Hi Jeffrey-

I’ve been using your Flickr plugin for a long time, and I recently started adding videos. I typically have a main album for a period of time (like “2016-[daughtername]”) and then smaller albums with single-day events in them (“2016-[daughtername] Birthday Party”). This makes it easier for me to share just a subset of photos, and easier for family to find relevant items. But, when I put a video into more than one album (e.g. the “main” publish collection/album and additionally a single-day publish collection) I get the following error: “Cant continue: a previously uploaded video is included in the Publish operation..”.

I don’t want to upload duplicate videos, and I don’t want to replace the original video. I just want to update the metadata for a video so that it appears in more than one album. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,

Dave

Flickr doesn’t let videos be republished, so videos are not really appropriate for Publish, I guess. If you right click on it in the “to be republished” section, then “Mark as Up-To-Date”, it should allow things to continue. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey, writing from Italy.
Thank you, you are great!! I have a specific request for you. I was a Picasa user, I liked very much the face recognition there and love to export face frame images and use them as bricks for nice mosaics…
Do you know if this is technically feasible in Lightroom? Have you ever thinked about working on a plugin performing this task similarly to Picasa?
Thank you!
Manuel

It technically possible, but difficult to the point that I don’t think I could do it. And it would be quite slow. It’s probably not something I’d work on, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hi,

I am testing the Folder Publisher plugin. Is there any way to mark a NEW photo as published. The reason is that I have done it manually in the past. So all my photos show up as to be published. I would like to mark them as published so that only as of now the new photos get picked up.

No, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hello, I’m from Mogi Guaçu, São Paulo, Brazil.
After using the Lightroom Face Detection: Imagine a situation where there are 3 people in a photo, two in the foreground and one in the background. Using the crop I leave out the third person, but then a small problem. The face detector keeps the information of the cut person in the photo! Is there any way that this person will be ignored, since she was cut off from the photo? Do you know any features or plugins? Thanks!

I never thought about that… it sounds like a privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Please report it to Adobe. In the mean time, I added Cropped-out-but-Exportable People to my data-explore plugin, so you can at least search for them. Good catch. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey! I’m writing from Emerald, Victoria, Australia, within an Aussie temperate forest 🙂

Thank you for all the hard work you have done over the years on your lightroom goodies! I’ve used more than one of them at various times and they have been a great help!

One thing that has bugged me a lot lately, with which I was wondering if you could possibly help, is in the batching of HDR mergers of several sets of images. I do a lot of 360 panoramic photography, and most of the time I create each sub-exposure for stitching from an HDR bracketed series. Panoramas can have huge a huge dynamic range, so I find a seven shot AEB sequence is useful for capturing that.

If I go to a location and do, say, five panoramic shots, I’m left with 40 AEB sets to merge and usually the settings for each set (ghost protection etc) are the same for each. It’s a pain to have to manually select each set and click to merge them, then click OK in the dialogue which appears, over and over.

Given that the settings within each merge stay the same, would there be any way to easily batch this? Each AEB sequence could easily be collected into stacks using the auto stack by time feature.

Thank you for considering my query!

Kind regards,
Neil

Unfortunately, Lightroom offers plugin no access to the merge stuff. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,

love the plugins you are making available. I am trying to use the Folder Publisher plugin and am on day 2 of the evaluation. I am trying to copy roughly 70,000 images as tiffs to a NAS location. After approximately 7,000 images I get a pop up error within Lightroom “Can’t update this collection” “Can’t move ‘C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\LocalTemp\C3BF….: it doesn’t seem to exist”. This message repeats with any further attempt.

Is this a potential bug or will this clear after making a donation for this plug in? (Windows 10, LR6.8)

Thanks for your help.

Andrew

No, registration won’t fix that error. The error comes about because Lightroom told the plugin that it rendered the image for the plugin to then move to where you configured, but the rendered file wasn’t actually there. I recently got a hint about a potential Lightroom bug that’s on my list to investigate, but maybe you could email me with your own findings: look at the filename of the image that causes the error, and see whether there are any images elsewhere in your library with that name, perhaps differing only in letter case. This might be a Lightroom bug that I’d like to report to Adobe if I can track down. —Jeffrey

I have Lightroom cc 6.5

Do you have a plugin or solution for the Nikon D500 without upgrading to LR 6.7 ?

Thanks !

I perhaps don’t understand the question, but if you’re looking to get raw photos from an unsupported camera into an old version of Lightroom, you can usually use Adobe’s free DNG converter to make DNGs that you then import. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
Big fan of your Facebook and Zenfolio plugins.

Do you have a plugin or other recommendation for exporting to multiple sizes at once? I have presets, but it’s a little cumbersome to run many export presets for the same photo set.

It looks like Rob Cole’s Export Manager might do this, but unfortunately it’s no longer available.

