Update April 11th, 2008
Lightroom 1.4.1 has now been released to address the problems discussed below.
Download links are here.
Yikes, it seems that 1.4 has a bug: the “time taken” is set to midnight in copies of the file that are exported. The Lightroom database and the original files maintain the correct time, but when you export a copy (e.g. to upload somewhere), the time is reset to midnight.
This is most unfortunate. I don't know whether I can work around it in the plugins. Until this is resolved, I'd recommend staying with 1.3 unless the benifits of 1.4 are worth it for you.
Drat.
For those wishing to move back to 1.3.1, here are the links: Windows · Mac
Adobe has just released a very minor upgrade to Lightroom, version 1.4, available for free download here. This comes about four months after Lightroom 1.3 and its support for export plugins was released.
Full details are in the Lightroom 1.4 ReadMe, but in short this upgrade adds support for some new cameras, and fixes a few bugs (but unfortunately, not the “FormatMessageW failed” uploading bug some Windows users of plugins have seen).
Added Cameras
| Canon: | EOS 450D, Digital Rebel Xsi, EOS Kiss X2 |
| Fujifilm: | S100FS |
| Nikon: | D60 |
| Olympus: | SP-570 UZ |
| Pentax: | K20D, K200D |
| Sony: | A200, A300, A350 |
Bug Fixes
The big fix is enhanced compatibility for printing on OS X 10.5 (Leopard). The “Color Noise” setting is now enabled even when you switch to grayscale, and there is some kind of fix related to the “Calibrate” panel in the Develop module (whatever that is).
My Plugins
The update reveals a boo-boo in my plugins – I neglected to indicate “or later” when specifying that they were designed for Lightroom 1.3 – so if you upgrade to Lightroom 1.4, you'll need to pull a new version of the plugin from the appropriate page:
- Lightroom Export Plugin for Zenfolio
- Lightroom Export Plugin for SmugMug
- Lightroom Export Plugin for Flickr
- Lightroom Export Plugin for Picasa Web
Lightroom 1.4 doesn't really show very much progress, especially for so much time having passed since 1.3 came out. It might lead one to suppose that they've been busy with other things, perhaps the “new and improved versions of Lightroom” that Lightroom product manager Tom Hogarty wrote about in January. This minor update doesn't even hint at what I'm sure is going to turn out to be a great and exciting year for users of Lightroom. 😉
Lightroom has made such a huge impact on my photography and the way I work with my photos. I can’t wait to see the next real update of the software. There is so much that it does easily and quickly. I hope they don’t lose that basic simplicity while adding great features like dodging, burning, better noise reduction, effects, etc.
Jeff- one should not minimize the importance of correcting the printing issues with a dot upgrade. Thanks to Adobe for not waiting until v2.0!
–Dave
I don’t mean to minimize their importance, but the changes are “minor” in the sense that they apply to relatively few people. If you have one of the cameras now supported, did a lot of grayscale work, or were one of the ones who had printing issues on Leopard, this is an update of monumental proportions. —Jeffrey
Jeffrey, Export is fine timewise on my Mac 10.4.11.
Sean.
You’re likely looking at the XMP data, which indeed maintains the proper date. The EXIF, unfortunately, is wrong, even on 10.4.11 (which I’m also running). If you’re really getting good times in your JPG EXIF, that’d be worth investigating…. —Jeffrey
Printing is still broken with the HP 8250 driver. 🙁
Hey… your plugin for flickr has absolutely made my life so much easier.
I have upgraded to 1.4 and upload to Flickr using your plugin. And when I check out the EXIF data on Flickr itself, it all seems kosher over here…..
Version 1.4 has been taken offline now due to too many issues: http://lightroom-news.com/2008/03/16/adobe-yanks-lightroom-14-camera-raw-44/
Is there a flickr plugin for PSCS3?
I don’t know. I don’t use either PSCS3 or Flickr…. —Jeffrey
Hi, I am wondering if there is a bug in the plugin or if I am doing something wrong. I made changes to the white balance of an image. When I exported it the image on Picasa doesn’t have the adjustment. Any thoughts?
Two ideas… one is that you exported “Original” rather than “JPG”.
The other is that it does have the adjustment, but that you just can’t tell because of color-management issues (e.g. because you’re using IE or Fireforx or another non-color-managed browser). Try viewing in Safari to see whether it looks better there. —Jeffrey
Great work this plugin ! I love it and saves a lot of trouble …
I have one question though:
I work a lot with keywords. I would love an option that enables the output of the whole keyword hierarchy (e.g. if a image is tagged with “flower”, I also want to have the parent “plant” exported), including synonyms. The whole point of keyword hierarchies is, that one very specific term captures all the more generic parents. However, one might not search (e.g. on Zenfolio) for this specific term rather for one of the more general terms.
