I’m curious if you’re working on a export plug in to Apple’s iWeb and Gallery?

I’m not, sorry. I somehow expect that they wouldn’t want to provide a developer’s account for me to do it with… —Jeffrey

Thank you so much for your work with these . They are all great and very useful. It’s a shame about the iWeb/MobimeMe account.

Cheers!

How do I make the plugin upload the original photo to Flickr without making any changes to it, besides having the keywords go with it? I want to use Flickr for archiving/safe storage as well.

Select ‘Original’ for the image format in the Export Dialog. —Jeffrey

You’re a good man. Thanks.

I’m a WinXP user, but my daughter swings the other way … Mac OS X / Mobileme
As far as I can tell, there is no direct route to upload from Lr to Mobileme Gallery.
(am I wrong? I hope I am. The only route I see is Lr –> iPhoto –> Mobileme)
If you are in any position to fill that void, I would encourage you.

regards,
Gary

Hi Jeff,

I’ve come across your plugins and am very impressed. I was wondering if you know of any plugin out there that will allow me to import my customer’s selected photos from Smugmug into Lightroom. My workflow is below:

1. I upload all of my original proofs to Smugmug
2. The customer purchases the photos they want
3. I receive a “PROOF” list from Smugmug containing all of the files they selected (sometimes very large)
4. I go back into Lightroom and manually select these photos, flagging them as “Picks”
5. I make my adjustments, export, and replace the photos with the polished versions

Since I photograph many weddings, sometimes my clients select hundreds of photos to purchase. I spend a great deal of time in Lightroom manually selecting each photo so I can isolate them to retouch. I am wondering if there is any way to somehow transfer that info from Smugmug into Lightroom to automate the process, save time, and reduce errors. Thanks!

Hello,

Firstly, thank you very much for you plugins. Secondly, did you read about Pixelpipe (http://pixelpipe.com/)? It sends your files to dozens of photo sites.

Apparently it uses Flick API (http://pixelpipe.com/api), so, I was thinking that a plugin would be great (and not too much work).

Thanks.

I’m using the newest Smugmug export plugin and I wondered why it seems to take so much longer then the version for LR1.4.1. I used to be able to upload 10 RAW files in about 5 minutes but now it takes about that long for each file. Nothing has changed other then upgrading to LR2 and getting the latest Export plugin (which I love btw). Any ideas? Has the export changed significantly with LR2?

Thanks.

Hi Jeffrey,

just want to say thank you very much.
this is really great, i love your flickr-plugin (and maybe the zenfolio-plugin soon)!

keep up the good work – i’m going to donate for sure!

greetings from munich,
filip

A Text export plugin would be nice. Similar to what Photo Mechanic can do and with all the Tokens/Variables available.
A new line for each image. Something like
{YYYY}-{MM}-{DD}_{Title}

Thomas

do you have or are you planning to make a plugin that can create a simple viewer gallery?

No, no plans. There’s an entier module — the Web module — that already does that. —Jeffrey

Add me to the list of people who would like to go from LR 2.0 to Apple’s mobileme. I’d gladly pay/donate for this. Thanks for all of your work so far and thanks for considering this request

Ray

Hi Jeffrey,
I just downloaded and installed your export to Picasa plug-in … worked like a charm. I’m kinda new to plug-ins so your installation instructions came in real handy. Thanks again!

One question that perhaps you may answer since you obviously know a lot about export plug-ins. Why isn’t there a built-in plug-in (or any that I can find for that matter) to export to Adobe’s Photoshop Express. I mean, Adobe is Adobe. You’d think this was a no brainer for the Adobe folks.

What’s your take and do intend to pick up the gauntlet, so to speak?

Thanks again,
Matt

Yeah, Adobe is Adobe, so I haven’t even thought about a plugin for Photoshop Express, thinking that they’d certainly provide one if they wanted one to exist. I dunno. Seems odd. —Jeffrey

I use your Flickr plugin all the time and love it. Thanks.

Most of my photos are of cosplayers. People dressing up in various anime customes.
It would save a ton of time if there was a Lightroom plug-in to directly upload photos to cosplay.com.

Please consider this for a future plug-in.

Thank you in advance,
Greg

J, thanks so much for the FB plug, was working great until this last update. now i get:
+1.1: At line 15259: ?:16108: attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)
I have an imac with the lastest OS and LR2 updates applied. Ps. why do these plugs expire?
coocoo

Do you know of a working Gallery2 plugin for lightroom 2.1? Would you be up for making one?

I second the request for a LR2.1 –> Gallery2 export plugin. Your other plugins are so darn good, it’s difficult to believe anyone could do it better.

I just had an idea. Would you be able to adapt one of your current Lightroom plugins to instead output to a text file? What I’m looking for is something along the lines of the script you use to put photos in your blog posts, with some photographic details below each photo.

Ideally it would provide a list of HTML image tags for the selected images, based on a manually-entered URL. (If it could be further integrated with Lightroom’s built-in FTP capabilities for uploading pictures, that would be even better, but it’s not strictly necessary.) So for example if you enter http://www.mydomain.com/images/ as the URL, all the HTML tags will be based on that address – e.g. http://www.mydomain.com/images/image-001.jpg.

Using similar functionality to your other plugins, you could add options to export various kinds of metadata into the text file after each image tag: camera, focal length, aperture, and ISO, but also caption, copyright, location, and so on. This would allow people to pick and choose the info to present.

With all of this in a text file, it could be blogged using your WordPress plugin, or simply copied and pasted manually.

I don’t know how much work would be involved in making this, but it would be a wonderful tool for photographers.

I love your flickr export plugin!

I am looking forward to a plugin for exporting to a mobile me gallery as well.

As far as I could tell when I looked, Apple doesn’t publish an API that would allow a mobile-me plugin. )-:   —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I rely heavily on your plugins – I use the smugmug and the facebook plugins quite a bit. I’m hoping a costco photo center plugin is in your future plans… I’d be happy to contribute a shareware fee — you do all this work for free?

Thanks again, you’re a big help to my workflow.

I have been using your Picasa plug-in for some time now. Unbelievably, it looks like Microsoft may be “getting on the ball” lately. Their Windows Live Photos and the Live Services in general seem to be taking shape and becoming very useful for a change. The new Windows Live Photos offers 25gb for free and for premium members ($29 yearly) I believe it will be 50gb. This 50gb space is for storage of photos or any other type of file you want. They will be coming out with an online Office Suite (Word, Excel ect.) at the beginning of the year that is all included with the free service. Folders on you computer can be synced with this space as well (when they roll that part of the service out). It’s actually looking pretty cool. What I think would be amazingly cool is if you put together a Lightroom Export plug-in for the new Windows Live Photos. Kind of hard to ask after all of the great stuff you have done for us already.

Merry Christmas to you and your beautiful family!

Thank you so much for the Zenfolio plug-in. Your works and talent are greatly appreciated. Merry Xmas.

Any chance of an export plugin that uploads to a WordPress blog?

