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This Export-to-Picasaweb plugin has been completely rewritten for Lightroom 2.0 and later, and is not compatible with Lightroom 1.
(See the old plugin page for a version compatible with Lightroom 1.x)
Please see the known issues before reporting bugs. If this is your first look at my export plugins, please see the announcement post for an overview and some important information.
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This plugin is distributed as “donationware”. It is provide for free and is fully functional for the first six weeks, after which it becomes limited to processing at most 10 photos at a time until registered. Registration costs 1 cent; any additional donation you'd like to make in encouragement or thanks is up to you. For details, see my blog post titled Lightroom Plugin Development: Now With Added Encouragement.
( Update Log via RSS )| 20090616.85 | Sigh, this upload-destination fiasco is a real pain. Maybe have it nailed down this time. |
| 20090615.84 | Some people are still having images uploaded to the wrong album, and I'm starting to think that it's a case of corrupt Lightroom preferences. I've looked at some logs and it seems to be a case of "this can't possibly happen" happening. I've added something in this version that kills some old information with prejudice.... if this doesn't take care of it, please send a log again (via the "Send to Jeffrey" button in the upper-right of the plugin manager), but I suspect my reply will be to ask you to blast your LR preferences file and start over. |
| 20090614.83 | Sigh, it turns out that a few days ago, Twitter suddenly changed authentication methods in a way that was guaranteed to break every strong-authentication application (such as this plugin). Sigh. This update handles the new authentication style, and includes better error reporting for the next time they pull a stunt like this. Fixed progress bar during upload. Added a couple of new custom metadata fields, "PicasaWeb Upload Date", and "Upload Time". The former can be used in the Library Grid Filter to sort/select/filter by the date you uploaded to PicasaWeb. Because the new custom fields mean a change to the database, the first time you load this new version, Lightroom will pop up a dialog asking "Update catalog for plug-in?" to which you'll want to answer yes ("Update"). Then a progress bar will show up and, if you have a lot of photos in your catalog that had been uploaded to PicasaWeb, will just sit there for potentially several minutes, looking stuck. Just let it work. For my catalog with 48,000 photos, it took about 5 minutes. I'll add these to my Metadata-Viewer Preset Editor plugin soon, but for those maintaining their own viewer tagsets, these can be found at info.regex.lightroom.export.picasaweb2.uploadDate and ....uploadTime. |
| 20090602.82 | Well, here's something new: Twitter support. It may be a bit iffy, mostly because I don't use Twitter myself, so perhaps I've missed something about the culture in which it's used, but I've added something that allows you to send a tweet after a successful upload, with a mini template language that allows you to include a photo url or destination-set url in the tweet. The plugin uses Twitter's new strong secure authentication, so you don't even have to tell the plugin your username or password. You authenticate at Twitter and grant the plugin application permission to send tweets on your behalf. A note to fellow developers, who will feel my pain: in order to get this strong-secure authentication support working, I had to code up SHA-1 Secure Hash computation from scratch, in pure Lua... a horrid language, I'll remind you, that has absolutely no bitwise operations, or even integer support. No masks, no bitwise xors, no way to test bits or shift words or any of that stuff. As I coded it, I felt as if I were chiseling NAND gates from rough blocks of silicon. I felt quite the achievement once I got it working, but only then realized that I also need to code up my own HMAC-SHA1 secure signature routine. It's less involved than the original SHA-1 stuff, but again, filled with bytewise xors. Fun stuff, in a very old-school way. |
| 20090521.81 | Sorry, another quick bugfix. It seems an internal change I made to try to get around a bug in Lightroom wasn't quite ready for prime time. Hope it is now. |
| 20090521.80 | Fixed a "loadstring" error some users got. You can now use the scroll wheel with the scrollable lists (such as for the album list)... sort of. It works while the mouse is actually hovering over the scroll bar. That's the best I can figure out so far... it's better than nothing if you're a scroll-wheel user. Added some new token filters to the preset templates used for things like extra tags and image captions: They're listed in the docs, but include new items like UCFirst capitalize first character of the item, or LC to lower-case the entire item. For example, if you want to include the city as an extra tag, but prefer your tags to be all lower case, you might use {City:LC} in the extra-tag dialog. |
| 20090519.79 | Fixed an album-creation bug I introduced recently, and added the hard-coded PicasaWeb's image-size limit of 20MB, so you'll be informed before upload that it's too big. |
| 20090518.78 | Somewhere along the way the plugin stopped updating the progress bar as it worked. I've restored it, so now you can see it inch along as the uploads complete. I also included some stuff to communicate with the next version of my Metadata Wrangler plugin help coordinate a canceled export. Unfortunately, if you cancel an export, Lightroom does not tell filters like the Metadata Wrangler, so it blindly continues trying to process images that will not show up. I've added some hooks here to help the next version of the Metadata Wrangler detect a canceled export and not complain. It's imperfect, but I'm hoping it'll help. |
| 20090510.77 | Added a link in the Plugin Manager to the plugin's update-log RSS feed. |
| 20090509.76 | Added items to the title/description presets: ZenfolioUrl, SmugMugUrl, and FlickrUrl. If you have previously uploaded this image to one of those sites with my plugin that uploads to those sites, you can refer to that copy of the image by reference. Using the tag alone, e.g. {ZenfolioUrl}, it becomes the raw url, or nothing if the image wasn't previously uploaded. Using a =text argument inside the tag turns it into a link with the given text, e.g.
