Excellent work, I love it!

Hi Jeff.

Thanks for creating these extremely useful plug-ins. I downloaded your Zenfolio plug-in on Tuesday night (right after the LR2 release announcement) and I’ve noticed that clicking on the “Check for new version now” button generates a text file titled LrHttp-Debug.log in the My Documents folder. This seems to be similar to the debug log that was generated by the version 1 20080606.45 release. Is there any way to suppress the creation of this file?

I moved the files to a temporary folder, as of version .6.

On another note, I don’t know if its intentional or not but the links to “the old plug-in page” do not bring up the old plug-ins…there’s nothing available.

Doh, thanks, fixed. —Jeffrey

Thanks,

James

Thanks so much for the new version. It seems to work fine with LR2 (I was never able to get the previous version to work with LR1), so I am very pleased to use the Zenfolio version.

Attempted upgrade to 20080817.9 and unzip failed with exit status 50. All of my hard drives have ample free space and the unzip appears to have been successful. I downloaded the zip file and reinstalled. After some fiddling with the plugin manager, I got the new version to load.

I’ve seen the exit-status-50 thing reported before, but haven’t been able to generate it myself. The logs make it look like everything worked, so maybe I should not report an error when I run into an exit status of 50. If someone were to get it, and then just dismiss the error dialog, and continue as if there was no error (that is, go ahead an reload the plugin to activate the new version), I’d appreciate to hear whether it works…. —Jeffrey

I downloaded the 2.0 version but when I unzip it there isn’t a plugin residing in the folder. Can someone please help me. Thanks.

The folder is the plugin. —Jeffrey

I upgraded to the latest version, using the built-in update function and got the same exit code 50. I pressed the Reload plugin button and the plugin worked fine.

Next time there’s an upgrade, I’ll try to remember to rename any copies of unzip.exe that I have on my system to be certain that the one you provide is the one being executed. That’s one of the few things I can think of that might be causing the problem. Are you running unzip directly, or through a command shell? If a command shell, I wonder if my using JP Software’s 4NT rather than CMD.EXE as my default command shell might make a difference?

On another issue, when I create a preset for the zenfolio upload plugin, please remember the gallery that I have set to upload to. I want to create a preset that is ready to run to upload to my gallery of birds. Currently, even though the bird gallery is selected when I create the preset, the field is back to “set at export time” when I select the preset.

The upgrade stuff should be fixed… perhaps you ran into troubles with the final unfixed version (when upgrading to the fixed version)? As for remembering the gallery, I just pushed a fix in version .19. Sorry for the hassles. —Jeffrey

Hi there,

Lightroom is the basis of my workflow, and the only problem I have working with zenfolio is that I can’t have record of client selects back in my lightroom catalog. Is there any future plan for making a way for clients to rate/label images and have the option of syncing that metadata back into the photographer’s lightroom catalog? Or a way of having my ratings/labels visible in Zenfolio?

Thanks,

bb

You can have your ratings visible at Zenfolio by creating a Title or Caption preset template that includes the {Rating} token. As for the two-way sync, I’d very much love to do it, but it’ll be a lot of work to figure it out, so it’s something I’ll have to tackle in the future…. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, What is your Zenfolio Referral Code? May as well give credit where credit is due.

Zenfolio kindly provides me a complimentary account, so I don’t use a referral code…. if I did, they’d be paying me! Thanks, though, for the thought! —Jeffrey

Ok…I must be dumb as a brick because I can NOT get this to work…I’m new to Lightroom and plugins…is there ANYWAY you can help walk me through this??? Sorry to be such a bother….thanks

Bryce

Hi,

I’m new to your plug-ins and I’d like to thank you for creating them.

My system:
OS > Vista Ultimate
LR > Version 2 ( these numbers are next to ehe version 481478 build no?)

I have zenfolio version 20080924.28

I’m told it expires in 2 days.
I go to the Plug-In Manager.
I perform the update
the 10212008.30 file is on my system
I get a message 20080924.28 is installed
I restart LR
I still have 20080924.28

Any idea what I am doing wrong? What happens if the plug-in expires?

I have a word document with screen shots of the steps if that is any help. Just tell me how to send it to you.

Thank you,
Stephan G. Kravitz

I have same problem with 20081022.31 it will not load.

Stephan G. Kravitz

Hi Jeff

I have downloaded Lightroom update 2.1 today, and I now get an error when trying to upload new photos to Zenfolio. Have you experienced any issues with 2.1 at all? I can send you a screen grab if that helps?

Thanks

Kevin

Jeff

Just coming back on the continued issue of timing out when uploading photos to zenfolio. I dont know if this is a Zenfolio issue or plugin one; but what I am experiencing is a continous problem on my Vista machine (very high spec); and yet no problem at all on my XP laptop. Both pcs are using LR version 2.1 and plugin 20081111.36. The only work around I have managed so far on my Vista box is to reduce the JPEG quality to circa 50% or less and then it seems to let things go, yet the identical Olympus RAW photos on the XP machine happily upload at 100% jpeg quality!

Has anyone else experienced the issue only with Vista?

All very strange, let me know if you want me to send over any logs etc?

Thanks

Kevin

This is likely a Lightroom/Vista “issue”…. please report it to Adobe so that they know the issue is widespread among Vista users. —Jeffrey

Dear Jeff,

thanks for your great work. Because of you, we have more time behind the camera an less time in front of the computer. Your new GPS-Plugin is great. Is it possible to rewright your LR Export-Plugin for uploading images to Martin Baileys webside?
http://martinbaileyphotography.com/forum/

Greating from Germany
Axel

I downloaded the new Zenfolio version yesterday and used it without issue last night. I get an plug in error and an unexpected http reply from Zenfolio when trying to upload. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the plug in to no avail. Version 20081208.46. I have been using your plug ins for months and they make my life so much easier. I am lost without being able to upload like I used to.

wondering if there is a way to upload from lightroom entire catalog so that file structure remains intact without having to make new collections/groups to replicate file structure?

