Comments on: Simple Metadata Entry Plugin for Lightroom 2 Updated (Version 20090310.002)

By: Bradley Thomson

Bradley Thomson — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 02:20:24 +0000

Flickr is really a great way to share photos on the net, the photo resizing feature of Flickr is what i like`,”

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:13:18 +0000

@John, After you download the file you need to unzip it using your preferred zip program. When unzipping the file you need to make sure the “create folders” option (or equivalent) is selected and the metadata-tagsets.lrplugin directory will be created when unzipping the file. This directory is what you need to ask the Plug-in Manager to Add when installing. You can store that directory where ever you want on the hard drive, just don’t move it or you will need to go through the Plug-In Manager Add step again.

By: John

John — Sun, 16 May 2010 20:50:40 +0000

Can’t see the downloaded file, metadata-tagsets.lrplugin, when I try to install the plug-in file per the directions here, so I get an installation error. Where should I be permanently storing your plug-in file?

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:54:10 +0000

@Adrian, I’m sure I had a good reason for calling it this when I posted just can’t remember what that was. Will change it when I get a chance.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:03:10 +0000

when you say “token”, do you mean “metadata field?”
I keep picking up this site in searches for using tokens to automate data entry in the lightroom metadata template or sync metadata form.

What I want to do is to use a token Eg. {filenamebase} (taken from PhotoMechanic) to enter the filename of the image into the Title field.
Your usage of the word conflicts with the adobe description, Friedl’s description and countless others. Be great if you could clarify and save people wasting their time. BTW great looking plugin! Kind regards.

By: Mark Denovich

Mark Denovich — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:08:38 +0000

@Matt, Yeah, I found exiftool shortly after I posted my comment. I think you are right that it is the way to go…

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:13:47 +0000

@Bob, Good suggestion. Jeffrey’s plugins have all sorts of great features so it is worth checking his Flickr one to see if it can be used for full metadata synching instead of that single field.

@Sean, as you have noted the biggest problem could end up being the Flickr and local files have different file names making it difficult to match the original and online copies. If you can work around this then Transporter could be a good option. Otherwise Mark could remove a layer of complexity but performing this whole task outside of Lightroom using ExifTool ( http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ ). Granted the ExifTool syntax can be quite intricate but it is the only tool I know of that might be able to work around file naming mismatch issues.

@Mark, Unless Jeffrey’s Flickr plugin can sync the metadata for you I’d suggest you keep Lightroom out of the equation. It (with Transporter’s assistance) wouldn’t be acting as anything other than a glorified UI for ExifTool. This is really a “Flickr metadata to local files” type of problem, with Lightroom picking up the metadata from the files when it imports them. Googling “flickr metadata download” found the following tool: http://www.codeplex.com/FlickrMetadataSynchr . If you are a Windows user then it looks like it could be the answer you are looking for.

By: Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:10:49 +0000

That’s true, but he has not provided a way to download the metadata from Flickr and back into Lightroom…

By: Robert J. Rockefeller

Robert J. Rockefeller — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:52:20 +0000

Look into Jeffery’s Flickr export plug it. It has the ability to compare capture dates of images in your library to those on Flickr and then set his metadata field to show it as a Flickr upload.

http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/flickr

Bob

By: Sean Phillips

Sean Phillips — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:48:22 +0000

Mark,

Check out LR/Transporter from Timothy Armes. I haven’t used it yet but it has the ability to move metadata in and out of Lightroom, including importing data from a CSV file.

http://www.timothyarmes.com/lrtransporter.php?PHPSESSID=cc65414bce55822e54ab1800ffe35966

I assume that your images in Flickr are not the original size, resolution, etc. and that therefore Matt’s suggestion isn’t idial for you.

So I suspect you will have to do a multistep process:
1. download your images from Flickr
2. importing them into Lightroom
3. use transporter to export the metdata from the Flickr pics to a CSV file
4. use transporter to import the metadata back into Lightroom for the originals

There’s another step in there to ensure that the file names from the flikr pics and the originals will sync up, but I’m not exactly sure how you do that…

Good luck!