Jeffrey’s Lightroom Goodies (Plugins and Tools)
My Tech-Related Photography Posts
- Digital Image Color Spaces
- Lightroom goodies (lots of plugins)
- Online Exif (Image Data) Viewer
- Adobe Lightroom 1.x Resources
- Jeffrey's Lightroom Configuration Manager
- Adobe Lightroom Custom Metadata-Viewer Presets
- Jeffrey's Autofocus Test Chart
- Photoshop CS2 Calendar-Template-Building Script
- A Qualitative Analysis of NEF Compression
- NEF, Color Space Settings, and Embedded JPGs
- Tripod Stability Tests, Part I
- Timing a Transcend 80x 4GB Compact Flash card
with a Nikon D200 - Digital Camera “White Balance”
- Maximum Aperture of the Nikon 18-200mm
Throughout its Zoom Range
more...
Plugins for Lightroom 2.0 or Later:
- Export Plugin for Zenfolio
- Export Plugin for SmugMug
- Export Plugin for Flickr
- Export Plugin for Picasa Web
- Export Plugin for Facebook
- Metadata Wrangler (export filter)
- GPS Support (geoencoding)
- GPS Proximity Search
- Installation and Management of Lightroom Plugins
- Known Bugs, and To-Do List
Tools for Lightroom:
Etc...
- Funky Joy With Adobe Lightroom (negative clarity)
- Panning a Timelapse with Lightroom and Perl
- Freaky RAW Processing: From Sunset to Moonrise
- Accessing Yahoo! Maps from Adobe Lightroom
- Accessing Lightroom's SQLite DB Directly
- Adobe Lightroom 1.x Resources
Old Plugin Resources for Lightroom 1 (no longer supported)
- Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Zenfolio
- Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for SmugMug
- Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Flickr
- Lightroom 1 Export Plugin for Picasa Web
- How to Install a Lightroom 1 Export Plugin
- “Piglets”, Lightroom 1 Plugin Extensions
- List of Known Piglets
- My “Run Any Command” Piglet
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Please do not report bugs or other comments related to my plugins here. Please do those on the appropriate per-plugin page (linked from my Lightroom Goodies page).
Was wonder what the chances are you would be making a plugin for deviantART.com Would love to to be able to post directly from LR2 to deviantART
Unlikely, sorry, any time soon. —Jeffrey
I’m curious if you’re working on a export plug in to Apple’s iWeb and Gallery?
I’m not, sorry. I somehow expect that they wouldn’t want to provide a developer’s account for me to do it with… —Jeffrey
I have LR 2.0 and love your flickr plugin. Problem is it takes FOREVER to export photos. DO you have any tips as to size, quality etc. I usually export about 250 photos fora model to review on flickr so they don’t have to be big or high qaulity. I am going from RAW to JPG and think that is the bottleneck. Like 170 photos are taking several hours to export and upload to flickr.
Running a three year old HP laptop (2MB RAM) and the photos ARE on a USB external hard drive. Running XP.
Appreciate any suggestions. Hate to move the photos off the external hard drive as that is where I keep them. (small laptop HD is why).
Thank you.
The bottleneck is almost certainly the upload part, but you can test it for sure by exporting to local disk and see how much faster it is. To minimize the upload size, you need to minimize the file size. Of course, that means setting the image width/height to as small as you can handle, and lower the quality to the minimum that’ll suit your needs. Also, use my metadata wrangler to remove metadata you don’t need (such as the embedded thumbnail). —Jeffrey
Thank you so much for your work with these . They are all great and very useful. It’s a shame about the iWeb/MobimeMe account.
Cheers!
Hi Jeffrey,
I love the SmugMug uploader, has completely redefined my work flow!
Do you have a paypal account or somewhere I can donate money to for your time and effort on this addon!
Cheers
Laurie
I do, but it’s sort of hidden here. There’s also a small button in the Plugin Manger for it. Thanks! —Jeffrey
How do I make the plugin upload the original photo to Flickr without making any changes to it, besides having the keywords go with it? I want to use Flickr for archiving/safe storage as well.
Select ‘Original’ for the image format in the Export Dialog. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey, I turned of all the extra settings, set image format to ‘original’, no keywords and uploaded to Flickr. When I downloaded the picture, it was 5k bigger. This doesn’t happen when I upload using Flickr upload, I get the same exact file back. Any clue what the difference is? Sorry for being so picky.
The lack of keywords is likely one of the known issues I ask that you read before commenting. I don’t know why it would be 5k bigger, except to guess that perhaps they add in the keywords and caption/title, etc., that the plugin sends along? I dunno. —Jeffrey
You’re a good man. Thanks.
I’m a WinXP user, but my daughter swings the other way … Mac OS X / Mobileme
As far as I can tell, there is no direct route to upload from Lr to Mobileme Gallery.
