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 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

Are you planning on making a plugin for http://www.photographytalk.com Your plugins are really useful. Thank you.

I’m not, no, sorry. Had never heard of them. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey, Do you Recommend any devices or iphone Apps to record GPS tracks?

Not really… I use the unit mentioned in this post, and so have no experience with other units or any iPhone apps. —Jeffrey

Thanks Jeffrey, nothing meant by the quotes, I look at my post again and realized it came off kinda snobbish lol. Your plugins have been invaluable to us, I will look into your suggestions as we did upgrade to Lr3 and were having issues with our serial. Keep up the great work, appreciate the quick response.

I’ve noticed that 500px now has an API. Any chance of a plugin for them? Putting my money where my mouth is, I’d put down $30 for it.

It seems unlikely at this point because I can’t get an answer to the simplest of questions from the folks at 500px. —Jeffrey

Any chance of a Google Plus plugin? I know there is a PicasaWeb one but that has its limitations. Thanks!

Not until Google releases an API for G+…. —Jeffrey

There is now a preview of API for Windows Live / SkyDrive. I think it allows for uploading photos – 25GB of free storage, and nice looking web album. I hope you’ll consider writing a plugin for LR!

Michal

I am using your export plugin for lighroom2/zenfolio. I love the program. However, last night I tried to upload 48 photos. It was VERY slow, only 2 actually uploaded, and that took over 3 hours. The message at top was the same as always. Any thoughts?

There are so many variables… your computer, your images, your export settings, your network, the network between you and Zenfolio, Zenfolio…. it’s hard to guess where the issue might be. —Jeffrey

Hi,
First off thanks for the helpful plugins, they have been very helpful to this novice LR user.
Do you by chance have one to upload photo’s to a Word Press blog?
Thanks, LN

I don’t, but Tim Armes does. —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

Get these error msgs trying to upload to flickr

Plug-in error log for plug-in at: /Users/Peter/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Lightroom PlugIns/flickr-jfriedl.lrplugin

**** Error 1

An error occurred while attempting to run one of the plug-in’s scripts.
LrPrefs: attempt to write complex table value to prefs key LoginCache4::50807374@N00

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

Hi Jeff,

I’m just curious if you’ve encountered or ever thought of what I would like to do. I’m shooting with a Nikon DSLR which has a button with a little key (the protect button). What I’d like to do is use the button to quickly mark photos that I like when viewing on the camera screen. Then when I get back to my computer, I’d like to have that be reflected in my workflow, perhaps as a flagged file in Lightroom.

If I copy the files directly to my hard drive using Finder (on Mac), the icon in OSX has a little lock indicating a read-only file. But if I import using Lightroom (I’m on v4.1 RC2), the read-only flag is wiped.

So my solution is to directly copy only the files with the flag first, import those into Lightroom, then flag them all. Then import the rest of the files. But this is cumbersome and I was wondering if you had any ideas of making it smoother to use with Lightroom.

Thanks kindly, love your plug-ins.

John

I can’t think of much in Lightroom that would be helpful… a plugin couldn’t get at the images until they’re imported, though I suppose one could write a plugin that imported them in place, somehow figuring out their status and reflecting that in the image metadata. More fruitful, perhaps, would be to investigate some ExifTool incantation that you apply before import that sets metadata flags appropriate based upon file permissions… —Jeffrey

I want to second John’s request for a way to transfer the “protect” status to LR, even though you said that there is not much in LR that would be helpful. I also use the protect key to mark photos in camera that I particularly like. Baltimore, MD.

Hey Jeff,

I have your plugin for Lightroom to Zenfolio and have a very basic question. I’m sorry to bother you with a trivial question.

While in Lightroom I can’t change my Zenfolio folder structure or names (that I know of). So I go to Zenfolio and change the structure and move the photos accordingly. So I have a two part question:

1) How do I do all this within Lightroom and then sync it to Zen?
or
2) After making things right within Zen how do I sync your Plug-in?