See the {ZenfolioUrl=photo at Zenfolio}.
becomes:
See the <a href='...'&tg;photo at Zenfolio</a>.
if the url is known. If the url is not known, the tag is replaced with nothingness,
so you might want to include an "|..." fallback section, such as:
See the {ZenfolioUrl=photo at Zenfolio|"photo at <a href='http://myname.zenfolio.com'>my Zenfolio site</a>"}.
The entire double-quoted part after the "|" is used when what comes before ends up being empty. In this case, that double-quoted part is some text that includes a link to a Zenfolio user's home page (you'd want to put yours, of course). So, if the url isn't known, the entry becomes
See the photo at <a href='http://myname.zenfolio.com'>my Zenfolio site</a>.
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| 20090429.75 | Fixed a bug that could potentially crashed the plugin while editing caption/title and auto-destination presets. |
| 20090425.74 | Tweaked how the plugin tries to update itself during the one-click upgrade process, to hopefully get things working for those few Windows users that have never had it work. Crossing fingers. We'll see. |
| 20090422.73 | Fixed the caption preset stuff to disallow editing of the built-in caption presets, and added a note to that effect in the preset editor. I also reset the 'None' preset to an empty value, just in case it had gotten edited in a prior version of the plugin. Sorry it took so long to get around to this fix. |
| 20090422.72 | A few minor housekeeping updates: the 'enable enhanced debugging' checkbox in the Plugin Manager now turns on logging of all web traffic. It'll be useful if I ask you to send a log, but you probably want to leave it turned off during general use. I also added an icon to the registration page to reinforce what plugin is being registered. |
| 20090403.71 | Corrected the photo-date related items in the preset templates to properly use the dateTimeOriginal metadata field, rather than the edit-time dateTime field. It now uses the first of the following that it finds with a value: dateTimeOriginal, dateTimeDigitized, and dateTime. This bug was reported to me long ago, but I let it slip through the cracks, sorry. |
| 20090402.70 | Added scroll-one-line arrows to the top and bottom of the scrollbars, to allow fine-grained
control of scrolling very long lists. (I've been programming for almost 30 years, but this
is the first time I've ever built a graphical scrolling
system from scratch, so I may be a bit slow on the uptake at times  )
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| 20090329.69 | Turns out that there's a bug in Lightroom that causes login names to be rejected if they can't actually fit in the input box that's presented when trying to log into a second account. To get around this bug for the few who run into it, I've made the box as wide as I can... I hope it's sufficient. |
| 20090325.68 | Big UI changes in some areas. I've cobbled together a way to add what appears to be a real scrollbar, so I've replaced the kludgey scrolling solution I had before. It seems to work okay. I also changed the "Token Examples" dialog from paging to use the new scroll stuff. |
| 20090313.67 | It seems that PayPal doesn't give everyone a "Unique Transaction ID" in the registration confirmation mail; some people get a "Receipt Number". So, the registration dialog now accepts that as well. I also removed the "Resolution value to record in metadata" control in the Metadata Management section. That had dated back to a time when the resolution setting was not available in the standard "Image Sizing" section of the export dialog, and I forgot to remove my custom one when the standard setting appeared. It was sort of silly having two controls for the same thing, sorry. The resolution setting is still utterly meaningless unless you use it to actually compute the pixel size of the image (that is, if you have the "resize to" setting to something other than "pixels"). Once the image has been created, it's just a hint about how you intend it to be rendered when printed, but it has exactly zero impact on the quality that can or can't be achieved when printing. |
| 20090310.66 | I've added a popup dialog that appears the first time you install this plugin that explains how to activate it from the Export Dialog. It's currently not very “discoverable” (in UI lingo), and it leaves a lot of people befuddled. I hope this helps to stem the flow of “I can't get it to work” messages I get each day. I've begged Adobe to tweak the UI to make it more clear in the future. |
| 20090305.65 | Fixed a bug that caused the plugin to crash (and stay crashed across Lightroom restarts, even!) when deleting the caption preset that was actually chosen for the caption. |
| 20090303.64 | If there's an error calculating the automatic destination for a photo, now actually reports that error instead of just crashing |
| 20090302.63 | Fixed a bug that could cause the plugin to crash when using the File > Plugin Extras |
| 20090228.62 | Fixed a bug that caused a plugin crash if my server couldn't be reached during registration. |
| 20090219.61 | NOTE: you may need to restart Lightroom after installing to this (or a later) version from the previous (or an earlier) version. Please try a restart if you get an error the first time you try to use the plugin. As per the ongoing discussion on my blog, with this version the plugin moves over to
a "donationware" model, in which the plugin remains free, but registration eventually becomes
required (and an eventual donation hoped for For details, see Lightroom Plugin Development: Now With Added Encouragement. (For info about what drove this decision, see What To Do When a Hobby Becomes Work?) The plugin no longer expires, and correspondingly, I will not pay much attention to reports of bugs that have already been fixed, so please check your version and the version history before submitting bugs or feature requests. There was a lot of internal upheaval in the code, so I expect that some boo-boos my surface. If something breaks for you with this version, please let me know, but until I fix it, feel free to revert to the previous version. Several fixes and enhancements in this release: It can now track multiple PicasaWeb logins, and you can easily switch between and among them. There have been a lot of UI tweaks to make things look more natural (but Lightroom's plugin infrastructure still places great restrictions on what can be done, so it's not like it's smoothly polished yet). It now has more robust error reporting in the face of network problems. |
