{"id":2844,"date":"2017-12-24T18:22:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T09:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2017-12-24\/2844"},"modified":"2017-12-24T18:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T09:22:26","slug":"announcing-a-new-plugin-for-adobe-lightroom-smart-collection-sync-to-adobes-lightroom-cc-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2017-12-24\/2844","title":{"rendered":"Announcing a New Plugin for Adobe Lightroom: Smart-Collection Sync to Adobe&#8217;s Lightroom CC Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic tight'><a href='\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/smart-collection-sync'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr\/smart-collection-sync-example1a.png\" width=\"690\" height=\"337\"\nid=\"ismart_collection_sync_example1a\"\/><\/a>\n<br\/>part of the plugin explanation from its home page\n<meta itemprop='about' content=\"part of the plugin explanation from its home page\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>I've released a new plugin for Lightroom Classic (Lr6 and later) to help users wanting to sync smart collections to Lightroom's\ncloud ecosystem. Lightroom Classic allows syncing only normal collections, so you can't sync smart collections such as <span class='QO'>&#8220;<\/span>all\nfive-star photos<span class='QC'>&#8221;<\/span> or the like.<\/p>\n\n<p>This plugin works around this restriction by allowing you to keep <span class='nobr'>a set<\/span> of normal collections automatically synced with your\nsmart collections; you then add those automatically-mirrored normal collections to Lightroom's cloud.<\/p>\n\n<p>It sounds simple, but the devil's in the details... the same details, I'm sure, which caused Adobe to not support\nsmart-collection sync in the first place. <span class='nobr'>It's all explained<\/span> at the plugin's home page:<\/p>\n<div style='margin-left:5em'> <a href='\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/smart-collection-sync' class='pt'>Jeffrey\u2019s \u201cSmart-Collection-Sync\u201d Lightroom Plugin<\/a>.<\/div>\n\n\n<p>As with most of my plugins, it's released as <a href='\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/register'>donationware<\/a>. <span class='nobr'>It can be<\/span> used freely by all forever, but becomes slightly less convenient after <span class='nobr'>a while<\/span> to encourage thinking about <span class='nobr'>a gift.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>Special thanks to Gerhard Wolf for suggesting <span class='nobr'>a realistic<\/span> way to approach <span class='nobr'>a\nplugin<\/span> like this in Lightroom. <span class='nobr'>I took his<\/span> suggestion and threw it out, building something\ncompletely different that made more intuitive sense to me, but in the end just didn't feel elegant. Indded, Gerhard reported that\nmy approach worked, but again urged his. <span class='nobr'>I gave his<\/span> approach <span class='nobr'>a try,<\/span> and upon\nimplementing it finally saw it for the more-satisfying approach that it was. Thanks Gerhard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've released a new plugin for Lightroom Classic (Lr6 and later) to help users wanting to sync smart collections to Lightroom's cloud ecosystem. Lightroom Classic allows syncing only normal collections, so you can't sync smart collections such as \"all five-star photos\" or the like.<\/p> <p>This plugin works around this restriction by allowing you to keep a set of normal collections automatically synced with your smart collections; you then add those automatically-mirrored normal collections to Lightroom's cloud.<\/p> <p>It sounds simple, but the devil's in the details... the same details, I'm sure, which caused Adobe to not support smart-collection sync in the [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}