OK and mabye if you will allow 3) I’ve searched and can’t find a user’s guide other than what I find within Lightroom: File/Plug-in exra/Zenfolio Extra/Help

Thanks much
Don
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If you change the name at Zenfolio (which is how to do it at the moment), then in the plugin publish settings, after refreshing the album list, choose the “forcefully rename…” option before dismissing the dialog with “Save”. Publish is documented here, but otherwise, it’s hopefully self explaining. It’d be nice if there were complete docs, but this is just a hobby for me and they don’t seem to write themselves. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Any thoughts on a Default Develop Settings Editor? Lightroom forces you to have an image open of the specific ISO, in order to work on sharpening/noise reduction, etc in order to save a preset. I’d love to be able to copy settings in a simple editor from other ISO’s from the same camera, once I start to develop a trend, and extrapolate sharpening/noise settings (manually would be fine) between ISO’s I haven’t used yet, then save them and have those settings be the default for when I finally develop a photo with that ISO. It would be helpful for reference as well, so you could easily check between ISO settings to see if any one setting is out of place, etc…

I sort of tackle this with my Bulk Develop plugin, but it’s a bit more generic than a full editor…. —Jeffrey

Hi,

Firstly, thanks for your plugin – it’s saved me a lot of time! I’ve got one question which I can’t see how to do within LightRoom or your plugin and want to double check before wasting a lot of time!

I have a large number of photos within a directory hierarchy grouped under years, each directory has (one) sub-directory with photos in, e.g. 2005/Cherhill. I want an automatic way to upload each of these folders as galleries within SmugMug e.g. a Sub-Category (2005) and Gallery called Cherhill.

I can multi-select the directories but you can’t drag them to the Publish Service (close but no cigar!). Are you aware of any easy way to do this?

Thanks

Darren

You might try uploading the images via normal Export, using an “auto destination” to shove them into the correct spots. Then, once that’s done, in the Publish dialog they’ll all be there, and you can select them and auto-populate them, and voila, there you go. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,

I have purchased a couple of different plugins from you over the years and have been very happy with them until recently.

I have not upgraded my version of Lightroom from v2, and for some reason my old plugin that used to work perfectly stopped work.

I went and downloaded the new version, and it will not work correctly either. Now I can’t upload photos unless I do it manually.

Can you tell me what version I need for Facebook and for Picasa, for Lightroom v2, and where I can get them?

thanks,
Greg Burkhead

I recently added something to make uploads go more smoother, but it turns out that it’s not supported in Lr2.0 and Lr2.1. Well, that’s fine because anyone using Lr2 would presumably be using the free upgrade (via Help > Check for Updates) to the latest Lr2 release (2.7). The next version of these plugins will enforce that and tell the user that they should upgrade, instead of just crash. (If upgrading doesn’t solve the problem, please send a log; Lr2 is too thinly used to merit much testing, so it’s entirely possible I introduce Lr2-only bugs at times.) —Jeffrey

any chance you could make a lightroom plugin for winkflash?

Unlikely, sorry, never heard of it. —Jeffrey

As I sit in my house in South Louisiana, awaiting the arrival of Hurricane Issac, I was wondering if you had noted the announcement of Amazon Glacier. It is their low cost cloud storage solution.

Although I signed up, there doesn’t appear to be an easy way to interface with it. It seems like you have to code your own.

Are you aware of anyone starting to look at this to create an easy way to archive photos to the cloud for long term storage?

kbanes

As I discussed here, from what I know of Glacier, I don’t think it’s good for average folks’ photo backup. Best of luck with the hurricane! —Jeffrey

I use and love the Facebook and Flickr plugins for Lightroom. Lately both of my son’s classes and sports teams are all using Shutterfly to share pictures. Any chance of making a plugin for that or do you know where I can get one?