| 20090129.60 | Small housekeeping update for the new locales supported by Lightroom 2.3. Added more info to the debugging log when an export operation begins, to help diagnose any subsequent problems with the export. |
| 20090126.59 | The new scrollable-list stuff didn't deal with ampersands very well... things should be better now. Also added tooltips to the list items so that the full text can be read even if the display is cut short, although ampersands may appear in duplicate (or quadruplicate, depending on the OS)... it just wasn't worth the effort to get ampersands right in the tooltip. |
| 20090119.58 | Okay, so I spent the entire weekend working on my own scrollable-list control from scratch, because the built-in popup menu is just not very easy to work with when one has a lot of galleries. I didn't have much to work with, and the result is a bit wonky, but it's much more usable when the list is long, so I'm throwing it out there. If you don't have a long list of export destinations, you can revert back to the original via the "configure list appearance" button. With that button you can also change how much of the list is shown at once, to suit your personal preference. |
| 20090116.57 | It turns out that the automatic upgrade stuff doesn't work if the plugin folder has been renamed from its original. That should generally not happen, but it's possible, so the plugin now checks its own location reports the issue to the user if it finds it. |
| 20090115.56 | Added more debugging-log stuff to the 'Upgrade Now' button action, to try to understand why it doesn't work for some people. |
| 20090115.55 | Added a 'click here to change the export destination' note to the masthead image, because some new users are confused how to change export destinations. |
| 20090110.54 | Added a checkbox in the Plugin Manager to turn on enhanced debugging (more stuff in the plugin's debugging log), and added a button in the same place that sends your log to me. Particularly for “the upgrade button doesn't work” and “error while uploading” type issues, this should be useful for debugging. |
| 20081228.53 | My preset dialog (for caption presets) was a bit wonky and didn't update itself when a preset was added. Fixed that. Also, in the export dialog proper, the example text next to the preset dropdown didn't auto-expand as the preset was changed. Fixed that, too. |
| 20081224.52 | The "Extras" item in the File menu had stopped working. Works now. |
| 20081223.51 | Bumping back the expiration date. |
| 20081215.50 | Small fix for some of the logging code. |
| 20081208.49 | Fixed a problem that sometimes caused errors during login/authentication, or after logging out. |
| 20081204.48 | Try to work around a fairly rare Lightroom bug that sometimes causes large exports to fail with the note Whoa, exported image doesn't exist after waitForRender by pausing for a few seconds to see whether the image shows up. If not, then you still get the error and the export fails. |
| 20081128.47 | Added the "auto destination" feature. |
| 20081127.46 | The counting of previous uploads (for the All/Update/New of the Upload Destination section) was not working right. |
| 20081125.45 | Another fix for a bug that had disabled plugin presets (for captions, etc.) |
| 20081124.44 | Perhaps fixed a problem whereby the "Upgrade Now" button didn't work for some Windows users. We'll see whether it works when those users upgrade from this version to whatever version is next. |
| 20081123.43 | Fixed a plugin crash when using the plugin's built-in preset system. |
| 20081122.42 | No problems from the upheaval recently, so pushing back the expiration a bit. |
| 20081118.41 | Fix album-creation bug. |
| 20081117.40 | Oops, wouldn't let you log in / authenticate if you weren't already. Doh. Fixed. |
| 20081117.39 | No new functionality in this version, but a huge upheaval in the underlying code to repair an unfortunate design choice I made early on in the development that had limiting consequences I'd not foreseen. There are likely bugs introduced in this version, and as such, it has a short expiration date to encourage updates as those bugs are reported and fixed. If you do run into an error, please send (via email) the log referenced in the upper-right of the Plugin Manager. Thanks. |
| 20081113.38 | Fixed yet another list-of-upload-destinations bug. There are sure a lot of edge cases here. |
| 20081111.37 | Fixed a crash that happened sometimes when there are not yet any preexisting destinations at PicasaWeb. |
| 20081104.36 | Perhaps squelch a spurious error dialog |
| 20081103.35 | I don't know what's causing the slew of networking problems that have been reported, but I've gone ahead and added a retry mechanism. It'll retry operations that failed due to network problems indefinitely, but you can cancel out of the retries if you like. If the problems are some kind of flakiness on the machine (somehow introduced in LR2.1???) this may allow operations to complete. |
| 20081031.34 | Now works properly with the shadow GPS data maintained by my geoencoding plugin. |
| 20081024.33 | Added an option to not add Lightroom keywords as metadata when uploading images. This allows you to not send any keywords if you also have them stripped from the image itself, such as when enabling the "Minimize Embedded Metadata" option, or when stripping keywords with my Metadata Wrangler. This applies only to keywords in the Lightroom library that are marked for export; those not marked for export are never sent. (Also related, recall that due to a Lightroom bug, images in a catalog upgraded from Lightroom 1.x with Lightroom 2.0 lost the ability to export keywords until a fix is applied.) |
| 20081022.32 | Addressed (and perhaps even fixed) a bug introduced in the previous build. |
| 20081021.31 | Small update so that a stuck background version check does not disable the plugin. Added the ability to put the "select at time of export" item at the top of the destination list, as had been requested a few times. Added some items to the template language that had inexplicably been missing: {HH}, {MIN}, {hh}, {min}, {ss}. |
