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

Another quick update. If it wasn’t already clear I have “Automatically write changes into XMP” enabled (I know this slows things down but I’m more interested in protecting my changes than LR being snappy). I also checked and the Lightroom previews folder was being indexed by my Win7 indexer. I doubt the previews were actively involved in the snapshot process, but even so this would seem like a bad idea and I’ve removed the Pictures\Lighroom folder from the indexer.

Cheers,
James

I’m running LR 3.2 x64 on Win7 x64. No disk encryption and whilst Win7 has a built in search engine I am not indexing the image folders (but maybe it’s indexing the Lightroom previews? will check). Image wise it’s a bit of a mix, I’ve got ~4000 JPGs from a Canon S1is (~1MB each), ~5000 JPGs from a Canon 350D (2MB-5MB each), ~3000 JPGs from a Canon 40D (2MB-5MB) and ~8000 RAWs from the Canon 40D (~12MB each). I initially selected all ~20000 images and used the plugin (probably overly optimistic). This crashed and seemed to only have written to the first few thousand… LR did not seem to be attempting to access my disk so I narrowed my selection to only the RAW images (the ones I most wanted to protect anyway) and applied the plugin just to those 8000. After a little while LR crashed again but this time when I restarted it it continued to write changes to disk. Interestingly, when I restarted LR and checked the status of my images it said it had NOT created a snapshot for most of them, but then continued to update them in the background and when I checked later they did have snapshots. LR crashed again without my interaction while it continued to write changes to disk so I relaunched yet again and this time it seemed to complete fine (some time later). As far as I can tell all 8000 images have a snapshot but obviously I haven’t checked every one individually.

It’s odd that LR crashed while writing changes to disk even though the “changes” weren’t being displayed within the LR GUI (ie the snapshots didn’t appear to exist). I guess this leaves open the question of whether the crash is caused by the API calls stacking up or the writing to disk overloading.

Happy to elaborate.

Cheers,
James