Currently using Photo Guru which does this but would like to stick inside lightroom.

Thanks for all your work

Shawn

See this. —Jeffrey

Lightroom: 2.1 512205
OS: OSX 10.5.5
Plugin: 20081228.49

Amazing work on the plug– everything was working fine for me– I had uploaded a few hundred photos and suddenly it’s giving me the error shown below. I’ve tried restarting and shrinking photo size to no avail…

+9284.3: At =(tail call) line -1:
Return header ERROR
—————————————————————-
errorCode = “redirectError”
name = “redirected to nowhere”
nativeCode = -1010
_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____

Jeffrey

Your plugins are great. One thing I’ve noticed is that my “previous lightroom export” folder in zenfolio not longer seems to update. Am I missing something obvious in the export dialogue?

Thanks

Callum MacLellan

You’re not missing anything… that feature never made it over from the LR1 version of the plugin. I’d never heard of anyone actually using it, so I didn’t bother bringing it over. Was it something you relied on? —Jeffrey

Hopefully not too complicated a question… any thoughts on how i’d shrink images that exceed Zenfolio’s 12MB limit during the upload? I have quite a lot of panoramic photos in my collection, and at the minute a lot are rejected as too large.
Ideally i’d like to automatically reduce the jpg quality on the larger images to make them fit into the 12MB. If that’s not possible, could there be an option to ignore size errors during the upload and just report them all at the end (as it won’t complete the upload unattended if there are any large photos in there).
Thanks,
David

This kind of thing has been brought up before, either to get a size just under some limit, or in the case of Alamy, just over some limit. Unfortunately, I don’t know of a good way to address it. )-: —Jeffrey

It could be usefull to have an option that prevent big image (larger than maximum site allowed) to be uploaded.
Now if these images are encountered it locks.

First of all, thanks much for creating the LR (2.3RC on MS Vista 64) plug-in for Zenfolio (.56), which many folks use , including me.
Hopefully not too complicated a question from a newbye…

I usually flag on LR the pics I’d like to upload. Once uploaded on Zenfolio, the problem arises when I want to update the Zenfolio set deleting some previously uploaded pics and updating or adding some others. I noticed that I can update the already loaded pics but I’m not sure if I can delete the uploaded pics which are not flagged anymore in LR.

thanks,
luca

Currently, support for general synchronization is pretty bad. Zenfolio provides all the tools… I just need to find the time to implement them. It’s my intention to do this sooner than later, first starting with “re-send metadata”, then moving on to tackle less straightforward problems. We’ll see how it goes… —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Great plugins. I was thinking of writing my own and wondered if these plugins were open source?

I really like the plugin but I would like to ask for one change or enhancement. Currently you can create an export action that prompts for the gallery, that is cool. What I would like is that the dialog that appears to select the gallery would also allow you to edit/enter keywords. I tend to develop and export pictures one at a time, being able to correctly keyword them without going into the export setup would be nice.

I’m receiving this when attempting to upload to Zenfolio. I can get 1 or maybe 2 images to go thru but then I hit this:

Warning:
Unable to Export:

Unexpected HTTP reply from http://www.zenfolio.com/zf/api/zfapi.asmx: 500

OS: Windows XP
Export Plugin: Zenfolio 20090313.63
Adobe Lightroom 2.3 539407 Raw 5.3

I think I screwed up. I installed the plug-in for zenfolio into Lightroom 2 and it seemed to be working fine, so I deleted it from my desktop (I did make a donation and registered it). Then when I opened Lightroom 2 again the plug-in had disappeared.

I thought after it was safely installed in Lightroom 2 I could delete the original downloaded file, but I am obviously missing something here.

I will try to download it again and use my registration code (hopefully that will work since this is the same computer) BUT what should I do with the downloaded file on my desktop? Must I keep it even after it has been installed in Lightroom 2?

Thank you. Marci

Marci, after downloading and unzipping, move the zenfolio-jfrield.lrplugin folder to where you want it to reside permanently, then tell Lightroom about it via the [Add] button in the Plugin Manager. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I’m very excited about your work on the LR plugins – thank you! I just installed your LR plugin for Exporting to Zenfolio and have executed an export to a gallery. Should I see a progress bar or any other indication that LR is processing the files and uploading them?

I executed the Export (126 files) and several minutes later am not seeing a gallery in Zenfolio and no indication that LR is doing anything.

Thoughts?

You should definitely see a progress bar in the upper masthead section of LR (the one with the Lightroom logo, and the list of modules). If that section is closed, a mini progress bar will eventually show up, although due to a bug in Lightroom, it often doesn’t show up for some time. If you have that section open and don’t see anything within a few seconds of pressing the “Export” button, visit the Plugin Manager and send the plugin log, via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the upper-right. —Jeffrey

I’ve been working a bit with the plugin by now, and at least for myself there’s one more feature I’d LOVE to have.

In Lightroom, at least myself works with “collections” for a smart publishing “container”
Wouldn’t it be extremly smart to have a “checkbox” somewhere in the plugin letting you automatically create a gallery with the same name as the collection you’re publishing?

Best, of course, would be a simple right-click on the collection and say “publish to ZF” and the plug would publish, update and delete data in the corresponding gallery. But this I guess involves Lightroom coding, and not only Plugin

Thanks anyhow for a superb plugin!

/patrick

That would all be wonderful, and if it were possible I would have done it long ago, but sadly, the LR plugin infrastructure does not offer plugins any insight to collections. At all. )-: —Jeffrey

Hi,

In the “File Settings” options it would be nice to have a mixed settings option. Ex: If the file was not edited on Lightroom, it would upload the “original file”, without recompressing it, but, if the file was edited/changed in Lightroom, it would upload the edited version recompressed to JPG/TIFF.

