Was wonder what the chances are you would be making a plugin for deviantART.com Would love to to be able to post directly from LR2 to deviantART

Unlikely, sorry, any time soon. —Jeffrey

I have LR 2.0 and love your flickr plugin. Problem is it takes FOREVER to export photos. DO you have any tips as to size, quality etc. I usually export about 250 photos fora model to review on flickr so they don’t have to be big or high qaulity. I am going from RAW to JPG and think that is the bottleneck. Like 170 photos are taking several hours to export and upload to flickr.

Running a three year old HP laptop (2MB RAM) and the photos ARE on a USB external hard drive. Running XP.
Appreciate any suggestions. Hate to move the photos off the external hard drive as that is where I keep them. (small laptop HD is why).

Thank you.

The bottleneck is almost certainly the upload part, but you can test it for sure by exporting to local disk and see how much faster it is. To minimize the upload size, you need to minimize the file size. Of course, that means setting the image width/height to as small as you can handle, and lower the quality to the minimum that’ll suit your needs. Also, use my metadata wrangler to remove metadata you don’t need (such as the embedded thumbnail). —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I love the SmugMug uploader, has completely redefined my work flow!
Do you have a paypal account or somewhere I can donate money to for your time and effort on this addon!
Cheers
Laurie

I do, but it’s sort of hidden here. There’s also a small button in the Plugin Manger for it. Thanks! —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, I turned of all the extra settings, set image format to ‘original’, no keywords and uploaded to Flickr. When I downloaded the picture, it was 5k bigger. This doesn’t happen when I upload using Flickr upload, I get the same exact file back. Any clue what the difference is? Sorry for being so picky.

The lack of keywords is likely one of the known issues I ask that you read before commenting. I don’t know why it would be 5k bigger, except to guess that perhaps they add in the keywords and caption/title, etc., that the plugin sends along? I dunno. —Jeffrey

Any change of an Mpix export plugin?

Hi, sorry if I’m writing down here, but I didn’t find a contact on the blog. Is it possible to suggest you anothere online service that needs one of your export plugin? It’s Gallery2, an opensource gallery script without a working plugin for LR2 (a couple for LR1 seem to be discontinued). It could be possible to see an export solution for this software too?? Could be great! sorry if I’m asking too much however and great job!

Gallery2 official website: http://gallery.menalto.com/

I can give you access to a server with gallery2 installed to make the plugin working if you need. Let me know!

regards,
m.

Hi Jeffrey, I have a question about lightroom 2. I hope you don’t mind me posting this question here. I am trying to add captions to slideshows in LR2. I cannot seem to activate the “text template editor” . There is no triangle next to the ABC button as mentioned in the Module help. I am probably missing something simple but If you or anyone else have any suggestions it would be a big help. I apologize if this is not an appropriate site for posting this question. Actually if you know a good site for trouble shooting (discussion etc) I could ask there. By the way I love you smugmug plugin! Thanks, Dave

P.S. I hope you had a good trip to Vancouver. Its my home town.
P.P.S I am using a mac

Hi, I figured that slideshow problem out. There was not enough room in the toolbar pannel to display the text box (to the right of the ABC button) for the text overlay. sorry for posting here. Dave.

Hi Jeffrey,

do you plan to develop MobileMe plugin for both: MAC OS and Windows?

regards,

Nice work – but ever thought about an Alamy (www.alamy.com) plug in? If you could sort out their silly metadata fields, you would probably be able to charge for that one!!
Cheers,
Steve

Hey Jeffrey,

First of all thats for all you efforts in this amazing plugin. It certainly saves time.

I do have some issues working with the plugin. But most are worked out by reloading the plugin. There is however a recent problem that I believe might be a facebook issue.

I am getting a

Error response from Facebook
Error uploading image : no photo id.

And then it aborts the pics i am trying to upload to face book.

Email me and i’ll send you the jpeg of the error and the error log.

Again thanks for all your efforts.

Jeffrey,

Thanks for the plug in for lightroom. I did download it, however I’m stock when trying to export my lightroom galleries to smug mug. Do you have any suggestions? or step by step procedures?

Thanks,
Lee.

Thanks Jeffrey,
Adobe works in mysterious ways. The only thing that I can think of is that they think of Lightroom as a “pro” product and Express as an amateur product so nether the twain shall meet (well … you know what I mean).

Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing your excellent work with the Lightroom community.

- Matt

First off: Thanks for the great work on the plug-ins.

Have you thought about making a plug-in to let users create their own custom metadata fields? For example, I have a portable weather station and would love to be able to add information about temperature, humidity, air pressure, etc to my images.

There is a wildly popular Russian facebook clone called Vkontakte.Ru – I wonder what are the chances of adapting a version of this plugin of yours to it?

How much of a clone is it? Is the programming API identical? I couldn’t find any docs… at least none that I could read… —Jeffrey

I was wondering if you make simple export functions. I am looking for a way to export photos using a keyword to create a directory where that photo is stored. I know your tools are ultra advanced and I am just looking for something simple. Do you know of anything or have anything in the works?

Dave

I also like to thank you for your fantastic work, its so impressiv and helpful!

(and maby, if you don’t have other important things to do, you could think of an Export plugin for Ipernity (www.ipernity.com)?)

again: thanks a lot for your great work!

carsten

I have been having trouble uploading from lightroom 2.1 to smugmug. It is saying that it can not connect to host. Is this a issue i am having with the plugin or Smugmug?
Thank You
Craig

If you’re on Vista, it’s likely a Lightroom bug. I’ve heard a lot of reports of networking problems on Vista with LR2.1 )-: —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

I have 2 questions related to plugin development

1 .How to create dynamic content of the dialog – for example
one checkbox per one contact group created on server side?

2. What version of the lua compiler you use?
I try 5.1.4, 5.1.1 , 5.0.3 but Lightroom 2.0 do not accept my plugin code.

See the plugin-developer’s manual, 187 pages of information and examples. It’s part of the Lightroom SDK that you can download for free. —Jeffrey

You really do a great job with these LR plugins, what a great time saver.

Hoping you might consider adding one for http://www.phanfare.com

THANKS

Great tools Jeffrey. I love the Export to Picasa Web Album:

What about making a Export to SkyDrive (http://skydriveteam.spaces.live.com/, which now have 25GB free ) !?

Add me to the list of people who would like to export Photos from LR 2.0 to Apple’s mobileme. I’d gladly pay/donate for this. Thanks for your work (i use the flickr/picasa plugin too)

Thanks for these great plugins! What a pity there isn’t going to be a deviantART plugin…

Just because I don’t write it doesn’t mean that someone else can’t. You, perhaps? —Jeffrey

Are there any plans for an export plugin for photobucket.com?

Tom

I can’t believe I did this, but I actually did make one: here. —Jeffrey

Any plans on a kodakgallery plugin?

Thanks,
Herbert

No plans by me, but I can’t speak for others. Anyone’s allowed to write a plugin. —Jeffrey

Will there be a plugin for uploading to Google’s panoramio.com (i.e. Google Earth)?
Having recently visited some places where photos I took were much better than anything I found on Google Earth, I just might have to build a Panoramio plugin so I can send them some good imagery —Jeffrey

First, thank you so much for your excellent Lightroom plugins – I can’t imagine life without them.

