{"id":503,"date":"2007-06-27T09:47:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-06-27\/503"},"modified":"2007-12-20T15:12:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T06:12:47","slug":"lightroom-metadata-viewer-preset-builder-for-lightroom-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-06-27\/503","title":{"rendered":"Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder (for Lightroom 1.1+)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class='ic'><a href=\"\/i\/lr11\/TopPicBig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/TopPicSmall.jpg\" width=\"707\" height=\"482\"\nalt=\"Metadata Viewer in Adobe Lightroom 1.1\"\nborder=\"0\"\nclass=\"old_floating_img\"\nid=\"iTopPicSmall\"\nindexhint=\"right\"\ntitle=\"A screenshot of Adobe Lightroom 1.1 with the Metadata Panel highlighted\"\/><\/a><br\/>\n<span style='font-size:160%'>Metadata Viewer in Adobe <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 1.1<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<p>As mentioned in my <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-06-27\/502\">previous post<\/a>, Adobe has\njust released <b><span class='nobr'>Lightroom 1.1<\/span><\/b>, <span class='nobr'>a free<\/span> upgrade to their wonderful\nphoto-workflow application. Correspondingly, <span class='nobr'>I have upgraded<\/span> my Custom\nMetadata Viewer Preset Builder, <span class='nobr'>a web<\/span> application that allows you to create\ncustom metadata display configuration templates for use within Lightroom.\n<\/p>\n\n<div class='bg-C' style='padding:20px 2em; font-size:180%; margin:90px 3em; color:red'>\n\n<p>This web-based tool is now superseded by\nmy <a href=\"\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/metadata-presets\">Metadata-Viewer Preset Builder plugin<\/a>\nfor <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 2<\/span> and above.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>This description is presented with <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 1.1<\/span> as an example, although\nthe config files should work in any version of <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 1.<\/span><i>x<\/i>,\nincluding 1.3.1.<\/p>\n\n<div style='float:right; position:relative'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/TopPicFull.gif\" width=\"362\" height=\"657\"\nalt=\"A screenshot showing a custom metadata viewer preset in Adobe Lightroom 1.1, created with Jeffrey's Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder\"\nclass=\"old_floating_img\"\nid=\"iTopPicFull\"\nindexhint=\"top\"\ntitle=\"A screenshot showing a custom metadata viewer preset in Adobe Lightroom 1.1, created with Jeffrey's Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder\"\/>\n<div id='p503' style='visibility:hidden;position:absolute; width:295px;top:45px; left:55px'>\n<div style='width:295px; height:25px; border:solid 2px yellow;margin-bottom:3px'><\/div>\n<div style='background-color:#880;color:black; font-weight:bold; padding:3px 8px;border:solid 1px #333'>\nData Presets are selected by this control, and are <b>unrelated<\/b> to the viewer presets\nthis post is about.\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div id='b503'\n     onmouseover='this.style.borderBottomWidth = \"2px\"'\n      onmouseout='this.style.borderBottomWidth = \"0px\"'\n     onclick='document.location = \"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2007-06-10\/486\"'\n     style='position:absolute; border-bottom:solid 0px #44F; width:222px; height:18px; top:278px; left:115px'><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\nThis post is the introduction and documentation for my template-builder\napplication. <span class='nobr'>If you have<\/span> used the <a\nhref=\"\/blog\/2007-02-20\/386\">previous version<\/a>, you'll\nfind lots of new things here, including new metadata items, new display\noptions, and even the ability to set label text.\n\n<\/p>\n\n<p class='h1' style='margin-bottom:0'><a name='toc'>Table of Contents<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style='margin-top:5px'>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#intro\">Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#types\">Viewer Presets <i>vs.