I am playing with this piglet. I run the lr_border shell script which I made to add some notes plus borders to my pics. This is the script:


#!/bin/sh
#File: ~/bin/lr_border

mogrify -border 5x5 -bordercolor black $1
mogrify -border 1x1 -bordercolor grey $1
mogrify -border 20x20 -bordercolor black $1
if [ "$data" ]
then
mogrify -pointsize 9 -fill gray -gravity SouthEast -annotate +25+6 "$name" -gravity SouthWest -annotate +25+6 "$data" $1
else
mogrify -pointsize 9 -fill gray -gravity SouthEast -annotate +25+6 "$name" $1
fi


where the the other two scripts are as follows:


#!/bin/sh
#File: ~/bin/exiv_data
exiv2 $1 2>&1>/dev/null | grep -E "(ISO speed|Exposure time|Aperture|Focal length)" | grep -v priority | grep -oE '(F[0-9]+|[0-9\.\/]+)' | tr '\n' ' ' | awk '{print $3"mm, "$1" @ "$2" (ISO " $4")"}'


and


#!/bin/sh
#File: ~/bin/exiv_year
exiv2 $1 2>&1>/dev/null | grep timestamp | grep -oE '[0-9]{4}'


I can execute ~/bin/lr_border anyfile.jpg with no problem. But it does not work with LR/Flickr on LR1.4.1.


/Users/phretor/bin/lr_border "{FILE}"


It prompts me with this error message: http://img21.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200902142351kl8.png

And the “any_command.out” file is just empty. Could anybody give me any hints? Thanks in advance.

Ciao,
–Federico

The use case I have at the moment is that I’d like to check “Minimize Embedded Metadata”, then put something back in there with Run Any Command and Exiftool (e.g. PPI, to appease print houses that mistakenly care what PPI you send).

Thanks,

Mark

Many thanks for the ongoing updates and useful software.

I’m needing a way to export a bunch of images into folders named by their ‘title’ or some other field.

Any way to use tokens in the Export Folder?

Think this could work as s batch command if you added Title to your list of Command Metasequences ?

Thanks for the tips

Ross

After reading Mark Alston’s comment on running Photoshop actions as part of the Lightroom export process via the Run Any Command piglet, I toyed around until I got the same thing working in Mac OS X (Leopard).

In Photoshop CS3, I first recorded my Sharpening action. Then, I created a Droplet in CS3 (File – Automate – Create Droplet). I saved the Droplet in my Applications folder.

Then, after enabling the Run Any Command piglet in my Lightroom Export, I typed in the command:
open -a UnsharpMask

where UnsharpMask is the name of the Droplet I created from my sharpening action in Photoshop.

Voila! My photos are automatically sharpened prior to upload to Flickr. I haven’t tried it on the Zenfolio side but I’m guessing it will work the same. Any other actions saved as Droplets would presumably work the same as well.

I’m the happiest camper alive Thanks again for your hard work! Without your tools, this joy would not be possible!

When just adding the droplet command name to the run any command I would get errors that the command didn’t work. I think that this is because the droplet would return to quickly and hadn’t modified the file yet. It took me quite a while to figure out what was going on but then the fix was easy.

The fix was to make a .bat file that contained the following:
@ECHO OFF
C:\path\to\droplet_name.exe %1
exit /b 0

And then to use this batch file as the command to run in runanycommand.

Now I can run any photoshop action as part of my flickr uploading routine.
I can use TLR sharpening, noise reduction, modifying, etc… I LOVE IT!

Anyway, hopefully someone else finds this helpful.

Thanks again,
Mark

Wow, that is cool, thanks! —Jeffrey

All I want (well, actually I kindly ask for) is a extended ‘Export to disk’ plugin with ‘Run Any Command’ piglet. Is there any chance you could make one?

This’ll be much easier once LR2 comes out, since it supports plugin filters. Until then, you might consider using the Run Any Command piglet with Tim Armes’ LR/Mogrify plugin. If you don’t turn on any Mogrify options, it becomes a straight-to-disk export. —Jeffrey

smugmug.images.upload

any help would be great.

Paul

i would love to have an export plugins to export raw files in my hardisk
why don’t make a simple command line for exiftool , a simple command line
with source , destination and a blank space where we can add exiftool commands

for example somebody could be happy to erase own serial number or name or other private info , with exiftool is very easy

or sombody would like to eport files with a metatada hierarchy, exiftool could too

it would be really very appraised, estimated a SIMPLE plugins (maybe with not a short limit for the free version)

thanks for your job and for your effort

Tim Armes’ LR/Mogrify plugin will do what you want. It supports the AnyCommand piglet, so you can just turn off all the Mogrify features to take advantage of the AnyCommand aspect of it to run exiftool on your images. —Jeffrey