I have a quick question (and possibly a feature request) regarding the export plugins (Flickr and Smugmug specifically)

I noticed that after exporting a photo using your plugins, a custom metadata field is updated with “Uploaded to Smugmug” and “At Smugmug” with the URL. This is excellent, except that it seems the only way to edit these fields is to upload the photo using your plugin.

These fields would be very useful for better keeping track of what I’ve uploaded and to where, but I’d like to be able to add the information manually for photos that weren’t uploaded using your plugin. Is it possible to make the user-editable?

Alternatively, can I suggest a metadata plugin that does something similar, which would allow me to enter one or more URL’s to associate with a particular photo? (So I can keep track of photos on sites that there’s no export plugin for, such as DeviantArt as one example).

Thanks again for your great work.

The items under the “Plugin Extras” File menu allow you to do some of this. Currently, the Flickr plugin can do more, but if I can ever catch my breath development-wise, I’ll add more to both… —Jeffrey

Having recently visited some places where photos I took were much better than anything I found on Google Earth, I just might have to build a Panoramio plugin so I can send them some good imagery —Jeffrey

Please do so

I would appreciate it very much, just as I appreciate your wonderful Flickr-plugin. Thank you.

I just took a look, and it seems that Panoramio explicitly wants to make uploading a hassle so that the barrier to entry will (hopefully) keep the riffraff out. I’m certainly not going to go through an “export to disk then fire up a browser and upload the images one at a time” rigmarole, so I guess I and my shabby photos qualify as riffraff. No plugin. —Jeffrey

Any chance of an Export Plug-in to export directly to Kodak Gallery http://www.kodakgallery.com
I use PictureSync for Mac to do this now, but the Win version of PictureSync doesn’t do Kodak Gallery yet.

Thanks for some GREAT plug-ins by the way!!

Ed W.

Kodak is still in business? (I took a peek, and didn’t see any info about an upload API.) —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I think I may have made this request a while ago via email. But I can’t find it in my email archive and I’m once again itching to see it implemented so I’ll mention it again. My apologies if it’s a dupe.

Can you fix the “associate images” function found under the flickr extras so that it tries to match title as well as timestamp? I occasionally have several versions of the same image on my flickr stream (color and B&W for example) which have an identical timestamp. The plug in correctly identifies the conflict in these cases but offers no way to resolve it. Matching titles in the event of a timestamp conflict would solve this. Alternatively some mechanism for doing this manually would be great.

Also if you could implement the same feature for Smugmug that would be fantastic

Many thanks again for your great plug ins and all the effort.

very good job ….!!!!

Any chance you might make an exporter to http://www.photo.net? I really love using their galleries for critiqueing my photos. I figured you are familiar with the site. Thanks for the other awesome plugins!

Jake

where do I find your email?

Well, it’s where one might expect to find it (on the About Me page linked from the head of my blog), but to save you the trip: jfriedl@yahoo.com —Jeffrey

Was wonder what the chances are you would be making a plugin for JOOMEO Would love to to be able to post directly from LR2 to JOOMEO
the site: http://www.joomeo.com/
the forum: http://www.forum.joomeo.com/

Thank you.

jphiphotos

I’d never heard of them. I took a look at their API… it seems to be pretty limited, but at least they have one. I sent them some questions… we’ll see. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

a plugin for panoramio.com would be really great.

I think so, too. When I checked last year, they had no public API, but when I checked last week, I noticed an “API” link at the bottom of their home
page. Unfortunately, every time I try to access it, it hangs and times out. So, I guess they’re not quite ready for prime time. But when they are, I’ll definitely try to make a plugin for them, ’cause I have a lot of images of Kyoto that are better than those they have and I feel compelled to share them with the world —Jeffrey

Update: I finally got through, and found that it was not an API for uploading. They still don’t want to provide tools for easy uploads. Apparently, they value dedication over quality. Sigh. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for a well-made plugin – power to the RegEx

One thing, though. I’m working on my own site in Rails and have implemented OAuth to upload photos from Lightroom and while I have a working plugin to do the upload, I’d really like to figure out how to authenticate it properly like you do and read the stories in some form so I get all that data through from Lightroom. Obviously you can’t give me your source code, but would you be able to adapt your SmugMug plugin for me? I’ll pay you whatever I can – starving student here, but keen to do it!

Best

Vish, London, UK

Here, perhaps this will help —Jeffrey

Great Metadata plugin. I was wondering if the custom metadata that I set up within the plugin could be used to print titles from. That is. I am an artist and I need to print not only my images but also title, date, medium, dimensions (hxl), and price for each piece. Under the print menu it doesn’t give me a link to that customized data only to metadata I don’t need.. Extensis Portfolio permits that output to be created. Am I missing something in Lightroom or in your Plugin?
Thank you for your help.

Even without knowing which of my dozen-plus plugins you’re referring to, I’m afraid that the answer is not good news: plugin custom metadata is not at all visible to the Print module, as far as I know. )-: —Jeffrey

Is it ridiculous to yearn for a plugin that would let LR import some video formats, and allow them as part of a library? Even just displaying the file name would be useful……

No, not ridiculous at all. When LR2 came out, there weren’t any SLRs with video mode (at least, I don’t think there were), but multi-media support was still a big request. In the intervening year, SLRs with video have popped out everywhere, so you know Adobe’s got to be thinking of something for LR3. Hopefully. Until then, I might be able to whip up a plugin of some sort… let me think about what I might be able to do… —Jeffrey

UPDATE: Here you go: New Lightroom Plugin: Video-Asset Management. —Jeffrey

You have the most amazing export plugins, it completely eliminated that extra step of converting to jpg, and then using various upload tools. I love it!

-
Andrew from NYC but living in UK

Hi Jeffrey,

writing from Singapore, but moving back to France soon…
I love LR, and I love your export plugins – I use picasaweb right now because it offers 1Go free, and your plugin (for which I donated) makes it sooo easy. Thanks!

I just noticed your preview cache extractor tool. The one thing I am missing right now from LR2 is a screensaver for my family pictures. Right now I am using picasa2 screensaver, but it requires that I export the photos into a folder.
What I would love is a screensaver that can access the sqllite catalog and the preview cache and use the content of the preview cache for display. Ideally I could flag the photos in LR2, and the screensaver would select in the DB where the flag is set and there is a preview.
I would like to start coding this myself (the sqllite querying and image display is not too hard in c#), but I do not know how to open and read from the cache preview files. Did you find information about this somewhere, or did you reverse-engineer the file format?

let me know,

Renaud

I’d recommend against this approach… if it comes on while Lightroom is running, it could corrupt the database. (Yes, even if you only read the SQL database, it could cause corruption.) I’ve heard that future versions of LR may use strong locking to enforce that others can’t read the DB while it has it open. LR can do a wonderful slideshow… why not just invoke that when you want to have something running with pretty pictures? Personally, I’ve never seen the point to screen savers for personal computers…. if you’re not using the screen, turn it off, no? —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,

Thanks for nice plugins for Flickr and geotagging. Wanted to ask about one for panoramio, but you already answered to that question above. Hopefully panoramio will get more open in the future.

