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

By: Tricia

Tricia — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:46:25 +0000

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

By: Lynn Haynes

Lynn Haynes — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:57:54 +0000

version 20120106.173

Hi, I just tried to update one of my folders and got the message “Can’t log in because of invalid credentials”. It seems to me that I did change some of my log in info at Zenfolio, would that have something to do with it? Appreciate your help!

Thanks,
Lynn Haynes

lhaynes.zenfolio.com

Just visit the top section of the export dialog, log out, and re-log-in… —Jeffrey

By: Gene Tewksbury

Gene Tewksbury — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:02:11 +0000

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

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 19:04:28 +0000

Hi Jeffrey. I’m Jon from Roanoke Virginia.
I love your Zenfolio plugin v. 20111214.172 (just registered . I was wondering if there is any way to include a specific link for each photo in my Zenfolio gallery in the description field of each corresponding photo in a Facebook album? The idea is to allow people to click the link in a Facebook photo and go right to the same photo on Zenfolio to purchase it. Is that possible without doing it all individually?

Thanks! Jon

Sure, you can use the ZenfolioUrl template token in your caption. —Jeffrey

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:44:59 +0000

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

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 01:45:51 +0000

Really like this plug-in -- it has made publishing to Zenfolio much easier. One request for a future feature: I shoot most of my pictures with GPS data. I don't know if this is possible or not, but it would be really nice if the Export to Zenfolio plug-in had a check box to strip the GPS data prior to publishing to Zenfolio. I often get permission to take photos in locations (e.g., at people's houses) and while they do not mind my sharing the photos, they do not want the data released on where they photos are taken. Unfortunately in this day and age, the GPS data can be used to pinpoint items for burglaries. So something that would making it easy to strip when exporting would be outstanding...Thanks for your consideration... It's a fairly heavy job, so it's its own separate plugin, my metadata wrangler —Jeffrey

By: Alese Pechter

Alese Pechter — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:21:11 +0000

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

By: Thomas Geist

Thomas Geist — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:43:13 +0000

It would be great if this plugin could also create Zenfolio Groups (not just through Auto Destinations).
Right now I need to go onto the Zenfolio website to do this.

Second issue: there seems no way to reload the gallery list including folders in the plugin’s “Zenfolio: Tools” section.

Anyway, thanks for such awesome plugins!

The list-reload thing is there… the “refresh list” button next to the upload-destination list. —Jeffrey

By: Didier

Didier — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:27:00 +0000

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

By: Ashley

Ashley — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:20:49 +0000

How do I choose (in Lightroom) which album the images are uploaded to in Zenfolio? When I upload from Lightroom 3 to Zenfolio, it places all of my images in one album and I can’t choose which album to upload to!

See the ‘Export Destination” section of the export dialog. You should probably check all the sections of a dialog, at least the first time. —Jeffrey