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This plugin allows you to export images from Lightroom directly to your ExposureManager account.
This plugin works in Lightroom 4, Lightroom 3, and Lightroom 2. (Though for Lightroom 3, you must have at least version 3.5)
The same download works for both Windows and Mac. See the box to the upper right for the download link link (in orange) and installation instructions.
Note: a Lightroom major upgrade, such as from Lr3 to Lr4, de-registers the plugin in the upgraded version, thus requiring a new (1-cent if you like) registration code in the upgraded version. It makes for a hassle every couple of years, I know. Sorry. See this note for details.
After downloading, installing, and enabling the plugin (download link is in the orange box, in the upper-right of this page; install instructions are here), you can activate the ExposureManager export by clicking on the Export Dialog's masthead, as illustrated here.
You can add additional functionality to the ExposureManager export (and to all exports) with export-filter plugins. On my Lightroom Goodies page I have export-filter plugins related to Geoencoding support, metadata management, and running external apps on images as they export.
Availability
This plugin is distributed as “donationware”. I have chosen to make it available for free — everyone can use it forever, without cost of any kind — but unless registered, its functionality is somewhat reduced after six weeks.
Registration is done via PayPal, and if you choose to register, it costs the minimum 1-cent PayPal fee; any amount you'd like to add beyond PayPal's sliding fees as a gift to me is completely optional, and completely appreciated.
For details on plugin registration and on how I came into this hobby of Lightroom plugin development, see my Plugin Registration page.
Version History
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| 20120330.12 | Update to handle 4.1RC |
| 20120309.11 | Had broken registrations in Lr2; Update to the debug logging to better track down timing issues that might arise. |
| 20120303.10 | The recently-added "Lightroom doesn't handle large uploads well" check/dialog didn't play nice. Does now. |
| 20120229.9 |
Files that are offline are now detected before an export/publish begins, and if there are any, offers the option to abort the export, or just skip the offline ones. This is a lot more clear than the "dng_error_file_not_found" error you get from Lightroom if you follow through with an export attempt of an offline image. More on the march toward Lr4, including upheaval in the code to handle Lightroom APIs being discontinued in Lr4. Added the {AspectRatio} token to the token templates understood by the plugin, and updated the {UUID} token. Bumped up the minimum Lr3 version to Lr3.5, to ensure we've got those bug fixes. Lr2 and Lr4 are still supported, of course. |
| 20120114.8 | More tweaks for Lr4b |
| 20120112.7 |
I'd had some special handling for a keyword-related Lightroom bug that was fixed in Lr3.5, so I've removed the special workaround processing for that version and later. Update for Lr4 beta: explain in the plugin manager that the plugin can't be registered in the beta. |
| 20111210.6 |
Some internal optimizations to handle large gallery sets. Had issues with the registration button sometimes not showing. Added {PluginProperty} template token. When doing a plugin upgrade, offer the ability to flush all the old copies of the plugin Added a system-clock check and reports to the user if the system clock is more than a minute out of date. An incorrect system clock can cause problems with various kinds of communication and authentication with some of my plugins, so I've just gone ahead and added this to every plugin. |
| 20110923.5 | Added the ability to select whether the prints are intended for printing or display only. |
| 20110818.4 | Backported to Lr2. |
| 20110806.3 | Don't crash if a gallery has no name; just skip it. |
| 20110802.2 | Added some extra gallery sort options. |
| 20110730.1 | Initial release |
Jeffrey – I really like the Exposure Manager plug-in. However, I am experiencing a problem that is really annoying and I’m not sure if this is an issue on the programming side or on the EM side but it is something that needs to be addressed. Whenever I upload a gallery via you LR plug-in, regardless of the image size I set on export, if a customer places an order online it goes straight to printing at EM. I have spoken with EM about this and they say that the plug-in should only be uploading previews. I am having to go back now and re-upload all the galleries I uploaded with the plug-in with the standard procedure. Other than the jpeg quality setting in the plug-in interface I do not see any other way of controlling the image. If there is a way to stop this from happening I would appreciate you letting me know and also telling EM so they can broadcast this to others.
Thanks,
Shawn
I don’t quite understand what you’re asking for… it sounds like the “Resize to…” options in the “Image Sizing” section of the Export Dialog is what you want. What am I missing? —Jeffrey
I have uploaded the plugin and lr is asking for a username and password to exposure manager but the fields are greyed out and when i enter the correct information nothing happens
The plugin is probably making invalid assumptions about the minimum password length (5 chars), or the form of a username (digits and lowercase letters). Let me know how (via email) how this is not matching your reality… —Jeffrey
Wow, the Lightroom plugin is a great convenience! The only issue I have is figuring out how to tell it into which gallery to export the photos on Exposure Manager. Right now they are getting dropped into a previous gallery I have from a few years ago. I’m sure it’s user error, but can you help me? Thanks, Jeffrey.
There’s a whole section of the export dialog for it… check them all out to familiarize yourself with all the export options. —Jeffrey