Yeah, it’s too bad. I exchanged email with someone (who had the same name as the founder) who apparently didn’t even know that one could geoencode photos with a GPS unit, or, in fact, any way other than doing it at Panoramio itself. I was shocked and dumbfounded they could be that insulated (or stupid), so I shut the door quietly and snuck away. —Jeffrey

Any chance you will be writing a LR export plugin for Expono? (expono.com)

Made one: here —Jeffrey

Love your SmugMug plugin! You’re a wiz programmer but how good a photographer are you? The reason I ask is that I and many others, would love to have more LR camera matching profiles for Olympus cameras. Adobe provides a lot of support for the big volume Canonikon crowd but little for Olympus. The Oly E-3 offers JPEGs in 5 picture modes, Vivid, Natural, Muted, Portrait and Monotone. RAW is of course just RAW. LR offers a very good conversion of RAW to what appears to be Oly’s “Natural” or at least Adobe’s version of it. However there is no conversion offered to emulate the other picture modes as there is for the more popular Canons and Nikons. I’m not good enough to do this myself. Any chance of you having a go at it?

Sorry, I have neither an Olympus camera nor a clue about what goes into making a profile. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey. Fist of all thanks for your pluggins. I am a great fan and appreciate your work.
Here is a little “problem” I have with my workflow”that I think might be common and might me an idea for a pluggin if you ever need one…
I am experimenting with Panoramas (using Autopano) and HDR (Photomatix). My problem is that when I render a new image in any of these cases, most of the metadata from the original frames is not transferred to the new image… I understand things like lens or exposure might not be relevant, but others like date taken, keywords, GPS info, etc is very relevant and helpful (at least in my case). So I end up having to export my metadata to xmp and use a exiftool with a .bat file to copy certain fields form one of the “sources” to the new image… quite cumbersome. Would be great to have a way within lightroom to select a source, target, and fields to copy…

Anyway… not expecting you to do anything, but thought it might serve you as an idea…

Best Regards
ET

Thank Jeffery for a great set of plugins.
I have 1 question on the Flickr plugin. I have a large collection f pictures on flickr. Is there any way of connecticting you Flickr plugin/Lightroom to my existing pictures already on Flickr?

I’d like to be able to use your plugin without loosing comments & views (i.e. for update, find, etc). I looked but did not see any references in the threads.

Thanks
MichaelB (USA, PA)

Select the photos in your library that might be on Flickr, then invoke Files > Plugin Extras > Flickr Extras and go from there. —Jeffrey

Quote : http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2009/3/16/232478

> Are there any APIs available for uploading photos to MobileMe account?

There are, but you don’t want to use them. Apple once made a DotMacKit
framework that would upload anything to MobileMe, but it hasn’t been
updated in years, it’s horribly obsolete, the authors will most likely
never update it, and the source code isn’t available.

You’re best off using a library that supports HTTP PUT and doing this
manually, such as ConnectionKit or CURL.

Nick Zitzmann

so there is no api but …

Looks like someone did exactly that (“screen scraping”), and released a MobileMe plugin at the Lightroom Exchange. —Jeffrey, March 2010

Hi Jeffrey,

Thank you for producing all this amazing plug-ins.

I’m trying to use the Flickr upload plug-in and everytime I try to Export a file over 10MB (most of my files are) it gets rejected even though I’m asking to export at a quality less than 100% and reducing the pixels to 70dpi – surely this will reduce the files to about 1MB.
Seems Flickr sees the original file before your plug-in does its stuff. Is there anyway to sort this problem out without reducing the size of my photos one by one in CS3?

Thanks
Chris
You can see in the log (if you can decypher it… it’s not meant for human consumption) the size of the image actually sent, and any error message returned from Flickr. —Jeffrey

rejected even though I’m asking to export at a quality less than 100% and reducing the pixels to 70dpi – surely this will reduce the files to about 1MB.

Chris-
In case you weren’t aware, setting the DPI at 70 will do absolutely nothing to the physical pixel dimensions of your images (and therefore to the file size) unless you are also putting in resize dimensions in inches or centimeters at the same time. If you are exporting at full size (“Resize to Fit” unchecked OR defining a pixel dimension WITH it checked in the Export dialog) the DPI setting just gets saved into the image’s metadata in the event that someone actually prints the photo using a program that recognizes and follows the DPI setting.

Essentially, a 1000×1000 pixel photo at 70DPI will be the exact same file size as a 1000×1000 pixel photo at 10DPI… or 10,000DPI. It’s only when printed that you’ll see a difference.

Hello Jeffrey,

If we add new Metadata field to the Lightroom does that metadata value gets stored in image XMP header ? Also do we have APIs to write such metadata to some external file ?

For export feature, how are the services on the Picasa, Facebook etc.. are written ? Are they webservices ?

We have an internal application which can import images through webservices, do you have any suggestions to me how to write the export plugin in such scenario ?

Thanks
mark.

Mark, your note is missing words in a few key places, so I’m not really sure what you’re asking. Could you resend, via email, with a bit more verbosity? —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I know some others have a also mentioned this, but it really would be fantastic if you could make a windows live skydrive plugin since they have 25GB of free space.

Also an option for a registration code that works for all plugins on many computers would be very useful.

Thanks for the plugins.

Francis

I’ll add SkyDrive investigation to the todo list. One-registration-multiple plugins is available if you use the registration for one plugin then send it to me with your needs, and I’ll take care of it. —Jeffrey

Hi.

Any chance to create a plugin for BuenaFoto? (http://www.buenafoto.es/)

Thank you in advance!

Hi, Love the photobucket upload plugin. Any chance you might develop an plugin for uploading to snapfish? It would be really nice to upload directly to snapfish so you can easily order prints…

Thanks!

I don’t see anything on their site about an upload API, so it’s doubtful…. —Jeffrey

I have some problem loading flickr plugin. When I load flickr plugin it load succesfully but I didnt copy tht pluging in my lugin directory. I removed that plugin. and now I am trying to loading that plugin form the different directory, but it is not loading.

Lightroom’s plugin manager works by you telling it where the plugins are…. it doesn’t copy or move them… so if you move them away out from under the plugin manager after you’ve told it where they are, you’ll have to re-tell them of the new location. —Jeffrey

There’s an app for Panoramio for the iPhone now, maybe it’s possible to make a plugin for Lightroom now ? Perhaps they changed the API.

Hi Jeffrey,

I am working on plugin for light room .I faced a small issue please help me out to solve this.

The issue is I need to allow file formats like GIF,PNG,BMP but as in the sdks given by light room 2.0 that there are some restrictions regarding the allowfileformats.

It is given that JPEG ,PSD ,TIFF ,DNG ,ORIGINAL only these formats are allowed . Even Light-room itself doesn’t add other format files except the given.

So, Please tell me how should I allow other format files if so please tell me the solution so that i can clearly mention what file format should be supported.

Thanks,
Kishore.