Hi Jeff,
I’ve installed your uploader for smugmug and it works wonderfully! My problem, however, is how to bypass it. The way I use LR I have a group of folders for different sized exports sitting in a folder that I call LR Exports. Now that I’ve installed the Smugmug Uploader I don’t seem to be able to export except to Smugmug. When I click on LR’s export button I go to the export to smugmug page…. I’m sure I’m doing something very wrong that is very simple to fix…I just don’t see it.
Thanks for your help.
Happy New Year!
Stephanie

You an select other export destinations in the same way that you selected SmugMug in the first place. —Jeffrey

Great job! The Picasa plugin is exactly what I needed.

Alex

one more vote for a mobile me plugin… i would be eternally thankful

I’d consider doing one, but last I checked they offered no API with which to build a third-party app. —Jeffrey

First, thank you for all your time and effort.

I am a consistant user of your Facebook plugin and am about to load the Flickr one.

I also use the plain export to file and the IStock export plugin. One of the things that I REALLY like about your tools is the “Uploaded to …” function (which I can then filter on in the library. I think that your tools can do be setup to do the same for other plugins (if I am understanding them correctly) this but I am not sure. Could you please point me in the correct direction to make this happen.

Thanks again.

–David

Could you make a plugin for Adorama? Or do you know of one for Lightroom 2? Thanks, Brenda

Just wanted to thank you for your generous effort Jeffrey, you make my life as a photographer so much easier.

Starting using the LR to Smugmug export, its an awesome addition to the workflow.

Thanks for your efforts.

I am running the Flickr export plugin 20090403.89 (although the problem occurred before).

I do not seem to get my copyright name on the uploaded picture unless I also select resize to fit as well as the Add copyright watermark checkbox.

Many thanks for a great plugin…

The built-in watermarking stuff (which is independent of the Flickr plugin) is pretty rudimentary, and if you have large originals, the watermark ends up being minuscule. For more control, you may want to invest in Tim Armes’ LR2/Mogrify plugin. —Jeffrey

I am not sure if there would be enough demand to make it worth your while but have you considered a lightroom plugin for photobox.com? I currently use your facebook plugin and it is great. Thank you.

I validated the wrong uploader. I wanted to validate flickr uploader, but did facebook, which I have never used. How can I correct this? flickr exporter is brilliant.

Just shoot me an email with your registration code, and I’ll take care of it. —Jeffrey

Another request for a plugin, this time for PBase – would it be on the cards at any point? Many thanks for your good work!
Cork, Ireland

Are they still actually used by anyone? Their front page has a 2007 copyright, and their “about” page hasn’t been updated in five years. If they can’t be bothered to update these, I doubt they’ll undertake the work required to create an API that I could have a plugin use to access their service. I’ll make a plugin if they make an API. —Jeffrey

Thanks Jeffrey, you make a good point! I just went through their forum actually and found a couple of things (just before I was going to start a thread about a plugin for Lightroom). So there is a plugin for LR>PBase after all…

Adobe Lightroom PBase Export Plugin – PBasic v1.0
http://form.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=37720

Useful PBase tools created by members of PBase
http://pbasewiki.srijith.net/tools
(last edited 2008/06 – before the above thread… obviously the admin is on top of it all )

Something I’d like to see is an export to email that actually works in Windows, i.e., generates the desired size and jpg quality level for one or more images, then actually opens the email’s new message with the pictures attached. The export method I tried before didn’t open the email, just wrote out the files in a temp folder. Currently I’m using Windows Live Mail.

Hi Jeffrey.

thanks for all the efforts put into your plugin work.
I am using your Flickr and Geoencoding Plugins and they work just perfect. No idea how i ever got along without them.

Just registered both, hope the donation is fine for you,

cheers from Munich, Germany,

Denis

By any chance can you add to the flickr addon the ability to add the borders an text that you can add on the lightroom with the “Slideshow” panel?

Tim Armes has a plugin that does that: LR2/Mogrify. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey

I am a registered user of your SmugMug upload plug in and it works great. Do you have an LR 2 plug in for Shutterfly? Didn’t see one listed on your site. Thanks and keep going!

Jeff

I don’t have one for Shutterfly, but someone else might; check the Lightroom Exchange (there’s a button for it in the lower-left of the Plugin Manager). —Jeffrey

Is it possible to have a plugin that lets someone add custom metadata fields? For example, I want one that I can record the models name, and one where I can record the “photo id” that a stock site assigns each photo, and then be able to search on these.

Thanks!

I spent a couple of weeks writing exactly that kind of plugin, but at the very end ran into a bug in LR that made the whole thing usable. It’s very frustrating. I’m still trying to come up with a way around it…. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey,

Your work is truly awesome and much appreciated. I’d like to register (and in turn donate) for multiple plugins (namely Flickr, Facebook, and both GPS plugins). Is there an easy way to do this, or will I have to register each individually?

cheers,
Andrew

If you’d like to do one transaction to register multiple plugins, just drop me a note after registering one (letting me know the code), and I’ll take care of it. —Jeffrey

Interesting. Today I uploaded one of pictures geoencoded with your LR plugin and panoramio took location from jpg without problems.

Thank God people like you exist, Jeffrey. Great work.

Bit of a stab in the dark here, but just wonder if anyone knows if there’s a plugin or plan for one in lightroom that would export the images to the format requred for cooliris to work? I think their using a “standard” RSS media feed:
http://developer.cooliris.com/?p=full

Hi ET,
Just to try and give Jeffrey a break here is my attempt at answering your question. You dont say what version of Lightroom you are on but for V2 you can try the following
1) go to the library.
2) Click an image with the metadata you want copied.
3) Control click (for PC) the target image. (or shift select for many images)
4) Select “Sync Metatdata” on bottom right
5) You will then be presented with a panel from which you can select what data to copy.
6) Click Synchronize. (I believe the selction is sticky so only need to do the selcting once.

This is what I do for my HDR images.

Regards Mike

i’m using the mobile me galleries but there is the only possibilty to use aperture or iphoto to upload and on win nothing then html

it would be a big favor to have a export plug for me.com galleries

cheers florian
keep up your tools are worth a lot for me

I’d like to make one, but I haven’t been able to find an API. I suppose that Apple is keeping things inside their walled kingdom. —Jeffrey

hooo, America, which part. I ma in central America, Hondurs, lots of turmoil.

I am occationally uploading images to stock sites. I am looking for a plugin for LR, where I can set quick and easy Category, Title, description, and keywords to each picture.

I stockphoto is giving away a program that helps you to do this for their website, but it doesn’t write it into the image. (DeepMeta)

I would like to quick apply all this info to all possible meta locations imaginable in the image or all images in a catalog or selected ones, so when i upload an image all this timeconsuming keywording is alredy done.

is there a way to do this?

Cheers, and enjoy your vaation.

Lisa

Hi

Using your Geocoding plug-in in the UK, great plug in.

On my wish list is something that will auto download from Nikon Cameras to light room… Canon users get this fro free but for Nikon you need to buy Capture NX or Camera Control Pro…. Neither of which I want.

If you get some spare time is it something you might consider?

What do you mean by “auto download”? —Jeffrey

This may be a stupid question, but I can’t find the answer/solution anywhere. I know that you can upload a gallery by FTP directly from the Web module, but is there a way to upload individual (or groups of) photos by FTP without creating a gallery? I just need to output the .jpg files directly to FTP. If there’s not a way, what are the chances of a plugin that does that?