(am I wrong? I hope I am. The only route I see is Lr –> iPhoto –> Mobileme)
If you are in any position to fill that void, I would encourage you.
regards,
Gary
Any change of an Mpix export plugin?
Hi Jeff,
I’ve come across your plugins and am very impressed. I was wondering if you know of any plugin out there that will allow me to import my customer’s selected photos from Smugmug into Lightroom. My workflow is below:
1. I upload all of my original proofs to Smugmug
2. The customer purchases the photos they want
3. I receive a “PROOF” list from Smugmug containing all of the files they selected (sometimes very large)
4. I go back into Lightroom and manually select these photos, flagging them as “Picks”
5. I make my adjustments, export, and replace the photos with the polished versions
Since I photograph many weddings, sometimes my clients select hundreds of photos to purchase. I spend a great deal of time in Lightroom manually selecting each photo so I can isolate them to retouch. I am wondering if there is any way to somehow transfer that info from Smugmug into Lightroom to automate the process, save time, and reduce errors. Thanks!
Hi, sorry if I’m writing down here, but I didn’t find a contact on the blog. Is it possible to suggest you anothere online service that needs one of your export plugin? It’s Gallery2, an opensource gallery script without a working plugin for LR2 (a couple for LR1 seem to be discontinued). It could be possible to see an export solution for this software too?? Could be great! sorry if I’m asking too much however
and great job!
Gallery2 official website: http://gallery.menalto.com/
I can give you access to a server with gallery2 installed to make the plugin working if you need. Let me know!
regards,
m.
Hello,
Firstly, thank you very much for you plugins. Secondly, did you read about Pixelpipe (http://pixelpipe.com/)? It sends your files to dozens of photo sites.
Apparently it uses Flick API (http://pixelpipe.com/api), so, I was thinking that a plugin would be great (and not too much work).
Thanks.
Hi Jeffrey, I have a question about lightroom 2. I hope you don’t mind me posting this question here. I am trying to add captions to slideshows in LR2. I cannot seem to activate the “text template editor” . There is no triangle next to the ABC button as mentioned in the Module help. I am probably missing something simple but If you or anyone else have any suggestions it would be a big help. I apologize if this is not an appropriate site for posting this question. Actually if you know a good site for trouble shooting (discussion etc) I could ask there. By the way I love you smugmug plugin! Thanks, Dave
P.S. I hope you had a good trip to Vancouver. Its my home town.
P.P.S I am using a mac
I’m using the newest Smugmug export plugin and I wondered why it seems to take so much longer then the version for LR1.4.1. I used to be able to upload 10 RAW files in about 5 minutes but now it takes about that long for each file. Nothing has changed other then upgrading to LR2 and getting the latest Export plugin (which I love btw). Any ideas? Has the export changed significantly with LR2?
Thanks.
Hi, I figured that slideshow problem out. There was not enough room in the toolbar pannel to display the text box (to the right of the ABC button) for the text overlay. sorry for posting here. Dave.
Hi Jeffrey,
just want to say thank you very much.
this is really great, i love your flickr-plugin (and maybe the zenfolio-plugin soon)!
keep up the good work - i’m going to donate for sure!
greetings from munich,
filip
Hi Jeffrey,
do you plan to develop MobileMe plugin for both: MAC OS and Windows?
regards,
A Text export plugin would be nice. Similar to what Photo Mechanic can do and with all the Tokens/Variables available.
A new line for each image. Something like
{YYYY}-{MM}-{DD}_{Title}
Thomas
Nice work - but ever thought about an Alamy (www.alamy.com) plug in? If you could sort out their silly metadata fields, you would probably be able to charge for that one!!
Cheers,
Steve
do you have or are you planning to make a plugin that can create a simple viewer gallery?
No, no plans. There’s an entier module — the Web module — that already does that. —Jeffrey
Hey Jeffrey,
First of all thats for all you efforts in this amazing plugin. It certainly saves time.
I do have some issues working with the plugin. But most are worked out by reloading the plugin. There is however a recent problem that I believe might be a facebook issue.
I am getting a
Error response from Facebook
Error uploading image : no photo id.
And then it aborts the pics i am trying to upload to face book.
Email me and i’ll send you the jpeg of the error and the error log.
Again thanks for all your efforts.
Add me to the list of people who would like to go from LR 2.0 to Apple’s mobileme. I’d gladly pay/donate for this. Thanks for all of your work so far and thanks for considering this request
Ray
Jeffrey,
Thanks for the plug in for lightroom. I did download it, however I’m stock when trying to export my lightroom galleries to smug mug. Do you have any suggestions? or step by step procedures?
Thanks,
Lee.
