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		<title>The Easy Way to Create Snapshots in Lightroom 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Snapshotter plugin adds an easy way to take advantage of Lightroom’s snapshot feature, creating permanent records of develop settings for all selected images.<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/easily-create-lightroom-3-snapshots/">The Easy Way to Create Snapshots in Lightroom 3</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SnapshotterCreatedSnapshotAnnotated.png"><img title="Snapshotter Created Snapshot" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="323" alt="Snapshotter Created Snapshot" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SnapshotterCreatedSnapshotAnnotated_thumb.png" width="204" border="0" /></a> Lightroom’s snapshot feature is a great way to create a permanent record of the current develop settings for an image.&#160; You can record multiple snapshots against a single image, storing the different interpretations you made while developing it and allowing them to be recalled at the click of a mouse.&#160; These snapshots are accessible in both Lightroom’s Develop module and Photoshop’s Camera Raw plugin making it a powerful and efficient way to communicate settings between the two tools.</p>
<p>I’ve recently created a <a title="Snapshotter Lightroom Plugin Homepage" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/snapshotter/">Snapshotter plugin</a> for Lightroom 3 that allows you to bulk create Lightroom snapshots while within the Library module. Lightroom’s interface will only let you create snapshots from within the Develop module, one image at a time.&#160; This is fine if you are using snapshots only for recording creative interpretations of an image but is too restrictive when considering other uses for snapshots such as:</p>
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<li>Creating snapshots to identify the exact develop settings used when printing, exporting or publishing a group of images (e.g. creating a FlickrUpload-20100610 snapshot for all images uploaded to Flickr on that date) </li>
<li>Converting virtual copies back to snapshots so all interpretations of the master image are stored in a way accessible from Photoshop. </li>
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<p>Personally I create virtual copies (VCs) to experiment with different image develop settings and then compare the results side by side.&#160; Once I’ve chosen the best I’ll create snapshots for each of the VCs worth keeping, then delete the VCs, because all of those snapshots are actually stored against the master image so will not be deleted.&#160; This is also a great approach for dealing with multiple crop sizes for the same image.&#160; My family have three different sized digital photo frames in use and converting VCs to snapshots is a great way to ensure this doesn’t clog my catalog with more thumbnails than truly necessary.</p>
<p><img title="Snapshotter Plug-In Extras menu item" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="44" alt="Snapshotter Plug-In Extras menu item" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SnapshotterMenuItem1.png" width="468" border="0" /> <a href="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SnapshotterDialog1.png"><img title="Snapshotter plugin main dialog" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="251" alt="Snapshotter plugin main dialog" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/SnapshotterDialog_thumb1.png" width="304" border="0" /></a>The <a title="Snapshotter Lightroom Plugin Homepage" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/snapshotter/">Snapshotter plugin</a> assists the snapshot creation process by adding a new <strong>Create Snapshot(s) from Images</strong> menu item to the <strong>File –&gt; Plug-in Extras</strong> menu.&#160; Selecting this opens a dialog allowing configuration of the snapshot name to be used, and the option to restrict snapshot creation to virtual copies only, when creating snapshots for all selected photos.&#160; The snapshot naming function currently supports one substitution variable:</p>
<p><strong>{CopyName}</strong>&#160;&#160;&#160; Virtual Copy name</p>
<p>that will be replaced with the relevant metadata from each image.&#160; Information about how this and the other elements of the dialog operate are described in the online help accessible using the button labelled with a question mark (?).</p>
<p>Please leave a comment below to let us know how you use Lightroom’s snapshot feature, and how the <a title="Snapshotter Lightroom Plugin Homepage" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/snapshotter/" target="_blank">Snapshotter plugin</a> helps this or could be improved to help it more.</p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/downloads/7" title="Snapshotter Lightroom Plugin download">Download the latest Snapshotter Lightroom Plugin version here (1.03)</a></p>
<p align="center">Released as &quot;donationware&quot;. If you use this plugin a donation via this page or the plugin entry in Lightroom’s Plugin Manager would be appreciated.</p>
<p align="center"><strong>Requires Lightroom version 3 or greater</strong>. <a title="Lightroom Extras" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/" target="_blank">Installation instructions here.</a></p>
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<p>&#160;</p>
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		<title>Spend More Time Writing and Less Time Debugging Lightroom Plugins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find out how my new Test Harness plugin helps Lightroom developers spend more time coding and less time fighting bugs.<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/writing-lightroom-plugins-test-harness/">Spend More Time Writing and Less Time Debugging Lightroom Plugins</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are a Lightroom plugin developer you need to try my new <a title="Test Harness plugin homepage" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/test-harness/">Test Harness</a> plugin.&#160; Why?&#160; It will save you time.</p>
