I know you use Phil Harvey’s EXIF tool for various things in your plugins. Is it possible to build a token that would allow the user to input the field to be read out of EXIF for use in the caption and/or title?

I’m thinking something like {EXIFtool:xmp.film} that would result in “Velvia 50″ or whatever happens to be in that field for that image.

In short, I’m looking for a way to exposure more EXIF data than what lightroom recognizes… inside your title/caption presents.

Thanks,

John

That’s a good idea, except that it then requires that I bundle a full ExifTool executable with each plugin, and fire off a separate process for each caption. Those are not brick walls, but at this point enough of a weight to keep it from bubbling up on my todo list… —Jeffrey

any way to use PhotoDate with a function like “add 1 month”? When we publish to PicasaWeb, we’d like to name the album including a “online until” – date which is 1 months after pictures are created (pictures should be removed after one month) and the visitors should be informed by an appendix in the name of the album.

Of course a template like {Folder}_Album_online_until_{YYYY}/{MM+1}/{DD} is not working. Any way to do this?

Regards from Germany,

{LUA=mm=="12" and sprintf("%04d", tonumber(yyyy)+1) or yyyy}

{LUA=mm=="12" and sprintf("%02d", tonumber(mm)+1) or mm}

{LUA=tonumber(dd) < 28 and dd or 28}

No, you’re not missing anything… it’s not there. It’s not necessarily as straightforward as some of the other items, but I’ll give it some thought. —Jeffrey

Thanks,

Wes

You can use the auto-destination feature to create galleries on the fly based upon metadata, and particularly using the LUA templat you can construct arbitrarily-complex ways of converting the metadata into a gallery name. But if you want more than one image in the same gallery, you’ll need to ensure that those images all share some bit of metadata (e.g. a caption with the subject’s name). There’s nothing in the plugin that will handle setting an access code for the gallery, so that’ll have to be handled separately. But since you can have the plugin open the gallery in the browser after the upload completes, it’s hopefully not too difficult to just use that page to set the access code. —Jeffrey

Yes, that is ambiguous, isn’t it. They’re for the original (possibly pre-crop) of the master image on disk. I’ve pushed new versions that also include CroppedWidth and CroppedHeight to reference the post-crop size of the image in the library. —Jeffrey

As others have asked in the above comments, any update on accessing Collection info in LR 3.2 (whether it be in your presets, text exports, etc.)?

For photo gallery websites that use databases (eg, Joomla, Drupal, etc.), it would be INCREDIBLY useful to be able to export text (csv, xml, whathave you) lists of the desired apps that would include collection(s) hierarchies, image name, path to thumbnail and full image, meta data, etc.

I have many keywords grouped into sets that don’t export, for example individual animal names, that are also assigned with “wildlife”.

Is there a way to filter and use just those keywords that are contained within the set “wildlife” as the caption for an image?

Thanks

Not that I can think of, sorry. —Jeffrey

Would it be possible to have a token {KeywordsAll} or some such thing that would return every keyword the photo is marked with. With this, I would place that token in the “Extra tags to register with image” and thus all my keywords would export (since I don’t have any keywords that I don’t export). I realize the best solution would be for me to go through and edit each keyword … slightly daunting. A nice solution would be if there was a utility for mass selection of all Lightroom keywords for organization, management and changing those kind of details.

I can add {KeywordsAll} easily enough, so it’ll be in the next versions of each plugin as it goes out, but it won’t help your situation because the whole list would be treated as one keyword (the result of the tokens are not subjected to another round of parsing). Tim Armes has a plugin called Keyword Master, so I’ve suggested to him that it offer some way to help in this situation…. —Jeffrey

What you are trying to do should work… I’ll take a look at it, but unfortunately even if I fix it locally, I’ll not be able to push out a new version for a couple of weeks. I’ll let you know how it goes… —Jeffrey