<\/i> Data Presets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#disclaimer\">Obligatory Disclaimer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#overview\">Quick Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#using\">Using the Application<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#menu\">Menu Buttons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#options\">Display Options<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#label\">Overriding Label Text<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#permutations\">Wide, No Label, Empty Label<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#install\">Installation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#notes\">General Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class='quiet' href=\"#colophon\">Colophon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n  \/* 503 *\/\n  #post503 .h1 { font-weight: bold; font-size: 120%; margin-top:35px}\n  #post503 .h1 + p { margin-top: 10px }\n<\/style>\n\n\n<p class='h1'><a name='intro'>Introduction<\/a><\/p><p>\n\nAn example of <span class='nobr'>Lightroom 1.1<\/span>'s metadata display panel is shown at right. <span class='nobr'>The panel<\/span> is capable of showing much more information about an image than\nanyone's likely to want to see at one time &mdash; over 100 items, such as\nthe image filename, the latitude\/longitude where it was taken, the shutter\nspeed, <span class='nobr'>a caption,<\/span> etc.&mdash; the volume of which can quickly overwhelm.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nTo whittle down the display to <span class='nobr'>a smaller<\/span> set of items, Lightroom comes with\n<span class='nobr'>a number<\/span> of built-in display presets (Default, All, EXIF, IPTC, Large\nCaption, Location, Minimal, and Quick Describe), each showing <span class='nobr'>a different<\/span>\nsubset of the possible items. <span class='nobr'>But because<\/span> there are so many items that\nmight be shown, chances are small that <span class='nobr'>a built<\/span>-in presets shows just the\nitems you wish to see.\n\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nThis is where my web application comes in: with it, you can create your own\ndisplay-configuration presets. <span class='nobr'>The one shown<\/span> at right is the one <span class='nobr'>I made<\/span> for\nmy own daily use.\n\n<\/p><p class='h1'><a name='types'>Viewer Presets <i>vs.<\/i> Data Presets<\/a><\/p><p>\n\nI must be clear up front that this post is about selecting which fields to\ndisplay, in what order, and with what labels. It is <i>not<\/i> about &#8220;this\nfield is assigned this value&#8221; <b>Metadata Presets<\/b> that Lightroom\nalready allows you to create and edit. (For what it's worth, you can access\nthose presets via\n\n<span style='border-bottom: dotted 1px gray'\n      onmouseover='document.getElementById(\"p503\").style.visibility=\"visible\"'\n      onmouseout='document.getElementById(\"p503\").style.visibility=\"hidden\"'>the &#8220;Preset&#8221; selector<\/span>\n\nseen just under the red-circled &#8220;Jeffrey's View&#8221; in the screen capture shown at right.<\/p>\n\n<p class='h1'><a name='disclaimer'>Obligatory Disclaimer<\/a><\/p><p>\n\nCustom metadata-viewer presets, from this or any source, are not supported\nby Adobe. There are no guarantees that the presets you build for Lightroom\n<span class='nobr'>Version 1.1<\/span> will be at all useful with later versions of Lightroom. In\nfact, there are no guarantees that they'll be useful with any version of\nLightroom.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\n&#8220;Use at your own risk.&#8221;\n\n<\/p>\n\n<div style='margin-top:10px; float:right'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/MetaMenu.gif\" width=\"357\" height=\"285\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"old_floating_img\"\nid=\"iMetaMenu\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p class='h1'><a name='overview'>Quick Overview<\/a><\/p><p>\n\nTo build your own preset, use my web application to select the metadata\nitems you want to see and arrange them in the order you prefer. <span class='nobr'>You give your<\/span> configuration <span class='nobr'>a title<\/span> (<span class='nobr'>I used<\/span> &#8220;Jeffrey's View&#8221;) and then <span class='nobr'>a file<\/span> is\ngenerated for you that you then download and install in one of <span class='nobr'>Lightroom\n1.1<\/span>'s system directories.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nYour preset is available the next time you start Lightroom, in the Metadata\nPanel drop down box as shown at right.\n\n<\/p><p class='h1'><a name='using'>Using the Application<\/a><\/p><p>\n\nWhen you visit <a href=\"\/Lightroom\/Meta\/\">Jeffrey's\nLightroom Metadata-Viewer Preset Builder<\/a> (finally, that's the link to\nthe application!), you are presented with the view shown below.\n\n<\/p><p style='margin-bottom:0'>\n\n(For <span class='nobr'>a clear<\/span> view, you can also\n<span style='border-bottom: dotted 1px gray'\n      onmouseover='document.getElementById(\"m503\").style.visibility=\"visible\"; this.style.borderBottomStyle=\"solid\"'\n      onmouseout='document.getElementById(\"m503\").style.visibility=\"hidden\"; this.style.borderBottomStyle=\"dotted\"'>remove the annotations<\/span>.)