<p><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/TestHarnessLRPlugin01a.png"><img title="Script Test Harness plugin dialog" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="194" alt="Script Test Harness plugin dialog" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/TestHarnessLRPlugin01a_thumb.png" width="304" border="0" /></a>It immediately shows the impact of code changes as you make them.&#160; This might not sound like a big deal at first, but when hunting tenacious bugs the repeated interruption of reloading a plugin and restarting its test scenario is disruptive.&#160; You can now test code by making a change in your favourite text editor, saving the file, and hitting the <strong>Run</strong> button.&#160; Contrast that with the additional steps of opening the <strong>Plugin Manager</strong>, reloading your plugin, closing the <strong>Plugin Manager</strong>, and invoking the plugin to start the test again and you will get a sense of how much simpler your coding sessions can become.</p>
<p>The <a title="Test Harness plugin homepage" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/test-harness/">Test Harness</a> provides a framework for managing and running individual LUA scripts.&#160; This makes it possible to write small, single purpose scripts to focus in on a new feature you are experimenting with or a bug you are trying to squash.&#160; Without the <a title="Test Harness plugin homepage" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/test-harness/" target="_blank">Test Harness</a> you either need to experiment directly within the plugin under development, trying not to get distracted by or trip over code extraneous to the task at hand, or write your own test plugin to host the code&#160; Either way you end up losing time that would be better spent adding features to your latest masterpiece.</p>
<p>Need help with a particularly thorny coding issue?&#160; One click and the <a title="Test Harness plugin homepage" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/test-harness/">Test Harness</a> will turn your script into a plugin you can zip up and post to one of the online communities for developers.&#160; This makes it easier to give <a title="Adobe&#39;s Lightroom SDK forum" href="http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom/lightroom_sdk?view=discussions&amp;start=0" target="_blank">Lightroom SDK forum</a> members, Lightroom Forums <a title="Lightroom Forums&#39; Lightroom Plugin Discussion" href="http://www.lightroomforums.net/index.php?board=48.0" target="_blank">Plugin Discussion</a> members, or even <a title="Adobe&#39;s Feature Request/Bug Report Form" href="http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform" target="_blank">Adobe’s supporter staff</a> a simple and self-contained demonstration of the issue you are working on.&#160; When asking someone to lend you a hand make it easy for them to give you what you want.</p>
<p>Those are just some of the reasons I invested the time to write the <a title="Test Harness plugin homepage" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/test-harness/">Test Harness</a> plugin.&#160; It has already paid me back for the development time I’ve put into it, and with a <a title="Adobe Labs - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3" href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/" target="_blank">new version of Lightroom (and an updated SDK) just around the corner</a> I’m confident it will end up paying for itself many times over.&#160; I’m sharing it with other Lightroom developers in the hope it will help you spend less time fighting bugs and more time extending the functionality of a great product!</p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/downloads/6" title="Test Harness Lightroom Plugin download">Download the latest Test Harness Lightroom Plugin version here (20100216.006)</a></p>
<p align="center">Released under the <a title="Licenses - GNU GPL, GNU LGPL, GNU FDL, General Public License, Lesser General Public License, Free Documentation License, List of Free Software Licenses" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(&#39;/outbound/article/www.gnu.org&#39;);" href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" target="_blank">GNU GPL version 3 license</a>.&#160; <a title="Lightroom Extras" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/" target="_blank">Installation instructions here.</a></p>
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		<title>New Plugin Brings Lightroom and Photoshop Elements Together At Last</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photoshop has always enjoyed preferential treatment as an external editor for Lightroom. My Elemental plugin gives similar access to Photoshop Elements.<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/elemental-lightroom-photoshop-elements-plugin/">New Plugin Brings Lightroom and Photoshop Elements Together At Last</a></p>
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<p align="center"><strong><u>Update:</u> A newer version of this plugin is now available.&#160; <br />Please visit the </strong><a title="Elemental Lightroom plugin home page" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/elemental/" target="_blank"><strong>Elemental plugin page</strong></a><strong> to download the latest version, and find the latest documentation for the plugin.</strong> </p>
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<p>&#160;</p>
<p>Lightroom’s non-destructive editing capabilities support most of my digital photography workflow needs.&#160; I rarely need to resort to external tools to edit my photos, but rarely is not quite the same as never.&#160; There will always be some situations where Lightroom needs a little help.&#160; For me stitching together panoramas, correcting lens distortion and correcting perspective issues are the main culprits.</p>
<p>Before Lightroom I was a Photoshop Elements (PSE) 6 user.&#160; I had been hoping to completely migrate away from it and remove it from my system, but I still keep it around as an external editor to pair with Lightroom.&#160; I’d love to be able to splash out and use Photoshop instead but as I’m only a hobbyist I simply can’t afford it.&#160; An upsell version (from PSE) of Photoshop CS4 would <a title="Adobe Store - Australia - Adobe Photoshop CS4" href="https://store3.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?event=displayProduct&amp;categoryOID=2014540&amp;store=OLS-AU" target="_blank">cost me over $1200 AUD at the Adobe store</a>.&#160; That’s a lot of money for a piece of software I would rarely need to use, especially when my couple year old version of PSE does everything I really need at a fraction of the price.&#160; My photography would benefit more from me investing that cash in a brand new Nikon DSLR camera body, lens or flash than a software upgrade.</p>
