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’m not going to write one, but I can’t speak for the rest of humanity. —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