Comments on: Jeffrey’s “Export to Flickr” Lightroom Plugin

By: Matteo

Matteo — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:14:48 +0000

Hi,
I’ve got a small problem: I have some pictures that I’ve deleted from flickr after being uploaded with your excellent plugins.
Then I re-uploaded some of them on flickr.
The ones that I didn’t re-upload still reference a missing page on flickr from the lightroom metadata.
How can I remove flickr metadata from those ones in lightroom?

Thanks!

Select, them, then choose “clear” in the “File > Plugin Extras > Flickr Extras” dialog. —Jeffrey

By: David Bump

David Bump — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:59:40 +0000

Yet another update on the video time/date! I think the problem is that video files (or at least the ones my two Canon cameras produce) do not contain EXIF data. I’m guessing Lightroom is pulling the date/time from the file’s datestamp, to sort it? When I upload video manually to flickr, both the taken and posted dates are set to when I uploaded, wheras with pictures, I think the taken time is read correctly from EXIF? So this may not be something that’s easy to address. Apparently, if you really want to get the info, you can rename the .THM file that acts as a thumbnail for in-camera use to .JPG, and import that into LR, and then can viewthe date/time from the EXIF embedded in that file, but I don’t need it that badly. Thanks again for this awesome plugin!

By: David Bump

David Bump — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:49:22 +0000

I’m writing from Denver, CO. I’m using version 20120114.258. I love the option to ‘Set each photo’s “posted date” to the time…’ Is it supposed to also work with videos that are uploaded? I just uploaded a mix of photos and videos taken on the same day, and the photos show the correct posted date, while the videos show today’s date.

The plugin treats them the same (or at least it should), so it could be a limitation at Flickr. I’ll take a look. —Jeffrey

By: Troy Ward

Troy Ward — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:25:37 +0000

Just upgraded the Flickr plugin to 20111229.254 and having issues with the group settings. I’ve tried setting both the keyword to group as well as the explicit group settings but for some reason it won’t auto-assign the photo to any of the groups specified (8 total). I’ve used these settings before (not recently) but it used to work so I’m relatively sure I configured it correctly. Running LR 2.7 on Windows 7 64

I had a bug with the groups stuff in recent builds, sorry; it’s now fixed in the 20120103 build. —Jeffrey

By: Gernot

Gernot — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:21:11 +0000

How can I move photos from one (jf flickr) publish service to another (different) (jf flickr) publish service?

You’d want to delete the photos from the service (but not from Flickr), then “claim” them in the other service. —Jeffrey

By: Liviu Ionescu

Liviu Ionescu — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:57:31 +0000

Hi!

I just moved from one Mac to another and everything seems ok now, except I can’t find the custom definitions I made for the Flickr plugin. I mean the Title and Description presets.

Can you remind us where these presets are stored?

I’m currently still using LR2.7, on Mac OS X, plugin 20110710.233.

Regards,

Liviu

They’re all stored in the Lr preferences file, which means that you have to recreate them on the new system. It’s a hassle, sorry. —Jeffrey

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:37:49 +0000

Hi Jeffrey -

First off, thank you for an amazing set of plug-ins. They make Lightroom ‘sing’.

One question; using the Flickr plug-in, how can I search for all of the photos I have uploaded using it? I see the meta data under “Uploaded to Flickr” = yes, but cannot find a way to search/filter on that.

You can filter on it in the Library Grid Filter (under the Metadata dropdown), or via a Smart Collection. —Jeffrey

By: Gavin Owen

Gavin Owen — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:48:07 +0000

Hi Jeff,

I’ve hit an annoying bug (is there any other type?!). I use your Flickr Publish Services functionality. I lost the association between an image in LR and of that on Flickr. I re-associated and it found it. If I use the Flickr extras to update metadata (tags for instance) it works fine, but if I edit the actual photo and publish, then it uploads a brand new version and changes the association to that version. It’s driving me nutty!

Thanks in advance,
Gavin

Windows7 64-bit
LR 3.5 (current version)
Flickr plugin version flickr-20111106.249.zip (current version)

It’s the point of Publish that it uploads a new version when you change things, but two gotchas to watch out for: Flickr doesn’t allow non-Pro users to do an in-place update, and even with Pro users, an “in-place” update still changes the URL of the JPGs, though comments and ratings are maintained. These are both Flickr issues. —Jeffrey

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:52:19 +0000

Hi Jeff, Ken from Chicago here … just to let you know that your plug-ins are time saviors and very much part of my workflow. Thank you for your generous heart. Any chance of developing a plug-in for Photoshelter? Thanks.

No plans for me to make one, but a web search will find that someone else has. —Jeffrey

By: Stuart

Stuart — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:51:55 +0000

Yes, I was referring to publish. Something to consider for an update is an option that allows re-publishing of updated images, where the permissions are taken from the permissions of the current image as published in the service. Basically a way to let me us the plugin to set permissions when I initially publish an image, but to allow flickr to then manage permissions even when I re-publish a modified form of the image.

In the current state, I have to essentially remember any changes I made in flickr to permisions whenever I update an image and republish, or I need to just use the plugin keyword approach to always manage permissions. While the keyword approach is a nice feature, it isn’t really an optimal interface for this, at least in my humble opinion.

Thanks for the consideration, and an awesome plugin.

The whole point of Publish is that it is the “master source” for all information about an image (at least as far as info that comes from you… comments from others are different). So if you’re changing stuff at Flickr, you’re going against what Publish is about, and so perhaps Publish isn’t the best tool for you in this case. —Jeffrey