<p><img title="Standard Lightroom Photo Edit In Menu" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="126" alt="Standard Lightroom Photo Edit In Menu" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ElementalLRPlugin07.png" width="592" border="0" /><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ElementalLRPlugin08.png"><img title="Standard Lightroom External Edit Preset" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="244" alt="Standard Lightroom External Edit Preset" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ElementalLRPlugin08_thumb.png" width="179" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p>One of the things I’m missing by not using Photoshop is tighter integration between my external editor and Lightroom itself.&#160; The Lightroom <strong>Photo-&gt;Edit In </strong>menu contains a number of entries (see above) that allow you to work with files in Photoshop CS3 (or later), launching directly into the desired feature without having to render those files first.&#160; This would not only speed up my editing process but also reduce the need to waste CPU cycles rendering files that will only be discarded later anyway.&#160; With Photoshop Elements my only option is to use the standard external editor feature which doesn’t allow me to launch directly into the PSE feature I’m planning to use.</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
<p><img title="Elemental Lightroom Plugin Menu Extras" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: block; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border-right-width: 0px" height="91" alt="Elemental Lightroom Plugin Menu Extras" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ElementalLRPlugin01.png" width="536" border="0" /></p>
<p>My new <a title="Elemental Lightroom Plugin" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/elemental/" target="_blank">Elemental</a> plugin resolves these issues.&#160; It adds 5 new menu items to the <strong>File –&gt; Plug-in Extras</strong> and <strong>Library –&gt; Plug-In Extras</strong> menus, emulating the integration available to users of the full Photoshop product.&#160; This includes letting the user select photos and launch them directly into the Photomerge dialog, or open them as Smart Objects (a feature Adobe doesn’t advertise is available in PSE).&#160; It even adds some new options for good measure, namely <strong>Remove Lens Distortion </strong>and the ability to directly <strong>Open </strong>in PSE.&#160; And it does this all while avoiding the <strong>Camera Raw </strong>dialog which should be redundant given your <strong>Develop </strong>module edits in Lightroom.&#160; The only feature I couldn’t reproduce was <strong>Merge to HDR in Photoshop</strong> because PSE does not have a matching feature.&#160; By all reports the HDR generated by Photoshop was of limited usefulness so I doubt many would miss it anyway.</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>When you first try to use one of these menu options the plugin will attempt to locate your installation of Photoshop Elements.&#160; If you have used the default install location the plugin shouldn’t require any configuration.&#160; If it can’t find PSE then it will open a dialog asking you to locate the PSE editor before you continue. </p>
<p>There are also a few other dialogs you may see during regular operation. </p>
<p>First is a reminder to save your files before opening in PSE.&#160; Saving your metadata (<strong>Ctrl + S</strong>, or <strong>Cmd + S</strong>) writes the Lightroom edits to the photo or XMP sidecar making them available to other applications.&#160; If you don’t save your files first PSE will show the initial, unedited image which is unlikely to be what you intended.&#160; Once you’ve gotten into the habit of saving before opening you can configure the warning to not show again. </p>
<p>Next is a warning that displays if one of the selected photos is a virtual copy.&#160; Virtual copies do not have a dedicated, matching image file so you can’t save the metadata to the file or sidecar and they can’t be opened in PSE.&#160; For virtual copies you will be given the option of opening the master file instead, or ignoring the virtual copies entirely.&#160; Once again the dialog can be set to not show again if you have a preferred option you will always use whenever virtual copies are selected.</p>
<p>The last dialog is one you will only see if you use the plugin for more than 3 weeks and it will only show once.&#160; Its a “buy me a beer” donation request.&#160; I’ve put a fair amount of work into this plugin (including learning a new programming language) to make Photoshop Elements do things its not supposed to be able to do, and to work not only on Windows but also the Mac platform.&#160; I’m hoping you will find my plugin useful enough that you would consider saying thanks in a liquid fashion.&#160; If you are extra keen you don’t even have to wait for the 3 week reminder.&#160; You can donate (and update the configuration) at any time by opening the <strong>Elemental</strong> entry in <strong>File –&gt; Plugin Manager </strong>dialog.</p>
<p>I hope you find this plugin useful and as always please leave comments below if you have any feedback you would like to offer.&#160; I’d also like to send out a big thank you to <a title="Rusticolus Images Blog" href="http://blog.rusticolus.co.uk/" target="_blank">Mark over at Rusticolus Images</a> who quite patiently tested the plugin on OSX and helped me iron out a number of rather large kinks on that platform!</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
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		<title>Config Backup Plugin Updated&#8230; To Backup More Configuration Settings (Version 20090606.002)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new release of the Config Backup Lightroom plugin (version 20090606.002) extends the backup to include presets, templates and other configuration details.<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/config-backup-plugin-update-20090606-002/">Config Backup Plugin Updated&hellip; To Backup More Configuration Settings (Version 20090606.002)</a></p>
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<p align="center"><strong><u>Update:</u> A newer version of this plugin is now available.&#160; <br />Please visit the </strong><a title="LR Backup Lightroom plugin home page" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/lr-backup/" target="_blank"><strong>LR Backup plugin page</strong></a><strong> (formerly Config Backup) to download the latest version, and find the latest documentation for the plugin.</strong> </p>