There’s a basic FTP plugin distributed by Adobe as part of the Lightroom SDK. Download, unzip, and in “Sample Plugins” you’ll find ftp_upload.lrdevplugin which you can copy to where you like and install like any other plugin. —Jeffrey

I don’t know if it has already been suggested but I would find very valuable a plug-in that would convert my photo’s focal length to its 35mm equivalent. Either introducing manually the multiplying factor or with a database of camera models.

Thanks.

There’s already a “35mm Equiv. Focal Length” Exif (camera metadata) field, and Lightroom can display it if your camera writes it to your images. Check the “All” metadata-viewer preset, or build your own with something like my Metadata-Viewer Preset Builder plugin. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I am an avid user of your facebook export plugin. It is great. Thank you.

I am curious if you have any plans to do a photobox (photobox.co.uk) export plugin. I travel a lot with work (yacht captain) and I often use photobox to make photobooks of guests on their holiday on board. A plugin would make it that bit easier to do.

Thanks for all of the hard work.

Jeremy

PS. I am Canadian but currently writing from Greece.

I’ve not heard of Photobox, but I’ve added investigating it to my todo list. —Jeffrey

Jeff, thanks for your work here, you are clearly very talented. I am excited to buy these as soon as I can afford to upgrade to 2.0. Your type of features are what keep many of us so excited about our hobbies.

Best,
Steve
Jacksonville, FL

Thanks for your hard work on these plugins. I’d like to add my support to a Photobox.co.uk plugin – this is the only site I use for my commercial sales. Even better, why not make a simple FTP plugin so that users can upload single files (not web galleries) to virtually anywhere?
Thanks!

There’s an FTP plugin included in the Lightroom plugin SDK from Adobe…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
It looks like september update of Panoramio brought some changes to their API. The proof is … iPhone application by Panoramio folks to upload pictures from camera roll or camera to Panoramio… Looks like typical “Hello world!” application to test API.
Here is the link:
http://www.panoramio.com/blog/upload-photos-to-panoramio-straight-from-your-iphone/

What do you think? Does this mean that LR plug-in is closer than we think?
Thanks for your reply!
Regards,
Yan

I don’t see anything on their site about a general upload API. They have proved themselves to be exceptionally clueless in the past so I don’t hold much hope now, but I’ll send a note asking. If you are a Panoramio member and want to send your photos to them from LR, please make your opinion known to them. —Jeffrey

Hi, can you tell me, if its possible develop a plugin that make you can reemplce dng files to jpg or compressed dng, whitout export.. someting like right click.. convert to jpg, sometimes, you want to have the photo, but not in dng.. when every files is 30mb.. you really want to have that picture, ( not spectacular one) in some 8 megabites .. or not 21 megapixels .. some “sraw” .. cause this eats teras… please, send me feedback to davimontoya@gmail.com

I think it’s possible, though with caveats. For example, plugins have no ability to inspect or set collection membership, so doing what you suggest would lose collection info for the plugin. Plugins also can’t add to the right-click context menu, so it would be something in File > Plugin Extras (but you could create a keyboard shortcut to it). A plugin also can’t remove an image (the original DNG) from LR, so the best it could do would be to delete the file, allowing LR to then discover the problem later, prompting you with “?”, at which point you’d tell it to remove from the catalog. Overall, pretty kludgy. —Jeffrey

I can’t wait to try out these plug-ins when I get LR2 tomorrow. Thanks for making them.

Is there any way that you might consider making a plug-in for exporting to e-mail (to my knowledge, there’s only a Mac version)?

Also, something to assist in file-sharing over messenger (Yahoo, Pidgin, etc.). It is tedious to sort through 10,000+ thumbnails in the Windows “Browse” window just to locate one or two specific photos that I want to send to family or friends. Renaming the actual files would defeat the entire purpose of LR, where I can use keyword & date & collections metadata to index everything. Dragging & dropping from LR would necessitate the program always being open — which would be an additional step. Maybe there’s some way that the LR keyword system could integrate with a desktop search utility like Copernic? Or it could be a plug-in for messenger itself?

First world problem, I know — but there has to be a more efficient way.

VVB

There’s a
Lightroom to GMail plugin by Tim Armes that might be useful for the first. I don’t have any good ideas for the second, sorry. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
Now that you use a mac, any chance of making a lightroom plugin for Plex media center?

I don’t know… what is “Plex media center”? —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,

Love your plugins, they make a good program great.

Is it possible, via Lightroom or a plugin, to filter by exposure-bias? It seems it would be useful for a lot of photographers and it’s probably something right under my nose I can’t find. If it isn’t already available in Lightroom, is it something you could add to a plugin?

Thanks,
Chris Raezer

I went ahead and added it to Extended Search plugin. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,

Thank you very much for adding exposure-bias to Extended Search! It is an amazing time-saver.

Chris

Jeffrey
First I would like to thank you for putting up the image of Japan. We were there a few years ago, Ise/Nara/Kyoto etc. and seeing it again makes us want to go back soon.
Does the Config. Manager work with LR3 beta? I have looked for the translation string. txt file and don’t see one. If not, will you be rewriting it soon? Lastly, as of now, which plug-ins will work with 3beta.
Thank you again
Jonathan, Los Angeles

LR doesn’t have an English TranslationStrings.txt file by default, including LR3beta, so like other versions, you put your own there. I haven’t tried the Config Manager with LR3beta, but I would expect that it would work. Give it a try and let us know. As for my plugins, most work in LR3b, but it doesn’t hurt to try them for yourself. The new Publish stuff has been added to some, but that’s still pretty rough. The preview-cache-extraction plugin does not work in LR3b. —Jeffrey

Thanks for all your hard work over the past year. Kepp up the excellent work on the plugins.
Hope you had a good Christmas, looking forward to a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Is there a way to export from Lightroom using your plug-in onto a Facebook Page instead of my main account?

Sadly, no, Facebook doesn’t allow it, for reasons no one seems to know. —Jeffrey

How about an export plugin for PanOramio to get photos up on Google Earth. I’m doing it the long way at the moment.

I’d like to, but they don’t allow it. When I asked, the reply (from someone with the same name as the founder) implied that they knew nothing whatsoever about geoencoding. It was pretty shocking. He’s left now, so maybe there’s renewed hope. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, are you planning on building a plugin for Google Docs? Now that they allow all file types I see me sending lots of .DNGs their way. I’m working them manually for now unless you have or know of something.

Thanks.

Hadn’t thought of it, but I’ll check it out. If they use a similar API to Picasaweb, it should be easy enough… —Jeffrey

Would it be possible to write a plug in that did what old Iview did. Create smart collections based on selecting a meta data field. I know this can be done one by one but not as a batch. I have lost all my smart collections and it will take a huge about of time going through and creating one for each of the photos which have the same title for example. I am sure I am not the only one.

Title xxxxx 20 photos
Title yyyyyy 350 photos
Title sssssss

Etc

Thanks for your time and thoughts

Regards

It seems odd (to me) to have 200+ photos with the same title, so I’m having difficult envisioning the use case for something like this, or why it’d be something generally useful, but in any case, a plugin has no access to collections (neither reading nor creating), so unfortunately not much it could do directly anyway. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

Can you please tell me if the light room plug-in for smugmug will work in LR 3.0

Thank You

Jorgen Rasmussen

I give details here, but in general, what worked in LR2 works fine in LR3b, but the new Publish stuff does not yet work. —Jeffrey

Just downloaded your Flickr and Facebook plugins. They are great. Wondering if there is any plugin from Lightroom to Blogger?
Thanks.

