Comments on: Preset Templates in My Lightroom Plugins

By: Devender Narang

Devender Narang — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:46:56 +0000

Hi Jeffrey,
I’m having issues with the “OnlineID” token. Instead of “View on Black” It’s simply showing off as text. And when I click on the description at Flickr, I see that a few extra characters have been added — seems flickr is converting the “<" into"&l".

"View on Black"

Thanks for your help in advance.
-Dev

Are you sure you have the html/text selector set to html? —Jeffrey

By: TC

TC — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:33:23 +0000

Jeffrey:

I figured out the mystery (sort of) and it’s not a bug with your plugin. It looks as though any of the iPhone apps that post-process photos aren’t setting the date correctly in the EXIF tags. The native iPhone camera app DOES do it correctly though.

Oddly, when I go into Lightroom and “Edit Capture Time” on one of the offending photos, it has the correct date and time that the photo was taken — it’s just not appearing in the “All Metadata” view. I think it’s because Lightroom is looking at the “File Creation” date when the EXIF Date is missing.

So I’m suspecting either there’s a bug in the iPhone overall that doesn’t let the apps write the EXIF data correctly, or all these 3rd party apps are just lazy and not carrying over the EXIF data.

By: TC

TC — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:10:43 +0000

FOr some reason, I cannot get the Token for the “Date Created” to work.

If I use: “2010.{Date}”, it always comes out as “2010.31″ and the “31″ suffix makes no sense to me given the template instrucitons.

If I try “2010.{date}”, it comes out with “2010.10″ which is correct since today is January 10th. However, this doesn’t help me because the photo was taken on January 9th, which is why I’m trying to use “2010.{Date}”.

Is this just a bug or am I misunderstanding how this is supposed to work?

No misunderstanding…. it’s supposed to be how you describe you expect it. Could you check the ‘All’ metadata-viewer preset to see whether any of the dates have 31 for the day-of-month value? If not, try typing {Date} into the “extra keywords” box, see the example value is wrong, then visit the plugin manager and use the “send to Jeffrey” button to send me the log, and I’ll check it out. —Jeffrey

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 06:46:29 +0000

The matter of line breaks in the Caption Preset has been mentioned before but not being a programmer, I don't quite understand the answer. I'm not sure if you were saying that it might not be possible for some programs. I want to have "Title" line break "Caption". I have tried "{Title}{Caption}" in both plain and HTML but that didn't do it. I'm exporting to SmugMug. Add
where you want the line break, e.g. “{Title}
{Caption}”, and the line break will be inserted when you have both a Title and a Caption. —Jeffrey

By: Devender Narang

Devender Narang — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:20:23 +0000

Hi Jeffrey,

Another request: it would be great if we have a token that helps us name the flickr/facebook folder based on either the photoset or smart photoset’s name? Thanks much!

-Dev

By: Max Finger

Max Finger — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:51:52 +0000

Great work and thanks for all of the plugins you offer that make our workflow as photographers better. cheers

By: Stuart Ponder

Stuart Ponder — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:11:31 +0000

from Santa Barbara, CA
I don’t have a question; I just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work. I’m FINALLY getting around to learning the various plugins’ capabilities and am amazed at what they can do. You do spectacular work.

By: Pascal Obry

Pascal Obry — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:53:09 +0000

I’m using LR3b and I’ve a question regarding the auto-destination. Is it possible to use the name of the collection (as set in the Publish Service) for the PicasaWeb album name?

I think this will be quite handy.

Thanks.

Don’t know yet. Will certainly look for that when I get docs. —Jeffrey

By: Krys

Krys — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:21:46 +0000

Maybe I’m just stupid, but is there a way with this to use Lightroom keywords to put photos in a particular Flickr set (and even better, into a certain set if a particular combination of keywords exists?)

Thanks,
Krys from Denver, CO

No, that’s not there yet, but it’s a good idea… added to the todo list. —Jeffrey

By: Otger

Otger — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:46:18 +0000

I've been using your flickr plugin for some time, and today I've discovered this feature. I think it is great! Like all your plugins! I would like to ask if it could be possible to add a link to Google maps using GPS position. Is it possible right, now? If not, could it be possible that you add this feature in a new release? Thanks! You can build up the link in a caption using the token templates that I've built into the plugin.... something along the lines of click for map —Jeffrey