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<p>My recently released <strong><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/lr-backup/">backup</a></strong> plugin helps you backup your Lightroom configuration files and compress Lightroom generated catalog backup files.&#160; To access these features you use one of the new menu items it adds to the <strong>File</strong> menu’s <strong>Plug-in Extras</strong> sub-menu.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Customisable Configuration Backups</strong> – Allows you to customise and manually trigger the backup and compression processes </li>
<li><strong>1-Click Configuration Backup </strong>– Immediately backs up the Lightroom configuration files and Catalog backups using your previously configured settings, and optionally displays the results of the backup process. </li>
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<p>Due to the vagaries of my own personal experience, namely recent Blue Screens Of Death that corrupted my Lightroom preferences file, I focused on backing up that file and forgot to include presets, plugins and other important pieces of the Lightroom configuration information.&#160; The latest release will now backup all of these and more.</p>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/downloads/1" title="LR Backup Lightroom Plugin download">Download the latest LR Backup Lightroom Plugin version here (1.07)</a>.</p>
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<p>&#160;</p>
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		<title>The Quick Way to Reclaim Disk Space and Backup Your Lightroom Configuration</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 13:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quickly reclaim disk space and backup your Lightroom preferences using my new Config Backup plugin.  It supports both manual and 1-click backup methods.<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/reclaim-disk-space-backup-lightroom-config/">The Quick Way to Reclaim Disk Space and Backup Your Lightroom Configuration</a></p>
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<p align="center"><strong><u>Update:</u> A newer version of this plugin is now available.&#160; <br />Please visit the </strong><a title="LR Backup Lightroom plugin home page" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/lr-backup/" target="_blank"><strong>LR Backup plugin page</strong></a><strong> (formerly Config Backup) to download the latest version, and find the latest documentation for the plugin.</strong> </p>
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<p>It is vital that every Adobe Photoshop Lightroom user backup their catalog and configuration files.&#160; If you don’t and your catalog gets corrupted, the results of all the time and effort you invested retouching your photos disappears.&#160; While you can use the “Automatically write changes into XMP” setting to work around the catalog corruption issue you will suffer a performance penalty for enabling it.&#160; Most find its easier to use Lightroom’s built in capability to regularly backup your catalog.</p>
<p>One obvious downside of backing up is the increased consumption of disk.&#160; For example my backups for a ~10000 photo catalog are around 220Mb each.&#160; Multiply that by 52 backups a year and 11Gb of my laptop’s limited disk capacity is spent on something I’ll hopefully never need to use.&#160; Compressing each backup is an effective way to combat this, and in my experience catalogs zip to approximately 10% of their original size, but it is yet another task you need to undertake to keep disk space under control. </p>
<p><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/configbackuplrplugin018.png"><img title="ConfigBackupLRPlugin018" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="25" alt="ConfigBackupLRPlugin018" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/configbackuplrplugin018-thumb.png" width="244" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>I’ve developed a <strong><a title="LR Backup Plugin" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/lr-backup/" target="_blank">backup</a></strong> plugin to help speed up and simplify backing up and compressing Lightroom files.&#160; It adds two new menu items to the <strong>File</strong> menu’s <strong>Plug-in Extras</strong> sub-menu.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Customisable Configuration Backups</strong> – Allows you to customise and manually trigger the backup and compression processes </li>
<li><strong>1-Click Configuration Backup </strong>– Immediately backs up the Lightroom Preferences File and Catalog backups using your previously configured settings, and optionally displays the results of the backup process. </li>
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<p><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/configbackuplrplugin023.png"><img title="ConfigBackupLRPlugin023" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="244" alt="ConfigBackupLRPlugin023" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/configbackuplrplugin023-thumb.png" width="218" border="0" /></a></p>
<p>The <strong>Customisable Configuration Backups</strong> menu item calls up the dialog shown to the left.&#160; It allows you to specify where preference file backups should be stored, displays summary details of backups currently found at that location, and to request a new backup be created. </p>
<p>The catalog compression section assumes you are using Lightroom’s inbuilt capability to create catalog backups.&#160; You supply the details of where Lightroom stores those backups, choose a location for the compressed version of those backups, and then request the backups be compressed.&#160; All backups will be compressed into separate zip files named after the catalog and date/time of the backup.&#160; You can also choose to move, rather than copy, the backups into the zip files once you are comfortable everything is working properly.</p>
<p>The <strong>1-Click Configuration Backup </strong>menu item automatically backs up the preferences file and compresses all catalog backups using the preferences last used in the <strong>Customisable Configuration Backups</strong> dialog.&#160; It optionally displays the results using a cutdown version of the main dialog.&#160; If you wish to enable or disable the displaying of the results dialog use the “<strong>Show Results After 1-Click Backup</strong>” option at the bottom of either the Customisable or 1-Click dialogs.</p>
