Hi Jeffrey,
I’m a big fan of your plugins and use your folder publisher and Zenfolio plugins on a daily basis. Thank you for the hard work you have put in 🙂

I am currently looking for a way to specify a MINIMUM size for images during export. At present I can only specify a set dimension (eg 2475 X 1650) or a long-edge/short-edge etc, but, if the image is already at a larger size I do not want to reduce the image dimensions during export.

Any ideas?

Cheers, Michael

I don’t know of a way to do this, sorry. —Jeffrey

Turlock, California
How do I get authorization from Facebook to post to my Business page?
I have used your Facebook plugin to post to Russellreno Photography for years. It was working two months ago.

I installed your Export to Facebook today. I use Lr8 Lightroom Classic 8.2.0
As I am writing this I discovered a workaround. I created a new album on my page then exported to Facebook.
I was presented with the new album and started the upload.
So my photos were uploaded.
How do I get Facebook to authorize so I don’t need the workaround?

As best I can tell, Facebook is just letting this rot and fall apart. I’ve seen no developer notes about business pages getting cut off from non-browser third-party apps in the same way that personal pages were officially cut, but I’m seeing the same errors you are. I guess they want you to use their tools to upload, for whatever reason. This plugin is more or less dead, practically speaking. )-: —Jeffrey

Writing from the UK.

Please, can you let me know if all will work if I update my Jeffrey Friedls Folder watch into ftp folder on desktop – Nikon D3 and WT-4 wireless transmitter – images go wirelessly onto ftp folder on my apple laptop desktop.

Adobe CC
Nikon D3 Camera
WT-4 Wireless Transmitter
OS X El Capitan

Ftp folder on desktop

Will everything talk to each other if update to the latest fireware, updates etc?

Thanks,

Sharon

I can’t speak to Nikon’s firmware, but I imagine that updates wouldn’t break things that currently work. —Jeffrey

Is there a limit of how many Tumblr accounts I can use with your plugin – I have the latest update and I am using LR Classic 8.3. Presently I have 9 Main Tumblrs authorized, but it won’t let me add additional auths

There’s no limit on the number of accounts the plugin can remember, but when it comes to Publish Services, each is associated with exactly one account, so if you want to use Publish with multiple accounts, you’ll need multiple publish services. —Jeffrey

The publish to Flickr plugin seems to be working again, I’m pleased to say.

Hi Jeffrey – I was looking for a password protect plug-in for photographs of a sensitive nature and wondered if you’d come across this issue, or had a workaround?

I photographed my child’s birth and there are a number of images which I want to be part of the collection, however that there are unviewable without a password (or other means of protection).

Apparently someone had done this, however, the links are now dead:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/lightroom_hiding_sensitive_photos

Many thanks,

Dale.

Yeah, oft requested, and equally-often passed over by Adobe. I think the root of the problem is that many would take such a feature much more seriously than it could possibly be, and then be shocked that locked photos were actually accessible (e.g. via Finder or Explorer, via backups, etc). It’s probably just too big of a can of worms for them. Unfortunately, Lightroom lacks the hooks needed for a plugin to do anything useful here. )-: —Jeffrey

I am wondering if it is possible with one or more of your plugins to do the following:
1. Determine HDR and possibly other modified images imported from iPhone Xs. Apple uses a custom metadata field “Custom Rendered” to indicate if the iPhone made an HDR file. It may also indicate Portrait mode. I have a hard time determining this processing in Lightroom. Your Metadata Viewer sees this tag. I would like to somehow get that tag into the Library metadata view. I don’t know if it is possible with your custom presets plugin.
2. Similarly, since Facebook no longer allows direct export from Lightroom, I can’t easily tell which images I have uploaded to Facebook (or Instagram, or my WordPress blog) within Lightroom. Is it possible to use the custom presets plugin to do this?
Thanks.

For the first item, use “EXIF:CustomRendered” with the “User-Specified Field” item in my Data Explorer plugin. For the second, see this blog post. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I’ve been using your fab Folder Watch for many years, however do you have a plug-in (or would consider making one)that will enable a number of prints to be made from a single click in the print module? I’m really looking for a print package system where I can pre-select what is in each package – effectively selecting a number of prints in different sizes from different printers (i..e like school photo packages). A single click on the package name will then automatically print the entire package. There are applications for this is the event photography market too.