| 20081015.30 | Added back the ability to set the print size via DPI and inches/cm. I think it's more confusing than anything (because it has nothing to do with what size something gets printed at unless you take care to set the printer DPI the same), but someone asked for it and I should really leave it up to the user. The plugin now allows you to use any color space registered on your computer when generating images to upload. I don't think this will be useful for very many people, but perhaps it might be a benefit when combined with some printing services(?) |
| 20081010.29 | Changed the PicasaWeb login method to not exclude users of Google Apps (which, apparently, had been happening until now). Internal change to the user-agent string that the plugin sends when uploading, to better conform to web standards |
| 20080924.28 | I created a "Metadata Management" section in the dialog, and moved some things into that from other sections. Fixed a race condition that sometimes caused the export destination to not appear in the synopsis of a closed "Upload Destination" dialog section. Removed the "replace" option, which had been inadvertently displayed (but disabled) for everyone. Google's "replace" operation requires HTTP support that Lightroom's plugin API doesn't provide. Moved the items in the "Upload Management" section into the "Upload Destination" section, since they are really quite related. |
| 20080923.27 | Sigh, just realized that the "check for new version" stuff did break in 2.1. Totally my fault, sorry. Fixed. |
| 20080921.26 | Oops, the ability to use my template tokens in the 'extra keyword/tags' area, that I added last week, didn't actually recompute the tags on a per-image basis, applying the tags computed for the first image to all the others. That's now fixed, and tags are recomputed with each image. |
| 20080920.25 | Enhanced the {Rating} token to allow {Rating=*} to create "*****" through "". You can put most anything instead of the asterisk, so you might consider {Rating=great } to end up with "great great great". Since these forms result in nothing for an unrated photo, you can use the "|" pipe to provide a default "when empty" value, such as "rating": {Rating=*|"unrated"} |
| 20080918.24 | Added the ability to use template tokens like {Filename} in the "extra tags" input box. |
| 20080916.23 | Update an error message to reflect an apparent bug in LR that causes LR to hand off a file to my plugin for upload before the file is actually available. This seems to happen when using LR/Mogrify or other filters. Updated the url shown in the "status" section of the plugin manager |
| 20080916.22 | Finally have the upgrade button working on both Win and Mac. Since I returned home last week, I now have access to both kinds of machine for the first time since LR2 was released. I can sum up the 5 hours I spent wrestling with the unzip code in three word: I hate Windows. Microsoft owes me five hours of my life back. Note that you may have to install this one by hand in order to get the newly working upgrade button... it's the next upgrade that should be easy-as-click. |
| 20080914.21 | Added a few more descriptive tooltips to the example-token dialog |
| 20080914.20 | Oops, fixed a boo-boo introduced in the previous version. |
| 20080914.19 | Remember (again) the upload-destination across exports. It used to work, and I'm not sure when it stopped working, but it must have been really annoying while it was broken, sorry. |
| 20080914.18 | Fixed tokens "OriginalWidth" and "OriginalHeight" in templates. Added a bunch of new template tokens and a new token filter. Added a token-examples button, which brings up a dialog listing all tokens and their value for an example photo (the first photo in the export list). |
| 20080905.17 | Fixed an "undefined global: DestinationSynopsis" error that could happen when using a preset with a "select at export time" upload-destination setting |
| 20080831.16 | Handle a race condition in the upgrade logic that sometimes results in a superfluous "You have version XYZ, but version XYZ is now available" message |
| 20080829.15 | Added a bunch of new items to the template language. |
| 20080829.14 | Oops, left some debugging cruft that results in an "empty" dialog if the logged-in-user has no galleries or the like. Fixed. |
| 20080828.13 | Minor tweaks |
| 20080828.12 | A few more tweaks to report a failed upgrade attempt a bit more clearly |
| 20080828.11 | Whoo-hoo, finally figured out the "assert" problem that some people without albums were having. When upgrading, ignore a status of “50” (which means “out of disk space”) from the unzip the plugin performs. It seems Windows often reports this status even when there's plenty of disk space left, so until I can understand it better, I'll just ignore that code. |
| 20080827.10 | Fixed the Caption {Filetype} token (was broken for DNGs). Made some Layout tweaks in my preset dialogs. Added titles to the tools sections (were missing on OSX) |
| 20080817.9 | Lots of little tweaks as I cleaned things up. Added a bunch of stuff to the Plugin Manager, including a “What's New” button that shows up next to the “Upgrade Now” button when a new version is available. Removed the auto-destination stuff because I'm getting error-code 500 responses from Google with them. Will investigate. |
| 20080814.8 | Fixed infinite cycle of 'assert' messages one might get in odd situations |
| 20080812.7 | Fixes (I hope) a "bad argument #1 to '?' (table expected, got nil)" error |
| 20080811.6 | Moved and renamed the debugging logs to a temporary folder, and added log Show/Delete buttons to the plugin's custom section of the Plugin Manager. |
| 20080806.5 | Fixed {State} and {Rating} in preset templates. |
| 20080805.4 | Oops, the Windows versions had lost the ability to upgrade themselves. Once this version is installed manually, subsequent versions should be able to upgrade as discussed here. |
| 20080804.3 | Fixed "Access to undefined global: LrError" error that happens when trying to report a login-related problem. |
| 20080804.2 | Fixed a couple of internal errors related to the "choose destination at time of export" feature |
| 20080729.1 | Initial public release |
See the known issues before reporting bugs. Also, when reporting bugs, please include the OS, the version number of Lightroom, and the version number of the plugin. Seriously. I need the full version number or I likely can't do anything but ignore the message.
picasawev-20080729.1 does not work on my Lihtroom 2. I get information that there is something wrong in reading the schema. So the plug in is disabled. OS Windows XP.
