Jeffrey’s Lightroom Goodies (Plugins and Tools)
My Tech-Related Photography Posts
- Digital Image Color Spaces
- Lightroom goodies (lots of plugins)
- Online Exif (Image Data) Viewer
- Adobe Lightroom 1.x Resources
- Jeffrey's Lightroom Configuration Manager
- Adobe Lightroom Custom Metadata-Viewer Presets
- Jeffrey's Autofocus Test Chart
- Photoshop CS2 Calendar-Template-Building Script
- A Qualitative Analysis of NEF Compression
- NEF, Color Space Settings, and Embedded JPGs
- Tripod Stability Tests, Part I
- Timing a Transcend 80x 4GB Compact Flash card
with a Nikon D200 - Digital Camera “White Balance”
- Maximum Aperture of the Nikon 18-200mm
Throughout its Zoom Range
more...
Plugins for Lightroom 2:
(All-Plugin Update Log via RSS
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“Export To...” Uploading Plugins:
- Export Plugin for Zenfolio
- Export Plugin for SmugMug
- Export Plugin for Flickr
- Export Plugin for Picasa Web
- Export Plugin for Facebook
Export-Filter Plugins:
Geoencoding-Related Plugins:
Utility Plugins, Etc.:
- Video-Asset Management
- Metadata-Viewer Preset Builder
- Preview-Cache Image Extraction Tool
- Folder Watch (enhanced auto-importing)
- Megapixel Sort
Plugin-related Info:
Tools for Lightroom:
Etc...
- Funky Joy With Adobe Lightroom (negative clarity)
- Panning a Timelapse with Lightroom and Perl
- Freaky RAW Processing: From Sunset to Moonrise
- Accessing Yahoo! Maps from Adobe Lightroom
- Accessing Lightroom's SQLite DB Directly
- Adobe Lightroom 1.x Resources
Old Plugin Resources for Lightroom 1 (no longer supported)
- Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Zenfolio
- Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for SmugMug
- Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Flickr
- Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Picasa Web
- How to Install a Lightroom 1 Export Plugin
- “Piglets”, Lightroom 1 Plugin Extensions
- List of Known Piglets
- My “Run Any Command” Piglet
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Please do not report bugs or other comments related to my plugins here. Please do those on the appropriate per-plugin page (linked from my Lightroom Goodies page).
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’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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
Any change of an Mpix export plugin?
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!
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.
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.
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
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, 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,
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
Hi Jeffrey,
do you plan to develop MobileMe plugin for both: MAC OS and Windows?
regards,
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Do you know of a working Gallery2 plugin for lightroom 2.1? Would you be up for making one?
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 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 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 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 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
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 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
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.
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
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!
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 ) !?
Thank you so much for the Zenfolio plug-in. Your works and talent are greatly appreciated. Merry Xmas.
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)
Any chance of an export plugin that uploads to a WordPress blog?
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
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
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
Great job! The Picasa plugin is exactly what I needed.
Alex
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
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
Will there be a plugin for uploading to Google’s panoramio.com (i.e. Google Earth)?
—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
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
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
Could you make a plugin for Adorama? Or do you know of one for Lightroom 2? Thanks, Brenda
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
Just wanted to thank you for your generous effort Jeffrey, you make my life as a photographer so much easier.
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
Starting using the LR to Smugmug export, its an awesome addition to the workflow.
Thanks for your efforts.
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.
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
very good job ….!!!!
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
—Jeffrey
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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!
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Andrew from NYC but living in UK
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
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
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
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
Interesting. Today I uploaded one of pictures geoencoded with your LR plugin and panoramio took location from jpg without problems.