I haven't been posting on my blog this year, but I've still been working, and have just released a feature for Lightroom that's interesting enough to warrant a mention here: the Compare Photo Edits feature of my Bag-o-Goodies plugin.

As the name implies, it reports on the differences in how two photos have been edited. This includes not only develop changes, but also editable-metadata changes. It also reports on whether collection membership is the same.

It can be useful in figuring out, for example, the difference in look between two photos, or to figure out why a virtual copy exists.

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I've just released Jeffrey's Collection Mechanic Lightroom Plugin.

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This plugin for Adobe Lightroom Classic contains a few tools working with Lightroom collections.

This plugin works in Adobe Lightroom Classic, and older versions as far back as Lightroom 6 (though some features depend on the version of Lightroom).

The same download works for both Windows and Mac. See the box to the upper right for the download link (in orange) and installation instructions.

This plugin adds the following items to Lightroom's "File > Plugin Extras" menu:

File > Plugin Extras > Promiscuate Collections

Put all selected photos into all (non-smart) collections that any selected photo is part [...]
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Six years after Google unveiled their "Google +" social network with photo hosting, with heavy emphasis on photographers, and a couple of years after Google shut down Picasa Web Albums, the sort-of-backdoor way to upload photos to Google, Google has finally released a photo-upload API, so that I can make a Google Photos plugin for Adobe Lightroom.

Sort of.

What Google allows at this point is extremely limited, and I don't hold much hope that it'll expand.

As of today's initial release, the plugin can:

create an album in Google Photos upload photos and video to such albums.

That's it. [...]

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At this point, Google does allow the plugin to:

create albums. upload photos and videos to those (and only those) albums.

In particular, Google does not allow this plugin to:

upload to any album not created by this plugin. update any aspect of any photo or video at Google Photos. delete or replace anything at Google Photos.

The inability to delete or replace precludes creating a Publish Service in Lightroom for Google Photos. As such, this plugin is currently an export-only plugin.

Logging In To Your Google Account

Giving the plugin permission to upload photos on your [...]

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