Lightroom handles only the formats it handles, so if you want to handle something else (like GIF and PNG), you must convert it yourself, somehow, before presenting it to Lightoom. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I have been using the LR2 to Zenfolio plug-in for a while. I THOUGHT that Zenfolio had a problem receiving keywords uploaded w/images so just kept on truckin’. Well, just found a drop down regarding keywords in LR that contained “enter keywords”. Seemed logical to leave it alone. NOT – the drop-down also had “will export” as an option. Just tested 1 file and it did what it was supposed to do.
I have about 12,000 images uploaded. Any thoughts about how to export keywords after the fact without starting over updoading huge files again??
AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHH.
Thanks. Love your software!
Charlie

Just added the ability to resend keywords and such… see the changelog for version .91 for more info. —Jeffrey

Guys,

I noticed in the comments the discussion about Lightroom Screensaver.
I’m please to announce Lightroom Screensaver Addon – http://www.LrSaver.com.

If you like Jeffrey’s plugins, you probably will also like this one..

Thanks,
Nir

Thanks for the plug ins, the Zenfolio one is a life saver for me, although I’d like to see a horizontal scrollbar on the import folder selection, as I have deeply nested folders in Zenfolio e.g. Sport > Season > Region > Event > Race, and have to count down the folders to find the one I want as I can’t see the actual folder in the display.

To come to my reason for leaving a comment, as a sports photographer my longest and most tedious part of the lightroom workflow is the keywording, titling and captioning phase. A lot of my images are of horseracing, and I now have keyword hierarchy’s with containers with hundred or thousands of keywords in them, which means an awful lot of scrolling to assign the name of a horse, owner, jockey, and trainer to everyone of between 500 and 1500 images for a shoot.

Would it be feasible to use the keyword import/export function and keyword sets to build a keywording plug in that allows a event photographer, to display a set of keywords for the particular race they are keywording at that moment, and assign a group of related keywords by the competitor number.
- I’d be looking for the ability to inport a series of new related keywords from a structured document – spreadsheet etc e.g Race 1, horse a (owner a, jockey a and trainer a), b, c, etc. Race 2, horse d, e, f etc,
- Then I’d like to filter to the imported keyword sets for a race, say Race 1.
- Then within race 1, I’d like to be able to hit 1 for selected images, and have horse a, owner a, jockey a and trainer a assigned, hit 2 and the appropriate keywords are assigned.
- then the imported keywords should add into the existing keyword hierarchy, within the appropiate category, e.g. horse.
- ideally the plug in would allow allow titles and captions to be built with the default keywords from an image, similar to the twitter update function in the Zenfolio plugin. e.g ” ridden by running in the at ”

Having those kind of capabilities would greatly speed up my workflow.

I’ve just pushed a new version of the plugin that allows you to configure a smaller font for the list, which hopefully will get your leaf names in view. About keywording, LR simply doesn’t allow plugins modify keywords (add or delete), so the whole idea is out until it does (which it may well in LR3, we’ll see). —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,

I love your work and I have donated and purchased several times, great work!

Any chance you could make an export plugin to http://www.viewbug.com?

hope so!

Didn’t see that they had a public API, so it’s unlikely, sorry. —Jeffrey

thanks for all your hard work, these plugins are awesome!

In a quandry. Still have Lightroom 1.4 but upgraded OS to Snow Leopard. When I try using the upload plugin that worked under Leopard to upload from LR to my Flickr account, the export button is grayed out. I understand that you are no longer upgrading the old plugin, and that the new one only works on Lightroom 2 and above. But can I nevertheless still use the old, reliable plugin under Snow Leopard? Is there a place to find a temporary workaround until I upgrade LR?

I’m not familiar with any problems about using LR1 on OSX10.6, and in any case, a grayed-out export button is more root-level than anything to do with a plugin… if you can’t export to disk (for whatever reason), you’ll need to address that before considering whether plugins do or don’t work. You might ask on the LR user-to-user forum at Adobe….. —Jeffrey

Do you have a plugin to export from lightroom 2 to my gmail account or my yahoo account? Thanks
Mark A. Brown

I don’t know of anything for Y!Mail, but there’s a LR2/GMail plugn. You might dig around on the Lightroom Exchange, Adobe’s central resource for plugins, for more. —Jeffrey

Thanks for your SmugMug plugin. I shoot a lot of HDR. Do you know of a plugin or a way to sort images in LR 2 to find the Exposure Bias of “0EV” in the EXIF data?

Thanks again Ron

My Extended Search plugin can do exactly that. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

With LR3 FR being only a couple of months away now have you given any thought to users of your plug-ins being able to donate via PayPal for a number of plug-ins in one go rather than one at a time? Having now used several of your plug-ins over a period of time I’m now in a better postition to decide which one’s I’ll need when LR3 is released and paying for them in bulk would be far more convenient. Thanks.

There is no “paying for them” with my plugins, except for PayPal’s fee for the registration code (which can be had for 1 cent). If you’d like to register a bunch of plugins without the hassle of creating a bunch of registration code, just drop me a note. Now, if you want to send a gift, that’s always welcome, either at the same time as generating a registration code, or any time you just feel like it…. or both…. “Gift early, gift often” is the motto to live by —Jeffrey

Is there a way to extend the “DaysSince” calculation to other plugins? It works great for publishing my photos to flickr (for a 365 project), but I would like to have the same functionality to the blog plugin that I use.

Thanks!

If I did it in a plugin, so can someone else… just have to ask the plugin author. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

what about a plugin to export from LR to 23hq?
They are using the same APi flickr, so it shouldn’t be abig issue.

Thanks.

hello, i am curently trying your export from lightroom 2 to facebook plugin….i was wandering if you had one for lightroom 2 export to gallery 2? I am from Maryland, usa

I don’t have one, but I know I’ve seen one… check out Lightroom Exchange for one. —Jeffrey

I was having a heck of a time figuring out how to export to my SmugMug from Lightroom web module. Lucky for me I found your plugin! It is exactly what I needed; thank you so much for all the great details that make this plugin an easy joy to use. – Nancy

Jeffrey, thanks for the quick, encouraging response. I have used LR/Transporter, but I haven’t had a lot of experience with it. I hope there is a simpler workflow to arrive at my intended result. Perhaps if I describe the end product of this project, a simpler path to my goal will suggest itself. I have constructed a photo display directory of members in a church. Physically, it is a four sided, free-standing display. Each of the four 40″ x 30″ panels has an array of 3″ x 4″ pictures fastened to it (with spaces left between to accommodate photos yet to be taken). The photos are arranged alphabetically by last name by families. Each photo has the subject’s name printed in a 1/4″ band of white across the bottom of the image. It is this way of displaying the names that has required my work flow. I could find no way in LR to produce the black name on white background labels other than by using the Slideshow module, exporting the labeled pictures as jpegs, and reimporting to catalog and print the results. I need to keep two collections within LR, one with and one without the name labels, since I need to continually revise the display with new images and occasional corrected names.

I don’t like having to do the export/import cycle, but there seems to be no way around it. Subjecting the images to the extra jpeg compression (even at 100% quality) degrades the images. Each one must be reedited, and, even then, the result is degraded from the original. I considered using the standard LR export facility, exporting tiffs, using an external program to create the labeled images, then importing back to LR for printing and cataloging. My initial search did not turn up a suitable program.