<p>I hope you find this plugin useful and please feel free to share your experiences or suggestions in the comments section below.&#160;&#160; A big thank you goes out to Sean over at the <a title="Lightroom Blog" href="http://lightroom-blog.com/" target="_blank">Lightroom Blog</a> for testing the plugin to ensure it was Mac compatible.</p>
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		<title>Even Lightroom Needs a Power Nap Every Now and Then</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some Lightroom 2 users, especially Web Gallery developers, need to restart frequently to keep performance up. This script makes the restart process even quicker.<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom-power-nap-restart-script/">Even Lightroom Needs a Power Nap Every Now and Then</a></p>
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<p>If you are:</p>
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<li>Sean “<a title="Accessing custom metadata from Web Engine gallery - Lightroom SDK Forum" href="http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.59b683f1/10" target="_blank">I want a restart shortcut key</a>” McCormack, or any other Web Gallery developer for that matter </li>
<li>Scott <a title="Scott Kelby&#39;s Photoshop Insider blog" href="http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/" target="_blank"><em>Photoshop In”sight&quot;er</em></a> Kelby [via <a title="Amanda Kern&#39;s Lightroom 2 Tour Sketch Notes" href="http://vccgraphics.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/lightroom-2-tour-wrap-up-sketchnotes/" target="_blank">Amanda Kern’s “Lightroom 2 Tour” sketch notes</a>): </li>
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<blockquote><p>When something doesn’t work – QUIT! … fixes 99% of problems on Mac</p>
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<li>someone who finds that Lightroom 2’s performance or behavior slowly deteriorates during a work session </li>
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<p>then you already know that Lightroom needs a “power nap” every now and then to get back into&#160; perfect form.&#160;&#160; Restarting the application is a simple, effective, and potentially time saving way to get LR2 back on track so you can process your photos at optimum speed.</p>
<p>Back when Lightroom 2.2 was released the performance degradation issues became frequent enough I wrote a script to speed up the restart process.&#160; While Lightroom 2.3 has resolved the most significant of these issues, I’m still finding I need to restart regularly enough that others might find the script useful too.&#160; When Lightroom really starts to grind it can take minutes to shutdown, and the script allows you to wander off to grab a coffee rather than babysit the restart process.&#160; This should be especially useful for Web Gallery developers who by all reports need to <a title="Accessing custom metadata from Web Engine gallery - Lightroom SDK Forum" href="http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?14@@.59b683f1/10" target="_blank">restart way, way too often</a>.</p>
<h4>Installation</h4>
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<li>Download the script: <a title="LRRelaunch-20090324_001.zip" href="http://thephotogeek.com/download/scripts/LRRelaunch-20090324_001.zip"><strong>LRRelaunch-20090324_001.zip</strong></a> </li>
<li>Open Lightroom 2. </li>
<li>Select <strong>Edit &gt; Preferences &gt; Presets</strong> (Windows) or <strong>Lightroom &gt; Preferences &gt; Presets</strong> (Mac). </li>
<li>Select <strong>Show Lightroom Presets Folder</strong>. </li>
<li>Open the Lightroom folder. If it doesn’t already exist, create a new folder named Scripts inside the Lightroom folder. </li>
<li>Unzip <strong>LRRelaunch-20090324_001.zip</strong> and drag or copy the <strong>LRRelaunch.lua</strong> file into the <strong>Scripts</strong> folder. </li>
<li>Close the Windows Explorer, or Finder window, to return to Lightroom 2. </li>
<li>Exit then reopen Lightroom 2. </li>
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<h4>Usage</h4>
<p><img title="Lightroom Restart script menu item" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="71" alt="Lightroom Restart script menu item" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/lightroompowernaprestartscript.png" width="214" border="0" />When you open Lightroom 2 you should now see a new <strong>Scripts</strong> menu to the right of the existing <strong>Help </strong>menu.&#160; </p>
<p>You can now open the <strong>Scripts</strong> menu and select the <strong>LRRelaunch</strong> menu option to restart Lightroom 2.</p>
<p>I hope you find this script useful and feel free to share your experiences or suggestions in the comments section below.</p>
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		<title>Simple Metadata Entry Plugin for Lightroom 2   Updated (Version 20090310.002)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Metadata Tagset plugin for Lightroom 2 has been updated to version 20090310.002. It includes new tagsets to document SDK and 3rd party plugin metadata fields.<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/metadata-tagset-plugin-update-20090310002/">Simple Metadata Entry Plugin for Lightroom 2   Updated (Version 20090310.002)</a></p>
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<p align="center"><strong><u>Update:</u> A newer version of this plugin is now available.&#160; <br />Please visit the </strong><a title="Metadata Panels Lightroom plugin home page" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/metadata-panels/" target="_blank"><strong>Metadata Panels plugin page</strong></a><strong> to download the latest version, and find the latest documentation for the plugin.</strong> </p>
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<p>My <a href="http://thephotogeek.com/simple-metadata-entry-tagset-plugin-lr2/" target="_blank">Metadata Tagset plugin</a> for Lightroom 2 has been updated.&#160; The new version contains additional tagsets to help document the metadata fields available, including a number of those available in <a title="Jeffrey Friedl&#39;s Lightroom Goodies" href="http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies" target="_blank">popular third party plugins</a>.</p>
<p>The plugin now includes six additional tagsets for use in the Library module:</p>
<p>&#160;</p>