I haven’t written one, but other people do write plugins. Check this out —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Do you know if it would be possible to make a more user friendly way (via a plugin) to add an image to a collection? I have about a dozen collections which support my website. When I develop an image I may want to add it to a choice of collections.

It would be nice to use a right click on the image in the develop module and then like “export” select “add to collection” and then get a fly out of collections available to add to.

At the moment you have to switch to Library module, set target collection and then add to target. Not very friendly if you want to add it to two or more.

Thanks as usual for all the great plugins. Mike

P.S. I know you have plenty of spare time to develop something like this ..!

In the public beta for LR3, collections are available in Develop, so that pretty much solves your problem if that feature lasts until the real LR3, which I’m sure it will. —Jeffrey

I have a Lightroom 2 collection couple of hundred portraits each of which has both the label and the title as . I need the name in both places because I export the portraits as jpegs from Slideshow with the title at the bottom of each portrait. I then import the titled jpegs back into LR, sort them (using the label), and print them. The end result is a photo display directory which needs to be kept in alphabetical order by last name. This directory is dynamic, growing in unpredictable way from week to week.

Unfortunately, I can find no way to sort my images by last name while retaining the ability to also sort them by first name. Do any of your tools allow metadata to be changed using regular expressions. If so, perhaps I could reverse the First name – Last name order and write the result to another sortable field, if there is some way of making another field sortable–there aren’t that many choices of sort fields in LR2.

If I were willing to sacrifice First name sorting, I could go through all of the images manually and reverse the name order in the label field, but that would be a tedious chore. As a minimum, perhaps there is a way of editing the labels in place with regex editing. Is there?

I’m not sure I understand your workflow or the need to export, re-import, and print, and how printing helps you end up with a “photo display directory”. If you want to keep a folder of thumbnails with the name annotated on them, just export them directly, using LR2/Mogrify to add the text annotation on the way out? If you want to use a metadata field to derive the filename, perhaps give my “run any command” plugin a try… I just pushed a new version that supports the LUA token, which should allow you to craft pretty much anything you want. And for bulk modifications of metadata, check out LR/Transporter and Search & Replace. Those are the ones I know… there might be more… check out the “Lightroom Exchange” button in the Plugin Manager —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, Im sorry. I accidentally posted the last comment without editing or finishing it.

Let me return to the sorting problem with which I began in my original posting. As I make additions and corrections to the images on my display, I would like to be able to quickly located and arrange the images. Since I wanted the labels on each image to be , I put that information in the Title field for each picture. Then I discovered that LR would only sort images by the Label field, so I used LR/Transporter to copy the Title field to the Label field. The result is that I can sort by . This is better than nothing, but not what I really need, since the display itself is alphabetized by . So my original question was, is there a simple way of reversing the order of the names in the all of the Label fields?

Thanks, Jeffrey. I guess it’s time for me to do a more thorough reading of the available documentation. I would like to have more control over the print size and font, the height of the bar, and the vertical placement of the text within it. Perhaps there is a template somewhere that will give me the access I would like. Still, avoiding the picture degradation due to the export/import cycle weighs more heavily.

That brings me back to my original question: Is there a way to use regular expressions to alter the text within text fields without going through export/import with its accompanying degradation.

The plugins mentioned in my original reply are what come to mind, short of writing your own plugin. —Jeffrey

Do I have Lightroom set up wrong for export and then uploading these .jpeg files to a website? I use Photoshop to tweak one of the photos in a group that are Lightroom exported .jpeg files. When I go to upload all of the group of photos, I notice the one photoshop file out of the bunch uploads twice a s fast. Same thing occurs on 3 different browsers. . . Help me it’s taking hours and hours and I’m blowing my deadlines. . .

Thanks,
Garry

I’m not sure why you’re asking me, nor why one would tweak in Photoshop after exporting (I’d think you’d tweak before exporting), but it sounds as if you’re exporting very large files from Lightroom (full-size at quality=100?) but downsizing considerably in Photoshop. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the prompt reqly Jeffrey.
Sorry ..perhaps I’m just too new to this but still don’t understand what process to follow to use the plugin and still have the photos resized, renamed, sharpened and watermarked using the plugin.
Do I have to do all that stuff before invoking the plugin or can the plugin do that and if so how does one set that up?
jj

They’re all part of the same dialog that comes up when you invoke an export, except watermarking in LR2, which can be enabled in the Export Dialog by enabling a separate plugin, Tim Armes’ LR2/Mogrify. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey!

question: I tried out the Proximity Search and Geoencoding plug-in and they are a great piece of art! What would be great (if possible at all), however, is the functionality to get a GPS code embedded in the image (an approximation) of the IPTC data Location/City/State/Country. These fields I usually populate, but searching for every image the exact location with the tools at hand would kill me with my image library.

Regards adn thanks for the good work,
frank

You can do that via the “Interactive” tab. —Jeffrey

What about an archive plugin? Every few months, I do an “Export as Catalog” (excuse the spelling) to a DVD+R. I like to keep it in groups of whole months but it’s a bit fiddly to optimise so as to not waste DVD space. It would be ideal to be able to bridge a number of disks with say a complete year’s worth of catalogued photos. Perhaps you can come up with something smart.

Hi there,
about uploading geoencoded photos to Panoramio, I reckon the faster way to doing that is uploading from LR to PicasaWeb and from picasaWeb to Panoramio. Both sites now share the google account login and it is one click step (per picture) to make the transfer.
Cheers

As much as I’d like to add value for others to Google Earth, I refuse to do so via Panoramio until they get a clue. I’d have thought that they would get one when Google bought them, but I’m still waiting. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey said:
“Lightroom only. Not much reason to use Bridge now that Lightroom is here.”

Except that I have CS and Bridge, but not Lightroom.

If you’re a photographer, consider giving Lightroom a try… it’s much cheaper than Photoshop, and is what photographers need. I have Photoshop, but rarely use it for photos. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the excellent plugins for facebook and flickr, makes life so much easier.
Keep up the great work.

Rgds
Rob

Hello Jeffrey,

This question is related to the new Apple iPad and Adobe Lightroom. Just wondering if you have had thoughts or requests yet for creating an “export collections” plugin to quickly and easily get my Lightroom collections to an iPad. I have yet to get my iPad (i’m on a reservation list) but will be experimenting with this as soon as I can. I hope in my ignorance I am not overlooking something that is already available. If there isn’t I would love to communicate with you about this Jeffrey. This is something I would help financially support.

I found this blog the other day and posted a comment there… http://www.prophotohome.com/news/2010/04/27/is-lightroom-coming-to-an-ipad-near-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3204 you know how rumors are. Time will only tell if they are true or not.

Jeffrey, thanks for all your work. I have supported you in the past and will continue to do so in the future.