Unfortunately, it’s not possible to do properly, given the limitations of Lightroom’s plugin infrastructure. A plugin can do a vanilla render, but a plugin doesn’t have the ability to invoke a preset or otherwise do anything more than a vanilla render (e.g. it can’t do a render that involves another plugin, for example). If one just needs multiple sizes of the same image, it’s possible a plugin could make reduced copies of whatever image had been produced by Lightroom, but then you just have these copies sitting around on disk…. that’s fine if that’s all you want, but if you wanted them uploaded by a plugin, you’re out of luck. Adobe could make it all so easy by allowing a plugin to invoke an export preset. Until then, it’s just a huge can of worms that’s not worth the trouble trying to address, I think. )-: —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
as with many others I am a big fan and user of some of your plugins (Zenfolio mostly). I am trying to find a plugin for tracking my time spent on the jobs within Lightroom. I cant find it anywhere nor under your plugins. Some sort of punch in punch out either automatic whenever I am working inside a collection or forlder in question. I presume its possible to check the current open folder/collection from the history log. On the other hand if you havent attepted to create such there is a good reason. How do you deal with tracking of your time on the jobs? I do 2 hour photoshoot but it feels like ages sitting behind my computer on selecting / rating / post processing.

Thanks a lot for your time.

A plugin can tell what source is currently selected (e.g. what folder or collection is active), but it can’t tell when work is actually being done. There are a lot of stand-alone time-tracking apps (for both desktop and phone) that cater to this kind of need. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff:

I just found out about you, and am hoping you can help. I work for a non profit that cares for the environment, and we have a large collection of images in a Lightroom folder structure of about 75 carefully organized folders and subfolders. I have an exact duplicate structure in Smug Mug, which works quite well for my users. The issue is I have to manually drag and drop every time I add images to a collection, and manually search and republish in Smug Mug every time I make a metadata or develop change to an image. Could you create a “publish all” plugin that would recognize changes in my LR collection, and force them onto the Smug Mug collection and then publish them automatically? I can’t tell you how much time this would save me.

Looking forward to hearing from you-

Alison Taggart-Barone
Photo Editor
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

I don’t quite understand everything you’re asking, but my Bag of Goodies plugin includes a publish all feature. —Jeffrey

Re: Original File Name.
I dug up an old file, and in Photoshop’s RAW DATA area Lightroom posted the original file name as:
_DSC5737.NEF
Meanwhile Metadata Viewer calls it “Filename.”
I guess what I’m asking for is to just have the original filename exported, which Lightroom doesn’t currently do, but I don’t see a field named “Filename” in Metadata Wrangler to turn on. So what am I missing?
Thanks for your patience.

It may be something that Photoshop keeps track up, but as far as I know it’s not something that Lightroom keeps track of. If you change the name of a file, the original name is lost forever. As far as I know. —Jeffrey

Hello again:

I’m still hoping you saw my last message about a plug in that will automatically match my LR catalog with an identical Smug Mug catalog, and automatically publish to the web.

Thanks!

Alison

I replied the other day via email. In short, it’s exactly what Publish is supposed to do, but Lightroom is full of bugs so it doesn’t always work right. )-: —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

I’m writing from Germany. After upgrading the “Geoencoding Support” plugin today it is deactivated due to an error “Could not find namespace: LrApplicationView”. I’m using Lightroom 3.6 64-bit on Windows 8.1. Following the steps in FAQ (I get “An error occurred while reading the schema …) didn’t help.

Best regards,
Theo

Ooops, sorry, sloppiness on my part. I’ve just released an update that should fix it. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Have you written a LR keyword management program that would allow editing in a larger window/panel than LR affords? My keywords are a CF, and reorganizing them directly in LR is an onerous task at best. I understand that it is possible to edit by exporting as a text file and then reimporting, but that strikes me as a formula ripe for disaster.

Best,
Jerry (in torrid Tucson, AZ)

No, I’ve not done much with keywords, sorry. Perhaps check out Jerry Cagle on May 15th, 2017 at 12:30am JST (2 months, 12 days ago) — comment permalink

Hi – I’m from the Margaret River region in West Australia.

I saw an earlier comment from Manuel asking about exporting face frame images from Lightroom. I have (badly) written a python script that does that using Imagemagick and Exiftool. I have looked into writing a LR plugin to do this but until the LR SDK supports accessing the associated metadata it would be difficult. The script reads the xmp files in a directory and outputs a batch file that uses Imagemagick and Exiftool to crop the face regions found from the images and place the results (as small jpg files) in a “faces” subdirectory.

In order to use my Python script it is necessary to install python 2.7 with LXML installed. You also need ImageNagick and Exiftool installed. So you need some computing skills. There are a few “gotchas” such as LR not writing to XMP files for jpg files so the originals must be raw files (or use Exiftool to fix this).

If anyone wants to do this I am happy to make it available. If there is any interest I will make the relevant files available somehow, and some brief documentation on how to use it.