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

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:01:29 +0000

Picasa Limits:
http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=43879

Maximum number of web albums: 10,000
Maximum number of photos and videos per web album: 1,000

Free Storage Limits:
http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1224181

Basically, keep your pics resized to 2048×2048 or less and they won’t count towards your storage limit of 1GB.

By: geminot

geminot — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:57:09 +0000

Very useful plugin for Picasa! Many thanks! Very recommended.

By: Lajos Kelemen

Lajos Kelemen — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:55:03 +0000

Hi Jeffrey, i would transfer from picasa app completely to LR, your plugin is a great help for me. But there are still some minor functions that would come handy. Either i didn’t get everything right from your plugin documentation, or these features are missing

Mainly my workflow is importing the photos to a dated, and named dir (Windows AutoPlay photo import) and use that as picasa album name. Is this doable with your plugin, or i should create some workaround?

Keep up the good work!

br, Lajos from Hungray

The rename during import is part of the normal Lightroom import, so once you get them into a folder with a name you like, you can use the plugin’s “auto dest” (automatic destination) feature to create the album as Picasa. For an example of the same kind of thing using my Zenfolio plugin, see this writeup, and apply the idea to your needs. —Jeffrey

By: Raoul Pop

Raoul Pop — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:52:39 +0000

Hi Jeffrey, can you tell me whether there’s a 1,000 or 10,000 photo limit per PicasaWeb gallery? I thought it stood at 10,000, but today, after uploading 1,000 photos to a gallery, I got an error message telling me I’d reached my limit.

I don’t know their limits offhand, but if they’re telling you it’s 1,000 photos, I’d tend to believe them. —Jeffrey

By: mason bryant

mason bryant — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:09:54 +0000

Hey, thanks for this! It is awesome… with one issue: on a network timeout (I assume between me and picassa) there is a modal dialog telling me about a retry. The cancel button on this doesn’t work and the dialog never goes away. I have to force quit lightroom to continue.

Unfortunately, there’s nothing I can do about that. The cancel button merely leaves a note for the plugin to abort the next chance it gets, but if things are locked up deep within the OS networking code, Lightroom and the plugin never get a chance to act on it. It’s rare that the OS never returns control to Lightroom, but it seems that’s what’s happening in your case. )-: —Jeffrey

By: gobeco

gobeco — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 11:43:04 +0000

First: thank you so much for your hard plugin works. I use your Flick and Facebook ones.
Question: Any future plans for a Google+ lightroom plugin?

Yes, but Google has to release an API, first. —Jeffrey

By: TateJ

TateJ — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:56:00 +0000

Using Picasa Web Version 20111222.178.

Thanks for making this plugin available. I’am hoping you can help me with one problem.

When I upload the my photos from lightroom to Picasa web using your plugin, non of my lightroom edits are uploaded with the photos.

What am I doing wrong. If I export to my hard drive, the photos are exported with all of my lightroom edits?

Am i doing something wrong?

It sounds as if you’re got the format set to “Original” (the original master image) rather than “JPEG”. —Jeffrey

By: Dmitry Bulgakov

Dmitry Bulgakov — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:55:39 +0000

Ok, but it started to work (new item in Post-Process Action) only after I installed “Snapshot on Export”
WBR, Dmitry

The built-in one doesn’t show up there… it’s just with the other sections. —Jeffrey

By: Nic Showalter

Nic Showalter — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:34:59 +0000

I’m currently using 20111216.177 and see that a newer version is now available but when I try the “upgrade now” button I get the message “The plugin does not seem to be installed in a location where Lightroom can write to it”

I have all my plugins in a common folder in the adobe/lightroom folder – is there something else I need to do to enable that “upgrade” button?

Thanks!

Nic

If the plugin can’t write to the parent folder, it can’t do the upgrade. Check your folder permissions, I guess. —Jeffrey

By: Nic Showalter

Nic Showalter — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:42:57 +0000

Thank you for your plug-ins and for the hard work you obviously do to maintain them!

I just updated the Picasa plug-in (20111216.177) and had to do it manually. I’d sure like to optimize things so that I can click the button in the future to update.

I think one of the problems may be that I have 3 different folders for each time I have installed LR – 2.0, 3.5 and 3.6. Do I need to move all the plug-ins to a common folder under adobe/lightroom or do I need to do something different when installing new versions of LR so as to avoid separate folders for each version?

Except for the special system folder that Lightroom used in Lr1, Lightroom doesn’t care where plugins are stored. I’d suggest having one “Lightroom Plugins” folder somewhere, and storing them all there, and sharing that folder (wherever it is) with all your versions of Lightroom. Not sure why you’ve still got Lr2 around when you’ve got Lr3, but it’s fine to have both apps pointing to the same plugins. —Jeffrey