Thanks,

That’s a great idea, but one for Adobe (that section of the export dialog part of standard Lightroom)…. —Jeffrey

Thank you so much for developing this. I’m not very computer saavy, so it took me a bit of figuring just to unzip the file (!), but once it was done, and with your installation instructions, everything ran smoothly. I think you saved me a couple of hours, so thank you! thank you! thank you!

I recently came across your post explaining how to create an archive export, which works *great* BTW. The problem now though is that when I export images to other folders I have to scroll through tons and tons of folders. Is there a way to either present the folders/collections in a tree view or offer an option to filter the list? I would live to be able to have my “Archive” collection filtered since I would never export directly into those folders and would instead use the auto destination I have configured.

Thanks!

Yeah, the list can get a bit unwieldy. Set the list display to its longest setting and that makes it a bit easier. I actually had a collapsible list once but it was difficult to do right. Must think about it more… —Jeffrey

ver 20091023.30 . London . Thanks for the plugin. It’s great. Here’s an issue – it won’t upload some of my keywords. I don’t notice any pattern. However, it is consistently won’t upload the words ruslan, marie, papa, marc or daria. It is happy with other words such as russia, irkutsk, moscow, pavel, tamara – there may be others which I don’t yet. If I modify the photos, your plugin recognises them as modified and uploads them but those keywords don’t appear, alhtough other keywords for those pictures do appear.
Seems crazy to me. It is very wierd. It may be me but if it isn’t then it’s a bug either with the plugin or with Zenfolio. Feels like the latter to me. These are my family photos but if you would like to email me I can send you access details.
Regards
Marc

If your catalog originated in LR1 and was upgraded to LR2, there’s a bug related to keyword export… look around on Adobe’s LR forums and you’ll find the fix. Also, right-click the keywords in the keyword pane and check their properties… make sure they’re set for “include in export”. If none of these seem to address the issue, export one image with keywords that don’t make it and then send me the plugin log (via the “Send to Jeffrey” button in the plugin manager), including there a note about which keywords didn’t make it. —Jeffrey

Hello from Seattle!
I just donated via PayPal and forgot to write something in the comments there. I just wanted to say THANK YOU for what has become an indispensable part of my workflow. I appreciate the generosity with which you distribute your software. I hope that the karma comes back to you in full!!
Best regards,
Laura

lol.. yes..

but it is the only way to get your images into google earth.

Hmmm, so on my third try at uploading multiple images with zenfolio-20091023.90, it appears to be working better. The only suspicious activity is that the plugin opened a zenfolio gallery page as soon as the initial image was sent (but it does continue to upload the remaining images). In past versions I thought that the plugin summoned my zenfolio gallery page only when all images had been uploaded. Anyway, it’s now working better than I described in my previous post.

Phil

That’s really strange… could you try upgrading your LR2 to the latest (LR2.5), then try it and if it happens again, please send the plugin log (via the ‘Send to Jeffrey’ button in the plugin manager). Thanks. —Jeffrey

Er.. how on earth do you install this thing.. cannot find an explanation anywhere..

Try the “Installation Instructions” link in the upper-right of this page. —Jeffrey

If you upload a photo that’s already in the Zenfolio gallery, how does your plugin know to replace it rather than create a duplicate?

Thanks for the great job on all your plugins, Jeffrey!

I’m using the Lightroom to Zenfolio plugin, version 20091023.90.

The plugin knows about it only if it’s uploaded the prior version (info about uploaded photos are stored in the catalog). —Jeffrey

Version 20091205.93
Location – Saint Paul, MN USA
MAC User

Jeffery…I have been an avid LR user since Day One and never paid much attention to the Plug-Ins as I had most of “work a rounds” in other tools and self written scripts. Since recently joining Zenfolio I stumbled into multiple references pointing to your LR Export to Zenfolio Plugin.
I have two questions/suggestions:
1) we manage four independent Zenfolio Accounts from one LR application…has any consideration been given to have a better understanding of what files were uploaded to which Zenfolio Account. The Zenfolio Metadata only reports whether the image has been uploaded/date/url. Would be very helpful if it recorded which Zenfolio account it belongs to (maybe it was uploaded to multiple accounts)
2) we have already made some errors in uploading images to Zenfolio by mistake…is it possible to alter the Metadata within LR to change the YES flag to NO?

Thanks for the great work you are doing…they are very powerful tools

Roderick

You can clear out the flag/history by selecting the target images and bringing up the File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras dialog, then choose “clear’. Internally the plugin keeps track of which images have gone to which account, so (for example) the “resend” and related options in the Export dialog will work, but the account info is not exposed as discrete metadata. It might be an easy option to add for LR3 if Adobe puts certain hooks in to the plugin infrastructure… we’ll see. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I wanted to ask, if it is possible to add a feature to the plug-in (does Zenfolio API allow that?) which would allow to set the privacy options (public/private/specific user(s) only/locked with password) for each photo according to the keywords assigned to each photo (I know that Flickr plug-in has a feature like that).

Thanks,
RK

I don’t believe they’re set up that way… you can set all that stuff on a per-album basis, and it applies to the photos therein. —Jeffrey

Thanks Jeffrey for you fab plugins – I am however using 7-zip and am unable to unzip the most recent verions (20091222.99 (zenfolio)and 20091221.141 (flickr)) must i have winzip to be able to unzip the later versions? as 7zip worked on flickr plugin – 20091027.129
Thanks again
Jo

They’re standard zip files, so should be unzippable by anything that deals with standard zip files. I’ve heard of no other reports like this, so maybe you got a couple of bad downloads? —Jeffrey

Hi, Rusty here in the US. I’m having trouble exporting to Zenfolio. I just downloaded and installed your latest update (first time i’ve use this so original install) and when I try to login, I get the error: System returned “securityError” when Lightroom attempted to use the Internet. I don’t have any trouble accessing Flickr or Picasa through your plugins so don’t have any idea what the problem could be. I searched the error here but didn’t find any reference to it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

This is certainly either that your system clock is not set properly, or more likely, you have some kind of security stuff (Little Snitch? Zone Defense?) that needs an exception added for Lightroom. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, that is perfect. I’m still a LR newbie so much is still lost to me. I’m getting there though!