Regards,
Erkki
I get an error using this version on XP: selecting the file-export- a dialogue box pops up titled “info” with the text of “At line 13435″
clicking ok continues to the usual album dialogue and works ok from then.
Fixed in .2 —Jeffrey
LR2 “Update Catalog for Plug-in” message on first opening of catalog after copying files to the Modules folder. Win XP. Why is a catalog update needed?? I’ll update but am apprehensive…
Ah, I should have mentioned this somewhere. LR2 allows plugins to add per-image data such that it can be used in searches, smart collections, and filters, but to do so it has to update the catalog with the “schema” (information about what kind of data will be stored, and how it can be accessed by the filters, smart collections, and searches).
My “Export to….” plugins support all that, so the catalog is upgraded. Frankly, I don’t know why it’s something to bother the user about, but it does. You’ll get the same message if I add (or change) the list of possible per-image items the plugins saves.
I’ll go add something to the plugin-install page that mentions this. —Jeffrey
Ah ha, Yes I see the “Uploaded to Picasa Web” in the metadata and in the new filter tool bar. Very Cool! I love this plug-in and use it ALL of the time. Thanks!
Also found a second dialog “Access to undefined global: LrError”
I have a picture of it. Send me an email and I can send it to you.
Fixed in .3 —Jeffrey
For me it runs smoothly. No problem so far.
Thank you, Jeffrey!
Thanks Jeffrey! Works like a charm on WinXP SP3 + LR 2.0
A little question: Would it be possible to change the logfile folder to other than “My Documents” (for instance, the same as the LR default plugins location)?
Moved to a temporary folder, as of .6 —Jeffrey
Works like a charm! Thanks
Hi,
I’ve found your plugin really useful and I appreciate it a lot!
I have’nt found any bugs, I just have a small feature request.
When I upload photos to Picasa (or Flickr or Facebook) I start by creating a collection in Lightroom. And then I reorder the photos to get a better “story”. But it is not possible to select “user-order” when I upload. Would it be possible to add this feature?
Regards
Nils
PS I’ve used this workaround: 1) Export with custom name and three digit sequence number. 2) Reimport. 3) Upload in alphabetical order.
I am using your picasa plugin with Lighroom in Leopard. I get the following error when I try to export images. No images to process. All were filtered out. Is this a bug?
Look at the All/Updated/New filter in the Upload Management section of the Export Dialog. You probably have it set to Updated or New, and have selected only images that have already been exported. —Jeffrey
I’m finding that while the flickr plugin exports keywords correctly, applying country/city metadata the picasa plugin doesn’t convert/apply these data into keywords - I don’t think it’s LR2 as using the same photo the plugins export different keywords. I’ve tried w/ and w/out the hierarchical option checked. Not sure what could be causing this, does the picasaweb one not convert/export/apply location data to keywords?
Works smoothly with LR2 and excellent instructions. Thanks! Windows XP.
I can’t figure out how to rate it on the Adobe Website, but will give it five stars if there is a way.
It’s so great someone creates this free plugins! Thank you very much Jeffrey!
And one question: is it possible to upload your pictures without “tags” to Picasa? I want my tags in Lightroom, but I don’t want other people to see them online. I thought it was a feature before, but maybe i’m wrong?
Within Lightroom, you can mark each tag as to whether it should / shouldn’t be part of an export. —Jeffrey
Thanks so much for making your lightroom plugins freely available to everyone. I just sent you a little something to show my appreciation for your great service and outstanding workflow tools.
Great tool,
but it would be even more great if it was possible to sort the list of album fetched from Picasa Web. I have about 30-50 albums and it is bit time consuming to manual search to list of albums.
So either, sort alphabetically or maybe search by typing.
Are the three options directly under the album dropdown (that allow you to sort alphabetically, by recentness of use, or by recentness of creation) not sufficient? —Jeffrey
Hi,
First of all, thanks for the plugin!
One quick note–it doesn’t seem to be uploading all of the selected tags to Picasa Web Albums. Sometimes in lightroom I’ll have five or six tags on an image, but it will only upload two. If I retry and retry, it will always upload the same two tags. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Robby
Are you sure it’s not the Lightroom keyword bug mentioned in the known issues? —Jeffrey
Plugin Manager Update button doesn’t work for me.
- Open Plugin Manager
- Picasa Plugin reports Version xxxx is available
- Version yyyyyy is installed
- Click the [Upgrade Now] button. Upgrade In Place dialog is displayed.
- Click [Download & Install Now] button
- seems to work for a bit and reports Version yyyyyy has been installed.
The only way I have been able to upgrade is manually DL zip file, delete old and replace with new.
Windows XP SP3
LR2 obviously
Thanks!
Sadly, I had a bug in the auto-upgrade stuff in the old versions. It’s all fixed now, but people still have to upgrade manually to the fixed version to, er, get a fixed version. (By the way, I should point out that none of this upgrade stuff is built into Lightroom… the plugin does it all itself.) —Jeffrey
Since .24 mine has been updating fine from the Plugin Manager. I too am on LR2.1 RC1.