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<td valign="top" width="189"><strong>Default (With Location)</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="411">Extends the standard <strong>‘Default<strong>‘</strong></strong> tagset with additional IPTC location fields</td>
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<td valign="top" width="189"><strong>Location (with Jeffrey&#8217;s GPS Metadata)</strong><font color="#ff0000"><em> [new]</em></font></td>
<td valign="top" width="411">Extends the standard &#8216;Location&quot; tagset with Jeffrey Friedl&#8217;s plugin fields</td>
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<td valign="top" width="189"><strong>LR: All</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="411">A copy of the standard <strong>‘All’</strong> tagset, to demonstrate&#160; available fields.</td>
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<td valign="top" width="189"><strong>LR: SDK</strong> <font color="#ff0000"><em>[new]</em></font></td>
<td valign="top" width="411">Example of all metadata fields currently documented by the LR 2.0 SDK </td>
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<td valign="top" width="189"><strong>Miscellaneous Plugin</strong> <font color="#ff0000"><em>[new]</em></font></td>
<td valign="top" width="411">List of known metadata fields implemented by third party plugin developers </td>
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<td valign="top" width="189"><strong>Undocumented </strong><font color="#ff0000"><em>[new]</em></font>          </td>
<td valign="top" width="411">Lists metadata fields found to work within LR2, but aren&#8217;t documented as part of the SDK</td>
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<p><img title="Metadata Tagset Selection List" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="299" alt="Metadata Tagset Selection List" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/metadatatagsetpluginbuild002.png" width="377" border="0" /> For those interested in writing their own tagsets, the ‘<strong>LR: All</strong>’, ‘<strong>Miscellaneous Plugin</strong>’ and ‘<strong>Undocumented</strong>’ tagsets are the most useful for documentation purposes.&#160; Even if you shy away from using undocumented features it is worth reading the last section of the ‘<strong>Undocumented</strong>’ tagset because it demonstrates some of the ways to control tagset field formatting.&#160; Please note ‘<strong>LR: SDK</strong>’ is not particularly useful at the moment, other than to demonstrate SDK documentation issues which <a href="http://thephotogeek.com/simple-metadata-entry-tagset-plugin-lr2/#comments" target="_blank">I’m currently discussing with the Adobe developers</a>.</p>
<p>With this release I now have all of the main features I need for my own purposes, and have provided sample code for everything I’ve found out about tagset metadata fields and formatting techniques.&#160; Please leave a comment if you have suggestions for other features that should be added.</p>
<h2>Installation</h2>
<ol>
<li>Download the plugin: <a title="Metadata Tagsets plugin" href="http://thephotogeek.com/downloads/5" target="_blank">Latest Metadata Tagsets zip</a></li>
<li>Copy the file where you want the plugin to permanently reside, then unzip the file.&#160; This should create a sub-directory called <strong>metadata-tagsets.lrplugin</strong>. </li>
<li>Open Lightroom 2, then select the <strong>File\Plugin Manager</strong> menu option. </li>
<li>Press the <strong>Add</strong> button, select the <strong>metadata-tagsets.lrplugin</strong> directory created in step 2, then press <strong>OK</strong>. </li>
<li>The plugin is now installed and enabled.&#160; Press <strong>Done</strong>. </li>
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<h2>Usage</h2>
<p>When you open the <strong>Library</strong> module and display the right panel, a <strong>Metadata</strong> section is shown towards the bottom of the panel.&#160; To use the new features: </p>
<ol>
<li>Select the drop down list showing available tagsets (depicted above). </li>
<li>Choose one of the new tagsets at the bottom of the list.&#160; For example, the <strong>Default (with Location)</strong> tagset. </li>
</ol>
<p>I hope you find this plugin useful and feel free to share your experiences or suggestions in the comments section below.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simplify entry of metadata in Lightroom 2 with this plugin.  It customises the Library module's Metadata layout to add full location details to the Default view.<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/simple-metadata-entry-tagset-plugin-lr2/">Simplify Entry of Common Metadata in Lightroom 2</a></p>
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<p align="center"><strong><u>Update:</u> A newer version of this plugin is now available.&#160; <br />Please visit the </strong><a title="Metadata Panels Lightroom plugin home page" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/metadata-panels/" target="_blank"><strong>Metadata Panels plugin page</strong></a><strong> to download the latest version, and find the latest documentation for the plugin.</strong> </p>
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<p>According to <a title="The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321555562?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=techniqu-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0321555562" target="_blank">Scott Kelby</a><img style="margin: 0px; border-top-style: none! important; border-right-style: none! important; border-left-style: none! important; border-bottom-style: none! important" height="1" alt="" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=techniqu-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0321555562" width="1" border="0" /> I must be either a serial killer or a micro biologist.&#160; Apparently they are the only two types of people who religiously maintain metadata for their photos, but as you might suspect the reality is a little more mundane.&#160; </p>
<p>I keep my metadata up-to-date on all my rated photos for two main reasons: </p>
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<li>So I can find them later; and </li>
<li>To help me grow as a photographer by allowing me to better understand what an image captures and how.&#160;&#160; </li>
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<p>Applying keywords, IPTC location information and geoencoding (when appropriate) helps me to find my photos later.&#160; Gaining insights into my photography depends more upon captions, ratings,&#160; labels and EXIF data.&#160; My quandary was Lightroom 2 addresses these goals using two separate <strong>Library Metadata </strong>panel layouts: <strong>Location</strong> and <strong>Default</strong>.&#160; </p>
