in search of another uploader tool. I have liked using your uploader in the past because it makes uploading a one-step process. However, this current glitch makes it useless. I was advised by Zenfolio that this is a big problem for other users and to contact you to see if you are fixing this glitch and when. Please advise because I am about ready to discontinue use of your product if no fix is in the works.
Ron

I wish I could be of help, but the problem is absolutely, unequivocally at Zenfolio. Their API endpoint is returning an HTML page meant for a web browser, not an API data reply, something that it should never do, under any circumstances, so by definition this is their problem, even if the plugin were sending junk (which of course it’s not). It has been their pattern for years for Support to blame the plugin and shoo people my way, even long after their engineers have confirmed the problem is theirs. It’s getting old, and I wish they would stop. In this case, I’ve sent them enough that they should be convinced that the problem is not mine, but I’ve gotten no reply. They just shoo you away to me, and consider “case closed”. Sigh. I don’t know what more I can do. I am as frustrated with Zenfolio as you are. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, Your site is highly recommended from multiple different sources and I have seen its power. However, one thing that I don’t like about it is the reCAPTCHA system that I have to pass in order to access information from a photo. You know the one I mean – you have click all the squares containing street signs etc. It always takes more than a minute or 2 to do the reCAPTCHA tests but often it takes 4, 5 and even up to 6 minutes to do just 1. The different screens just keep coming!!!!!!! Now it’s buses, now it’s roads, now it’s shopfronts. If you get one wrong, you start over. It almost feels like doing an exam. In the past, it was just one test where you had to reproduce a single word via typing and it took a few seconds. Now, it takes a long time. If I have 10 photos, I could spend up to half an hour just doing reCAPTCHAs. Could you replace that system for a less time-consuming system? I don’t mean to sound like I’m complaining. It’s a great site. Cheers.

I have to pay for the bandwidth, and without the reCAPTCHA system the site is immediately overrun by robots. When I run into these reCAPTCHA things on the web, I just click the “I’m a human” box and that’s that… no buses, street signs, or other tests. I used to get the tests, but I’ve passed them sufficiently well that I guess Google now trusts me. Maybe you need to be be logged into a Google account in your browser for this? Or keep their cookies? I don’t know the magic behind it, but if it’s taking you five minutes with each one, you might want to check whether you’re actually human. 😉 —Jeffrey

What a surprise to find that the author of a book that, as a Perl programmer since the 1990’s, I have used many times … also shares both my passion for photography and my opinions about so much that is wrong with the Internet.

I also love the C language but, unlike you, I have had the misfortune of learning the complicated mess that is C++

Cheers,
Tom

So Google is monetizing the reverse geo-encode lookup. I guess it was just a matter of time. I looked at their proposed charges. For the small amount to lookups I do the charges are reasonable. What needs to happen would be for me to open an account with Google and the geo encode app would send my account info to Google for billing. I wonder if Google would let something like that happen? Let’s hope we can work something out. If not, it was a great app while it lasted!

In theory it’s easy enough that you create a billing account at Google, enable it for the services that the plugin provides, and supply to the plugin a key that Google will display to you. Then, the plugin uses that for your needs, and you get billed (but the first $200/month is a free credit, which normal folk will never exceed). The biggest problem is getting non-technical photographers to deal with the Google account stuff. I’m a developer, and I can barely makes heads and tails of their site. It’s ridiculously unintuitive to me. &madash;Jeffrey

This is the best exif tool online!!!
With one click I can check the location on google maps. Perfect!

I have checked sooo many… either they do not show the “title”… but description… or vice versa. When they offer to show the location… it is never exact.

Thank you soooo much!!!

Greetings from Germany
Jan

I noticed that Photo Mechanic is advertising its ability in the “to be” released version 6 (March 25) to upload directly from PM to FB. Does this suggest that FB may have changed its policy. If not, how do you think they are getting around it.

I love your plugins and contribute regularly to their continued development. I hate having to export from LR to upload to FB. Would love to see the connection restored. Is the issue with LR or FB?

It could be that they embed a web browser, and pre-populate a post for you, but unless they got special permission from FB, I think that they can’t actually automatically submit the post. Or, if it’s a MacOS-only feature, they’re using the MacOS “share” functionality, which pre-populates a post for you to submit. In either case, these sound like one-by-one things. But who knows? I guess we’ll find out. —Jeffrey

Problems with the Zenfolio upload plug-in are now resolved. I think the LR Classic update today, dealing with export issues, has somehow allowed the plugin to work as designed.

I’ve been a huge fan of Folder Publisher since 2015. It matches my workflow perfectly. Just upgraded my computer and finally moved up to Lightroom 8.2 (I’ve been avoiding Classic CC for awhile). Install and registration went great. I’m so glad you continue to support this plugin!

Thank you
Sarah

Maryland, USA

Hi Jeffrey, Having been to Japan a couple of times, both my wife and I found it a truly amazing country. From Sapporo, Takayama, Kagoshima, Takamatsu, and many points in between. Peaceful, friendly and relatively cheap to live if you know where to eat.