Downloaded version 20080923.27 and tried LR 2.0 plug in manager. The plug in manager wants some filed with a .lrplugin extension and there are none to be found. Am I doing something wrong or did I download the wrong file? Thanks.
The name of the folder left after unzipping ends with .lrplugin. That’s the plugin. —Jeffrey
I can’t log in to PicasaWeb via your plugin:
Mac OS X 10.5.4
Lightroom 2.1 RC1
picasaweb-20080924.28
I suspect this is caused by one of two things:
1. The fact that I’m using an early release of 2.1; or
2. I have two Google IDs with the same e-mail address (the same one I used to submit this comment), which could be confusing your plug-in, or whatever Google service you try to authenticate with.
If it’s #1, then this might be an early preview suggesting your plugin might break for everyone when 2.1 is released. The rest of my post works with the assumption that #2 is happening (which seems more likely, for reasons discussed below):
* I have a normal “gmail-style” Google ID. This is what PicasaWeb uses when I try to log in on the web site (it only accepts this password with my e-mail address). Your plugin rejects these credentials as though they were invalid (BadAuthentication).
* I also have a “Google Apps for Your Domain” account with the same e-mail address. This account (password) doesn’t work with PicasaWeb. When I try to use this password with your plug-in, I get a very different error message:
INTERNAL PLUGIN ERROR
PicasaWeb login aborted
It’s as though the service you’re trying to log into is confused about which version of my ID it should try to use, and when it (wrongly) tries to use the Google Apps account, either PicasaWeb or your plugin chokes.
This “duality” of Google accounts has always been a source of frustration, because applications can’t treat them as equivalent, and sometimes it’s not clear which one they should use if an ambiguity exists; please feel free to complain to Google if they’re doing something wrong here, or if poor documentation allowed you to do something wrong. Thanks for your help.
(With David’s help offline, I was able to address this. The fix appears in .29 —Jeffrey)
Jeffrey,
Thank you for creating this file. I have tried a several times unzipping the file, it keeps telling me that the file is corrupted. Would you please help?
Thank you,
Carolyn
I’d suggest downloading again from scratch. It perhaps got corrupt during your first download. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey,
thank you very much. Using your plugins made my decision to actually buy Lightroom to organize my photos. You should get commission from Adobe. I have a copy of your regex book in my office, excellent work!!!
Christian
Thanks for your plugins Jeffrey, they’re great since I try to use Lightroom 2 as a one-stop application to do everything. One thing though: when uploading a lot of pictures with your Picasaweb-plugin, somewhere in the process Lightroom returns this error:
+371.4: At =(tail call) line -1:
Return header ERROR
—————————————————————-
errorCode = “timedOut”
name = “timed out”
nativeCode = -1001
Any idea how to solve this? I got it with different series of pictures I tried to upload to a private picasaweb album. All have keywords, and I add a generic title for all pictures (basic text + filename), which appears under the pictures on picasaweb. Any ideas???
Timeouts are transitory in nature… they happen when there are network “issues” at your computer, at PicasaWeb, or in between. It would be nice if my plugin presented the error to you in a more graceful manner, and perhaps offered to retry instead of just dying. Generally speaking, my plugins aren’t very polished in the error-handling department, sorry. —Jeffrey
Hallo.
This plugin used to have option NOT to upload Lightroom metadata and Lightroom Keywords. I really do not want my keywords to be uploaded.
Can you put this feature back, please?
Best regards, Filip.
It still does… you can strip most metadata with the “minimize” checkbox in the “Metadata” section. If you’d like more control, you can exercise a line-item veto of any item with my Metadata Wrangler plugin. —Jeffrey
Hi, thx a lot for this Plugin - but
picasawev-20081015.30 does not work on my Lihtroom 2. I get information that there is something wrong in reading the schema. So the plug in is disabled?
i work with Windows XP?!?
Can you give me a hint??
thx and regards,
günter
This sounds like perhaps a corrupt zip, or something like that. Just delete everything from the first install attempt, download again, and try installing again. —Jeffrey
Hello
First thanks for your plugin. I don’t know why, I have already exported several albums to my picasa web account with your plugin and suddenly, I have the following error :
?:13879: bad argument #1 to ‘?’ (string expected, got nil)
Do you have an idea ?
I have lightroom 2.1, I never had version 1. I tried to download the latest version, it is 20080905.17
Works perfekt with LR 2.1 and Vista SP2.
Great work!
Thanks a lot!
Andreas
Hello,
I want to develop a plugin for LR2.1 (1 workflow and 1 FTP).
Do you know where I can find resources and there is a book about the SDK?
thank you for your reply.
Many Thanks.
Eric
The only resources I know of are the SDK documentation and examples from Adobe, and the user-to-user forum. The docs contain a 187-page PDF full of details and examples. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey - What a great plugin. Many thanks for creating this and sharing it with us.
Best regards
Duncan
The picasa plug-in (version 20081123.43) is estimating 5 hours to upload 255 RAW images. (using fast ethernet connection, Vista OS, fast computer). Is there a way to speed up the upload process? Thank you for developing this.
The time to upload is most strongly influenced by your internet connection. Fast connection means faster upload. (Personally, I have 100 megabit fiber to my house, but I still hesitate to use “fast” when uploading big images). —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
Is it possible to automatically create a smart collection for each Album that I created in Picasa?
I can create it manually, but is it possible to automate it?
It’s easy to have one smart collection for all Photos, I uploaded.