<p>Constantly changing backwards and forwards between these two tagsets (i.e. <strong>Metadata</strong> panel layouts), or scrolling around the massive <strong>All</strong> tagset, unnecessarily slows down my workflow.&#160; Fortunately this was a simple issue to resolve as the <a title="Lightroom Developer Center" href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/photoshoplightroom/" target="_blank">Lightroom 2 SDK</a> provides a way to define new tagsets.&#160; The result is my newest plugin which provides two additional tagsets for use in the Library module. </p>
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<td valign="top" width="120"><strong>Default (With Location)</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="480">Extends the standard <strong>&#8216;Default<strong>&#8216;</strong></strong> tagset with additional IPTC location fields</td>
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<td valign="top" width="120"><strong>LR: All</strong></td>
<td valign="top" width="480">A copy of the standard <strong>&#8216;All&#8217;</strong> tagset, to demonstrate&#160; available fields.</td>
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<p>    <a href="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/metadatatagsetplugin.png"><img title="Metadata Tagset Plugin in action" style="border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin: 5px 30px 5px 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="561" alt="Metadata Tagset Plugin in action" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/metadatatagsetplugin.png" width="189" align="right" border="0" /></a>
<p>The second tagset was added because I found the SDK documentation for tagset development to be&#160; insufficient and (in places) inaccurate.&#160; The <strong>LR: All</strong> tagset implements most of the fields available in the <strong>Metadata</strong> panel, so if you are interested in modifying my plugin to better suit your individual workflow you have a working example of most of the fields you can select from.</p>
<h2>Installation</h2>
<ol>
<li>Download the plugin: <a title="Metadata Tagsets plugin" href="http://thephotogeek.com/downloads/5" target="_blank">Latest Metadata Tagsets zip</a> </li>
<li>Copy the file where you want the plugin to permanently reside, then unzip the file.&#160; This should create a sub-directory called <strong>metadata-tagsets.lrplugin</strong>. </li>
<li>Open Lightroom 2, then select the <strong>File\Plugin Manager</strong> menu option. </li>
<li>Press the <strong>Add</strong> button, select the <strong>metadata-tagsets.lrplugin</strong> directory created in step 2, then press <strong>OK</strong>. </li>
<li>The plugin is now installed and enabled.&#160; Press <strong>Done</strong>. </li>
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<h2>Usage</h2>
<p>When you open the <strong>Library</strong> module and display the right panel, a <strong>Metadata</strong> section is shown towards the bottom of the panel.&#160; To use the new features: </p>
<ol>
<li>Select the drop down list showing available tagsets. </li>
<li>Choose one of the new tagsets listed at the bottom of the list.&#160; For example, the <strong>Default (with Location)</strong> tagset depicted here. </li>
</ol>
<p>I hope you find this plugin useful and feel free to share your experiences or suggestions in the comments section below.</p>
<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/simple-metadata-entry-tagset-plugin-lr2/">Simplify Entry of Common Metadata in Lightroom 2</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>My <a title="Backup Your Rendered Images When Exporting From Lightroom 2 To The Web" href="http://thephotogeek.com/backup-lightroom-rendered-export-images/" target="_blank">Export Backup plugin</a> for Lightroom 2 (in Adobe speak, a post-process action) has been updated today.&#160; The new version contains some usability updates:</p>
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<li>Destination folder now has a “Most Recently Used” (MRU) drop down list to help you quickly export files to your favourite folders.&#160; A delete button (the minus sign next to the drop down arrow) helps you clean up folders you no longer want kept in the list.</li>
<li>A separate subfolder field has been added, similar to that found in the Export to Files Export Service.</li>
<li>Windows Explorer or Finder can show the backed up files once the export completes.</li>
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<p>With this release I now have all of the main features I need for my own purposes.&#160; Please leave a comment if you have suggestions for other features that should be added.</p>
<h2>Installation</h2>
<ol>
<li>Download the plugin: <a title="Export Backup plugin" href="http://thephotogeek.com/downloads/4">Latest version of Export Backup zip</a> </li>
<li>Copy the file where you want the plugin to permanently reside, then unzip the file.&#160; This should create a sub-directory called <strong>export-backup.lrplugin</strong>. </li>
<li>Open Lightroom 2, then select the <strong>File\Plugin Manager</strong> menu option. </li>
<li>Press the <strong>Add </strong>button, select the <strong>export-backup.lrplugin</strong> directory created in step 2, then press <strong>OK</strong>. </li>
<li>The plugin is now installed and enabled.&#160; Press <strong>Done</strong>. </li>
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<h2>Usage</h2>
<p>Next time you export files you will notice an <strong>Export Backup</strong> entry in the Export dialog’s Post-Process Actions list.&#160;&#160; </p>
<p><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/export-backup-post-action-build003.png"><img src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/export-backup-post-action-build003.png" alt="Export Backup Location Dialog Section" title="Export Backup Location Dialog Section" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" width="604" height="150" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-35" /></a>To use this feature:</p>
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<li>Select the <strong>Export Backup</strong> entry, then press the <strong>Insert</strong> button.&#160; Note: The Insert button will remain inactive if you select the wrong Export Backup entry.&#160; This will add an Export Backup Location section near the end of the Export dialog. </li>
