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I’m a geek that likes taking photos, tinkering with computers, and writing code. This blog takes all of those and fuses them up into one.
Oh, and I’m an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom convert so most of my photo software tips will involve it in some way.
Hi,
I like your idea for creating a Smart collection in the article “Working with a Wedding Client’s Photo Selects in Lightroom 2”. I myself created a python program which queries the SQLite database of Lightroom for all images which have no sharping applied to them. I already had the SQL script. Now I can easy get all selected images in Lightroom via the Smart collection.
Great idea!
Greetings,
Dick
the Netherlands
I will gladly buy you a beer AND a coffee if you can help me get my Lightroom/Client Response gallery working properly!!!!! I am using Yahoo hosting for my website. The response form completes but the email never shows up. I know nothing about code, just trying to get this one page running Feel free to e-mail me. Thanks!
Jeff
USA
Jeff, sounds like all my Christmases will come at once! 🙂
If Yahoo hosting supports PHP it should work. My guess is you haven’t customised the FormToEmail.php file. When you installed Matt’s TTGClientResponseGallery.lrwebengine directory it contains a file FormToEmail.php. Open it up, search for the string “$my_email” then replace the sample email address to the right of the equals sign with your email address. Next time you deploy a client response gallery it will know to send the email to you.
For your already deployed Client Response web gallery you can fix it using the same approach. Search for “$my_email” in the FormToEmail.php file and fix that variable’s value.
If you have already customised that file then let me know.
Hey, thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I have already modified the FormToEmail.php file with my email address per the instructions with the gallery. Ive double and triple checked that I did it right, everything appears to be correct. Thinking I may have messed up the .php file, I even downloaded a fresh one of those a couple of times and modified then deployed, Still no luck.
@Jeff, Sorry for the delay. Thought I had replied to this.
I noticed that the author had similar concerns re Yahoo’s PHP support when you posted this question on Lightroom Forums. Don’t really have much advice I can offer without having more indepth awareness of your circumstances. Hopefully you have self resolved this and the delay won’t have impacted you too much.
If it would be possible could you please help me. should i buy elements 8 vs lightroom. I am a good amature photographer but a little slow on enhancement software. i currently have elements 4 and aperture 1.2
If you can help I would appreciate it
@Flora, This really is a personal decision based upon what you are trying to achieve. Photoshop Elements has guided modes and wizards that might be able to help you through the edits you want to make, but if you need to go beyond that the complexity ramps up rather quickly. Lightroom doesn’t provide that kind of hand holding but it does have some auto develop settings and third party presets that can improve your photos with minimal knowledge on the user’s behalf. So both have ways to help new users become productive quickly.
If you shoot RAW or might want to shoot RAW at some time in the future, and don’t need to create composite images from multiple separate source files, then I’d try Lightroom first. Best bet is to download a free trial of Lightroom (free for 30 days) and see if you can come to grips with it. There is a free trial for Photoshop Elements as well (but it is a much larger download) so it is easy enough to try both and see which suits you best.
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I will add a contact page so people don’t need to resort to a comment on the about page to make this type of request in future. For future reference I am open to requests for coding work.