One more question please: does the export process run asynchronously or is there a way to run it that way? For example, suppose I’m working away in LR on a stack of a few hundred photos. As I complete each one, and “release” it (perhaps by exporting), is there a way for this to happen in the background allowing me to continue editing? I tried using the LR Auto Import function in this way (at the front end of the work flow) and the results were disappointing; lots of fits and starts in the UI experience while it was on.

Many thanks again. BTW, that person above complaining… I get similar from people who are angry that they have to wait a few days for my FREE photos to become available. Sad.

Yes, exports are asynchronous. There’s one tiny aspect I’ll need to mention when LR3 comes out (it’s not relevant for LR2 or LR3b)…. if LR3 is out and I haven’t updated this comment, please remind me —Jeffrey

Still using this plug in (20100226.104) intensively with the version 3.0 Beta.

I’ve come across an issue using the plug in extra to update titles and captions a couple of times, where it generates an error message saying it was unable to export to the XML file, and halts the upload. I suspect that this might be a field length restriction as in each case the captions were long. For example: http://gallery.equusprints.co.uk/p2p_10_ia_sdf_r5 which I manually updated after the upload failed.

Also another call for updating collections. I would love to be able to use the keywords and filtering capability of Lightroom to select images already loaded to Zenfolio via the Plug In, and make a collection of these. Particularly as the new Zenfolio favourites feature has a 30 day limit and some of my customers won’t purchase images until the end of the season. I’d like to upload the normal images of a race into the standard folder, and then update a few collections of selected competitors.

Great Plug-in, loving using it. It makes my workflow so much easier.

About the broken xml thing, that sounds like a definate bug… please enabled extended debugging (in the plugin manager), then when you next get that bug, immediately visit the plugin manager and send me the log (via the “Send to Jeffrey”) button, and along with a note to remind me what it’s about, such as a link to this comment. About creating collections in LR that represent photos sent to Zenfolio, you can already do that with a smart collection… use “At Zenfolio = Yes” as the first key. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the suggestion! I was hoping there would be a magical way to avoid the second upload since I already have the images at zf that I am “collecting”. Indeed, the Holy Grail would simply have LR and zf be in synch at all times. Asynchronous, managed, automatic, in-the-background, bi-directional, natch LOL

I’ve read your LR3 blog entries. Publish sounds promising but I’ve had so many Adobe features fall far short in their realization that I’m a fifth-generation Missourian when it comes to all things Adobe. I really do wonder sometimes if they ever test their products in real-world environments where deadlines mean something.

I don’t understand the “Missourian” reference, and I can understand anyone’s frustration when a purchased product doesn’t live up to their expectations (the frustration is the same regardless of whether the expectation is appropriate), but having worked with the Lightroom team closely on and off for the last couple of years, I can assure you that if you were privy to a true understanding of the situation, you would be nothing but amazed and astounded to realize how much they’ve done with so few resources. And the LR team does spend a lot of time on testing — too much, I think (you can look at how often I push out new versions of my plugins to see what I think about proper testing ) — but they can do only a finite amount of testing of the infinite variety of systems and situations out there. Even if they had 100× the resources, they could never implement all the features people ask for. Even if they limited themselves to the important features (that is, features that I personally want), they could still never do it. So everything… everything they choose to do or not do is part of a compromise. This is true for any software product team. I only wish corporate would give them more resources, but frankly, since I don’t know the details of the business side of things, I really am not in a place to criticize. —Jeffrey

I was wondering if there was any way with your plugin to point it at a zenfolio gallery and have it update the metadata in my catalog for photos uploaded to zenfolio. I have a ton of stuff that I sent to zenfolio with this plugin, and I use the metadata to track these images. However, when playing around with LR3, all of my metadata was wiped out. I redid the keywords, but I am unsure how to get the zenfolio metadata in sync short of re-uploading hundreds of image.

Thanks.

Mark

Adding support to re-sync is near the top of my to-do list… now that LR3b2 is out, maybe I’ll have a chance to take a breath, and get that done. —Jeffrey

I’ve had to reinstall Windows (and Lightroom) several times since I donated for the Zenfolio plugin in May 2009. Today, when reinstalling and setting up the plugin, I get the following error:

Registration failed. Registration code already been used 5 times.

I’m on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, and the plugin is version 20100323.106.

Do I really have to donate again?

Thanks Jeffrey.

First to clarify a nit, you didn’t have to donate the first time (but you did, so thanks)… you can generate a new code any time with a 1-cent paypal transaction. (Well, PayPal calls that transaction a “donation”, so I guess technically even that purchase is a “donation”). Anyway, it’s all explained on the registration page, as is “drop me a note if you have special needs”. I’ve gone ahead and extended your code manually; thankfully, these hassles will be gone in LR3, where the plugin gets tied directly to your LR serial number. —Jeffrey

I get an error message when I try to use this…..I have successfully registered, and in the plug in manager is says it is “installed and running” when I try to use it, it says there is an error while attempting to load.

All of your plugins are such a time saver! My one suggestion would be an addition to the Twitter panel. A token so that you can post the Album name, instead of the full “Group -> Group -> Album” hierarchy for instance. Thanks for your hard work!

