Thanks!

The Metadata Wrangler is a filter for any export, but not an export provider itself. For Zenfolio, you’ll want the Zenfolio plugin. —Jeffrey

As a new user of your Metadata Wrangler plugin for LR2.7, I was wondering if it would be possible to have a kind of “manager” which would allow to strip keywords families using hierarchy?
I may be willing to remove some keywords families in the exported pictures regarding for instance : Continental geolocalisation or atmosphere.
Thank you.

Your better bet would be to simply mark some keywords to not be exported. You can also use the Wrangler’s filtering based upon prefixes or suffixes you use with your keywords. You can also use my run-any-command plugin with exiftool to perform complex custom processing. —Jeffrey

I must have missed it the first time, ’cause I hadn’t been aware of the Exif changes. Thanks for the heads up. I just pushed .73, which now handles serial number, and more. —Jeffrey

**** Error 1

Beim Ausführen eines Skripts des Zusatzmoduls ist ein Fehler aufgetreten. (There was an error while executing the script of the plugin)
BASE:53: attempt to call field ‘?’ (a nil value)

Any ideas?

I’ve seen this a few times, and it always seems to clear up if you restart Lightroom and/or reload the plugin a few times. I’ve never understood why. —Jeffrey

Ah, I see. The upgrade process leaves the old plugin around with a unique name, so that’s what you’re seeing. I didn’t think about the situation when you have the plugins in the Lr system location (since Lr was not designed to have 3rd-party plugins there), but I’ll see whether I can’t do something to mitigate the problem…. —Jeffrey

I use Time Machine myself, but I don’t understand the reference to it (and to backup copies) in the context of plugins. —Jeffrey

I don’t understand the reference to Time Machine, but you probably shouldn’t be putting non-Adobe plugins into that folder… that’s where they had to go in Lr1, but Lr2 introduced the Plugin Manager. You can add and remove plugins with the Plugin Manager unless they are in that folder. You might want to make a ~/Library/LightroomPlugins/ folder, or the like, to store third-party plugins…. —Jeffrey

It seems this is not really a bug but took me a while to figure out. I am using the Wrangler when uploading to SmugMug. I have defined a preset to strip almost everything, including the “Entire IPTC block”. No problem so far, really. I can type the description of each picture in the Caption field, and SmugMug will display it as expected. However, as soon as I tried entering accented or international characters, they ended up being translated into the non-accented version. For example, é is shown as e, ø is shown as o. After some digging this turns out to be caused by the stripping of the IPTC block. What’s misleading is that a copy of the Caption field is included in the Exif block, with the accents removed.

Lesson learned: if you care about accented characters / diacritics in Captions, don’t strip the IPTC block.

This is with LR 3.3 and Wrangler 20110203.69.

Yes, if you strip IPTC, you’re left only with Exif, and Exif is explicitly 7-bit ASCII (Why? Because the folks that designed the standard were not very smart.) —Jeffrey

let say i have a camera that takes pictures on a 3000×5000 pixel sensor. if i crop the image in lightroom, the displayed size is adjusted to something like 2890×4900 for instance.

now i want to upload a copy of this image to a stock library but they require pics with a longest side of 500 pixels. i can do that on the export from lightroom. with your plugin i can remove all metadata that i don’t feel necessary. i can leave the size info and it reads 295×500. is it possible to keep also the cropped size calculated by lightroom (2890×4900) so that the library knows the original file size.

thank you.

I’m not sure what you mean by “the library”, but I suppose you could use my run-any-command filter to try to get ExifTool to insert the OriginalWidth and OriginalHeight (via template tokens) to some metadata field or other. —Jeffrey

Is there a way to not strip the email address from the contact metadata held within the IPTC section in LR?

Thanks.

If leaving the whole IPTC section is more than you want to do, you might want to strip it with the wrangler, then add it back via ExifTool and my run-any-command plugin. Or, you might consider stuffing the email into one of the Exif fields, which the plugin gives more granular access. —Jeffrey