Kindest Regards,

Jim

I will release a “Tree Publisher” Publish plugin when Lr3 comes out (it doesn’t work with the betas) that will be a perfect solution for a lot of people (in my case, for exporting to my iPhone). It’s like the built-in Hard Disk publish service, but allows you to mimic your folder tree hierarchy, or an arbitrary collection hierarchy, to disk. The real benefit here is the whole “Publish” idea, which allows you to set it up once and forget about it. As for Lightroom on an iPad, of course it’s natural to think about, but I’d think Adobe would prefer to get Lr3 out the door, and recharge the ole batteries a bit, before undertaking a project like that. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I know in the past you mentioned that you couldn’t create a plug-in for Fotki due to a lack of an API. I contacted them and they said that they have started a public API that is similar to Flickr. Here’s the link to the API: http://developer.fotki.com/flickr-compatible-api.html

I love, and have save a lot of time because of, several of your other plug-ins and would really like to see Fotki added to the stable… because exporting to disk, and using the online interface to upload just seems so primitive now.

Thanks,

Jesse
Florida, USA

Thanks for the heads up…. I sent them a note asking for details… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, I use some of your goodies and find the extremely helpful. Thanks for that!

In the future, I’d like to become a member of Fotolia and I’m wondering if you will develop an export plugin for Fotolia as well?

Tanks in advance and by the way – very nice pictures!

Best regards

Thomas (living in Switzerland)

My todo list is so long that I doubt I can fit another export provider on it, but if Fotolia is popular, I’m sure someone will build a plugin…. —Jeffrey

I just bought Lightroom 3, the official release. I have just installed it and needed to install your plug-in to SmugMug. It got a few errors as it was installing, but seems to be working. I notice that the version is still for beta 3.2. I am hopeful that you can send out a blast email when the real version 3 is ready.

I also think that I need to pay (register) again. I am perfectly willing to do so for a great product. I also need the geocoding plug-in for Lightroom 3. Do I have to register and pay for each separately or can I make my donation all at once?

You don’t have to pay for the plugins at all… only the PayPal fee to generate a registration code. But if you want to use one code for a bunch of plugins, use it to register one of them then email it to me with your needs. You can subscribe to the SmugMug update-log RSS fee on the plugin page… all updates get informed that way. —Jeffrey

From Belgium (Flanders)
Mr Jeffrey, I appreciate the plugins such as geocoding (i donated for)
But LR and plugins allways show the date and the time (for me the exact time is rarely important) This takes more space. Is there a possibility to just show the date in LR and so on, without the time ?
Second, is there a way to make LR revers sort the folders, last on top ? That seems more logic to me and avoids much scrolling.
Thanks
Paul

I can’t possibly answer your date question without knowing the context… what time are you seeing that you don’t want to? There are many places where dates and times are shown, and most of them can be adjusted away. I don’t know of any way to sort folders, but both of these questions are perhaps more appropriate for Adobe (or the forums at Adobe) than for me. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Have you some news of the API of joomeo?
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies#comment-35184

It would be great to have a export plugin for this site !

Hey Jeff,

There is a web based digital picture frame service called Ceiva where one can drop their albumns and then their family members/friends with picture frames get daily updates to those frames from the albumns on the web. It looks like they’ve added support to drop images there from iphoto but for those of us on a PC, there isn’t a clean solution today. Is there any chance you’ve heard of Ceiva and have plans to build a plugin for it?

I don’t have any plan to make one, but it looks like there are a couple of Windows-related solutions there. —Jeffrey

Both Flickr and Photobucket Plug-ins are working great for me…THANKS!

Greetings from beautiful New Zealand. Admin issue with LR3 Smugmug plugin. I’m old and I bit thick. Did what you said about making a folder and stuff c:\users\Mal2\appdata\roaming\adobe\Lightroom\Plugins. BUT…. when I went to the “add” plugin window in LR3, there was no sign of Appdata.
The contents of the Mal2 folder started with contacts. Much frustration. Then I checked in LR3′s existing plugins and found there’s another folder that LR3 uses called c:programfiles\adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom3\…. then the plugin name. And it all worked. Just thought I’d pass all this on, in case there are other poor dumb buggers like me who became lost. Maybe you can update the instructions, or something.
I look forward to using the plugin — I’ve read such a lot of good things about your stuff.
Kind regards. Mal. W.

It sounds as if you’re talking about the Lr1 install instructions, prior to there being a Plugin Manager. From Lr2, you can place the plugins anywhere on your system you don’t mind leaving them. If you put them in the ProgramFiles location you mentioned, you can’t manage them with the Plugin Manager, so that’s not recommended. And for whatever reason in Microsoft’s infinite wisdom, the AppData folder is hidden by default, so if you want to navigate to it, you have to first unhide it in Explorer. —Jeffrey

I’m looking for a way to export the file name & caption fields from all the photos in a Lightroom catalogue to one text file. Any ideas?

Tim Armes’ LR/Transporter plugin should handle it with ease. —Jeffrey

I love your Lightroom plugin for Smugmug, now I could really use one for Alamy photo a stock photo agency. They have a grueling upload process and could use your help.

Now how do I register and pay you for these plugins?

thanks,
Brian Cook

I don’t have a plugin for Alamy, but someone else might… check the Lightroom Exchange (there’s a button in the lower-left of the plugin manager that brings you there). As for the plugins I do have, you can’t pay because they’re free. Details about registering, if you want to, are on the registration page. —Jeffrey

How do you add additional photosets to the the Zenfolio publish list. I am new to this and I have been struggling to find the solution. It does not work like the flickr publish button where you can just right click and select create new photoset?

Would appreciate your help.

Thank you, Denzil

You can create Zenfolio galleries at Zenfolio (then “refresh list” in Publish), or use the Zenfolio Tools in the export dialog. It’s on the todo list to get this built into Publish. —Jeffrey

I’ll try to explain what I mean by assoicating pictures with sets in Flickr a little better.

Flickr supports organizing your photos. It does this through Collections and Sets. I have existing”Sets” for my macro photography, for portrait work, for hdr shots, and so on. It would be lovely to be able to associate the photos I’m uploading into the proper set without having to go to Flickr after the fact to get it done. Similar to what you’ve done for Facebook with Albums.

I’ll poke at MM and see what I can find.

~mike

My plugin already lets you do this, both in the export dialog and in Publish, and so what I don’t understand is how what’s there doesn’t fit what you want… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I wondered whether this is your sort of thing?: In lightroom you can get it to create a web gallery but only to show pictures.

It seems to me that the very common need is to display pictures like that but not as a photographer, rather as part of what one does in work etc.

Therefore surely many people would like a template in LR that not only created the image thumbnails and showed large when selected but which ALSO allowed for the main page (frame?) to hold the usual blurb about one’s business/services etc.

I.e. to have the thumbnails on the side next to the page’s blurb but when a thumb is selected it opens OVER the page’s blurb and of course when you close the bigger image you can see that page of text etc underneath again

I know I have seen this sort of thing done but I imagine it’s taken some serious webbuilding knowledge

Could you make a LR plug-in or template that lets you see the webpage blurb AND allows for thumbs to be shown large? I’d donate definitely for such a thing!

Sorry if it’s not your cup of tea

thanks

It’s not my cup of tea, but no need to be sorry. That’s would be a “web gallery plugin”, and although I don’t know anything about them, I know that there are a lot out there. Perhaps check the Lightroom Exchange (there’s a button to go there in the Plugin Manager), or maybe this site… —Jeffrey

With LR3.2 Adobe releases a publishing service for SmugMug as well. Did you have a chance to compare it with yours?