I don’t understand the question… could you be more specific? —Jeffrey

Thank you for this plugin

i can’t get the zenfolio plu in in to register with lr3
i must be doin something wrong….where do i go to enter the new code or enable it…hellppp!!!!! lol

Sorry, I still haven’t put out the version for Lr3… am working night and day on it. Status is here. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey, your work makes Lightroom better and more useful. I’m more than happy to $upport your dedication to photographers. Looking forward to full LR3 integration for Zenfolio. Thanks for your help and understanding with previous versions. You rock!

david
Portland Oregon, USA

I’m new to this but I couldn’t find it referenced anywhere. Are you able to create a gallery in Zenfolio or do you have to upload into an already present gallery?

Thanks for your time,
Colby

Check the Zenfolio Tools section of the export dialog. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I have and use your lightroom 2 plug in for Zenfolio and it works just fine. I just intstalled Lightroom 3 on my mac, and I am having a problem installing it again for that. I donated to the site and have my code, but I can’t get anywhere after that. The lightroom 3 is telling me there is ” An error occurred while reading the schema for the plug – in- Zenfolio. Tje plug in will be disabled.

I then get this message-

+0.1: [x122075af8] line 7050:
missing plugin-manager title:
+0.1: [x122075af8] line 7050
The plug in for lightroom 2 to Zenfolio still works fine.
Any help apprecieated.
Thanks,
Karen

You can use the same install in both Lr2 and Lr3. In this case, it looks like you have a bad download or bad zip, but when you redo it, you may want to try the Lr3 version in beta here. It’ll work in Lr2 as well. —Jeffrey

Hey Jeffrey, I’m not sure if this is on my end or not. I downloaded your latest version zip file (zenfolio-20100630.115.zip) but windows explorer says there’s no folders or files in it to extract. I still have LR2 zip file and I can extract and see them just fine. I can also unzip other zip files. LR2 zip file shows it’s 623k in size. LR3 file shows it’s 148k in size. I tried downloading several times and unzipping several ways. Any idea’s??
Thanks,
-Chip

Looks like you’re getting a bad download…. the same plugin can be used for both, and currently about 778k. Try downloading with a different browser…. —Jeffrey

I couldn’t get a good download with Vista using standard Internet explorer or 64bit. Tried it with Vista running Safari and it worked fine. Kind of weird. Thanks for the suggestion.
Can’t wait to use it. I really liked the LR2 version.
-Chip

Hi Jeffrey,

Is there a way to copy settings from export presets to publish profiles? I’ve got a couple of presets I used in LR2 to send pictures to different galleries, with different parameters depending on the gallery (size, metadata stripped, snapshots, etc…). Perfect candidates for publish profiles. It’s not a very big deal to copy those manually, but…

BTW, looks like the “snapshot on export” feature is not available with publish, only with plain export, is that right?

Many thanks and cheers for the wonderful job!

JF

The export presets are part of Lightroom, and for whatever reason Adobe didn’t provide for them in Publish, so yeah, you have to copy them. I didn’t add snapshots to Publish because I didn’t think it made sense, since it gets republished with each change. Should I add it in there? —Jeffrey

I’m using version 20100702.116 and I’m unable to find the zenfolio tools section of the export dialogue. Am I missing something? The items I have are:
Publish Service
Your Zenfolio Account
Export Location
File Naming
File Settings
Image Sizing
Output Sharpening
Metadata
Watermarking
Zenfolio: Galleries in this Publish Service
Zenfolio: Delete Options
Zenfolio: Metadata Management
Zenfolio: Export Plugin Info

That’s the Publish Service dialog, not the export dialog (though they’re so similar you’d be forgiven for confusing them). I haven’t gotten the tools section in there yet, but it’s on the todo list. —Jeffrey

Hello, I am from midwest US. First I must say I love the plugin and appreciate your time and energy to make everyone else’s life easier.
I have been having problems with the resolution of images uploaded from Lightroom 3 to Zenfolio. Below are some comments from MPIX & Zenfolio support. I have a 12 mp Nikon D300; no problems when uploading direct when ordering (up to 30×40) prints. The first below is from Zenfolio support; the second is from MPIX.
HI Debbie,

All questions like this need to be fielded by the developer of the plug-in. I haven’t had anyone else ask this exact question and we are not sure as we have no access to the plug-in API. Have you contacted Jeffrey to ask this?

– Laura

From: “Mpix Customer Service”
Date: July 19, 2010 9:09:32 AM CDT
To: <debratrunko
Subject: RE: Problem Category: Other

Debra,
It is best to upload images from a folder on your hard drive. Uploading them from Light Room will compress the files resulting in smaller files being uploaded. Thank you!

Molly
Mpix Customer Service

To: Mpix Customer Service
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Problem Description: Resolution for printing larger prints uploading thru zenfolio plugin. I am using a trial of several website hosting/printing services (in particular Zenfolio). The plugin produced by Jeffrey Friedl limits sizing because he says the lightroom functionality takes care of the quality. The files I uploaded thru the plugin at the highest possible sizing says they are only good up to about 16×20. I have used a professional lab here in St Louis and have had prints up to 30×40 that are crystal clear with about a 10 mb file. They may do something on their end. The problem is the website greys out the option saying resolution is not good enough. If I just upload directly, the sizes are OK. I would prefer to use the plug in. I plan to post on his blog but I thought I would check with MPIX first. Any suggestions? Sorry about the long post but I am in trial mode trying to decide to purchase.

I’ve got to say that Mpix’s reply (about “Light Room”) is pretty moronic. What they should have told you is that regardless of how you upload your images, the suitability for printing depends on the uploaded image’s pixel size and JPEG quality. For maximum quality, don’t resize the image while exporting, and choose an appropriate JPEG quality (100 is obviously the highest quality, but comes at a very steep price in file size / upload speed. A quality of 90 is more than good enough for most situations, but see this for details). —Jeffrey

Just a follow up to my post re: MPIX and resolution. The error was on my end. I was exporting from the incorrect folder on my hard drive; one that had lower resolution jpegs for some other export I did. I apologize.