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

I would like to put in a vote for ipernity which I am considering a transition to since flickr has become bloated, slow and difficult to find out how or where photos were taken. Thanks

I would also like to see an export plugin for ipernity that operates in the same way the Flickr one does. Many of my contacts have jumped to ipernity in the last week, and I’ve also signed on there. I’d live to be able to push photos directly from Lightroom the way I always have with the Flickr plugin. Please consider. Not sure however if ipernity has any kind of api like FLickr does, or what it takes to even accomplish this. Thanks

And another request for an Ipernity plugin, it’s the only thing holding me back from abandoning Flickr.

Hi Jeffrey,

first of all, thanks for that very usefull tool.

After installing them on Lightroon 4.4 it worfs fine for a couple of days. After interuppting an upload it doesnt work anymore. Get the msg “Lightroom couldn’t render a copy from the master….because it cant access the file. Perhaps it’s deleted or is on a disk that’s currently offline?”

Files are ok, accessable and drive isnt offline.

Plugin disabled an installt again. Problem still exists.

Did you have any idea to solve it?

Many thanks in advance.

Hermann

I don’t know what plugin you’re referring to, but the error is coming from Lightroom proper, translated to the description you see by the plugin. Maybe it can’t access the file because another Lightroom thread or some other process has it open and locked? Are you perhaps using Metadata Wrangler or some other plugin that launches a separate program behind the scenes to do some work on an image? Perhaps that behind-the-scenes program is getting stuck and holding the image hostage. (?) —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, well, I should have waited but I upgraded to LR 5 today and bingo, none of the plugins work, so, are you working on these or will I loose them? Thanks for your reply.

Dave
They should would, if you have the latest versions. —Jeffrey

Jeffery,
You have done a wonderful job with all these apps/plugins. I did not see what I’m looking for and maybe I just missed it.
I would like to write user selected Exif /Metadata information to the actual image (on top of) as text. This would happen during export.
This helps my clients and I know from our scouting photos what time of day, what focal length used etc.
Do you have anything like this ?
thanks very much, Larny

Check out Tim Armes’ Lr/Transporter plugin. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey – I upgraded from LR 4.4 to LR5, and let it upgrade my catalog. Now it seems ALL of my published photos are marked as “Modified Photos to Re-Publish”. This isn’t specific just to your plugins – it’s happening with jf-Facebook & jf-Picasaweb plugins (yours) and also the Smugmug plugin (not yours).

Any idea why this is happening, and is this expected behavior after a catalog upgrade? Thanks!

Not expected, and no idea why it might happen. Didn’t happen during my upgrade. You might try selecting them all (via the filmstrip, as per this bug) and remarking as up-to-date via the thumbnail context menu. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffery you may have already received this, first questionnot sure so here I go again.

Do you have an up load plug in to Zen Folio for C1 Pro 7 Phase 1 product. I hope so as I want to switch for the better raw processing but don’t want to lose the work flow ease that your plug in allows.

And one other question if I may Is there any way that the display for the up load destinations can be grouped , or organised so that the display can collapsed into its master folder or groups, as you can in Zen when in edit mode on the left hand side, instead of having every thing open in one long string. I hope that makes sense . Let me know if you need more info, may be some screen grabs would help.

Many Thanks

David

I do Lightroom development, so I don’t know anything about Phase 1 products, sorry. About the display collapsing, I very much wish Lightroom’s UI would allow me to do that, but it doesn’t. )-: —Jeffrey

Hi – love all the plugins. Do you know how easy it would be to make one that allows me to create a custom package with different size pages? I’m trying desperately to find a way of printing (for example) a 8×6 and a 10×8 and a 8×12 etc – with either single or multiple cells on each. Basically a way of selecting individual page sizes, rather than a global page setting.
Would be interested to hear if you know of a way to do this.
Thanks, Andy

Unfortunately, plugins have no access to Lightroom’s Print system, so I’ve no suggestions here, sorry. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, I’m a longtime fan and I have an idea/request for you: I have all of my photos (about 80,000) in one Lightroom catalog. At some point, for efficiency sake, I’d like to have more than one catalog but the main reason I see to not do that is because of the inability to search (for keywords, ratings, dates, file types, cameras, etc.) in more than one catalog at a time. I think it would be fantastic to be able to search multiple catalogs. Could create a plugin or app to do that?