Sorry, Lightroom offers no plugin support within the Print module. —Jeffrey

I changed my Zenfolio name (not the username or password) and now I can’t create an album under the Zenfolio plug in in Lightroom. It continuously says “initializing”. If I exit Lightroom I lose the work that I did under that album such as culling photos. I have tried uninstalling, unregistering, and setting it up all over again and it is still not working.

Please check out the “Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras” dialog… there’s an “Zenfolio Username Change” item there. It’s been so long since I looked at this part of the code that I don’t remember whether it handles publish services… please give it a try, and if you get the hang at “initializing” again, please send a plugin log. Thanks. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,

Do you have a plug in that will force a keyword & Location info sync from LR Classic to LR Cloud?

What it would need to do for each selected image is:
a) see what synced collections the image is in.
b) remove the image from the “All Synced Photographs” standard collection.
c) if the image has a user created smart preview discard it,
d) wait for sync to complete (don’t know if this step required?)
e) if image had a user created smart preview, re-create it
f) re-add image to synced collections it had been in before.

If not, is that something you’d consider adding to your portfolio of wonderful plugin’s

Thanks — Dan

The answer is “no”, but I’m not quite sure what the question is. Plugins have no interaction with the Cloud stuff, except the brute-force method of adding/removing photos to/from a collection that has been marked to Sync with the Cloud. Smart previews have nothing to do with keywords or other metadata… they’re created from the master file, and that’s that, so I don’t understand what you hope to accomplish in deleting and recreating them. I don’t use the Cloud sync stuff personally, so maybe I’m rusty, but isn’t “All Synced Photos” an automatic collection that can’t be modified directly? —Jeffrey

I have used the geocoding support on my desktop for a while, it’s really wonderful. I have tried it on my laptop and cannot get it to load. In the plugin manager when I go to add it I get a dialog box error message “There is something wrong in CryptUnprotectData”. The repeated error message in the geocoding folder log is:

Error 1

Could not create info sections for plug-in.
There is something wrong in CryptUnprotectData.

I get this four times. I didn’t find anything useful on the web. Any idea how I may get your geocoding pluhin to work? Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic, version 8.4.1.

Thanks!

I’ve never heard of this before (I don’t know what “CryptUnprotectData” might be), but perhaps try downloading with a different browser, or unzipping with a different zipper. I’ve heard that some utilities corrupt during the download/unzip…. —Jeffrey

Hello everyone is mainly Jeffrey!
I am studying photography school in Paris, France.
(Sorry for my pitiful English)
I’m going to post a message because I’m looking for a LR plug-in that does not exist … and I really need it
I explain myself, I reproduced family photographs, all the photos of my childhood and that of my brothers and sisters. To do this I photographed on white background, many silver prints. For the moment, I am in the presence of more than 6000 images to treat. And the fastest and the redrawing and every time.
I think I can do it via Matlab, but I would like to stay in LR because I do not have to manage TIFF three times bigger in volume.
I am looking for a plug-in that will automatically straighten and crop my photos with a batch function …
Here you go

Sorry, I don’t know of anything that will help. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey!

Huge fan over here. I use Folder Watch and Folder Publisher regularly and am so grateful to you for creating them. I’m on a Mac and planning to update soon to Catalina. I just wanted to confirm that these plugins are 64 bit and will run fine after the update.

Thank you very much!

Peace & Love,

David
I expect that my plugins will run fine, but I’ve not yet tested on Catalina. However, I’ve heard no complaints so far. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeff,

Just updated to Lr9 and it says that the picasa-face-import-jfriedl.lrplugin isn’t compatible with Version 9.
I wet to your site and also it’s removed from your list of plugins.
This will disrupt my workflow since picasa still is the best face recognition application. Better than Adobe.
Do you plan to revitalize this plugin?

Regards,

Thales

I’d retired that plugin long ago, in response to Google retiring Picasa. I haven’t tested it recently, but I just built and pushed out a new version for Lr9, so go ahead and give it a try…. —Jeffrey

Hi

First of all I wanted to say, “Thank you” for sharing your knowledge of photography and everything that is associated with it.
My knowledge of for instance, Metadata viewer, is very slim. I am trying to learn by reading your blog and trying to make sense of it but it is so much information to remember lol.
I have some very old pictures of my ancestors and I was wondering if there was a way to get any date stamp or GEO coordinates of any of them?

Thanks Again!

P.S. Your photographs are just gorgeous