Hi Jeffrey, been using the plugin since LR3 and have uploaded a lot of photos with it but today I am getting this error message:

Unexpected HTTP reply

I’ve tried it 6 or 7 times in a row but the error remains. I can however upload to the zF site using their Java uploader with no problems. I am trying to upload 24 hi-res jpegs (in case that’s of any relevance whatsoever)

Plugin version is 20100726.120 (which I updated today BUT I got the problem with the prior version too and that’s why I updated to this version)

Any ideas?
Cheers
Lloyd (UK)

Would appreciate a log the next time you get it, thanks. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

This is a comment concerning Hans’ request for populating the zenfolio Category, Subcategory, Subcategory Detail fields and my undertstanding of those fields base on some research and discussion with zenfolio. You may have a better understanding…

Zenfolio provides drop-down menus for these fields while editing a photo’s properties. They’ve populated these menus with their own non-standard text values for these fields, which are similar but not identical, to the IPTCContent:IPTCSubjectCode, IPTCContent:Category, and IPTCContent:Subcategory codes. Zenfolio controls the content of these drop-down menus; users cannot change them or override their values.

I guess in answer to your question something in the interface that lets me pick those menu items would be good; however, if you were to provide an interface for this purpose, the possibility would always exist that zenfolio had changed their menu contents.

My preference would be that zenfolio use published IPTCContent meta, and that if the IPTC content fields contained values in the original file, then the plugin would export them and zenfolio would use them in their search and browse functions. I’ve spoke to them about this and I don’t think it will happen so we’re left with yet more non-standard IPTC.

Jeffrey,
Hello and thanks for all of the time you put into these plug-ins. My name is Bob, I am a pipefitter by day and a photographer by night (my true passion). I am using a Mac with the Snowlepard OS. I just downloaded your plug-in for LightRoom 3 which allows me to upload photos to Zenfolio. Problem is I have no idea how to unzip the file. I am sure to you it is a no brainer but I am totaly dead in the water. Sorry to bother you and if you do not have time to answer this I truly understand.

P.S. I live in East Alton, Illinois. It is a few hundred miles south of Chicago or 20 miles north of St.Louis, Mo.

If the .zip file doesn’t unzip automatically, just double-click on it in Finder. —Jeffrey

And now an odd update from my error report last night. I created a new service using your plugin, and the new one is working just fine… and, that seems to have forced the old one to work. Maybe this will help on the quest, but it’s definitely weird.

Thanks again for the great plugins Jeffrey!

Colin

Hi,

I wanted to test out your Zenfolio plugin that everyone seems so happy with but keep on getting the following message

“An error occured while reading the schema for the plug-in “jf Zenfolio”. The plug-in will be disabled.” Or I get a message that the plugin does not work with this version of Lr.

What am I doing wrong or how can I get around this? I just tried 20100829.123 on a trial of Lr 3.x. I’m wondering if it’s worth moving from Apeture.

You’re using a pirated version of Lightroom; if you’re going to do that, just stay with Aperture. —Jeffrey

Just wondering, when a photo is deleted from any website I have uploaded to with any of your plugins, why the metadata is not updated to reflect the fact it is no longer on the remote service.

ie

I upload to ZenFolio. Metadata is written as “Uploaded to ZenFolio: Yes” with the date and time.

If deleted, this metadata is not altered in the database. Whats the rational for that behaviour?

The plugin doesn’t maintain an omniscient ever-present connection to Zenfolio… it contacts Zenfolio only to update data, so there’s no way for the plugin to know that the image has been deleted/changed/moved/whatever on Zenfolio. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey

Wouldn’t it be handy to have a ‘mirror’ Collection Set in LR that actively updates as I add images to Zenfolio?
Only issue I can see is it wouldn’t track site deletions unless the plugin could initiate those as well?

I’m always going back and forth figuring out what’s ‘up’ and what’s not. Keywords would be hopelessly out of date for me..

Thanks for your good work.

Bruce

It’s called “Publish“, and is new in the plugins for Lr3. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I would appreciate help with a problem I am experiencing with the Zenfolio plug-in

I am using version 20101104.124, installed in Lightroom 3.3 RC, running under Windows XP.

When I go to “Edit Settings” and press the ” refresh user data” button, I receive 9 lines of computer code (?) ending in:
debug:547 : Assert @Debug 547

I have tried reinstalling the plug in and re-starting Lightroom several times to no avail

The plug in worked perfectly until recently

Any thoughts or help would be most welcome
Thanks for a great product so far,

Regards
Stephen Edgar
Holywood
Northern Ireland

I just pushed a new version (20101112.125) that should hopefully fix this… sorry for the hassles. —Jeffrey

Zenfolio plug-in version 20101217.128 seems to put a “quality limit” to jpegs being uploaded that did not exist in previous versions. You did not note this change in your history log. Since Zenfolio is now allowing tiffs which are substantially bigger than the average jpeg (enough at 100%) I don’t understand the limitation.http://regex.info/blog/wp-admin/edit-comments.php#comments-form

Do I have to roll-back to an earlier plug-in to get my files uploaded at 100%?

The change went in during the summer, as noted in the history log. It’s just to prompt the user who might no be aware of the huge size tradeoff, and can easily be dismissed and disabled in the future by following the instructions in the message itself. —Jeffrey

I just got a Zenfolio account today and just registered your Export to Zenfolio plugin. Thanks for all of the work you do for this!

I am starting slow here and created a gallery on Zenfolio called Animals. I published two photos to it from LR3 using the plugin, and then I modified the metadata on the Zenfolio site (caption, title, etc.) When I re-publish, the metadata is overwritten on the site.

