Wanted to first say thank you for adding the ability to strip keywords. It has been a huge help to me. I’ll be sending a donation your way soon.

I also wanted to say that with this functionality in place, you can do something really cool with your plugins! You can now use internal tags to affect the export of your photos to services like Flickr, but then have those internal tags stripped during the export. So you get the automated control over the export without the tags actually going out. It rocks! For example, on Flickr my default copyright level is Copyrighted, but I sometimes upload photos that I set to Creative Commons. I can now set a keyword in Lightroom called “license_cc” and in your Flickr exporter I have it set to mark any images with that keyword as Creative Commons license. But then in the Metadata Wrangler I have it set to STRIP that keyword. Net effect is that the Flickr exporter sees it and assigns the license, but then the wrangerl removes the keyword so I get the license on Flickr but not the keyword. Cool!

About “You can now use internal tags to affect the export of your photos to services like Flickr”, you can do that without this plugin… just right-click on the keyword in the Keyword List (in Library) and unselect the “include on export” option. —Jeffrey

I thought it would be easy to add, but I kept running into things (and adding more features), so it took two solid days, but I’ve just pushed v58 that allows you to do this, and more. —Jeffrey

I use some keywords internally for organization that just look silly when present on images that I export to publish in places like Flickr.

Keywords that you never want to publish should just have the “include on export” flag turned off. Right click on a keyword in the Keyword List, and “Edit keyword”. —Jeffrey

Only difference would be that by having this feature in the export plugin one could have different filtrations depending on the purpose of the export simply by choosing export presets accordingly.

First of all, thank you for making such a usefull add-ons for Lightroom. Without plugins the LR would not be my choice of the post-processing software.

The Metadata Wrangler is very handy controlling the amount of the information one wants to publish with the exported pictures. Regarding that, I have a wish for an extended feature. I do not know if it’s feasible to implement with current approach, but asking never hurts, it adds information instead

So, would it be possible to partially filter keywords attached to exported pictures? Like when you have hierarchical keywords used in Lightroom, you could either select the hierarchies to be included or excluded. For example, one could define export to filter out all keywords under category “people” and “addresses” in order not to accidentally publish name or exact location of the subject. Or, just tag keywords under groups “country” and “animals” to the included in the export.

Do you think such a feature would be feasible?

It may be feasible, but it’s not likely something I’d do, since you can already mark individual keywords in Lightroom to be exported or not. —Jeffrey

There’s no easy way to import/export them, though now that I think about it, Metadata Wrangler settings (not presets) are saved when you create a Metadata Preset, so you can select a M.W. preset, create an Export preset, and repeat. Then copy the Export presets to the new computer and cycle through a load, save M.W. preset sequence. It’s a bit kludgy, but then, you’re the first person to ask about this in the couple of years the Metadata Wrangler has been out. —Jeffrey

I am using the latest version of MetaDataWrangler (metadatawrangler-20090903.53.zip ) in Lightroom 2 v 2.5 (64 bit) on a machine running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit and I cannot export without getting a message for every file saying that perl.exe has failed to run. If I go to the Win directory in the installed plgin dir and try to run perl.exe directly it also crashes.

Any ideas?

Regards
Trevor

I’ve not heard other reports of problems on Win7, but I’ve also never tested it there. (I still run XP.) Could yous end details about the crash (what kind of crash?) via email? —Jeffrey

Thanks
Chandra

You probably just need to add an exception for perl or Lightroom or something. Like I said, plugins downloaded from my site have no viruses (and, FWIW, no one else has ever reported anything like this), so it’s not something I’m inclined to add very high up on my already-impossibly-long todo list. —Jeffrey

With the latest version of Perl.exe and antivirus still there on my machine, the Perl.exe works on a command prompt. I tried replacing the Perl.exe that comes with the plugin with the new version, then it complains about something else, atleast it does not hang. So I think the version that comes with the plugin does not work the BitDefender antivirus software. Can this issue be fixed.

I have neither Vista nor BitDefender so I can’t test, but there are no viruses in my plugin, so if BitDefender is having an issue with it, it seems they have a problem to address. —Jeffrey