\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n<div class='old_floating_img' style='width:690px; margin:10px auto'>\n<div class='ic' style='width:673px; height:514px; position:relative; clear:both; margin:20px auto'>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/FullView.gif\" width=\"673\" height=\"514\"\nalt=\"An annotated screenshot showing Jeffrey's Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iFullView\"\nindexhint=\"right\"\ntitle=\"An annotated screenshot showing Jeffrey's Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder\"\/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/FullView2.gif\" width=\"673\" height=\"514\"\nalt=\"A screenshot showing Jeffrey's Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"m503\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\nstyle=\"position:absolute; top:0; left:0; visibility:hidden\"\ntitle=\"A screenshot showing Jeffrey's Lightroom Metadata Viewer Preset Builder\"\/> <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div style='clear:both; float:right; text-align:center; font-weight:bold;\nmargin-left:1em'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/Menu.gif\" width=\"305\" height=\"510\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"old_floating_img\"\nid=\"iMenu\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><br\/><big>The Menu<\/big><br\/>Choose\nfrom over 100 items<\/div>\n\n\n<p style='margin-top:20px'>To create your own presets....<\/p>\n\n\n<ol>\n\n  <li><p>Select one of Lightroom's built-in presets to use as <span class='nobr'>a starting<\/span>\nbase, or choose from among one of the extras I've included\n(&#8220;None,&#8221; &#8220;All 1.1 Supported Fields,&#8221; and\n&#8220;Jeffrey's View,&#8221; my own daily-use preset).\n\n<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>Read the instructions, then press the &#8220;hide header&#8221;\nbutton to devote more of the screen to the preset builder itself.<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>Create your preset, adding and removing items by checking them in\nthe menu (seen at right), adding headers and rules with the buttons at\nthe top of the menu, and by adjusting item options.<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n  <li><p>An example view of your custom preset is shown in the lower-left\nof the application, with fake metadata filled in from one of my images,\njust to give <span class='nobr'>a sense<\/span> of how it'll look in actual use.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>In the custom list, you can drag items to reorder them, and you can drag\nthem to the trash (the pink stripe at far the left) to remove\nthem. This goes for header and rule lines as well.<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>Once everything's as you like it, bring back the application's header by\nclicking the hide-header button again (which had become <span class='nobr'>a show<\/span>-header\nbutton) and enter <span class='nobr'>a title<\/span> for your preset. <span class='nobr'>The title<\/span> you choose here is\nwhat Lightroom shows in the drop-down list of presets (as shown earlier),\nso choose <span class='nobr'>a short<\/span> but descriptive title.<\/p><\/li>\n\n  <li><p>Finally, press the &#8220;Generate Preset File&#8221; button.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n<p style='clear:both'>After pressing the generate-preset button, you're presented with <span class='nobr'>a page<\/span>\nfrom which you can download the template, as discussed <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> further\ndown.<\/p>\n\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/MenuButtons.gif\" width=\"396\" height=\"127\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"old_floating_img\"\nid=\"iMenuButtons\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\nstyle=\"float:right\"\/>\n<p class='h1'><a name='menu'>Menu Buttons<\/a><\/p><p>\n\nThe top of the menu area contains six buttons grouped to provide three unrelated functions (placed together for convenience):<\/p>\n\n\n<ol style='clear:both'><li><p>The &#8220;Expand\/Collapse All&#8221; buttons work on the menu list itself,\nrevealing or hiding the 100+ metadata items supported by Lightroom. You\ncan, of course, expand and collapse individual subtrees with the boxed &#8220;+&#8221;\nby head menu header item.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>The &#8220;Unhide\/Hide All Options&#8221; items are for revealing each item's\noption list (when the item itself is revealed, of course). <span class='nobr'>The box of<\/span>\noptions (like the red-boxed controls for &#8220;Dimensions (+ crop)&#8221; in the menu\nimage above right) can be long, and are not often needed for most items, so\nby default they appear first as a &#8220;click to show options&#8221;\nplaceholder.