The print module supports the band-of-white-with-black-text thing directly (“Photo Info” in the “Overlays” section). Stuff the name as you want it printed somewhere (e.g. in the Caption or Title, but you can pick from a wide variety via the “Edit…” selection). —Jeffrey

Jeffrey:

I use 3 of your plug-ins and absolutely love them. On the facebook plug-in, however, I was wondering if you would come up with an update, wherein the photos can be uploaded to my facebook fan page (and not my facebook profile). If there is already a way to do this, I haven’t figured it out yet, and your comments will be helpful.

All in all, you are doing some pretty amazing work and it has a tremendous positive impact on the workflow of photographers like me.

Cheers

Ashu

For some reason, Facebook doesn’t allow that. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, thanks to you both parts of my problem are now solved. You pointed me back to the earlier plugins. LR2/Mogrify will let me format a bottom text title however I like. LR/Transporter lets me export the present label metadata, reverse the order of the names in a word processor, and re-import it to the associated LR images–exactly what I needed. I really must spend more time with existing documentation before I bother people. Thanks again for your patience in setting me on the right track.

Hi Jeffrey,
I had posted this question several days ago but it didn’t show up, so I’ll try again.
I’d like to get the Flickr exporter so got the trial. Can’t seem to figure out how to get it to mimic my normal posting workflow, which is the following:
select photos for export
start the export process and in the Export dialogue use a user preset which exports to a sub directory in the same folder the pics are in ..called “for web”, naming the exported files with a custom name and the original file number (the custom name being a 2 letter code for what i’m doing with it ..eg “fw” meaning “for web” so file name becomes fw-70422.jpg
size the exported photo to 640pixels on the long side at 72dpi and sharpen “for web” plus add my copyright watermark.
Normally I do all that first then select the images in that “for web” directory and right click to “send to flickr” and go through that set of dialogues.

Is there some way I can get the above to happen using the plugin or does the plugin only send the pic as it appears in LR at that time ..meaning do all the above plus ‘add to this catalogue’ and run your preset on those pics? Hope I’ve explained this clearly. Thanks! jj

You can have the export leave the files on your system after the plugin has uploaded them… just set the file location the same as you would with a normal files-on-disk export. When set to “temporary folder”, LR deletes the local copies after the plugin uploads them, but if you set it to something else, they’ll remain even after the upload. —Jeffrey

Wonders whether an exif aware import plugin would be possible to enable deploy user defined development presets for something like lens dependent correction of chromatic aberration and vignetting as it seems this this will not be automated in LR3 judging from the implementation in Photoshop CS5.

Lightroom doesn’t have specific “import plugins” but it’s possible a plugin could be made that ships things off to Photoshop and runs some appropriate actions, but I’ve not played with the new Photoshop stuff yet, so don’t really know what it’s about. I do know that there’s a Lr option that makes default develop settings dependent on the ISO (and maybe camera/lens?)… not sure… not an area I’ve paid much attention, though I think I’d benefit from it because my camera needs luminance noise reduction at high ISO…. —Jeffrey

thanx for the plugins and I hope the donation option is working to keep you going.

Hi,
Do your filters only work for Lightroom, or also for Adobe Bridge?
Best wishes,
David

Lightroom only. Not much reason to use Bridge now that Lightroom is here. —Jeffrey

Hi there,
Good to know that PicasaWeb and Panoramio now share the Google account login and it is now, at last, a one click step to transfer pictures. Only logical really. I asked them about that in the Panoramio forums, wondering why that wasn’t possible given that both PicasaWeb and Panoramio belong to Google, but they simply said it was impossible. I guess they implemented my idea, although I’m sure it wasn’t only mine.
Cheers,
David

Lightroom may well be much cheaper than Photoshop, so would be more attractive to someone who had neither, but I already have Photoshop.

Didn’t see this mentioned, but I have a feeling you have already thought about this..
I recently started uploading a backlog of my stuff to Picasaweb.. And some of the pictures look like this:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_MMHPHBWjyAE/S-ROAT0TfaI/AAAAAAAACwQ/Q3zGvpDYHMQ/s512/MVI_1350.MOV.jpg
You can probably see where I’m going with this Uploading videos that are linked to your album through your Video plugin.

Picasaweb (and flickr, Facebook) supports videos, but I don’t know if their API supports video upload. Have you considered this? Or perhaps on your list? Wondering if I should take a peek at your code and attempt to do it myself (highly doubtful that I’ll succeed

Since Lr3 will support video, I’m sure I’ll have the plugins support video for services that allow it…. —Jeffrey

the plugin for the ipad would be sweet but the tree publisher sounds like it will do the trick for my iphone….

Let start of by saying . “Your Export Plugins for LR are the bomb!” They are extremly useful and very well written pieces of code.
I have a feature request for them, but I don’t know if it is possible. Is there a way to pull the name of a Develop Preset and add it as a keyword when exporting to our favorite photosharing site? I asked this over at the LR3b forum and the person that replied said that having ‘native’ support for something like that might not happen, but could be possible via a plugin.

So, what do you think? Could this be something added as a feature to your ever growing library of Export Plugins?

Also, on a separate note. I have been having problems getting to this site from Chrome. I have to use IE Tab for Chrome in order to submit a comment…Just FYI.

Pacific Northwest, USA
Glenn ‘JPSnuffy’

A Lr3 plugin can inspect the current develop settings, and also the settings for all the develop presets, and it could try to match them up, but any little change to the photo after applying a preset and the connection is lost, so I don’t think it’d be very fruitful. About Chrome, could you be so kind as to drop me an email describing the problems. It seems to work fine for me… —Jeffrey

I was wondering if there is a setting in your Facebook plugin that will allow me to upload photos to a managed page? I have tried going strait to the page that I manage and then exporting but it just shows my photo albums from my original page. I am running LR-3 beta rel2 on a Vista 64 HP laptop. I love your plugins, also have the zenfolio and flickr plugins. My Facebook managed page is; Dave Barksdale Photography. Thanks Jeffrey and keep up the good work

Nothing’s changed… just as it says in the note at the top of the FB-plugin page, and in the FAQ, FB doesn’t allow it. —Jeffrey

Are both the Flickr and Facebook plugins ready for LR3 final released version? I just want to make sure before I upgrade and, yes, donate. I use these both in LR2 and they’ve been great! I donated previously as well. Keep up the great work!

The Lr3 versions are currently in beta, available here. —Jeffrey

Quick idea for a new feature on the flickr plugin. I have a lot of sets, and it’s a pain to hunt for them in the list sometimes. It’d be nice if there was some kind of text search just for your set list, the way the new flickr site itself has it now when you go to “add to set”.

Hello!
I’ve just read on this page that you’ve already been asked to develop a Lightroom plugin for Russian social network Vkontakte.ru. You replied that you couldn’t find any API info you could read. Actually, Vkontakte’s API is nicely documented, but only in Russian. Maybe if I translated the documentation related to uploading the photos, you could write a plugin to export the photos, or maybe even adapt a Facebook one?
Vkontakte is by far the largest social network in Russia with over 75 million users, and many photographers prefer to showcase their work there, so I guess many people will be thankful for you work.
Thank you for the hard work you are doing!