Do you plan to continue maintaing your plugin?

I plan to maintain my plugin, yes. The built-in one is currently pretty bare bones, which is fine if your needs are simple, but not if they’re not. —Jeffrey

I am having trouble with all of your LR plugins. Every time I unzip one I get a bunch of text files, some PNG files, LUA files, and two folders, i and Win. Opening the Win folder reveals an .exe file called unzip. No matter how I try to open this I get a small screen which pops up for a fraction of a second and then nothing. I never see a .lrplugin file. Any thoughts what my issue is? I am running Windows 7, 64 bit and have unzipped with Winzip and CAMunzip.

Thanks,
Harry

It sounds as if there’s something wrong with your unzip program… all that stuff you get (bunch of text files, PNG, LUA, and folders) should all be within an *.lrplugin folder, which itself is the plugin. Try a different unzipper. —Jeffrey

Opportunity: Snapfish has published an API.
http://publisher.snapfish.com/snapfish/fe/p/openplatform/b2bportal/docs/Developers

Keep up the great work!

I wonder know if there’s any possibility to make an export plugin to the biggest social network vk.com (vkontakte.ru). I know, that such question was before, but I think that it has quite similiar API, so it won’t be a big problem. Hope to see this port soon. Thanks a lot from all Adobe LR russian users).

Hi Jeffrey,

I use some of your plugins, like upload to Zenfolio, which I am very happy with. As I am not that content with Zenfolio I am switching to Photoshelter. Do you have/are planning a plugin for that also?

Regards,

Hans

I’ve no plans to make one, but someone else already did —Jeffrey

Why would it be necessary to to that, and run it on every photo you import? Isn’t Lightroom able to read the time in the EXIF?

The problem is getting the data you want into a place that the smart-collection rules can get a crack at it. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffery, David from Melbourne Australia, I was wondering how you were doing and so went to your blog, glad to see all is well. And Thank you for sharing your sons story, such an example and inspiration. Never worry about being a proud dad, if you are blessed with being a dad, and giving it all you can then you have a right to be very proud, very blessed .Thank you for your plug ins and generosity.

David

Your plugins are incredibly awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are getting more and more convenient!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for everything about LR3, adobe should pay you a lot of money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HI Jeffery,
I was enjoying the flickr for lightroom plugin until I started getting a message in lightroom from flickr saying “In order to use this sample plug-in you must obtain an API key from Flickr.com…” When I went to flickr I realized this is if I want to submit an AP, not register your AP. I have been surfing your blog and the web (for hours now) trying to figure out how to make this AP work and came accross your donation registration. I now have a registration (paypal transaction) number but cannot figure out how to actually register your AP through lightroom, or any programme, so that I can continue to use it. I would appreciate any help. I think your AP is brilliant.
Jackie

It sounds like you’re using the example Flickr plugin that comes with the Lr2 programmer’s SDK, which is not really meant for photographer use. Rather, use the Adobe plugin built in to Lr3, or my plugin for Lr2 or Lr3 (linked from this page). —Jeffrey

Is it possible to add 2 text boxes below an image in the print module? I want to include my name below the print on the right side and the photo caption below the print on the left side. Identity plate will only allow me to use it once. Watermark and page info both go on the photo or in a border below it – and page info will only print in the middle. Is it possible to do what I’d like to do and/or is there a plugin for this?

I’m writing from northeastern Minnesota near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

I rarely use the print module, so I don’t really know. Perhaps try the Adobe forums, or maybe Victoria Bampton…. —Jeffrey

A suggestion for a plugin:

I am occasionally browsing through a couple hundred or thousand photos and run across a few that are corrupt, missing, or for whatever reason LR can’t read the file. (Either a question mark, or a exclamation mark warning). I would hate to think there are some of these I haven’t run across, so it would be great to have the ability to search or filter for unreadable and/or missing files.

A plugin could do a partial job here by making sure actual files exist, though corruption would be more difficult to check. But this is a *great* idea for Lightroom proper, so please submit the suggestion to Adobe. (I’ll try my own contacts as well.) &mash;Jeffrey

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

How about a “back door” panoramio plugin via Picasa, since Google have already made it possible to link Picasa & panoramio?

Well, I do have Sure, set up PSE as an external editor… see the “External Editing” tab of the Lightroom Preferences dialog, and “Photo > Edit In…” —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,

First, good job in the plugins, they have become a big part of my photography life uploading to Flickr, FB, and Zenfolio.

Question/Request: Have you heard of razzi.me? They are fairly new in the Photo web hosting space. I’ve been trying them out for about a month or so. There have been a number of folks using this service who have requested a plugin for Razzi. I have even contact them about this and have even mentioned your name. I was wondering if you would consider creating a plugin for this site.

Regards,
-Wesley Lee

Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll be doing any new plugins in the near future… I’m already overwhelmed (trying to) keep up with the ones I’ve already got. )-: —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey, thanks for everything you do! I have a question/issue about the Lightroom to Facebook utility. When I post to to FB, it takes the caption from the first image and uses that as the title of the post. It does not grab the album name or description, but the caption of the first image. Is that a bug, or expected behavior? Thanks again! Tony

The plugin doesn’t do anything with FB posts… the plugin just uploads the image into the album. Facebook chooses to make a post out of it, and in doing so, it chooses what to use for the title, etc. —Jeffrey

I love your geoencoding plugin. I also enjoyed your long articles on jpeg quality, color spaces, and other photography topics. I spent all morning reading your posts, then made a donation via PayPal as a small token of my appreciation (and used the receipt to register the geo plugin). I live in Baltimore, MD, use Lightroom 3 and Nik software, and Canon equipment.

From a Post earlier this year:
“Any chance of an export to 500px (the website) any time soon?
I doubt it; they don’t seem to have an API. —Jeffrey”

Just noting that they do now have an API with full documentation:
http://developers.500px.com/
A LR plugin would be very cool. And probably easy since they have relatively few features compared to many of the other sites you do.

I discussed their API in this post. They now have their own plugin (which I helped write, though they may not realize it). —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey -

Still amazed with your plug-ins; every time I think of some new, weird edge-case upload/export requirement, the options are there somewhere in the plug-in.

One thing I would like to be able to is “chain” plug-ins, that is, do serial exports of a given photo or photos. For example, export these five photos to Flickr and then to Facebook, all in the same session without having to go through the export dialogs again.

I’ve wanted to do that since day 1, even just different sizes of the same photo, but Lightroom doesn’t yet allow for it. —Jeffrey

your geotag plugin is awesome, I loved the write back!

Thanks for doing it and expect a gift from me.
Brazil

I think different languages are not supportet at the moment. How is it possible to do that? The TranslatedStrings_.txt are always filled with the same content.

I’d love to provide translations, and many have kindly offered to translate various languages, but before they can do the translation, I have to build a system that would facilitate the translation, and that’s a lot of work that so far I’ve been able to avoid. —Jeffrey

How about a diptych export plugin? Set the overall width and space between the two photos and it exports a diptych. That would be hugely useful for blogging. I don’t know how you’d go about indicating which would be the second photo, perhaps it simply grabs the next photo on the filmstrip…?

Jeffrey, LR4 has a new Email function. Unfortunately it seem to rely only on its own internal Address book. Is there a possibility that a plugin could be written to access the address book of one or more of the more popular mail clients?