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>The &#8220;Add Header Text&#8221; button inserts <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> header line into the\ntemplate, which you can then click on to edit. &#8220;Add Rule Line,&#8221;\nunsurprisingly, adds <span class='nobr'>a new<\/span> rule line.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>Some items in the menu have more details than others. Here's an example\nthat illustrates everything, with the display options showing\n(unhidden).<\/p>\n\n<div class='ic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/ViewName.gif\" width=\"623\" height=\"270\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"old_floating_img\"\nid=\"iViewName\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p class='h1'><a name='options'>Display Options<\/a><\/p><p>\n\nEach item has its own mix of display options, from among the following. <span class='nobr'>My web application<\/span> attempts to reflect the visual effects option, but the\ndescriptions below are for how they affect the display once loaded into\nLightroom...<\/p>\n\n\n<ul><li><p><b>Shown when not blank<\/b> <i>vs.<\/i> <b>Shown always<\/b> &mdash;\n     Some items, by default, are not shown by Lightroom when the item's\n     underlying\n     data is missing from the image. For example, even if <span class='nobr'>a template<\/span> includes the &#8220;Shutter Speed&#8221;\n     item, Lightroom doesn't show it if the shutter-speed data is missing from the image.\n     By selecting &#8220;shown always,&#8221; the label will be presented but the value area will be blank.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p><b>Readonly<\/b> &mdash; when this is turned on, editable items become static display items.\n     This might be helpful during client presentations, but is of limited usefulness because any\n     &#8220;click to edit&#8221; icons remain.<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n<li><p><b>Enter finalizes<\/b> <i>vs.<\/i> <b>Enter included<\/b> &mdash; Normally while typing\n     text into one of the metadata editable fields, hitting enter causes the input to be finalized, returning\n     control from the field to the larger Lightroom application. When <b>Enter included<\/b> is selected,\n     enter inserts <span class='nobr'>a newline<\/span> into the metadata value.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p><b>Lines<\/b> &mdash; how many rows the item value should occupy in the display. This is the most useful\n     for free-format editable fields (&#8220;Caption,&#8221; &#8220;Copyright,&#8221;, etc.) and is the minimum size: the field grows\n     as needed for longer text. Most other fields (&#8220;Rating,&#8221; &#8220;Filename,&#8221; etc.) use only one row regardless of this setting,\n     so adding further rows simply adds padding under the value.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p><b>Width Normal<\/b> <i>vs.<\/i> <b>Width Wide<\/b> &mdash; the normal presentation is <span class='nobr'>a two<\/span>-column approach,\n     with the label on the left and the value on the right. When choosing <b>Width Wide<\/b>, the value is presented\n     with the whole width of both columns, and the label is presented above it. (An example is shown below.)<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p><b>Label<\/b> &mdash; Choosing <b>None<\/b> is similar to <b>Width Wide<\/b> in that the value is presented using\n     the full width of both columns, but the label is not shown above the value. When <b>Custom<\/b> is selected,\n     the <i>label text<\/i> input field appears, allowing you to override the label with your own choice. There are some\n     cautions about doing this, discussed below.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class='h1'><a name='label'>Overriding Label Text<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The labels for metadata fields can be changed in three ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n  <li>By Adobe, when they put out <span class='nobr'>a language<\/span>\/region-specific version of Lightroom<\/li>\n  <li>With my  <a href=\"\/blog\/2007-03-13\/395\">Lightroom Configuration Manager<\/a> <small>(not yet upgraded with new items from 1.1)<\/small><\/li>\n  <li>By entering label overrides in this metadata configuration manager.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>The preset display shown at the top of this post is my personal\n&#8220;Jeffrey's View&#8221; preset, with many of the label text set with this application (method #3).\nMost changes were to make labels shorter (such as &#8220;Dimensions&#8221; &rarr;\n&#8220;Size&#8221; and &#8220;Capture Date&#8221; &rarr; &#8220;Date&#8221;) because the label column in\nLightroom is only as wide as needed for the longest label, so making long\nlabels shorter means more overall width is devoted to the values.