Hi Jeffrey,
I just downloaded and installed your export to Picasa plug-in … worked like a charm. I’m kinda new to plug-ins so your installation instructions came in real handy. Thanks again!
One question that perhaps you may answer since you obviously know a lot about export plug-ins. Why isn’t there a built-in plug-in (or any that I can find for that matter) to export to Adobe’s Photoshop Express. I mean, Adobe is Adobe. You’d think this was a no brainer for the Adobe folks.
What’s your take and do intend to pick up the gauntlet, so to speak?
Thanks again,
Matt
Yeah, Adobe is Adobe, so I haven’t even thought about a plugin for Photoshop Express, thinking that they’d certainly provide one if they wanted one to exist. I dunno. Seems odd. —Jeffrey
Thanks Jeffrey,
Adobe works in mysterious ways. The only thing that I can think of is that they think of Lightroom as a “pro” product and Express as an amateur product so nether the twain shall meet (well … you know what I mean).
Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing your excellent work with the Lightroom community.
- Matt
I use your Flickr plugin all the time and love it. Thanks.
Most of my photos are of cosplayers. People dressing up in various anime customes.
It would save a ton of time if there was a Lightroom plug-in to directly upload photos to cosplay.com.
Please consider this for a future plug-in.
Thank you in advance,
Greg
First off: Thanks for the great work on the plug-ins.
Have you thought about making a plug-in to let users create their own custom metadata fields? For example, I have a portable weather station and would love to be able to add information about temperature, humidity, air pressure, etc to my images.
J, thanks so much for the FB plug, was working great until this last update. now i get:
+1.1: At line 15259: ?:16108: attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)
I have an imac with the lastest OS and LR2 updates applied. Ps. why do these plugs expire?
coocoo
There is a wildly popular Russian facebook clone called Vkontakte.Ru - I wonder what are the chances of adapting a version of this plugin of yours to it?
How much of a clone is it? Is the programming API identical? I couldn’t find any docs… at least none that I could read… —Jeffrey
Do you know of a working Gallery2 plugin for lightroom 2.1? Would you be up for making one?
I was wondering if you make simple export functions. I am looking for a way to export photos using a keyword to create a directory where that photo is stored. I know your tools are ultra advanced and I am just looking for something simple. Do you know of anything or have anything in the works?
Dave
I second the request for a LR2.1 –> Gallery2 export plugin. Your other plugins are so darn good, it’s difficult to believe anyone could do it better.
I also like to thank you for your fantastic work, its so impressiv and helpful!
(and maby, if you don’t have other important things to do, you could think of an Export plugin for Ipernity (www.ipernity.com)?)
again: thanks a lot for your great work!
carsten
I just had an idea. Would you be able to adapt one of your current Lightroom plugins to instead output to a text file? What I’m looking for is something along the lines of the script you use to put photos in your blog posts, with some photographic details below each photo.
Ideally it would provide a list of HTML image tags for the selected images, based on a manually-entered URL. (If it could be further integrated with Lightroom’s built-in FTP capabilities for uploading pictures, that would be even better, but it’s not strictly necessary.) So for example if you enter www.mydomain.com/images/ as the URL, all the HTML tags will be based on that address - e.g. www.mydomain.com/images/image-001.jpg.
Using similar functionality to your other plugins, you could add options to export various kinds of metadata into the text file after each image tag: camera, focal length, aperture, and ISO, but also caption, copyright, location, and so on. This would allow people to pick and choose the info to present.
With all of this in a text file, it could be blogged using your WordPress plugin, or simply copied and pasted manually.
I don’t know how much work would be involved in making this, but it would be a wonderful tool for photographers.
I have been having trouble uploading from lightroom 2.1 to smugmug. It is saying that it can not connect to host. Is this a issue i am having with the plugin or Smugmug?
Thank You
Craig
If you’re on Vista, it’s likely a Lightroom bug. I’ve heard a lot of reports of networking problems on Vista with LR2.1 )-: —Jeffrey
I love your flickr export plugin!
I am looking forward to a plugin for exporting to a mobile me gallery as well.
As far as I could tell when I looked, Apple doesn’t publish an API that would allow a mobile-me plugin. )-: —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey
I have 2 questions related to plugin development
1 .How to create dynamic content of the dialog - for example
one checkbox per one contact group created on server side?
2. What version of the lua compiler you use?
I try 5.1.4, 5.1.1 , 5.0.3 but Lightroom 2.0 do not accept my plugin code.
See the plugin-developer’s manual, 187 pages of information and examples. It’s part of the Lightroom SDK that you can download for free. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey, I rely heavily on your plugins - I use the smugmug and the facebook plugins quite a bit. I’m hoping a costco photo center plugin is in your future plans… I’d be happy to contribute a shareware fee — you do all this work for free?
Thanks again, you’re a big help to my workflow.