The short answer is “no”. The long answer is that some outside tool that reads the catalog databases might be able to do it (when Lightroom is not running), but this is not an area that I venture into. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,
There are two new photo storage sites and I wonder if you have any plans to create a Lightroom plug in for either:

streamnation.com
or
lom.com

I particularly like streamnation.com because I can upload RAW files and all sort of video files.
Thanks

Bohdan

This is the first I’ve heard of either, so it’s unlikely I’ll build a plugin for them any time soon, though others might(?). —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I use your plug in to export my photos to zenfolio. I notice that it doesn’t really work for video files. How would you suggest I upload video files to my zenfolio site? Also is there any way that you know of to export video from lightroom 3 directly to YouTube?
thanks so much,
laurie

Upgrading to Lr4 or later will get much better upload performance for large videos with my plugin. I don’t know about YouTube, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffery,

I’m using 3 of your publish plugins – Flickr, Picassa and SmugMug. I have created a manual collection and use this in all 3 plugins as a Smart Publish Collection/Gallery, so that all services publish the same images. My collection has 12 images – all TIFF’s – as I edited the RAW file externally in Photoshop. If I re-edit an image in the collection in Photoshop it is not being marked for re-publish. Is this related to using smart collections?

That sounds like a Lightroom bug to me. I’ll report it. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

The RSS feed is no longer working properly (since one week)

regards from Germany

Klaus

Thanks, I think I found the problem; it should be working now. —Jeffrey

Yes, I’m following your instructions on installing plugins to LR5, but they don’t tell me how to open “info.lua”. My initial question was if you have any suggestions on how to open “lua” files; i.e. what file opener would you recommend.

Cheers.

Larry

I have no idea what you’re reading; Instructions for installing a Lightroom plugin would not say, in any way, to open any lua file with anything. —Jeffrey

Hey, Jeffrey

Thanks so much for all you do for us LR users. I’m sure I’m missing something obvious, but how can I import my CSV file as a collection in LR5? It’s not showing as an option under plug-in extras.

Best,

Kelly

I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “CSV file as a collection”, but your best bet is likely to use Lr/Transporter to set metadata from a CSV file, then create a smart collection that keys off that metadata. —Jeffrey

LOVE your Lightroom plugins for both Facebook and Flickr. Any thought of one for Fine Art America?

Thanks for all your good work!!

Jane

Have never heard of them, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hi, Jerry,
I’ve just upgraded LR4 > LR5.2. Unfortunately does not recognize .lrtemplate plugins e.g. Matt’s helpful “Big Sky” presets for LR 4 or the TLR Velvia presets. The program asks for .lrplugin.
Do you have any solution for this problem?
Best regards,
Robert

“.lrtemplate” are not plugins, they’re templates. You install them by placing them particular Lightroom-maintained folders. See the install instructions that came with each. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I’ve noticed an issue in LR5 when I am navigating around in the Library folders and then go to a publish service and then back to the Library. When I go back to the library and select different folders it’s as if my entire library is shown and I can no longer see the contents of individual folders. The only way to fix is to restart Lightroom. Have you seen this issue? It’s causing me great concern about the integrity of my catalog file.

There seem to be a number of bugs new (or newly prevalent) bugs along these lines, not just in Publish, but everywhere in Library. I don’t think it’s your catalog. I’m restarting Lightroom quite often these days. )-: —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

I use 3 of your publish plugins and find them very helpful. I have my working catalog on my Macbook which contains my current library of 2013 photos. My hard drive is nearly full so I ‘exported to catalog’ over my home network to my desktop pc which has a few terabytes of space which took about 6hrs. I then opened lightroom on the pc and ‘imported from another catalog’ and merged the photos to my archive. Everything went as I expected. However, despite having the same 3 publish plugins on my pc logged into the same accounts the transferred photos are not showing in the publish albums.

I looked through your other plugins to see if you had one for this scenario but couldn’t spot one.