Now is not an opportune time to think about new plugins, with todo lists for my current plugins so long. Perhaps ask plugin developer Vladimir Vinogradsky, whose name gives a hit that perhaps he won’t need a translation….? —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for all the great Lightroom plugins you have created! I’ve been using many of them in Lightroom 2 and will upgrade them to Lr3 as well.

I know you are probably extremely busy with plugins and everything else, but have you considered making a plugin for Pixelpipe?

Is it possible to include the facility to just rename the pictures already uploaded onto Smugmug using the settings as per your pkugin ? It would be really wonderful if there was some way to do this. Thanks for a wonderful product (Lightroom Plugin)

Thanks for your prompt reply. After I sent my email, I lurched around and found that the AppData folder was hidden — read only. Untick and there it was. Microsoft! Again, thanks.

Is there any chance of writing a plugin for Lightroom3 which would enable us to use the Publish facility in order to upload straight to our collections in Fotolibra??? Many thanks
Terry Bridle

I’ve never heard of Fotolibra so I don’t expect I’ll write one, but someone else might… —Jeffrey

Great work!!

Is it possible to get a plugins for Everytrail.com in LR3
Everytrail.com is a very famous website to share a trip with track-logs and photos.
You`ve already done the hard work (geotag i LR).
All we need now, is to have the possibility to log on.

Best regards frofid!!!
You`re welcome to visit my last trip in beautiful Norway.
Search for frofid

I’m sure it’s possible, but I don’t think it’ll be done by me… I’m already too far behind in supporting the plugins I have, and in writing the plugins already on my mind )-: —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Love what you do, and I have 2 requests for you.

First, with the Flickr plugin, I would love to see a way of associating pictures with sets.

Second, a plug-in for publishing to ModelMayhem.com might be worth while.

Cheers and keep up the great work,
~mike

I don’t understand the first question, sorry, could you be more specific? I don’t think ModelMayhem has a public API for a plugin to use. If they do, have them contact me. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

I use your export plugin for facebook, flickr and smugmug and i like it well.

I want to know if you have intention to develop an export plugin for mobileme gallery

Thank you

There’s already one, so I don’t intend to make one myself. —Jeffrey

Hi,
several users of Photo.net would be really interested in an export plugin for Photo.net. There is a forum thread about it here: http://photo.net/digital-darkroom-forum/00Sx2K

Any chance of engineering one for that site? It is a great site for photo discussions and critique and would really benefit from a speedy export workflow from Lightroom.

Thanks!

I’ve talked to them on and off for a while, but they’ve not been too interested in doing it. It’s just as well because I’m too overwhelmed to do any more upload plugins. Others might, but I’ll bow out. —Jeffrey

wonder if u work with plixi.com export plug-in.. cant wait to hear you..

Never heard of them, so I guess that means “no”, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Have you considered a plugin for geocoding using the gps4can iPhone app? (http://gps4cam.com/) If your plug could:
- emulate the decoding done by the gps4cam desktop app
- inject the GPS data into the EXIF as part of the import process
- this would mean being able to run a script during import and before the image data is actually copied/read (not sure this is possble)
- the image processing of the export photo would be tricky and would require code or a binary to call from LUA?

This would automate the geocoding process and make it possible all within LR. Of course this is an alternate method to using a tracklog. I like it because the GPS data is REAL not shadow data and it doesn’t require the time synchronisation with the camera.

cheers
Simon (Melbourne, Australia)

The whole “shadow data” stuff is a kluge to get around Lightroom limitations. Of course I’d like to be able to geoencode directly, but Lightroom doesn’t allow it. —Jeffrey

Jeffery, love what you do from Montana.

Would love to see a LR Plugin for exporting images to the US Copyright office. Would be excited to pay for this option. You do great work. Hope this idea lights your fire. Be well.

Are you, or can you build a MPIX export plugin for Lr?

Don’t expect one any time soon… mpix has made it clear that they do not want an uploader from Lightroom. No idea why. —Jeffrey

I would love to be able to use time as a selection criteria in smart collections

As in time of day? Best to submit a request to Adobe and hope for Lr4, but until then the best I can think of would be a plugin that sets a keyword or other smart-collection-visible item via the time. You’d have to be sure to run it on every photo you import, which makes it quite an unnatural hassle, but that’s the best I can imagine, given the limitations in Lightroom. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
Are you planning a plugin for popular online blogs such as Tumblr?
I know there’s a huge community of people out there who are biting their nails waiting for such a plugin.
You should definitely consider making one.
Dan.

I have no plans to, but there are blog-related plugins out there… check out Lightroom Exchange. —Jeffrey

Hello,
Any Plans on a plugin for Artspan?
Thanks,
Gary Wagner
California, USA

Not that I know of (I’ve never heard of them), but others might, I dunno… —Jeffrey

Any chance of a direct export lightroom plugin for 500px.com? If you’re not familiar with the photography site, check out the ’500px.com/about’ page.

Any chance of an export to 500px (the website) any time soon?

I doubt it; they don’t seem to have an API. —Jeffrey

According to this:

http://twitoaster.com/nhoizey/500px-do-you-plan-to-open-an-api-i-would-love-to-port-some-of-my-flickr-apps-to-500px-starting-with-flickrsuggest/

API is due “pretty soon” for 500px.com

I notice you already stated that you were not planning on a PhotoShelter plugin, and that someone else already had.

I’d like to make two points about this:

1) I’ve used both yours and his plugins and you’r plugins are simply far superior. It would be such a boon to all Photoshelter user if you were to create one.

2) So why is it worth it to you? Namely because PhotoShelter owns the higher end Professional photographer market over Smugmug, Zenfolio, etc. So these are the people who make their actual living off of photography as opposed to enthusiasts and “free account” users. And in my opinion these type of people are far more likely to donate to you (and at higher amounts).

the above reasons are why I hope you consider a PS plugin soon for Lightroom (we win and you’ll win).

thanks, fingers crossed.

Gene Tewksbury
Big Sun Photography

so…whats the outlook for a panoramio pluggin these days ??

Until Google invites a plugin with an API, zero. —Jeffrey

Jeff,

I “purchased” the Lr3 plugin for fb and smugmug and donated accordingly a few months back. Now Lr3 is prompting me to donate again? Does the plugin require you to “donate” every 90 days or something?

-Jean

No one ever has to give me anything to use the plugins, so there’s no purchase involved, and no wink-wink quotes around “donate”. If the plugin suddenly became unregistered, it’s likely that your Lightroom preferences file has become corrupt, though it could also be that you’ve changed your Lightroom serial number, or you’re simply confused about what plugins you have and haven’t registered on that computer. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Have your, or are you planning to create a Google+ export / publish service plug in?

Thanks — Dan

Until Google releases an API for G+, the best I can suggest is my export-to-PicasaWeb plugin for Lightroom —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey
Is it possible to create a read-only plugin for LR3? The idea being that all pics could be searched by anyone using the same computer login account, but no develop settings or metadata could accidentally be altered.
Cheers, writing from UK.