I doubt it, because I’ve not heard of any plugin interface to the email export. This would perhaps be good to ask about on the Adobe Lightroom user forum… —Jeffrey

Any input on the diptych idea? (4 comments up)

I got all my previous LR3 plugins working with LR4 and it wasn’t too difficult, thanks for everything!

Not much room for thought on my part these days… if I was overwhelmed before Lr4′s release (I was), it’s 10x worse now. Give it some time for things to settle down and we’ll take a look. —Jeffrey

I just discover your page and I just want to thanks for those plugin and add-on !

Any chance of a 500px plugin in the works?

Not by me because the folks at 500px are horrible to work with, but they do now have a plugin, apparently. —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?

Jeffery – is there ANY way to use your plugin to publish to or create new galleries on my FAN / ARTIST page? I use your plugin to populate my personal page.

It’s so cumbersome to upload any other way that I simply dont build galleries on my fan page…and in fact, thats the place I need to be populating with my work.

here’ the page that I am trying to publish to : https://www.facebook.com/DarrinHarrisFrisbyPhotography

Am I missing a button or method?

See this FAQ –Jeffrey

Jeff, is there a plugin that allows to import photos from a Lightroom collection to an application called BookSmart by blurb.com? I use LR 3.6 and BookSmart 3.2.2

Thanks a lot.

a follower from Vancouver, BC

I don’t know, but it’s not something I would have paid attention to. FWIW, you can build Blurb books directly in Lr4. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Do you have any plans to make an export to skydrive plugin. Skydrive has been built into windows 8 and is certainly a lot cheaper than the majority of the other similar services.

Cheers, Pete. UK

I have no plans for acquiring Windows 8, so no, no plans for a Skydrive plugin. But if Skydrive is like Dropbox, you should presumably just be able to export to a local folder and have it appear in the Sky? —Jeffrey

hi jeffrey,

i love your lightroom goodies, thank you so much for your great work – if you ever plan to create a export plugin for mediawiki i’ll be the first one to test it!

regards from austria

Manuel

Hi Jeff, I’m from Australia, love your plug-ins and was just wondering if you know of, or would consider creating, a plug-in that allows you to caption photos with the age that a child/person was in that photo? You would select the photos containing that person, put in their birth date and it could then easily calculate their age in each photo from the photo creation date and then add it to each photo as a caption or title. Maybe it could even do it automatically for new photos based on a tag or collection. I can’t find any plug-in that comes close to doing this even though to me it seems like such an obvious yet handy feature that may be pretty easy to create yet quite popular. Thanks Jeff.

I see what you mean… it’s a good idea. I don’t know of anything, but I’ll give it some thought… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff. Good work on making all this info available. Also, i use your PicasaWeb plugin which is very good.

I want to print all the photos i’ve taken this year using a layout similar to the one found in Google+ galleries.. the algorithm is discussed here:
http://blog.vjeux.com/2012/javascript/image-layout-algorithm-google-plus.html
Basically, I would like to collate numerous photos onto a single page, and publish a jpeg for each page.

I was hoping to develop a plugin for the Lightroom print module (a new Layout Style would be ideal), but it seems that the print module isn’t available from the SDK unfortunately. So i’m wonder if perhaps you might be able to give me some pointers on what might be the best workflow to achieve this goal.

thanks for any help!
john

The best you can do in Lightroom is to export copies of the photos and then launch some external app to somehow combine them into a single page. Lightroom, unfortunately, doesn’t offer general image-building hooks. —Jeffrey

The lightroom preview recall plug in works great,,, thanks for the work on this will review the photographers page of yours for other plug ins,, thanks again ernie
happy!!!
United States Eastern

Hi Jeffrey!

Any chance you will be making a Dropbox publishing service?

I use most of your other publishing services and would prefer to stick with you rather than purchasing it from another developer.

I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

Wasn’t planning on it… can’t you just export to your Dropbox folder? That’s what I do. —Jeffrey

Any chance to develop an LR plug-in for ipernity? It seems like people are singing from flickr to ipernity because of the latest redesign of flickr that people really really do not like.

I’m thinking about it… depends on how many folks might use it. I’d not heard of Ipernity prior to this Flickr thing. —Jeffrey

Jeffry: Have you ever developed a Lightroom export plug in for DotPhoto? I have the Picasa and Zenfolio plugs ins, and both work wonderfully. For reasons related to selling prints, I’m going to need to use Dotphoto for a couple of projects and there does not seem to be any direct Lr upload tool available.

No, sorry, this is the first I’ve heard of DotPhoto. —Jeffrey

Another request for an ipernity LR plug-in here. Like many other, I’m not a fan of where Flickr seems to be heading at the moment and ipernity seems to embody the values that Flickr once had.

Another vote for an Ipernity Publish plug in here. Thanks for everything you do for the LR community.

May I chime in for the ipernity export plugin? I’m already using the PicasaWeb plugin, great tool BTW, and ipernity support is one of the missing links for me (manual export/upload right now). Happy to shell out some bucks for this one … thanks!

I’m workin’ on it…. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey, thanks for the quick reply. Funny, I always keep them update but for some reason none of them are working. If I re-download them will it recognize my previous key?

Dave

Well, yes and no. Registration keys are tied to a Lr serial number, so if you’ve also changed your Lr serial number (due to an upgrade to Lr5, for example), you’ll need new keys to be registered. This is all described on the registration page; you can generate a new key with a $.01 transaction if you like. —Jeffrey

Been wrestling with making an importable keyword list with hierarchy for Lightroom. Very awkward to do, requiring set up in a spreadsheet, and then formatting tabs and cr’s in a text editor. Would be nice to be able to start with the spreadsheet, and import directly to LR.

Don’t know if you’ve messed with this, or if there is much market, or for that matter the intrinsic value of the hierarchy once all is said and done.

Thanks for all the work you’ve done, I have several of your plugins installed including Zenfolio, Meta data wrangler, and Creative Commons. All are very useful and work well!

I don’t do much with keywords so I don’t have much insight here, but check out Tim Armes’ Keyword Master, whose name implies it might be of help here. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the suggestion, Jeffrey. I went thru each published album and marked their photos as Up-To-Date. Worked fine. Still not sure of the root cause – but I suspect it may be related to re-building previews.

In fact – when first viewing some of the published albums, I could actually see the pictures switching from the “Published” to “Modified” panels one-by-one in real time! Presumably this happened as their preview was being built for the first time. Note that after updating this catalog to LR5, I did delete the existing huge previews folder (to clean up some space on my SSD drive). Not sure why re-building a preview would trigger Modified/Re-publish status?

It was probably a separate background task that recalculated the checksum for things that require a republish, and that it was happening at the same time as the previews is coincidental, I’d think. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,

Great plugin! Appreciate all the work you’ve done.

Just returned from a couple weeks in Europe. Every day I downloaded my track logs from my Garmin to a folder on my laptop. I suspect your plugin will read through them all and find matching dates/times for each pic, but is there any “track log management” software that will help me condense the logs into one sane file? It will be interesting to catalog all 5,500 pics…

Thanks,

Bob

The plugin should be able to handle them all a once, but if you want to create one file, check out GPSBable. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, do you have a plug in that can show me my jpeg and RAW images?
I hate having to hover over images. All I now want to work with are my RAW files.
But I dare not risk losing anything that isn’t a RAW format file.