<\/p>\n\n<p>I also changed some labels to change their meaning. For example &#8220;Copy\nName&#8221; became &#8220;View Name&#8221; for reasons I'll explain in another post. &#8220;Job\nIdentifier&#8221; became &#8220;Blog URL,&#8221; because <span class='nobr'>I use<\/span> that field to record the URL\nof the blog post or posts that an image was part of.<\/p>\n\n<p>I also used a blank custom label for <span class='nobr'>a couple<\/span> of items, so as to reduce visible clutter. <span class='nobr'>One was the<\/span> ridiculously verbose &#8220;ISO Speed Rating&#8221;, which <span class='nobr'>I made<\/span> blank because the value has &#8220;ISO&#8221; in it,\nand placed right below &#8220;Exposure,&#8221; it's certainly not ambiguous.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/ISO.gif\" width=\"676\" height=\"273\"\nclass=\"old_floating_img\"\nid=\"iISO\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>I did the same with &#8220;Capture Time,&#8221; since &#8220;8:312:17 AM&#8221; right below\n&#8220;Date&#8221; is pretty clear.<\/p>\n\n<p>There's one concern you should be aware of if you intend to use multiple\npresets or share your presets with friends: labels changed with this\napplication are seen only when the specific preset is selected, and\noverride any changes made by the other methods. That means, for example,\nthey override the language-specific labels found in localized versions of\nLightroom.<\/p>\n\n<p>If you want to change a label for all presets (including the original\nbuilt-in presets), use my <a href=\"\/blog\/2007-03-13\/395\">Lightroom Configuration Manager<\/a>\ninstead of overriding while making <span class='nobr'>a preset.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>As a convenience, the per-preset download page offers an extra &#8220;no label\noverrides&#8221; download if the preset contains label text overrides. That\nallows those who don't care for your label text (because, for example, they\nprefer labels in their native language) to use your preset without losing\ntheir labels.<\/p>\n\n<p class='h1'><a name='permutations'>Wide, No Label, Empty Label<\/a><\/p><p>\n\nThe various permutations of <b>Label<\/b> and <b>Width<\/b> display options can be <span class='nobr'>a bit<\/span> confusing,\nso here are some examples (the first being the default):\n<\/p>\n\n\n<table style='margin-top:10px'>\n<tr valign='middle'><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutResult2.gif\" width=\"317\" height=\"107\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutResult2\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td>\n                    <td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutSetting2.gif\" width=\"348\" height=\"157\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutSetting2\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td><\/tr>\n<tr valign='middle'><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutResult3.gif\" width=\"317\" height=\"107\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutResult3\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td>\n                    <td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutSetting3.gif\" width=\"348\" height=\"157\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutSetting3\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td><\/tr>\n<tr valign='middle'><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutResult4.gif\" width=\"317\" height=\"107\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutResult4\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td>\n                    <td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutSetting4.gif\" width=\"348\" height=\"177\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutSetting4\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td><\/tr>\n<tr valign='middle'><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutResult5.gif\" width=\"317\" height=\"107\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutResult5\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td>\n                    <td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutSetting5.gif\" width=\"348\" height=\"157\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutSetting5\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td><\/tr>\n<tr valign='middle'><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutResult6.gif\" width=\"317\" height=\"107\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutResult6\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td>\n                    <td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutSetting6.gif\" width=\"348\" height=\"157\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutSetting6\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td><\/tr>\n<tr