Not possible that I know of. The best I can suggest is to block develop changes, take the images offline…. if you’ve built library previews, you’ll be able to see the images, but not make develop changes. As for protecting metadata changes, simply have them work off of a copy of the catalog. —Jeffrey

Here is the Google Plus API!

http://www.programmableweb.com/api/google-plus

Thanks, but at the moment it’s read-only access, so it can’t be used for posting pictures or anything. That’ll come soon, I’m sure. —Jeffrey

Great plugins, especially Metadata Viewer.

Is there an easy way to transfer the Metadata Viewer presets I build on my iMac to my MacBook?

I have copied my plug in folder to the MB, but the actual preset doesn’t seem to copy with it.

Thanks again for all you have added to LR.

If you export the preset (which can be done only with the registered version), it becomes a file on disk that you can copy around. Many people use Dropbox to sync all their Lr presets among machines (by making ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom a link to a copy of the tree that has been made somewhere in your Dropbox folder. —Jeffrey

It’s awesome that you provide these wonderful plugins and your work is greatly appreciated! Any chance you’ll be developing a lightroom plugin for 500px.com?

See this post —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,
Great job with the LR plugins; I use several every day! Any chance on an export plugin for Adoramapix? The freeware one on the Adobe plugin site doesnt want to work for me in LR 3.4.1.

I’ve no plans for one, but if they have one already, perhaps ask them about an upgrade…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I am very impressed with all the support you provide to the LR community, thank you. Now for my request for help; in the LR Print module, there is the option to add, limited as it is, some page info under page option box. I’m looking for a way to supplement this information with the complete edit changes used for the image being printed. I would like to incorporate this printed text information in a physical print for filing and archiving purposes. I have read how LR users make virtual copies of the image after editing in order to save the edit and some have recommended using the history menu as was to go back. Both of these methods rely on digital filing and archiving. If you know of a way to access the text based information of all the edit changes, like exposure, color temp, clarity, saturation, cropping, etc., sort of like an editing recipe, that could be added to the printed photo or page information that would be a great help to me, and hopefully others. Again, thank you for your commitment and dedication to the LR community and helping everyone.

I don’t know much about the print module, but I don’t think an easy workflow presents itself. A plugin can get the current develop settings, so I suppose it’s possible for a plugin to do that for an image and create a separate image with text describing the changes that you the print out, or something along those lines. Sounds kludgy, but you might investigate along those lines. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I really like your awesome plugins and use them frequently. May I suggest another export plugin which I think is not yet part of your goodies? – “Set Rights Usage Terms” (not exactly what Metadata Wrangler does). Basically, I would like to have export presets to overwrite the metadata with different Rights Usage Terms / Copyright Notice, depending on the destination of the images from a particular export (online, client etc.). I hope that would be possible. Thanks!
Tom

Love the flickr, Facebook & Geoencoding Lightroom plugins! I like that you update them on a regular basis. Hope you’re making enough to continue this.

Of course, like a few people, I would love to see a deviantArt plugin! I guess some would probably like to see a 500px plugin, also, though the site is too busy to really be useful.

Keep up the great work!

Hi Jeffrey,

Great plugins and great work!

I am looking for a way to export text file to Lightroom and I was wondering if you can stir me in the right direction.

When clients make selections on their gallery (I use ‘Client Response’ Lightroom gallery) I receive an e-mail with plain text contain all the file names of their favourite images. I then have to manually look for each image in Lightroom.

It would be great to have a plugin translating a plain text message to a selection in Lightroom.

Would you have something like that? Would you know where to find it?

Thank you and Happy Holidays
Motti

You might try Lr/Transporter, or just cut-n-paste the list of filenames into my extended-search plugin —Jeffrey

I have very much enjoyed your various plug-ins, especially those for Publishing to Picasa and Facebook.

My wishes would be fulfilled if you were to turn your prodigious talents — in all of your spare time, of course — to doing the same for Tumblr.

It would be great to be able to publish to Tumblr either directly, or via the Tumblr queue, which spaces out one’s posts over a selectable fraction of the day, at a selectable posting frequency.

And a tie-in to a WordPress installation’s media archive would be similarly useful.

Do either of these things, and you have me as a customer yet again.

thanks Jeffrey, and Happy New Year to you and yours.

Lightroom 4B

seems to solve a lot of problems. It supports GPS!!!!!!!!
I just got this Info

http://thelightroomlab.com/2012/01/adobe-photoshop-lightroom-v4-beta-new-map-module/

Yes, I talk about that here —Jeffrey

I wrote on here a couple of month ago but it didn’t appear on here.

Have you thought about a chromakey plug in. For event photographers it could be invaluable.

Lightroom doesn’t give plugins access to the render pipeline, so there’s not much prospect for that kind of thing. For that, you’ll need to go out to Photoshop for every image… I don’t see much opportunity for a plugin to ease things in this respect. —Jeffrey

Hi,

Just wanted to check if your plugins are compatible with Lightroom 4. Can’t seem to find that anywhere..

Regards

Asif

Each plugin page lists compatibility, and those that run in Lr4 have mentioned that for the last two months. —Jeffrey

I’ve migrated from your tree publisher to folder publisher as I upgraded from LR 3.6 to 4.0. The setup went well, but I was wondering if there’s a way to skip re-publishing of all images that have been already published by tree publisher? I’m trying to avoid having folder publisher re-publish thousands of pictures, which will take forever. I’d rather select them all and say “mark these as up-to-date as far as publishing goes”, but I can’t find such an option. Do you think LR (or your plugin) offer something like that?

Thanks.

No, sorry, it’s not in there and it would be difficult… it’s not a simple matter of marking “done!”, but of computing what the exported filename would have been, then matching it up with what’s on disk, and depending on the nature of the images and the catalog’s history, it might not even be possible for a human to match things up properly in every case. It’s just a huge can of worms. I’m in the same boat (I have 98,000 images to republish), but I’ll just do it in batches overnight. —Jeffrey

First of all, I love your plugins, and I like your “business model” of letting us choose how much to contribute. One price truly does not fit all.

What do you think about a YouTube export plugin? Now that LR4 supports videos better, it could be nice to be able to export videos directly.

I’ve heard talk of a YouTube uploader, but not sure what came of it. It may be that Google doesn’t allow it. I don’t know, sorry… —Jeffrey

Ok, say I have a set of smart collections set up in Flickr. I want to also do the same collections in Picasa and Facebook.

Do you have something that will copy the settings from one and to the others?

No, unfortunately, Lightroom doesn’t give the plugin access to the rules. )-: —Jeffrey

Hi, Jeffrey,
I’m still on LR 3.6.
Reverse geoencoding the program and I could not find several place names in South America. Maybe Geo names could help. I’m not sure if it’s a missing link in Google Earth or in your plug in. How can I implement it?
I appreciate your help,
Gottfried, Vienna

Reverse geocoding is hit and miss, so it’s likely just the way Google works. You might try sending the specific coordinates (as a comment in a This is a Lightroom-only problem that seems to have recently popped up. I hope to look at it sometime, but I’m reticent to spend resources on such an old version so I’m not sure when it will happen… if you upgrade to Lr3 or Lr4, it won’t be a problem. —Jeffrey

Just wondering if the Fotki API was anywhere closer to getting some development attention.