Thank you.
Bohdan

I don’t understand the question, but FWIW, you can set the Library Grid Filter to show only raw files, or only raw + non-JPEG, or whatever. See “File Type” in the Metadata section. BTW, “raw” is a word, not an acronym. —Jeffrey

Just wanted to say thanks for the ipernity plugin. It’s been working fine. There’s still some areas of it I don’t understand, but for just posting to my stream, it’s works fine. –JS

I’m writing from Rockville, Maryland, USA. Just updated to version 2013722.314 of your Lightroom Flickr plugin. I’m using Lightroom version 4.4, Windows 7 home premium. I apologize in advance if you have covered this issue in your blog; I wasn’t able to find it there.

Yesterday, after updating the jf Flickr plugin, for the first time in several weeks I used the jf Flickr plugin to upload some substantial photosets to my Flickr account. The uploads have been frequently interrupted, and I’m getting some strange error messages. Please see below – I’ve written a few of them out for you to check. Eventually, after quite a few clicks of the Publish button, the photosets are uploaded successfully, but it is a tedious process.

I contacted Flickr (Yahoo) support, sent them the error messages, and they tell me the problem is with the 3rd party plugin, and they can’t fix it and I should contact the developer. Here’s the excerpt from their response:

“I am very sorry for the trouble. Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin is a 3rd-party application; we can’t offer any support for it. Please contact the developer of that application for help.”

I’ve also used the native Lightroom Flickr plugin, and it has the same upload interruption problems. The Lightroom version error suggests my computer has a network problem, though I’ve tested our Comcast service and all is well.

I am aware that your blog states that Flickr servers are flaky. I suspect that I am the victim of that problem, but I thought I would contact you just in case something else is going on. Thanks for your help.

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A. Sample error messages using the JF plugin:

1) Flickr#314 +7352.1:[2A5F5358} @Flickr line 4466: unexpected result from setMeta

2) Empty reply from Flickr

3) Unexpected result from AddtoPhotset

B. Sample error message using the native Lightroom Flickr plugin:

1) Can’t update this collection. Could not contact the Flickr webservice. Please check your internet connection.

It’s probably just flakiness at Flickr (or, perhaps, at your ISP or with your router or security settings). Getting the same errors from both plugins implies it’s not a plugin-specific problem. The best I can suggest is at this FAQ. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey, I have lightroom 4 and it takes longer to export out from lightroom than uploading the same files onto my online server/ web site client galleries. Is there a way to expedieate a simple export? I did not have that problem with LR3. It takes 15 seconds or more to download a jpg and when exporting 300 or more images its painfully slow.

Thank you I appreciate the feedback.

There shouldn’t be anything specific about Lightroom that’s slowing things down, but be sure that you don’t have some kind of security app throttling Lightroom. (Lightroom 4 may appear to such things as a different app than Lightroom 3.) Also, some sites may reserve faster servers for their own uploaders than for third-party apps like plugins. Or, it could be that Lightroom is just slow… I dunno. )-: —Jeffrey

HI, I work as an event photographer. Is it possible to auto import into lightroom and have each import printed automatically. I just love the quality of the prints I get with when I apply the preset filters. Rgds, Proinsias

No, not as far as I know; I know of no way to hook any kind of automation into Lightroom’s print system. —Jeffrey

Jeff, I’ve used your Zenfolio plug in for LR2 and LR3 and see it is a “must have” for my work flow, but I’m having difficulty finding a program that can open LUA files that seem to be all that’s used in the latest version for LR5.

I’ve downloaded your latest zenfolio plugin for LR5, and extracted the init.lua file but haven’t been able to open it. I’ve tried Notepad, File Finder, LUA for Windows and several others, but they all respond with “init.lua is an unrecognized format”.

Any suggestions? Please advise, thanks.

Larry

Plugins are installed in Lr5 the way they have been since Lr2… see the instructions here. —Jeffrey

Hello Jeffrey,

I have been looking for an alternative to flickr, Smugmug etc. where I can have control over my own photos, without sending them to someone else. Trovebox/theopenphotoproject seems to have the right approach, as you can use their installation or install it own your own server, and they even have an app, so you can easily show the photos when you meet someone. However, there doesn’t seem to be a Lightroom plugin….

Have you looked into this platform/software? Would it be too presumptuous to ask you to look into their APIs at http://theopenphotoproject.org/documentation to see if it is feasible for you to create yet another plugin?

Best regards!

This is the first I’ve heard of them, so there’s apparently little demand as of yet. We’ll see whether they become popular enough in Lightroom’s userbase to garner more attention… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
Larry, in Santa Cruz CA. I’ve been appreciating your lightroom plugins for several years.

Do you know of any plugins for expanding the color adjustments of photos in Lightroom? I tend to shoot in all sorts of crazy light, from dimly lit rooms for blues dancing, to using an IR modified camera. A lot of times, I’ll end up with one or both of the color sliders (usually temperature) pegged. My K-5 has amazing dynamic range, so I could certainly make use of a wider adjustment range. All that I’ve found so far is to adjust the color the best that I can, export the result, then do another pass on the exported file.

I might be able to get what I need by simply putting it through a filter where I tell it to dial up the various color ranges by some number of stops. For example, raise the green by a stop, lower the red bytwo stops, and the blue by half a stop.

Thanks,
Larry

My first gut instinct is that you’re doing something wrong, but I’m hard pressed to articulate what it might be. What you describe at the end sounds like the HSL panel in Develop… if that combined with Basic doesn’t work for you, perhaps look at a different camera profile (perhaps building your own with the X-Rite plugin?) —Jeffrey

Hey, J.

I tend to get a lot of errors and whatnots that interrupt my publishing, usually when there are LOTS of images, which makes it really frustrating to wake up in the morning thinking something that should be done would be done, only to find that an error stopped the publish 20% of the way through.

Is there any way for your plug-ins to incorporate a feature where incomplete uploads will restart automatically? That would be ridiculously amazing.

The plugin does retry networking errors, but many errors simply can’t be overcome without intervention (e.g. if you need to reauthenticate to your account, or the upload destination doesn’t exist, etc.). I feel your frustration, though… I’ve been bit by the “wake up and it’s not done yet” think too. —Jeffrey

This is Luke from Olympia, WA and I have a weird question.

How difficult would it be to make a plugin that displayed the aggregate duration of all shutter speeds in a folder or collection?

For instance, let’s say you shot 1000 images at a wedding that ranged from 1/30 to 1/2000. In total, you might have taken 4.238 seconds of “footage” during the event (random guess). I know this information is rather trivial, but I think it would be cool to see the entirety of a photography career represented in a such a number (perhaps 17 minutes?).

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

Hi
I’m from Australia and a Mac (OS X 10.6.8) user who has just downloaded Lightroom 4. I’ve been searching for a way to display all my pics that were taken when the camera was set to Tv or Av or the like with no luck. I think this is known as Shooting Mode?
Any suggestions?

Lightroom calls that “Exposure Program”, and you can see it on an image-by-image basis in the Metadata section if you use an appropriate metadata viewer preset. You can also filter and group such images via my Data Explorer plugin. —Jeffrey