Is what I want to do possible? Is there something I should have done before the transfer? I’d love to hear your thoughts

Many thanks

Paul

Lightroom does not support Publish with catalog import and export. What might work is to copy your laptop catalog to your desktop, open it there and then import your original desktop catalog without Publish into it. Another idea is to pick up with what you did, but set up each publish service anew and use the “claim” feature to repopulate them. But perhaps the best idea is to avail yourself of Lr5′s Smart Previews, so you don’t need to store the master images, but can still work with them effectively. (Especially if your desktop is a Mac, you can use the built-in OSX “back to my Mac” feature to mount the desktop drives on your laptop from anywhere in the world.) —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff, thank you for all of your plugins. Weird behavior I wonder if you can explain. I’m using LR5, just installed your Photobucket plugin via Plugin Manager, but it doesn’t show up in the Publishing Manager. When I go to “Add” a new publish service, the drop-down doesn’t include your photobucket plugin but it does include your facebook plugin.

Any ideas?
-Pablo

That plugin is Export (File > Export) only… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff, I am writing from Munich Germany. Your plugin add immense value to Lightroom.

I have a wish and have no ideas if it is in any way possible to write a plugin that would do this. I would love to be able to submit a group of filenames to Lightroom and have it find those picture files in my Lightroom library and create a Collection for them. The reason is that sometimes I unwisely take exported copies of pictures from various Lightroom folders and mingle into one folder on my computer. Then I realize that I would like to have that as a collection but it requires doing a search for each and dragging it into the collection.

The filenames could be submitted by pasting into a dialog box or letting Lightroom read a txt file. It would need to report unfound files and would be best if it could ignore the file extent since a catalog could have a combination of file types but the exported files may all be jpg (or whatever).

So, Santa. That’s my wish for Christmas. Thanks — even if it isn’t possible.

Herb

You can do exactly what you want with my extended-search plugin, and perhaps also with Tim Armis’ Lr/Transporter plugin. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey! First of all, thank you for all of your work to enhance the capabilities of Lightroom. I recently singed up for Zenfolio which I wouldn’t have done if it wasn’t for your plug-in. If they aren’t throwing some $$ your way, they should be! On that note I am wondering if you can help me with a feature that seems to be missing from Lightroom but that seems to be a no brainer.

It looks like the idea was submitted to Adobe about 10 months back by another person (http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/export_preset_file_renaming_pop_up_prompt_for_name) but I don’t imagine that it will be a high priority in their product backlog. I was wondering if you may be able to help with an addition to your Zenfolio plugin, other plugin or point me to a workaround that I am just not seeing.

Here’s my user story: As a user, I want the export dialog to prompt me for the custom text to be included in the filename so that my images are named in Zenfolio in a meaningful way.

I view it something like this, the export preset is set up with the file naming section to add custom text (as it allows you to do currently). If {Custom Text} is included in the file naming convention, a checkbox is presented that enables users to have the export/publishing dialog prompt them for the custom text that they want appended into the filename.

Thank you for taking time to review my request, I really appreciate your time and all that you have done for the Lightroom community.

It’s a completely reasonable request, but not something, unfortunately, that a plugin could help fulfill. )-: —Jeffrey

Topic: Lightroom-5, Flickr & G+ plugins, getting ‘likes’ back to Lightroom database.

Is there a possibility to getting the stars and the +’s’ of Flickr and G+ linked to the photos back to the Lightroom Database?

Reason: I’m sometimes surprised by what people ‘like’. Now I have to go to Flickr or G+ to get that info.

Google offers no API access to that kind of info, so we’re stuck there. The number of Flickr “likes” is shown when viewing a Publish Service, in the lower-right section of Library in the same area where comments are shown. —Jeffrey

Hi would you be by any chance working on a plugin for Fine art America for LR 4 or 5.

Cheers

No, and based on this I wouldn’t think anyone would. —Jeffrey

Really loving the features and flexibility of your plugins. Do you have plans for a 500px plugin?