What do you think ? Any chance this can be implemented ?
Best regards and again, many thanks for your plugin!
Markus
I’m not a big user of keywords, so these kinds of suggestions are helpful (since I’d never pay attention to the subject on my own). But isn’t this already what the plugins do? I’m working on new plugins for 2.0, so if it’s not already doing that, I can address it then…. —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey
Using the standard export from Lightroom optionally writes out the hierarchy (with the option “write Keywords as Lightroom Hierarchy” enabled).
You have the same option available in your plugin. However, enabling and disabling this option does not change anything. It always writes out “just” the keywords without the hierarchy.
I guess it is a rather simple bug and a wrong call to the API, rather than a not implemented feature, since Lightroom already offers this feature. It would be great if you can roll out a bug fix release, given it is just a wrong call of the API 😉
Many thanks,
Markus
I figured using this option only exports the parents of a keyword when the keyword is ambiguous, e.g.
“flower” under “plants” AND under say “gifts”. In this case the export would be “flower > gifts” for example.
Indeed, it’s just a wrong call to the API, but unfortunately, the correct call won’t be available until Lightroom 2.0 comes out, so now there’s an actual basis for my initial plan to wait until then 🙂 —Jeffrey
Hi Jeffrey
Why do you wanna wait many MONTHs to make this simple bugfix change happen ?
Uh, because (as I said) the fix won’t be possible until Lightroom 2.0 comes out, which I assume is a timespan measured in months. —Jeffrey
These are hundreds/thousands of pics with missing keyword hierarchies 🙁
Do you have the source code available somewhere on google code or sourceforge ?
Is it an OpenSource project ? If not, it would be great if you move towards that: collaborative efforts are great if there are people eager to improve things.
Ahhh, sorry Jeffrey, I thought the wrong call was made from your plugin, but I assume what is correct is that actual API has a bug. Then obviously, only an update of Lightroom would help 😉
Thanks for that, best regards!
Just to let you know:
Unfortunately the todays update to 1.4.1 has not fixed the issue 🙁
Best, M
1.4.1 is not intended to fix any and all bugs and deficiencies that people may feel that Lightroom has; it’s intended to fix the problems introduced when 1.4.0 was released, which itself was intended to be very limited in addressing a few specific bugs and adding support for some new cameras. There are still bugs and areas where I and everyone wishes that Lightroom performed differently (the “FormatW” upload error being near the top of the list for many), but those have not been addressed. —Jeffrey
Hey Jeffrey – just a quick question if I may after being advised to visit and post here from a user on the Lightroom forums.
I use your excellent Zenfolio plug-in for Lightroom, but am considering moving over to Photium as my web gallery as they allow people to sell images in GBP, whereas Zenfolio only permit USD pricing – no good for me eh! (no offence to my US friends of course)
So, just wondering if you have any plans to write a Lightroom plug-in for uploading images directly to Photium…?
Any news / opinion / thought …?
Ta
John
I’ve never heard of them, but that doesn’t mean too much. Once LR 2.0 comes out I’ll be adding new plugins, so if the Photium people want to contact me then about creating an export plugin for their service, we’ll see how it goes…. —Jeffrey
Hello Jeffrey! First off, thank you so very very much for creating these plugins, they are so very helpful! I would love to install the piglets too, but after installing them into the plugin folder, when trying call up the piglet manager, I get this message: No piglets found in this plugins folder. But they’re in there, for sure. I copied them into the /modules folder into the plugin folder, without the piglet folder. What am I doing wrong?
Dear Jeffrey,
superb yes, the new Lightroom version DOES export hierarchical keywords 🙂
That rocks.
Best regards, Markus
Great plugin, mister! I use it on both 1.4 and 2.0 version of LR, and it has worked flawlessly until the Smugmug crash yesterday. Now, I can’t get it to acknowledge any of the galleries to which I want to post. This happens on both home computers, so I think something has changed over at Smugmug, or maybe they aren’t yet up to full speed. Note, however, that there is also the very real possibility of user error, in which I excel in computer matters.
Thanks for the great plugin, incidentally.
Rocky
Just upgraded to Lightroom 3 – the Flickr plugin no longer works. Is there a way around this problem?
yes —Jeffrey