I suspect I’m slower than the average bear and have missed a setting somewhere, but any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Kyle
As the docs say, publish sets up an ongoing relationship, where the master is in your Lightroom catalog, and the online version is updated as needed to reflect changes in the master. It’s intended that titles and such are maintained in Lightroom. —Jeffrey

I am experincing a failure when using the LR to Zenfolio plug in. This is a registered version on Vista Premium, LR 3.3. It states a security error trying to connect to internet and questions my system date and time. I’m on the internet now, can log into Zenfolio normally but cannot log in from the plug in on LR 3.3. Really could use some help here. Thanks in advance

Sounds like you have some kind of security app that’s preventing Lightroom from connecting to Zenfolio. You probably need to set some kind of exception with your security app. —Jeffrey

Thanks for the clarity on the New Zenfolio galleries point, can you briefly explain where this new functionality can be found, I am probably being dumb but cant find an option to create new gallery in Publish.

Thanks

Kevin

Check the “Tools” section of the Publishing Manager, just above the “Albums in this Publish Service” section. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

Thanks for this great plug in. Say, I have changed my email address on Zenfolio, and now the LR uploader will not publish for me. It says “can’t log into Zenfolio, invalid credentials”. How can I tell the plug in that I have a new email address associated with my website? In other words, how can I re-sign in without having to dump your plug in and re-install it? Thanks!

Barbara Lee
Oakland, CA

In the Publishing Manager section where you log in, there should be a note directing you to the Export Dialog, where you can reauthenticate with your new credentials. You’ll then be able to continue using your Publish Service with the new credentials. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

I have been frustrated using this plugin due to my photos never seeming to go to “published” status after publishing. They are either moved to or stay in “Modified to Re-Publish”.

However, I seem to have found a clue. In the publish service editor, in the section where you specify what changes should be considered as a change worthy of a re-publish, if I uncheck “Keywords” then the photos move to “Published” when published as they should.

Hopes this helps

Dan

There’s a general bug in Lr3 that sometimes keeps photos in the “Modified” section no matter what, but it’s listed as fixed in Lr3.4, so that should do it in any case. Perhaps the bug in Lr3.0-Lr3.3 was related to keywords? In any case, upgrading to 3.4 should fix things…. —Jeffrey

HI Jeffrey,
I exported my images using your lightroom plugin and id shrumk my images. This did not happen on this scale to me before. Is there something I can do to prevent this?
Thank you, Tiffaany

I’m not sure what you mean, but if you’re referring to a watermark, it may be that this time you exported very large (pixel size) images, thereby making your watermark image relatively smaller. It’s hard to guess without more information. —Jeffrey

Hi, trying to export jpeg photos to Zenfolio i am forced to reduce picture quality from 100 to 92 or less. I thought this was related to Zenfolio but they tell me it’s an issue with the plug in to export. How can I export directly from lightroom without reducing quality of the file?

Mike

The message that warns you about the quality setting should also be referring you to where you can disable the check, so that you can export at 100 if you want. It’s just a one-time sanity-check road block, because there’s usually little benefit to exporting at that setting in Lightroom. See my Analysis of Lightroom JPEG Export Quality Settings for details. —Jeffrey

I am getting an error for Zenfolio 20110524.143 Unexpected HTTP reply from zenfolio.com/api/1.4/zfapi.asmx: Binding exception for property Zenfolio.Data.Snapshot.Photo + updater.Title: Validation exception

Is it a problem that images have same title perhaps.
Ronan

You’re using an old copy of the plugin. Please update. —Jeffrey

Hi Adam – yes, I’m using this under Lion and L3 – uploaded a ton of images in the last week (scrambles event). No probs at all.

I do not want the plugin to waste time and effort trying to retrieve “comments” from my images. I have the “import comments” set to “manual”, yet it continues to try and retrieve comments anyway which slows down my whole process.

anything I can do about this?

Lightroom doesn’t offer an option to not fetch the comments… my “manual” option just turns the automatic comment fetch of a particular photo into a no-op, but Lightroom still goes through all the motions. The only thing you can do now is to add your request to my own that Adobe make it an real option. —Jeffrey

Just started using the Zenfolio plugin – very happy with it. I notice in the setup there’s an option to “tweet” when a gallery is uploaded and just wondered if a similar option could be offered to update a status on facebook.
I haven’t checked all comments so sorry if this has been asked before.
Paul – Wiltshire, UK

There’s no option for that yet, sorry. (It’s not been mentioned before… you’re the first to suggest it.) —Jeffrey

Is there a way to “undo” a republish request (prior to republishing)?

For instance I made a small change to the Title template in setup edit and it marked all photos for republish (over 2000), which is not what I wanted to do

Thanks!!

Yes, you can select the photos in the “Modified Photos to Re-Publish” section, then invoke “File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras“, then choose “Re-Mark as Published”. —Jeffrey

20110918.166

Why, after an upload, does Zenfolio now open to the external visitor view instead of the edit view that I used to? It used to go directly to the Edit View and would log me in (or remembered the login some how). Now it goes to the Visitor view and only displays the notice “Content is protected” and I have to enter username and password… Going to look into Zenfolio for why I have to login every single time, and FireFox will not cache the password – it does for my other web sites.

They changed how they handle their logins, I guess, and this is an unfortunate side effect. I know of no way around it. —Jeffrey

Hi… Thank you again for your great work and your great plugins and tools.
I changed my “Copyright” metadata field and would like to have it updated across the board in my pictures at Zenfolio. I tried using your “Resend Metadata” in the “Zenfolio Extras” but the Copyright field does not seem to get updated? Is there a solution?
Thank you!

I just pushed a new version that allows for copyright… give it a try. —Jeffrey

Jeff,
Thanks so much for your hard work. It is well worth a donation.
Zenfolio has now enabled video on my account, yet if there is a mov video file in my export list, the plugin stops further export.

