Comments on: Working with a Wedding Client’s Photo Selects in Lightroom 2

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 11:26:07 +0000

@Tom, I hadn’t even considered that option and to the best of my knowledge no one has tried it. I’d be happy for Matt to add it into his galleries but he has never mentioned it. Either Matt would need to add it into the main gallery code or end users patch it after it was deployed. The latter would be beyond the skills of many of Matt’s users so I’m not sure whether he would encourage that.

If you do give it a go please let us know the results. There is no rocket science involved in what I’ve done so it should be easy enough to replicate in other languages.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:05:55 +0000

Has anyone tackled, or considered, using the ttgclient.pl from within the PHP code for the web gallery? I am starting to look into having the client gallery selections sent in the “decoded” format where I can run a MAC script to process through email/lightroom on the fly.
Seems like a logical step, but has anyone already gone down this path with any success?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:34:16 +0000

@Allan, Thanks!

And for those that are interested I now have access to a Mac so finally might be able to work through the Mac specific script issues.

By: Allan

Allan — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 21:45:20 +0000

Only to thank you Matt, this is incredibly useful script, fixing the only setback that the ttgClientResponse gallery have

By: Klaus

Klaus — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 19:31:31 +0000

Hi Matt, thanks for sharing this helpful script. I saved a lot of time with it…

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:15:22 +0000

@Robert, It creates multiple Smart Collections by design. I’d suggest the best option is for you to select all items in the new Smart Collection, then add them to a regular Collection you create to store the client selects. Once you have done this you can delete the Smart Collection created by the script. This way you can add all of the selects for the client to a single Collection and have complete control over the order in which they appear.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:26:10 +0000

Matt,
Great script, very helpful. Here’s my question: If I receive more than one email from a client with picks, LR2 creates a new Smart Collection for each import. Is this by design, user error on my part, and if not, is there some way to modify the script so that it will import (i.e. append current) the already created smart collection?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:41:34 +0000

An updated version of the script has been released, adding support for TTG Highslide galleries and working around the file renaming bug in Lightroom 2. The new home page for the script is here: http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/ttgclient/

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:49:07 +0000

@Raimund, Glad you found it useful.

I have a mostly complete revision of this script that has a “safe” mode which works around the need to revise naming schemes. Downside is that it has to be more lax in its checking, so could return photos what weren’t actually selected by the client. If any of you are interested please let me know and I’ll finish and publish it ASAP.

As an aside, I’m pretty sure they have fixed this little bug in the LR3 beta so the TTG galleries (and the others, for that matter) should no longer have this problem. Will double check and make sure.

By: Raimund

Raimund — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:30:29 +0000

Thank You for the usefull Script.
I too had those ranme Issues which i solved by editing the renaming scheme from – to _

Now it works as it should