valign='middle'><td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutResult7.gif\" width=\"317\" height=\"107\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutResult7\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/><\/td>\n                    <td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/LayoutSetting7.gif\" width=\"348\" height=\"177\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iLayoutSetting7\"\nindexhint=\"left\"\/><\/td><\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n<p class='h1'><a name='install'>Installation<\/a><\/p><p>\n\nAfter pressing the &#8220;Generate Preset File&#8221; button, you're taken to <span class='nobr'>a page<\/span>\nthat offers <span class='nobr'>a download<\/span> for a &#8220;<b><tt>.lrtemplate<\/tt><\/b>&#8221;\nfile. <span class='nobr'>You can bookmark<\/span> that page, and share its url with those you'd like\nto share your preset with; they can then download the same preset, or use\nyours as <span class='nobr'>a basis<\/span> from which to build their own. For example, here's the\npage for <a href=\"\/Lightroom\/Meta\/View=Jeffrey\">my main\ndaily-use preset<\/a> that's been the subject of these examples.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nOn the download page, click the link and save the preset file to disk.\n\n<\/p><p>\n\nBefore installing your first preset, <b>you must first create<\/b> a\n&#8220;Metadata Field Lists&#8221; directory in Lightroom's application\nsupport folder. <span class='nobr'>To find that<\/span> folder, from within Lightroom invoke the <span\nstyle='white-space:nowrap'><b>Help<\/b> &gt; <b>Go to Lightroom Presets\nFolder<\/b><\/span> command to bring up the &#8220;Lightroom&#8221; folder, within which\nyou should create the &#8220;Metadata Field Lists&#8221; folder that holds the\n&#8220;<b><tt>.lrtemplate<\/tt><\/b>&#8221; file downloaded.\n\n<\/p><p>For reference, the folder you create will likely be:<\/p>\n\n<dl>\n  <dt><b>Mac OS X:<\/b><\/dt>\n  <dd>~\/Library\/Application Support\/Adobe\/Lightroom\/Metadata Field Lists\/<\/dd>\n\n\n  <dt style='margin-top:15px'><b>Windows XP:<\/b><\/dt>\n  <dd>C:\\Documents and Settings\\<i>username<\/i>\\Application Data\\Adobe\\Lightroom\\Metadata Field Lists\\<\/dd>\n\n  <dt style='margin-top:15px'><b>Windows Vista:<\/b><\/dt>\n  <dd>C:\\Users\\<i>username<\/i>\\AppData\\Roaming\\Adobe\\Lightroom\\Metadata Field Lists\\\n<br\/><i>or perhaps<\/i>\n<br\/>C:\\Users\\<i>username<\/i>\\Application Data\\Adobe\\Lightroom\\Metadata Field Lists\\\n  <\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n\n      <div style='float:right; text-align:center; font-weight:bold;\n      margin-left:1em'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/lr11\/MetaMenu.gif\" width=\"357\" height=\"285\"\nalt=\"\"\nclass=\"raw\"\nid=\"iMetaMenux2\"\nnoindex=\"noindex\"\/>\n      <br\/>Preset drop-down where your<br\/>preset title appears in\n      Lightroom<\/div>\n\n\n<p>(On Windows, you may have to visit the Folder Options dialog to allow\nthe normally-hidden <b>Application Data<\/b> folder to be seen.)<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Finally, drop the <b>....<tt>.lrtemplate<\/tt><\/b> file you downloaded\ninto the directory you just created, and start (or restart) Lightroom.<\/p>\n\n<p>The left side of the header in the Library Mode's Metadata Panel likely\nsays &#8220;Default&#8221; &mdash; click it to see your preset among those\nin the drop-down list.<\/p>\n\n<p class='h1'><a name='notes'>General Notes<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Here are some cautions about Lightroom's metadata viewer, whether with <span class='nobr'>a\ncustom<\/span> preset or one of the standard ones:<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n\n<li><p>All 100+ metadata items are new in this version in the sense that they all now have\n     display options, but those items totally new in this version are marked in the menu with <span class='nobr'>a bright<\/span> &#8220;new&#8221; label.\n     Click the [Expand All] button and scroll through the Menu to see them\n     all.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>The preset builder shows a very wide view of the Metadata viewer\npanel &mdash; perhaps wider than most people will want their Lightroom\npanels to be (since widening the panels takes away from the Grid\/Loupe\narea). So, keep in mind that long data (e.g. lens information, camera\nmake+model) may be too wide to actually fully appear in normal\nuse. (Yet another reason to use shorter labels.)<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Some items seem almost identical, but are really quite different.\nFor example, both the &#8220;File Path&#8221; and the &#8220;Folder&#8221;\nitems display the name of the folder that the file is in, but they differ\nin how they interact with the mouse: clicking on one brings up the file in\nExplorer\/Finder, while the other switches Lightroom to viewing the images\nin that same folder (something <span class='nobr'>I find<\/span> much more useful).