{"id":822,"date":"2008-05-23T13:32:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T04:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-05-23\/822"},"modified":"2008-05-23T13:32:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T04:32:15","slug":"new-captioning-for-my-lightroom-plugins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2008-05-23\/822","title":{"rendered":"New Captioning for my Lightroom Plugins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n<\/a>\nA new<\/span> way to caption in my Lightroom plugins<\/span>\n<\/div>\n\n

Photo metadata has evolved a mix of seemingly comparable ways to label a\nphoto.<\/span> Lightroom allows you to enter a “Title”, a “Caption”, and a\n“Headline”, among others, so which should you use when you upload your\nimages to an online photo-hosting service? That depends, of course, on how\nwhat fields you've entered into Lightroom, what you've entered into them,\nand your goal for the label.<\/p>\n\n

My plugins for Adobe Lightroom that allow you to export photos to online\nphoto-hosting services (for:  Zenfolio<\/a>\n · <\/span> SmugMug<\/a>\n ·  Flickr<\/a>\n ·  Picasa\nWeb<\/a> )<\/span> allow for a simple<\/span> selection from among the main\nlabeling metadata fields, but I knew<\/span> early on that it wasn't powerful\nenough for some people's captioning needs, so while I've been working on\nthe Lightroom 2.0<\/span> versions of my plugins for the last many months, I built<\/span> a new<\/span> and powerful way for the plugin user to specify how the plugin should\nconstruct the captions that it sends to the photo-hosting service.<\/p>\n\n

I've gone ahead and grafted that support back into the 1.x plugins\n(which should also work on the 2.0 beta) for Zenfolio and SmugMug as a\ntest.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

The new captioning method allows you to create templates that mix free\ntext and metadata tokens, and to build up those templates into a personal<\/span>\nlist of captioning presets.<\/p>\n\n

I describe the template system here:\n\nPreset Templates in my Lightroom Plugins<\/a><\/p>\n\n

Because this template system was developed originally for the\nas-yet-unreleased Lightroom 2.0,<\/span> they haven't gotten much general-public\ntesting, so the UI might be a bit<\/span> awkward (so I'm looking for\ncomments\/suggestions that might make it better.)<\/p>\n\n

Also, be aware that the list of template tokens may change from release\nto release. It's been suggested<\/span> that it would be better for the tokens to\nbe case-insensitive, which means, for example, that I'd have to rename\ntokens like {yyyy}<\/tt> and {YYYY}<\/tt> (the current year, and the\nyear the photo was taken, respectively).<\/p>\n\n

For now, the new captioning system is optional, so these new versions\nshould continue to work fine for those not wishing to try the new one. I\nhope.<\/span> We'll see.<\/p>\n\n

If things go well, I'll graft this into my Flickr and PicasaWeb plugins as well.<\/p>\n\n

Latest versions are here:  \nplugin for Zenfolio<\/a>\n ·  plugin for SmugMug<\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo metadata has evolved a mix of seemingly comparable ways to label a photo. Lightroom allows you to enter a \"Title\", a \"Caption\", and a \"Headline\", among others, so which should you use when you upload your images to an online photo-hosting service? That depends, of course, on how what fields you've entered into Lightroom, what you've entered into them, and your goal for the label.<\/p>

My plugins for Adobe Lightroom that allow you to export photos to online photo-hosting services (for:  Zenfolio   -   SmugMug   -   Flickr   -   Picasa Web ) allow for a [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}