Take care,

Bill

Not from me, sorry, I’m way over capacity already. )-: —Jeffrey

Hi,
I’m based in the UK and enjoy photography as a hobby, and occasionally manage to sell some images to the media or stock photography sites. I haven’t updated my website in ages, but I think LR4 is going to help get things going again.
I was wondering if you’d be willing to create a LR4 publish plug-in to enable uploading to the servers of Photographers Direct, a stock photography site (www.photographersdirect.com). It seems their system is crying out for a process that can take into account their fixed requirements and the options you can select for upload.
I hope you feel this would be sufficiently popular to create.
Charles

Having just moved several thousand photos into LR4 (CR2) and then converted them all to DNG, I realized that the date/time information on the creation date/time was incorrect for all of them. I can’t find any way of doing a mass conversion in LR (e.g., subtracting 23 hours). Any chance of a plug-in to edit metadata in bulk? Thank you for your consideration.

You can update the date/time in bulk by selecting them all in the Library Grid, then clicking on the icon to the right of the time in the Metadata panel. —Jeffrey

Hi, we have spoken before, I am on a PC, using LR4 to upload to Zenfolio.
i keep getting this message
Plug-in error log for plug-in at: C:\Users\Admin\Downloads\zenfolio-20120330.184\zenfolio-jfriedl.lrplugin

**** Error 1

This plug-in’s post-processing task did not finish successfully.
Networking error when attempting http://up.zenfolio.com/mattrowland/p714445462/upload.ushx: The handle is in the wrong state for the requested operation

Can you help?
I have asked Zenfolio and they refer me back to you.
Kind regards,
Matt

I’ve heard of this before from PC users, and am not sure what it is, other than something with Windows. I’m pretty sure it’s not specific to Zenfolio or the plugin… some kinds of Windows/Lightroom thing. Unfortunately, I don’t know more yet. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff — is a plugin to export to WordPress to blog about a photo down the road? Your stuff is top notch!

Cheers,

Michael

I’ve no plans to make one… there’s already Lr/Blog. —Jeffrey

love your plugs, Thanks.
i changed the name of my FB page for my business. i can’t export to that page anymore. it keeps saying “Error reply from Facebook: (#240) Requires a valid user is specified” how do i update the plug in to see this change.

i have remove and reinstalled to facebook-20120614.210. help please.

Facebook seems to be having issues… other users of other apps have reported the same problem suddenly. We just have to wait, hoping they address it. —Jeffrey

I really appreciate it if you made a export to Cosco photo center.

Thanks so much I really like your plug-ins

A quick search of Adobe’s Lightroom Exchange, via the “plug-in exchange” button in the lower left of the plugin manager, will be fruitful. —Jeffrey

Is it possible to export/publish photos to Pinterest?

It wouldn’t surprise me, but I don’t know anything about Pinterest and have no plugin for it myself. —Jeffrey

I’m currently testing the LR Zenfolio plugin with LR4.1, what I would like to do is include a printer profile so that I can ensure that what I see on screen is what the customer gets, any ideas how I can do ths without using an action in PS4?

You certainly don’t want to send images to Zenfolio with color data based off a printer profile. I’m not sure what you want to accomplish, but that would not do it, unless “randomize the color” was the goal. This might help. —Jeffrey

Just noticed you directed someone else to the plugin exchange on the plugin manager. Never noticed that before. I was able to find one for Shutterfly there. I bet yours would be better if you ever made one though.

Hi Jeffrey,

been using the LR plug-in for flickr uploads for a long long time, and really love it!

In LR, I like to keep up with which photos are uploaded to Flickr: which works excellent when using the plugin. However, I have uploaded a few photos before starting to use your plug-in, or upload from mobile devices.
Is there any way that I can change the plug-in related meta data of such photos, i.e., set the flag to ‘uploaded to Flickr’, right in Light room?
Of course, I could re-upload all photos, but would lose comments, view counts etc in Flickr.

thanks!

See the ‘Associate’ options in “File > Plugin Extras > Flickr Extras” —Jeffrey

How do I save and easily reload my Keyword-based group assigment when I do an update to Lightroom. I find that it goes away and I have to rebuild the whole list again.

It’s all stored in your Lightroom preferences file… an upgrade should not affect that. Perhaps the file is getting corrupt? —Jeffrey

Regarding Skydrive, it appears as though you can mount it as a network drive and even run something like FreeFileSync or even a batch file to sync whatever you’d need to.

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57347395-285/how-to-map-your-skydrive-folder-in-windows-7/

For some reason I thought you had released some sort of Lightroom work time tracker plugin, but I’m guessing not as I can’t find it on the list. Any chance you would be interested in creating a plugin to track how much average time is spent on a particular photo, directory, and/or collection?

I don’t know of such a plugin, but I’ve heard talk of it before. I don’t think the technology infrastructure is there to do it well, so I’d be surprised if someone’s actually built a plugin. —Jeffrey

Jeff – I really like Carlo’s ‘age’ plugin suggestion! — Michael

I’d like to be able to sort my images by multiple criteria, e.g. [File Name], then [File Type], then [Capture Date] … or whatever.

Then save the sort criteria as a “Preset”.

TIA

Al
Sydney, NSW, Australia

Lightroom doesn’t give plugins access to the image sort. )-: —Jeffrey

Hi J.

I am a long time user of your plug-ins for both facebook and flickr. I thank you for these tools which have worked flawlessly for years.

Leaving aside my photography personal interests I’m looking for a subtle watermarking/copyrighting system for many multiple images, today 2000 but over time many more. I realise that I cannot 100% ‘lock ‘ an image via a watermark or
IPTC, IPTC-IIM, XMP or even Exif. I can just make it difficult to infringe copyright. and that’s all I want to do. I was using the app. Watermark Image to place a tiny image and copyright notice on the photo – the commercial site that was displaying these images doesn’t like this ( no prizes for guessing who !)

I saw a reference to ‘ Jeffery Friedl that leverages Phil Harvey’s ExifTool ‘ on the internet, but the link is dead. The context suggested this might be a solution. I’ve also looked at tineye, picscout and digimarc. These are all overkill and way too expensive.

All suggestions welcome – I can’t see an obvious link on your site.

Richard

PS Here’s the link: http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/blog/top-metadata-myths.html

The link you refer to merely forgot the “http://” in front… it’s supposed to go to my online Exif viewer that allows image metadata to be inspected. I don’t understand your reference to watermarks, whether you like them or dislike them, but FWIW the standard for watermarking in Lightroom is this plugin. You also might consider my Creative Commons plugin if you want to go that route for some shots. —Jeffrey

Of course. It’s what I currently do, but being able to see everything right from Lightroom and keep everything organized with the other published stuff would be nice. I do see how it may not be as potent of a plug-in as your others, however, since it is so easy to export to the Dropbox folder and all.
Anyway, I just thought I’d check since I love all of your other “goodies!”

Thank you!

You can keep everything organized within Lightroom by using my Collection Publisher plugin, or perhaps the Folder Publisher plugin, in either case setting the root of the output to somewhere in your Dropbox tree. —Jeffrey