It’s also possible to select only photos in one particular picasa album, by filtering by the name of the album. But how can I create one Smart collection for each Album I have uploaded to picasa and name it accordingly?
Greetings,
Hendrik
I’m using version 20081127.46
I’d suggest either using a special per-album keyword that you apply to each photo you want in the album, then make a smart collection based on that. You can then use the “Update” upload feature after selecting everything in the smart collection to ensure that all the images in the collection are indeed uploaded. But actually, the more straightforward approach would be to simply maintain a set of collections yourself, since that’s sort of exactly what they’re for.
In either case, to complete the process, it’d be easier if you could use the “auto destination” feature that I have on my other plugins (highlighted here. I guess I haven’t added that to the PicasaWeb plugin yet, so I’ll try to do that soon. —Jeffrey
How do you clear the PicasaWeb Metadata in LR? I uploaded some photos and then deleted them in PicasaWeb and I want to have those changes reflected in LR.
Pull up the “File > Plugin Extras > PicasaWeb Extras” dialog. —Jeffrey
I can’t upgrade from 20081208.48 to 20081208.49 version. It downloads, then asks me to restart the plugin. I do and then it returns me to the start where it says I have v .48 and that a new version .49 exists. It cycles over and over if I keep trying. .49 never really seems to install. Any ideas what to do?
Also where do I enter my Picasa web account info? I can’t find a way to actually upload my files to Picasa.
Is it possible to make this create albums which are sign-in on the privacy settings? I see it can create public and unlisted; Google recently added the Sign-in only viewing for albums and this would be great to create automatically.
Can you point me toward some docs? I can’t find reference to it in Google’s docs… —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey,
The only reference I can find is in the Google Support pages at
http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39551 - if you mean on the Google/Picasaweb API end I don’t have a clue as to where to start looking, sorry- Maybe someone else might know!
Hello! What a great plug-in! great job there!
I wonder if there is a way to auto select the album date for picasa export! I am using the LR2 version!
Tks!!
Thanks for the great export plugins. I have one question, I’m using picasaweb-20090116.57.zip with Lightroom 2.2 and I can’t seem to find a way to use Photoshop actions as a post-processing filter. I can add your Wrangler plugin but how can I use a PS action/droplet? Thank you.
Lightroom disables the post-processing actions when using a plugin as an export destination. That sort of makes sense because you’d be applying the Photoshop action after the photo is uploaded. I really should just port over my run any command piglet to Lightroom 2…… —Jeffrey
Thanks for the quick answer… I’ve been looking all over the Internet and nobody seems to mention this issue. Looks like you’re the only one with a potential solution in your hands. I hope you will port run any command one day… Do you have any alternate suggestion in the meantime? I’ve tried to use LR2/Mogrify and specify my droplet there in the config screen instead of ImageMagick’s binary, but obviously that doesn’t work -must be trying to add parameters that the droplet doesn’t understand. I might be able to point to a .bat and strip the extra parameters and just send the filename to the droplet. Not sure this is gonna work, I will let everybody know.
As a side note, if ever you need a new export plugin idea… Would be great if you could do an export to Gallery!!!
I have searched high and low but can’t seem to find anything that can help my login/conection issues with Picasa using your plugin after upgrading to LR 2.2.
I have tried trashing and re-dowdnloading, moving to a different directory and/or drive..
Thanks in advance,
Dale
Lightroom Network Error: “cannot ConnectToHost”
“Can’t connect to host” is a networking error. Are you sure that PicasaWeb and your internet connection were up? —Jeffrey
Dale, you might be using special characters in your username/password. I know I had some problems with that before (with the old version of the plugin), I’m not sure how the new version behaves. I had to change my password to make it work, give this a try.
As a follow-up to my comment on January 19th, 2009 at 1:17pm, I haven’t been able to use LR2/Mogrify to launch Droplets or any other executable than mogrify.exe itself. Sorry if anybody else is looking for the same thing, but that doesn’t look possible at this time, or at least until there is a “launch any command” plugin that works as an export filter under LR2. I actually ended up changing the way I publish files on the web and I now use The Turning Gate plugins which are different than Jeffrey’s but also very nice. I’m not going to detail every step of my workflow, but I export my files under a special folder called “Web”, running my droplet on them as a post-processing action, and then run the TTG plugins to export them to an FTP folder. It’s really less painful to use than it sounds.
Hum, actually, about my last comment, Jeffrey has JUST posted a new “run any command” plugin so you can still use his export plugins with your beloved Photoshop Droplets! Think NoiseWare, Smart Sharpen, etc… Thanks buddy.
It’s at http://regex.info/blog/2009-01-27/1125
Hallo, Jeffrey.
(plugin number 20090129.60)
Thank you very much for readding the former plugin feature
DO NOT EXPLICITLY ADD LIGHTROOM KEYWORDS
I couldn’t live without it. Now I can start to use your plugin again.
Regards.
Hello, Jeffrey. I like and enjoy both your Flickr and PicasaWeb export plugins, that they’re very useful for me. I have only a little question: is there any chance they eventually could be full automatically updated without any user intervention?
Probably not. It’s generally considered rude for a program to update itself like that. I built the whole upgrade thing from scratch (none of it is built into Lightroom), and so it’s sort of fragile, and I still get occasional reports that it doesn’t work. Also, some updates are less stable than others, along the lines of “okay, I’m trying something here… let me know how it goes”, and each person should be allowed to decide for themselves whether to accept it or wait. —Jeffrey
Hey,
Whenever i try to use the export to picasaweb i get an error that says the operation timed out. nativeCode=12002
I am using Lightroom 2.2 64 bit on Vista 64 bit.
