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

By: Loki

Loki — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:10:55 +0000

Loki from Portland, Oregon here… I’ve been happily using your Publish feature for sometime essentially as a “backup-to-flickr” tool. I keep running into one major problem though – when I upload more than about 100 images, I start seeing memory usage climb drastically, and export speed drop. After about 500, I essentially have to quite lightroom and resume the publish.
I’m running on OS X Lion, but I saw the same behavior in Snow Leopard. I have 4GB of Ram, and after just 100-200 photos, LR3 is using 2GB of it.
I *am* exporting full-size images, so these are huge files… but it still seems like maybe there is a memory leak somewhere?

A memory leak wouldn’t surprise me, but there’s likely nothing I can do about it. It’s unfortunate, but not that big a deal unless it’s resident memory. I’ve exported thousands at a time without trouble, so what you’re running in to surprises me. —Jeffrey

By: Atul

Atul — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:50:21 +0000

Jeff – great work. Couple of questions:

(1) is there a way to manually sync the photos that the deep scan or adobe plug-in import could not find?

(2) is there a way to make the watermark in a template form? What I’m trying to achieve is have my copyright watermark automatically include the correct year i.e. “Copyright {YYYY} Atul”?

Cheers

For #1, yes, see the “File > Plugin Extras > Flickr Extras” dialog. I don’t watermark so I don’t know much about it, but if Lightroom doesn’t provide it natively, the Gold Standard of watermarking in Lightroom is Tim Armes’ Lr/Mogrify plugin. —Jeffrey

By: Reto

Reto — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:41:28 +0000

Hi Jeff,
I am wondering if I can re-publish a photo without having changed anything to a photo itself. I am asking this because I would like to change some of the framings I have previously used which I don’t like anymore.
Thanks for your help!
Reto

I’m not sure what you refer to with “framings”, but you can republish an image via “Mark to Republish” in a thumbnail’s context menu. —Jeffrey

By: Michael Leifer

Michael Leifer — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:26:57 +0000

Is there a way to customize the flickr description text with html? I’d like to make the text larger when it appears in other places and when I input html code for changing the font it doesn’t remain after I save it. Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks.

In the plugin there’s a text/html switch on how the description should be interpreted, but whether Flickr strips certain HTML or not, I don’t know. The plugin doesn’t strip anything. —Jeffrey

By: Bill Taroli

Bill Taroli — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 02:35:11 +0000

I see that there is a type of object for the publish service called a “publish catalog set”, and this seems to function similarly to Flickr collections. Is this expectation valid? The help text here seems to suggest they may just be for visual organization within LR. That would be OK, but it would be really handy if they actually did something too.

In the event they /should/ work this way, is there anything special I should keep in mind regarding creating sets within LR so that they properly correspond to those that already exist in Flickr? Is just naming them the same enough?

Sorry, they’re just organization within Lightroom. —Jeffrey

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:53:09 +0000

Hi Jeffrey,

Awesome plugin!

Can you help me with an issue I’m having, please? I want to ensure that my keywords are *not* sent to Flickr, but I want all other info (EXIF data) to be sent. So far, I can only find all-or-none solutions. I’ve played with all combinations of selecting/deselecting “minimize embedded metadata” and “explicitly send keywords from Lightroom’s catalog.”

Also, with the above, republishing the photographs with the various combinations mentioned does not change the information on Flickr’s side. Is there a work-around for this?

Thanks, and happy holidays,

Patrick

Republishing should update the metadata, but to make sure you’re not sending it, make sure to both strip the keywords (e.g. with my Metadata Wrangler plugin), and to deselect the “explicitly send keywords…” option in the “Flickr: Metadata Management” section. —Jeffrey

By: Bill Minton

Bill Minton — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 04:00:07 +0000

Any chance of adding a checkbox to *not* retrieve comments? It seems like that action takes a long time, and while I don’t want to speak for everyone, I don’t have any need for them.

Thanks for all your hard work!

Bill

Will add it the moment Adobe adds support for it. —Jeffrey

By: Filip Wolak

Filip Wolak — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 03:29:13 +0000

Is there a way I could export a list/backup of all the published collections to a file and import it to another catalog?

No, unfortunately, it’s way too complex under the hood. The inability to move Publish stuff across catalogs is a big limitation. —Jeffrey

By: Dima

Dima — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:38:33 +0000

I’m having one issue with Flickr Publish feature … I’m sure it is something I did not set correctly, but I can’t figure out what it is.

Every time I republish a photo on Flickr, the old one is deleted and is replaced with a new version which appears as a new photo on Flickr. All the stats, comments, groups where it was published are gone.

What am I doing wrong?

It sounds as if your Flickr account is a free one. They don’t allow image replacement on free accounts, so updates involve a delete and resend. —Jeffrey

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:25:59 +0000

Thanks for this great plugin. I'm using LightRoom3 on two computers. I am trying to keep my LR catalogs sync'ed - and I seem to be doing okay on that. But is there anyway to sync (or at least 'move', or 'recreate') the plugin "Photosets" from one computer to the other? Not really. Adobe never got around to including Publish data in catalog import/export. This plugin might help, but I had to contort the internals of my plugin to get around numerous bugs in Lightroom, so I would be weary of anything that tried to transfer data without a lot of testing.... —Jeffrey