Aside from the obvious usefulness of what I call “Bulk Snapshot” ability to apply snapshots to multiple photos at once. The most important aspect is the time saved when using it to essentially “Lock” a group of imported or edited photos by adding the protection of saving a desired edited or original state in case the photo gets accidentally altered. Some might wonder how an accident could occur, but they will soon learn the first time they forget to disable or turn off Auto Sync or don’t notice that more than one photo was selected when they make an edit. I am really surprised Adobe has not implemented a “Lock” feature yet, but your Snapshotter has saved me… Thanks!

See: http://forums.adobe.com/message/3389843#3389843
and: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/775011

As you’ve noted I haven’t added that feature yet. In fact Snapshotter hasn’t really received much attention in a while, partly because there hasn’t been much feedback around it. Now you’ve reminded me of this feature request I’ll see what I can do.

In a previous reply you mentioned what I was planning to ask about where you said; “Having naming presets is a feature I want to add but have a few other plugin development tasks I’m trying to complete first.”… That is a great idea and is one I would really appreciate. It is cool that the plugin remembers the last snapshot name, but to promote consistency in names and keep things clean, it would be nice to have a drill down list of saved user assigned snapshot names such as “Original”, “Dust Removed”, “Processed”, etc.

I recommend Snapshotter to everyone, as in my last post here – http://www.lightroomforums.net/showthread.php?9158-Lock-a-photo-from-any-changes&highlight=snapshotter

I will be happy to do an extra followup donation if (when) we get the ability to add saved user names for our snapshots.

I only recently found out I couldn’t make snapshots of multiple images at once and thought this would be a very good feature as I often re-edit images days, weeks or even months after finishing an edit.

I got to your plugin from Sean McCormacks post here: http://www.pixiq.com/article/5lightroommyths

I’m sure that I’ll use it once I get to grips with it.

Thanks,
Matty

The painter or dragging and dropping images (or vica versa) features are not currently available to plugins. If you are on Windows you can use keyboard shortcuts to access the plugin though.

I was led to your site and the Snapshotter plug-in by Ian Lyons when he replied to my post in Adobe Forums > Lightroom> Feature Request: Create Snapshot for Multiple Images http://forums.adobe.com/message/3387657#3387657

It looks like this is going to be perfect. You might wonder what my need is so here is an example:

The reason we want this?
Here is a good example of a common scenario:

Relatively speaking, it takes a lot of time to create a snapshot of several images. If (as in my situation) a person is editing several 5 shot auto bracketed images to be used for HDR there are some edits such as spot removal (Dust spots) that are performed by selecting each 5 shot group of images and using Sync to remove the dust spots on all 5. At the moment this step is performed all 5 images of the Synced operation are still selected. It would be a big time saver to have the ability to do a snapshot of all these images at one time. I consider my “Dust Spot Removed” snapshot important in this example, because that is the first stage of edit for these images that I want to use as a initial point of reference before other edits. In this scenario; you may have removed the dust spots from 100 images and want to select all, then apply a snapshot. I can think of several ways it would work well.

I think it would be cool to be able to apply a pre-named snapshot to your images at any point via the painter or via dragging and dropping either the selected images to the snapshot or vice versa.

I will get this installed and if it works as it seems I will be happy to “Buy you a beer or a coffee”… I’ll donate.

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Bud

Certainly is great to be able to create Snapshots for multiple images. Thanks a lot! I have a question, would it be possible to implement a feature that works un the other direction? What I mean is to delete a specific named snapshot for multiple images. Due some issues with my HD and my Catalogue conversion from LR2 to LR3 I had to re-import the images on LR2 and now I end having “Import 2″ and even “Import 3″ Snapshots in all my pictures.

Cheers,
Mario