Any chance you may fix that ?

Thanks

Bill

Zenfolio doesn’t yet support video upload via the API that the plugin uses. Videos should just be ignored by Lightroom when using this plugin. —Jeffrey

Update Dec 14, 2011: Zenfolio added video support today, so I’ve updated the plugin as well. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,

One more question/request for the Zenfolio Extras (I love the “Resend Metadata” feature, including with the new “Copyright” option!)

I have changed the naming convention of my pictures. I would like the picture names to be updated at Zenfolio (along with, by default, the Zenfolio picture titles) to mirror the updated local names – without re-uploading everything of course. Could that be done?

Thank you again for your great tools and support,
Best regards,
Didier.

No, sorry. —Jeffrey

Am Zenfolio user … question for you .. Using your plug-in … can I upload to zenfolio at one time…. Group/Galleries (Many at a time) …. with a one click??? All previously named in Lightroom? or must each be named directly in Zenfolio and then upload each gallery separately?

Express Send says it does this right from Internet Explorer … but have not gotten that to work.

Will your plug-in using Lightroom do this?
If so … a miracle program … well worth contribution and your hard work to make it possible.
thanks.
Alese & Mort

It depends on how you set it up. If you’re using Publish, then it’ll send all new photos to their galleries when you Publish, and with Export, you can use “auto destinations” to send to galleries that are chosen based upon image metadata. —Jeffrey

Hi from the North East UK.
I am just trying this plugin, but I already have photos on my Zenfolio account. Now I’ve set up the publish setting n Lightroom, how can I get the photos already in Zenfolio, to appear in the publish list in Lightroom?

See these docs. —Jeffrey

My plugin is set so that NO metadata change will cause republish. I have no checked boxes at all.
YET
my photos are constantly being set for republish all the time… it seems every time I touch a photo for any reason it gets republished… This is a real issue considering how many photos I have online.

I have tried to find a way to “clear” everthing, but nothing works.

1) how can I fix this issue?
2) is there any way to “bandaid” the situation by at least sending the republish photos back to their published state. I should not have to actually upload them just to clear them from the upload que every time this happens.

I feel your pain… as far as I can tell, it’s a bug in Lightroom. In Lr3 you can clear the to-be-published flag via the “File > Plugin Extras > Zenfolio Extras” dialog, though in Lr4 it’s built in to the thumbnail context menu. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeff,

I am using your Zenfolio and Facebook plugins for LR3 on my mac (lion) and love them both. Just brilliant!!! What a time saver. I was wondering if you have any plans for a ProSelect plug in. http://www.timeexposure.com/products.php I use this exclusively for selling to clients and would love to export from preselect back into Lightroom. Just thought I would ask. Thanks again for sharing you genius.

Tricia

Thanks for your kind words. I’ve no plans for a ProSelect plugin myself (I’ve never heard of it), but others might… —Jeffrey

This is Vicki from Natchez, Mississippi USA. I have just started an account on zenfolio and am really looking forward to using your plugin to export from Lightroom 3; however, for the life of me I can’t get it to set up! The plugin says it is enabled and operating, but when I try to “configure” it and enter my zenfolio account information to log in, I get the following message: “[x124bf2e88] @Login line 395:
bad state:

I am not the sharpest when it comes to computers, perhaps I am doing something incorrectly? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Oops, sorry about that, completely my fault. I just pushed a new version that should actually work. Sorry for the hassles. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

After I bought Lightroom 4, I opened an account with Zenfolio. I tried your orange colored winzip link. However, it didn’t work since I don’t have winzip on my computer ; Is there another way to get the plugin?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

Elsa Hagen
AURADOU – France

It’s not a “winzip” link, it a zip file… any OS that Lightroom can run on should be able to handle it natively. Save the file to disk, then just click on it in Explorer/Finder, and it should unpack. —Jeffrey

I’m on the latest version of the LR Zenfolio plugin (zenfolio-20120327.183.zip). When I try to run upload multiple uploads to different galleries, I sometimes get your error:
“Networking error when attempting http:… The handle is in the wrong state for the requested operation.
It normally happens after the uploads have already correctly uploaded some number of images to each of the galleries. I check Adobe’s site but didn’t see any know errors like this.

I’ve seen this reported a few times but have no idea what’s causing it, other than “Windows”. I’d love to hear about any ideas for investigating it…. —Jeffrey

I have LR 3.2 with Windows 7, so this latest version (version: zenfolio-20120330.184 ) of this plugin does not work for me. Is there an older version that I can use for LR 3.2? Can you tell me how to find it, if there is, please? Thank you.

There are lots of bugs in Lr3.2 that have been fixed in the latest Lr3.x release… it’s a free update from Adobe, so please avail yourself of it. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,
I’ve just started using your Zenfolio lightroom plugin and it’s a great little tool. However.. I’ve noticed that when I’ve created a passworded gallery via the export plugin, it changes some of the default options I’ve created in ZenFolio.
Potentially the most embarrassing change was the Photo Protection download option. I have this set in my default options to “Do Not Allow”, but the new gallery created via the plugin was set to “Allow” . This was only spotted when I did a test login as a visitor and saw a Download option next to the Buy Print option. As we charge for downloads, there was a potential for lost revenue if it hadn’t been spotted.
I know it’s easily rectified in the individual “access control/photo protection” permissions in ZenFolio’s gallery admin section, but is there any way this default over ride can be resolved in the export plugin itself? I spotted the anomaly in good time but I wonder how many people have been inadvertently allowing free downloads?

As far as I can tell, a plugin has no visibility to those kind of album options, so I’ll have to consult with Zenfolio to see whether anything can be done, and perhaps add a warning to the plugin if not. Thanks for the report. —Jeffrey