I heard about your plug in to be able to keep meta data, including the photo file number, which then automatically adds onto Facebook. I usually use Photoshop, so was wondering if you have a plug in for Photoshop and/or you can direct me to a source which would provide the same options.

Many thanks with warm and sunny greetings from Townsvlle, North Queensland, Australia.

Cheers.. Brian

Sorry, no, I don’t know anything about Photoshop plugins. —Jeffrey

I’ve updated my JF LR Classic plug-in for uploads to Flickr to current version, but the plug-in is greyed out in LR. I’ve disabled and enabled it twice with no change. Any idea how I can get back to using the plug-in? LR is uptodate (8.4 release).
Please see this FAQ about bad installs. —Jeffrey

Hi, I’m a registered user of your metadata_presets plugin (latest version 20190616.98, LR classic 8.2). On the plugin’s maintenance page, where I create and edit presets, the scroll bars on the left (‘build your preset here’), and on the right, where you select the metadata fields to add to the preset, are missing. So I can’t see all the fields in my preset, or scroll through all the available metadata fields. Can you help please. Thanks, John Yugin

Perhaps you have a bad install? Lightroom doesn’t actually support scrollbars like that, so I build them myself from images. If you look inside the plugin, there’s a folder of images (“i”) that should have about 77 different images. Perhaps they got lost on your system(?) If that’s not it, please send a screenshot (jfriedl@yahoo.com) —Jeffrey

Is there a SIMPLE way to change or remove the orientation tag in a .jpg file.
Thanks from Red Sox Nation (Boston),
Jeffry (Spelled without the unnecessary second e)

ExifTool seems pretty simple to me, but YMMV. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey, I’m thinking about switching from Lightroom6 tot the new monthly subscription. My question is: Will my Lightroom still look the same and will the plugins still work? Will my Lightroom6 be untouched and still work after I decide to stay with the old Lightroom6?

Thank you for your time

All my plugins that work on Lr6 also work on the subscription Lightroom (currently Lr8). As far as the plugins are concerned, you can use both at the same time, but frankly, I don’t know whether installing the subscription version of Lightroom overwrites the non-subscription version, or how any of that works. But my plugins don’t care. —Jeffrey

Dear Jeffrey, I work with lightroom for years…. the last years with ce4 gallery from the turning gate…. but since google maps needs api-codes, nothing works anymore…. now I want to invest some dollars in a good weg-gallery-plugin to show my images and when they click on an image or a gps-sign-button near that image, that a map shows where that image is taken….. Do you have such a gallery plugin for sale? thnx in advance, grtz Ronald

No, sorry, I don’t have any Web Gallery plugins. —Jeffrey

I’m in the Pacific Northwest, and I’m looking for any easy way to publish from Lightroom to Instagram. Are you considering an Instagram plugin?

No, they explicitly disallow it. That being said, I have seen a Lightroom plugin that somehow seems to do it, so a search for it may be fruitful. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey – I’ve used your jfflickr plugin with Lightroom for several years. My publishing needs have slowed considerably, but I’m resuming now. Last time I tried, uploads to Flickr took forever – like 3-4 minutes for 1 photo. That’s SIGNIFICANTLY slower than my earlier experience, in which speeds were much faster – 10+ photos per minute. I upgraded to the newest version today. Do you have any suggestions I might try? – Thanks,
Derek

I don’t think that Lightroom is any faster/slower than before, so either the network connection is slower, or you’re trying to upload more than before. Are the export settings (particularly size and quality) the same as before? —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

Have you a plugin that will find all Saved Prints or all Saved Books or all Smart Collections? Is searching for such collection types possible?

A plugin understands the difference between Smart Collections and regular collections, but a plugin doesn’t know anything about prints or books…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey.
I have used your “google photos export plugin for Lightroom” with my old lightroom 5.7 for a few days, and exported 2200 photos as of today. About 2-300 000 to go. When exporting a collection with 561 photos it stops after 159 with the error message: “Couldn’t render image: readNegative: dng_error_end_of_file” Are there any way to see if it is a specific photo that gives the problem? What else can it be?

Thanks or your effort, appreciate it.
Rgds and Sayōnara.
Lars Liljegren,
Västerås, Sweden.

PS. I cannot see that my Google drive used storage changes when upploading photos to google photos with your tool as out state inside the tool. Which is good!

That error indicates that your DNG file is corrupt. If you inspect the plugin log (or send it to me), you can tell which image exactly it is. —Jeffrey

Hello from Finland!
I was very Happy when I found your plugin for face-data transfer from Picasa to LR, because I have thousends of photos in Picasa and it look’s like the end of Picasa is near :(. I bought Lightroom Classic from Adobe and started to learn LR and test metadata plus face-info transfer from Picasa3 to LR. Then suddenly LR started to crash my PC totally and did not leave any info of the reason to boot my PC. I contacted Adobe helpdesk, and they updated Nvidia sw (Graphics card) by remote connection, but it did not help. Next day another helpperson asked my Win10 version, which is 2004 and then said that this version of win10 causes problems with adobe sw, and said that I shoud return to previous win10 update (1906 or something). When I looked how to return I saw that win10 config says the return is possible only during 10 days timeframe, not after that!!!