<\/p>\n\n<p>The similarity among some of the items is one reason that the standard\n&#8220;All&#8221; preset really doesn't have all the items. <span class='nobr'>It's also one<\/span>\nreason that you'll want to take care when building your presets, so you'll\nget what you think you're getting.\n\n<\/p><\/li>\n\n\n<li><p>As you move from image to image in your library, the metadata items\nmissing from an image are not shown in the metadata panel unless they're\neditable, or have the &#8220;Shown always&#8221; option selected.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Click on an item in the metadata field list to automatically bring\nup the corresponding controls in the menu.<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>The metadata viewer simply reports metadata in the file (or in\nLightroom's database about the file).  For example, Lightroom could potentially\ncompute <span class='nobr'>a value<\/span> for &#8220;Focal Length 35mm&#8221; (full-frame-35mm-camera effective focal length),\nbut it reports it only if that Exif field is actually present in the\nimage metadata.<\/p>\n\n<p>(Actually, Lightroom doesn't display this particular field even if it is\npresent in the image; I've submitted this bug to Adobe.)<\/p><\/li>\n\n<li><p>Lightroom does not generally show metadata from the &#8220;Maker's Notes&#8221;\nsection of metadata placed by many cameras. For example, Nikon cameras place\nthe distance to the subject, if known, into the Exif &#8220;Subject Distance&#8221; field\nof JPG images it creates, but for NEF (raw) images, Nikon puts that data only\ninto the Maker's Notes. Thus, Lightroom does show the subject-distance field\nfor Nikon JPGs that have it, but not for Nikon NEFs that have it.<\/p>\n\n     <!--TECH-->\n<div class=\"robots-nocontent\" style=\"border: 2px solid #FF8080;\n            float: right;\n            padding: 0 1em 1em 1em;\n            margin: 10px 0 1em 1em;\n            display: inline;\">\n<p style='white-space: nowrap'><b>My Tech-Related Photography Posts<\/b><\/p>\n<ul style='margin:0; font-size:80%'>\n  <li><a href='\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/ipad-howto2'>My Lightroom-to-iPad Workflow<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href='\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/'>Lightroom Goodies<\/a> (lots of plugins)<\/li>\n  <li><a href='\/blog\/photo-tech\/color-spaces-page1\/'>Digital Image Color Spaces<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href='\/blog\/other-writings\/online-exif-image-data-viewer\/'>Online Exif (Image Data) Viewer<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href='\/blog\/photo-tech\/focus-chart\/'>Jeffrey's Autofocus Test Chart<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href='\/blog\/photo-tech\/calendar\/'>Photoshop Calendar-Template-Building Script<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href='\/blog\/lightroom-goodies\/ipad-howto'>How to Prepare Photos for an iPad<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href='\/blog\/photo-tech\/nef-compression\/'>A Qualitative Analysis of NEF Compression<\/a><\/li>\n  <li><a href='\/blog\/2007-08-24\/554'>Tripod Stability Tests<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style='font-size:85%; margin:10px 0 0 0'><a href=\"\/blog\/photo-tech\/\">more<\/a>...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!--\/TECH-->\n\n\n<p>\n\n(On an odd but encouraging note, Lightroom does pick up the Lens\ninformation from Nikon raw files.)<\/p><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class='h1'><a name='colophon'>Colophon<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"\/blog\/2007-02-20\/386#colophon\">colophon\nfor the first version<\/a> tells how this project came about.<\/p>\n\n<p>This project was made much easier to develop by the\n<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/yui\/\">Yahoo! User Interface Library<\/a>,\nand two\n<a class='quiet'\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/\">Firefox<\/a> extensions: the most\nexcellent <a href=\"http:\/\/karmatics.com\/aardvark\/\">Aardvark<\/a> and\nmind-blowingly-supreme <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.getfirebug.com\/\">Firebug<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>It was a lot of work just to get this application working in <span class='nobr'>a\nfirst<\/span>-class browser like Firefox, not to mention then getting it to work in\nIE. <span class='nobr'>I hope you<\/span>'ll find that it was worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in my previous post, Adobe has just released <b>Lightroom 1.1<\/b>, a free upgrade to their wonderful photo-workflow application. 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