When I select “Export” in Lightroom, I get four options: custom, burn JPEGs, Export to DNG, and For Email.

The reinstall seems to have given my computer the flu, when it comes to plugins. I’m having some problems with another, too.

John

I’ve been using the Mac version successfully for some time (great product, by the way). Then Apple advised me to erase my hard drive and re-install everything, due to problems that couldn’t be more easily fixed. I re-installed Lightroom, downloaded your plugin again, installed it as per your instructions (it wouldnt’ automatically install, as you mention in your instructions), and…nothing. Lightroom won’t recognize the plugin.

I’ve deleted it from my system twice, downloaded again and re-installed, to no effect. Any ideas? Thanks! John

Plugin install for LR1 was a much more hands-on approach.. you have to place the plugin folder “flickr-jfriedl.lrplugin” into the specific folder on your system, then restart Lightroom. It should just pick it up. The zip file for the final version of the LR1 plugin has not changed since last summer, so if you had it working once, you should be able to get it again, but as I said, LR1 is sort of finicky. —Jeffrey

Today, I accidently found this plugin (just for fun google after “Lightroom Flickr plugin” only to look, if anybody is out there).

Mail me, if you need a German translation of your interface. You know, both Flickr and Lightroom offer German interfaces, and many users are not familar with all the English terms.

Any help/suggestions…many thanks

PS. Thanks for the plugin, great time saver….

Actually I get the following error message:
INTERNAL PLUGIN ERROR
Bad upload: empty response

I’m currently using LR 2.0 BETA / Vista with a flickr pro account. I don’t know if there is a problem with the picture size, but if I decide to resize the image (for example 1000px width) uploading is working properly.
Any ideas? Thanks for your hard work!
Stephan

If my LR keyword is “«Test»”, then it shoes up in Flickr as “ÇTestÈ”.

Actually, it shoes up as both “«Test»” and “ÇTestÈ”.
- If I edit the «Test» keyword in LR and uncheck “Include on Export”, then Flickr only shows “ÇTestÈ”.
- If I check “Minimize Embedded Metadata” on export, then Flickr only shows “«Test»”. (But then the other metadata is stripped from the file stored on Flickr—not really what I want.)
- (It doesn’t seem to make a difference if I check “Write Keywords as Lightroom Hierarchy”.)

So it looks like Flickr is reading “ÇTestÈ” from the embedded EXIF or XMP.

Any ideas? Is Flickr just broken? Or can your plugin tell it somehow that the EXIF is in UTF-8?
(Thanks for all your hard work!)

I tested this out, and as I guessed from the Flickr API, when replacing a picture *only* the image itself is changed; changes to title/caption/tags/access control don’t seem to take effect. That’s probably a good thing (since you wouldn’t want to overwrite changes made on Flickr, especially to tags which other users can change). I guess the ideal solution would be to save this flickr metadata when you upload a photo into the database, and when replacing a photo, make API calls to look up that metadata on Flickr; then make calls to change the metadata if it *has* changed in Lightroom but *hasn’t* in Flickr. Or something. But “don’t clobber Flickr changes” is a fine start.

What license is it released under? I’m thinking about tweaking it a little (specifically, adding the replace support that you can’t test) but I don’t know if I’d be allowed to share my changes.

Actually, Flickr did finally get back to me, and gave me a free Pro account. I’ve built the “replace” feature into the Flickr plugin (and into the Zenfolio one) for the LR2.0 version that I’ve been working on for ages, just w a i t i n g for Adobe to release. I’ll release those versions the day LR2.0 is released. —Jeffrey

Update a few hours later:
Ah, what the heck, I just added it to the 1.x version of the plugin, so if you upgrade to 20080714.47 or later, you’ll see the replace option in the Upload Management section. —Jeffrey