The story of 500px and me is here —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, I apprciate your Metadata Viewer Plugin a lot (and also the Picasa export plugin !) Be asured your work is a great help for almost every LR user.

Obviously, you can readout the focus fields used in Nikon cameras. Is there a chance you may do a plugin that shows the autofocus positions as overlays to the photos, as it can be done in Nikon’s View NX Software?
(Obviously, the information is there, I wonder why Adobe don’t use them?)
I’d think such a feature for LR would be something many of us would be happy about!

Michael

Adobe probably doesn’t do this because the data is propitiatory to each maker/camera and perhaps not even published, and no matter how many cameras they’d support, folks not getting support would complain. It’s also not easy for a plugin to do this… it’d have to do some image processing in the background somehow to produce a composite image showing the overlay. It’s not impossible, but then it’d have the same problem that Adobe has, which is choosing what cameras to support. It’s not on my short list, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hi Doug,

I use an extensive keyword hierarchy to manage phylum, genus and more, right up to Kingdom for all species not just fish. I have common names in these tags too. This works quite well for me, even when filtering, as photos can be sent to inherit all parent tags.

Regards,
Miles

Great – thanks. This has a feature that will do what I need.

Peter

I heard that you have an awesome Noise Reduction plugin but I don’t see it on the list. I was just wondering where I can find it at. Thanks!!

I’ve been getting requests about this suddenly, and the best I can guess is that it’s referring to my Bulk Develop Settings plugin, which allows you to set Lightroom’s built-in noise reduction on a per-camera per-ISO basis. —Jeffrey

Hi

Since including your flickr plugin I cannot open some of my catalogs, have you got any idea why?

Many thanks

It’s rare, but a really corrupt install can cause Lightroom to crash or hang on launch or when first opening certain dialogs. I’d suggest deleting the plugin files on disk and relaunching Lightroom to make sure that fixed it, then re-downloading (perhaps with a different browser) and re-adding the plugin to the Plugin Manager. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffery, loving your work and I have been a user for a long time now.. keep it up. I ask this question simply because of your knowledge with LR.

My Auto tone ALWAYS over exposes by about 0.5 of a stop. Is there a way to edit or hack the Auto tone so that after its calculations you can force -0.5 with it?

kind regards
Sam

Not that I know of. Make sure you’re using the most recent Camera Calibration Profiles for your camera… IIRC there was an issue with some old profiles for some Nikon cameras, when used with some modern versions of Lightroom, caused a half-stop error in auto tone. —Jeffrey

Jeffery,

Just gotta say that I am a huge fan of your plugins. Started with Zenfoilio and now giving the Twitter and Picasa plugins a try. Your tools make Lightroom the center of all my photography work. Keep up the awesome work!
Paul

Hi Jeffrey,

Nice work – all of it!

Now then, a question and perhaps a challenge…

Is there a way of having a plug-in for lightroom that can read numbers, i.e. character recognition that will read competitor numbers on vests etc in sports events photos and that will then write those numbers automatically into the key words data?

I would find that extremely useful.

Thank you
Kindest regards
Glenn

I wouldn’t be surprised if such programs exist… you don’t really need a plugin; you could apply them to the photos before importing, so the data is right there in Lightroom right away. —Jeffrey

“it’s you not updating the plugin in a long time. ”

D’oh! My bad, thanks for the help! (as I am wiping egg of f of my face)

Once I updated, everything works perfectly.

I recently upgraded to iPhone 5 and have the following problem:
I like the BW filters a lot. they are applied inside the phone, kinda like xmp settings
However, when I copy the file to my lightroom library, that setting is “lost”
It must be there in the source file though because there are ways in which the file is displayed correctly.

Has this problem occurred to you yet? Do you plan yet another ingenious hack for that?

I don’t, sorry, this is not an area I’ve done anything with. I suppose your best bet is to contact Adobe and file it as a bug or feature request… —Jeffrey

Any chance you will be building an export to pinterest plugin?

Unlikely, sorry. I don’t know anything about them, and a quick look at their developers’ site doesn’t show an API that a plugin could use. —Jeffrey