After some thinking I decided to test more LRC by deleting the sw and installing it again. In first attempt I did left all data as is, but it did not work, LRC crashed again. Then I deleted LR totally and reinstalled it. Now the installation sw said there is a new version of LRC, and I choosed it. Then the installation sw said I have one unsupported plug-in in my configuration (the one for Picasa transfer ofcourse), and asked to say ‘yes’ to remove it. The insatllation went succesfully to the end and now LRC seems to work ok! No crash yet after several hours up-time!

I have now to ask you, is it possible that you could fix your plug-in so, that it works ok with win10 vers. 2004 and the newest LRC (Release 10.0 build 202010011851-ef6045e0)? If you can do it, I’m ready to donate some euros for your project.

WBR Juha Kari
Vantaa, Finland

As for the plugin, I’ve pushed out a new version that should work. Lightroom will need to be restarted after the upgrade. As for Lr crashing, I suppose Adobe Support suggested that you disable GPU acceleration? That’s the only thing I can think of…. other than that, I can only say “good luck!” 😉 —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey, from the green city of Milton Keynes in the UK.

I wonder if you know of or have heard of a plugin that does what Sync Metadata does but actually covers all the EXIF and IPTC metadata? I have a lot of scanned images from a previous lifetime shooting transparencies. I still do this occasionally when either I go off on a little adventure with my old film camera or I re-scan some pictures that I hadn’t taken as much care over as I should have – that generally arose when scanning batches of 50 slides via the Nikon Slide Feeder. I used to have to enter the Date Taken but somewhere along the line Adobe let you edit that. Now I’m left having to manually enter the camera Make and Model which is mildly tedious. There are a couple of plugins that let you enter those data (including a good one from Beardy) but it would be helpful to be able to copy the values around.

Thanks for a really useful set of Plugins and for your interesting insights into Japanese life.

Kind regards, Mike

I’m not quite sure what you’re asking (I’m not familiar with many of the products you’ve mentioned), but Lightroom doesn’t allow one to update many of the metadata fields…. they’re read when the file is first imported, period. Make and Model are among them. So, you’d have to update these values in the image files before importing. (You can do them in batch with the command-line ExifTool, though I imagine that there are many graphical apps that would let you do it as well.) —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffery,

I lived for five years in Kyoto in the late 1960’s and knew Fr. Graham McDonnell when he was running the English school at Kawaramachi/Shijo. We were both so young then. I am a 82 yr old retired American lawyer and came across your photo of you and Fr. McDonnell having lunch in Kyoto. I would be grateful if you could tell me how get in touch with Father. I often wondered what became of him after I left Kyoto.

Perhaps you could give him my email address. I don’t know if he still remembers me by name, but tell him I was the one who took him to see the Godfather movie when it first came out. He also joined me and my parents for dinner when they visited me in Kyoto so many years ago.

Thanks for your help.

Ron Sokol

I’ve passed along your message and contact info to Fr. McDonnell —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I’m writting from Spain, Andalucia region. I’m currently semi-retired so I can dedicate quite a bit of my time to nature and wildlife photography.

I discovered your site a few days ago looking for a way to see focus distance in some bird photos, as it’s a bit buried into the exif and depending on the Lightroom version, this specific parameter dissapers in the exif.

I wonder if you have something to see the focus point in a RAW picture. As an Olympus user, I can see it on camera browsing the photos (so the information is there…), but I did not found any way of seeing it in my PC.

Thanks, Good job!

Lightroom used to include focus distance, but the rumor is that camera manufactures asked for it to be removed because it’s so incredibly inaccurate. In any case, if it’s in the master image, you can see it via my Metadata Viewer plugin, or in bulk with my Data Explorer plugin —Jeffrey

Hello, Jeffrey!

First of all, i must say I love your work, it’s amazing! Both photographs and plugins. I just discovered your map with that ton of geolocated photos. It’s so great. I’m using an iOS app called PixTrack to log geolocate my images, what do you use? Just curious!

Keep it up and thanks for sharing your work!!

Fran

Photos I take with my iPhone are geoencoded natively in the phone. Otherwise, I use a GPX track and my plugin. (Most often, I record the GPX track with Guru Maps. —Jeffrey

Hi,

I wanted to use Metadata Viewer on the laptop as well so sent another $5 donation for another code but the code doesn’t work for some reaosn? Registration failed.

What’s happening?

Thanks!

Alex

The same code should work on two installs under the same account, so you shouldn’t need another code. As described on the registration page, sometimes PayPal inexplicably puts a bogus code on the confirmation web page, but the proper one is sent in the confirmation email, so perhaps check there. When you find the code, you can email it to me and I’ll PayPal return it to you, since you don’t really need the new code. —Jeffrey