“Microsoft Windows is like the Great Outdoors
full of bugs”

The comment has been saved. As a Macintosh computer person from way way back ( use Quark in my writings and my editor(s) want “receive and paste” writings) find the comment true, given the complaints from friends. Mind, I also use Linux with an old 8088 box and it too although not without foibles does work better than MS.

Congratulations. My donation for GeoEncode GPS support is already registered.

P.S. Love the photos on the page 🙂

Thanks Jeffrey. I think this is a reasonable model. I’ve put out a message on Twitter in hopes to get word out about this and to encourage LR users everyone to support your great work. If you’re interested, here’s the tweet I made:
http://twitter.com/jigarchamp/statuses/1216350399

Jeffrey, when I discovered you were going to this model, it took me only moments decide to register. I have been happily using 3 of your plugins for at least a year now and find them invaluable. I can’t thank you enough for all the work you have put in to maintaining and improving them. I’m sure you’ll find many other like me happy to donate to such a worthy cause.

Honto ni arigatou gozaimasu. Watashi mo nihon ni sunde imashita. (Yamaguchi-ken, Hiroshima-ken to Mie-ken). Kono “plug in” wa suteki yo!

Ari-chan

Jeffrey, smugmug plugin is a great stuff and helps me alot. I would be happy to donate you for you knowledge and time, as I do Tim. But unfortunately PayPal service is unavailable in our county. Will it be possible to pay by Visa? Please, Ask Tim Armes for details of implementation. Iam kindly ask you to provide alternative payment method.

If it’s not available in your country, just send me a note and I’ll take care of you. Instead of donating to me, help an old lady cross the street, or do some other random act of kindness locally. —Jeffrey

Hi Jeffrey,

first of all – thank you for the excellent work.
I use 3 plugins – and i want to register/donate. Can I pay once and us the code for all plugins, or should I make 3 PayPal transactions to receive 3 codes?

… sorry for the stupid question….

Either way is fine, although there are benefits and drawbacks to either. If you want to do just one, generate a code and use it to register a plugin, then shoot me a mail with the code and your needs, and I’ll take care of it. On the other hand, doing them individually takes care of it and you’re done. If you also make a donation and use the associated code to register the geoencoding or metadata-wrangler plugins, I pass along some of that gift to the exiftool author, so if you want to make a donation, and if you want to alot it unequally among the plugins (sort of like voting for your favorite), you have go individually. On the other hand, if you’re inclined to make a donation but one that is less than a few bucks total, separating it out causes most of it to be eaten in PayPal fees (they take the first half dollar or so), so that complicates things. Well, there you go…. way more involved than you expected, I’m sure! But in the end, you can ignore it all and just do a one-cent registration if you like, then send me the code…. —Jeffrey

Cathy in Omaha Nebraska USA

I really appreciate your work and success with this Lightroom to SmugMug plugin. I would donate more, however, I am off work on, mostly unpaid, medical leave and not sure I will be going back.

Excellent work and thanks again.

Are you planning to add the option of putting a water mark when exporting images to flickr…thanks

No, basic watermarking is already built into Lightroom (although it’s pretty minimal) and Tim Armes already has a very full-functional plugin, LR2/Mogrify, which does watermarking. —Jeffrey

Jeffrey,

Just to add my voice to the (no doubt) large group of people who are grateful for your time and struggles in getting these plugins to us.

Keep up the great work and don’t forget to take some time out to enjoy your faimily and photography

regards – Mike

(UK)

Jeffrey,

Your work is much appreciated and recognized. Thanks for making it so easy to donate and keep up the good work.

Mike

Hello,
I really appreciate your work with Lightroom…
actual I am looking for a possibility to get my pictures and videos (+thumbnail pic) shoot by my Canon camera imported with Lightroom.
This video-thumbnail pictures remain on my camera after import, I think because of the extention “*.thm”, which look like unknown by adobe.

If you can have a workflow with Lightroom done or a script, which enables that feature of import this type of pictures, I would be very glad.

It’s now a common feature set for every camera to create videos, so its very anoying for me, that this step of importing the “preview pictures” of that videos, automatically produced by my new Canon, cannot be imported.

Hope you can help
thank you

Dieter

It’s not a perfect solution, but if you can copy the videos to your disk yourself, my Video-Asset Management plugin might be of use. You can also copy over the THM files, of course, and rename them to JPG. Neither solution is as smooth as one would like…. hopefully, Adobe will address these needs in a future version of LR…. —Jeffrey

You do great things and need to be paid. Just found out about you and without a doubt, I will be leaving money for you through PayPal. Keep up the good work!

Chris

Hi, Jeffrey–

I’d like to pay for the metadata presets plugin; but I cannot get it to show the additional line that I want: “Metadata Date”. After adding it, I have restarted the plugin and restarted Lightroom (2.7 Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.3). What next?

The “Metadata Date” field is the date that the metadata was last written back to the image file or sidecar, and is empty (and not even shown) if the save has never been done. Not particularly useful, but that’s what they offer. (If you mouseover the name of a field in the right-hand-side of the preset-builder dialog, you’ll get a tooltip with a short description). “Metadata Date” is what Adobe calls it, but it should really be “Metadata-Save Date” or the like. Turns out that in the sample data in the preset-building dialog, I was showing the last-edit date, so that dialog’s sample data didn’t properly reflect this field’s characteristics. Just pushed a new version that does. By the way, I appreciate the vote of confidence, but you can not pay for the plugin… I offer it for free. You can send a gift any time, or not, but the plugin is free. —Jeffrey

Any other ways to pay you for those who don’t like Paypal and would prefer not to give them a (potentially significant percentage) cut?

There’s no “paying” involved (except for the PayPal transaction fee, which can be 1 cent if you want), but if you want to send a gift, I always want to encourage that of course :-)… an Amazon.com gift certificate is nice, or maybe send me some good karma by doing something nice for someone locally. —Jeffrey

From Pittsburgh
Marvelous set of plugins. I have not yet tried them, but you will hear from PayPal when I get to it.

I’m writing to suggest another plugin. I am creating a family photo archive to distribute to the many members of my extended family, who, unsurprisingly, vary tremendously in computer skills. I have probably 10K photos involved in this project. What I would like to do is to add selected metadata fields to the image itself, just as my Aunt Mildred did in the margins or on the back of physical photo prints. I have done this, by hand in PS, expanding the image file, and then cutting and pasting the metadata, usually the date, place, people’s names, and the event into white space at the bottom of the image. The result is a picture that can be viewed by anyone who can, minimally, open an image file. No knowledge of metadata, EXIF, IPTC, or XMP required. My relatives are amazed and enthralled. So far I have done about 300 images.

The process is agonizingly slow and error prone. Which brings me to the request: is it possible to add this functionality to the metadata app?

JK

The easy solution that comes to mind is to stuff the text that you want to appear in a field like “title” or “caption”, then include that text on the image as an overlay. The Lr/Mogrify plugin probably gives the most flexibility in how to include the text on the image. —Jeffrey