<li>Either manually enter or choose the base directory where the rendered files should be copied.&#160; </li>
<li>If desired, specify a subfolder to be appended to the folder name.&#160; This is typically used to enter the album/collection name or any other folder name that changes from export to export. </li>
<li>Select either <strong>Overwrite</strong> or <strong>Skip </strong>option, depending upon how you want to proceed if the same files already exist in the destination directory. </li>
<li>Continue with your file export as usual. </li>
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<p>When you export your files to Flickr, Gallery 2 or whatever photo hosting service you use, you will now also have a local copy of the rendered output for your own records.&#160; </p>
<p>I hope you find this plugin useful and feel free to share your experiences or suggestions in the comments section below.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lightroom 2 doesn't let you backup the images rendered while exporting to a web site.  I've written a plugin (post-process action) to add this feature.<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/backup-lightroom-rendered-export-images/">Backup Your Rendered Images When Exporting From Lightroom 2 To The Web</a></p>
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<p align="center"><strong><u>Update:</u> A newer version of this plugin is now available.&#160; <br />Please visit the </strong><a title="Export Backup Lightroom plugin home page" href="http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/export-backup/" target="_blank"><strong>Export Backup plugin page</strong></a><strong> to download the latest version, and find the latest documentation for the plugin.</strong> </p>
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<p>&#160;</p>
<p>Today I’m publicly releasing my first Lightroom 2 plugin.&#160; Its a simple export post-process action that addresses an oversight in the Lightroom 2 export functionality – that there is no way to backup the images rendered while exporting from Lightroom to a web site.&#160; These images are generated, uploaded then discarded without giving the user any option to intervene and keep these images.</p>
<p>While it is possible to use the “Files on Disk” export service to achieve a similar result, I found this to be a cumbersome workflow. A second export is required to make up for the missing functionality, and this approach is error prone because you may not remember to reapply all of the same settings.&#160; Not to mention the time it takes to run the export and wait for it to re-render the files.</p>
<p>There are many reasons you might want to retain these files.&#160; </p>
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<li>If you have read and follow advice in Peter Krogh’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDAM-Book-Digital-Management-Photographers%2Fdp%2F0596100183%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1201998816%26sr%3D8-1&amp;tag=techniqu-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325">The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers</a>, you will be keeping copies of all derivative files you deliver to your clients.&#160; </li>
<li>As a Lightroom user you are probably shooting photos using a raw format, and your family members might not be using image viewers that can cope with these formats.&#160; </li>
<li>If you are anything like me you won’t want people in your household to download your photos from the web when they could quickly and easily copy them from your PC.&#160; </li>
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<p>For these and other reasons I decided to write a plugin to fill this gap.</p>
<h2>Installation</h2>
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<li>Download the plugin: <a title="Export Backup plugin" href="http://thephotogeek.com/downloads/4">Latest version of Export Backup zip</a></li>
<li>Copy the file where you want the plugin to permanently reside, then unzip the file.&#160; This should create a sub-directory called <strong>export-backup.lrplugin</strong>.</li>
<li>Open Lightroom 2, then select the <strong>FilePlugin Manager</strong> menu option.</li>
<li>Press the <strong>Add </strong>button, select the <strong>export-backup.lrplugin</strong> directory created in step 2, then press <strong>OK</strong>.</li>
<li>The plugin is now installed and enabled.&#160; Press <strong>Done</strong>..</li>
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<h2>Usage</h2>
<p>Next time you export files you will notice an <strong>Export Backup</strong> entry in the Export dialog’s Post-Process Actions list.&#160; </p>
<p><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/export-backup-post-action.png"><img title="export-backup-post-action" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="148" alt="export-backup-post-action" src="http://thephotogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/export-backup-post-action-thumb.png" width="606" border="0" /></a> </p>
<p>To use this feature:</p>
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<li>Select the <strong>Export Backup</strong> entry, then press the <strong>Insert</strong> button.&#160; Note: The Insert button will remain inactive if you select the wrong Export Backup entry.&#160; This will add an Export Backup section near the end of the Export dialog.</li>
<li>Either manually enter or choose the directory where the rendered files should be copied.</li>
<li>Select either <strong>Overwrite</strong> or <strong>Ignore</strong> option, depending upon how you want to proceed if the same files already exist in the destination directory.</li>
<li>Continue with your file export as usual.</li>
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<p>When you export your files to Flickr, Gallery 2 or whatever photo hosting service you use, you will now also have a local copy of the rendered output for your own records.&#160; </p>
<p>I hope you find this plugin useful and feel free to share your experiences or suggestions in the comments section below.</p>
<p><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://thephotogeek.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">The Photo Geek</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License</a><br/><br/><a href="http://thephotogeek.com/backup-lightroom-rendered-export-images/">Backup Your Rendered Images When Exporting From Lightroom 2 To The Web</a></p>
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