I looked at the connections going out of my computer with tcpview and i see it trying to connect to: ag-in-f93.google.com:http
Any Ideas?
-Peter
Thanks Jeffrey for your efforts, hopefully you are seeing a little play money now from your work! I just registered the Picasa plugin, it’s probably the best $10 I’ve spent in a while - It has saved my a lot of time and makes pushing family photos online effortless!
In that vein, is it possible to parse and import new keywords and/or descriptions that have been added in Picasa Web into Lightroom?
My scenario is this: I am scanning family photos, and would like to put my family to work adding situational and people keywords on PicasaWeb. Then every few weeks, I’ll point the plugin (or something) to the Picasa album to snarf new/changed keywords and descriptions to get them into Lightroom. Does the Lightroom plugin API even allow for something like that?
Thanks again!
These kind of things are definitely on the to-do list, but this one will be tough. Indeed, the Lightroom plugin API does not allow for updating of keywords, and even if it did, without a timestamp on when each keyword was updated (in both Lightroom and PicasaWeb), it’s hard to make a robust sync. But until LR allows for a way to get keywords in from outside, you’re sort of stuck. )-: —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey-
First of all, thanks for the plugin! I downloaded it a while back and finally used it about two weeks ago to get a gallery up to PicasaWeb. I wanted to add some more pictures yesterday, but all of a sudden got a message that “This plug-in is not installed on your computer or is not functioning properly.” I saw that an upgrade was available and upgraded the plug-in, restarted LR2, same message. I deleted the plug-in and tried again, but no change. Any idea what’s going on?
I am using “Export to PicasaWeb 20090305.65″ with LR 2.2 on a MacBook Pro.
Thanks for your help.
Paula
Are there any diagnostic messages in the lower-right section of the Plugin Manager? When you “deleted the plugin”, was that from disk or just from the Plugin Manager? If not the former, please try deleting the entire plugin folder, unzipping a newly downloaded copy, and repointing the Plugin Manager at it. (Sometimes, the auto-upgrade stuff can get all goofed up and it needs a full restart.) If it still doesn’t work, contact me via email… —Jeffrey
I am using the latest version of the Picassa plug-in in Lightroom 2.0. I’m not sure if I am missing something obvious or if this is actually a bug. However I figured I would report it.
If I make a smart collection and use the “Exported to Picassa” filter, Lightroom successfully identifies all of the pictures which I have exported to Picassa. Now, if I go to this collection and edit a file (Metadata, etc) and then re-export the updated image from this collection, the export goes just fine but for some reason it is REMOVED from the collection. I don’t understand why as it should still be tagged as ‘exported to picassa’.
If I then delete the Smart Collection and re-make it, Lightroom once again successfully identifies all of the images - included whichever one I just edited.
Does that make sense?
-martini
20090313.67
Update on my previous comment - I don’t have to delete the collection to get the Smart Collection to re-recognize the images which have been uploaded to Picassa. If I exit Lightroom and re-enter, it will also figure it out. May just be a Lightroom Bug.
It sure looks like a bug. I’ll test it, and submit it to Adobe if need be.
Second comment: If I have an image which has been uploaded to Picassa, and I wen through the hassle of setting up the ‘faces/people’ things on the images in Picassa, is there anyway to update and re-export the image from Lightroom without losing all of the faces, etc that I added?
I don’t think the PicasaWeb API allows for image replacement (because I think I would have added a “replace” checkbox if it had been there when I first developed the plugin), but I’ll take a look and see… —Jeffrey
Version 20090325.68
Hey, thanks for this plugin!
I export edited pictures to picasa, but the original, unedited versions were exported.
To recreate:
1. Edit a picture with the “Develop” tools of lightroom
2. Switch back to the “Library” tab
3. Select the pictures and export it
4. Picasa shows the unedited version rather the exported “fixed” version of the picture
In the “File Settings” section of the Export Dialog, did you have “original” selected for the Format? —Jeffrey
Version 20090429.75
For some reason I can’t get watermarks on my photos when they export, I put the copyright in the meta data then when exporting i check add copyright watermark and still nothing comes up… how do get the watermarks on?
thanks,
Essex
Lightroom’s watermarking support is very limited, and not at all influenced by the plugin, so I suspect that if you’re not seeing them, you wouldn’t see them even if you did an export to local disk. Two possible problems come to mind: you can’t control the color of the copyright notice (I believe it’s always white), and you can’t control the size. The size is always the same (something like 12-pixels), so if you export very large images that are white in the corner where the copyright notice is placed, you won’t see the minuscule white text on top of the white background. To put it bluntly, Lightroom’s support for this is pathetic, but then, it’s only a Version 2 product and so they can’t be perfect everywhere (or even anywhere). I’m sure Adobe will address this in a future version of Lightroom. Until then, you might find Tim Armes’ LR2/Mogrify plugin very useful. —Jeffrey
Mac OS. Lightroom 2.1. Picassa Web Plugin.
What are the reasons for a REJECTED USER LIMIT error when exporting to picassa web?
Thank you,
Barry
As far as I’ve ever been able to determine, no one knows why Google sends back that error. It seems completely random (which makes it completely frustrating). —Jeffrey