Piglets are for Lightroom 1.x plugins only, and are not needed in Lightroom 2 or later.

The four export plugins for Adobe Lightroom that I've written – for uploading to Zenfolio, SmugMug, Flickr, and Picasa Web – are useful, I hope, and offer lots of options and ways for the user to configure how their images are processed. If I had more time and more skill, though, the plugins could do more. So much more.

For example, Tim Armes' LR/Mogrify Lightroom Export Plugin offers a lot of nice features that I wish my plugins offered, including:

the ability to [...]
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Alexander Kiel's has developed some insight into the "FormatMessageW failed" error that plagues some Windows users of Lightroom export plugins, including my export plugins for Zenfolio, SmugMug, Flickr, and Picasa Web. From his reports, the problem seems to be related to IE7 and slow internet connections.

He poses a potential solution, so those running into this error are encouraged to see his writeup on the subject.

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When viewing a geoencoded photo – one where the location's latitude and longitude are encoded in the metadata – in Lightroom, its coordinates are displayed in the metadata panel as shown below:

(Well, it shows up if you're using a metadata-panel view that includes the coordinates among the items to be shown, such as "all", but you can also use my Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder to build a customized metadata-panel view.)

Clicking on the little arrow to the right of the coordinates brings up your web browser, with the location showing in Google Maps. In the case of the [...]

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Adding to my stable of export plugins for Lightroom (Zenfolio, Smugmug and Flickr), I've just released my "Export to Picasa Web" Plugin for Lightroom.

I just hacked it out and it's received minimal testing by me (and no testing by anyone else), so version churn is likely at first as bugs are reported and shaken out. It comes with a French translation for all the parts that are the same as the other plugins, but the texts unique to this plugin remain in English until the French translator is able to send an update.

(If you're one of the [...]
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The export plugins for Lightroom 1.3 that I mentioned here and here have now been released:

Zenfolio Smugmug Flickr

Unfortunately, I came down with a cold yesterday and I got word that I could release these just an hour before heading off to the doctor (I leave in 15 minutes), so I may have screwed up something in my rush to get these links out. We'll see.

In any case, expect a lot of version churn at the beginning, as bugs are flushed out...

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