Photooey Lightroom Plugins

Configure your photos (and video) for your website, not theirs, using Adobe Lightroom 2

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In A Little Nutshell

• Export plugin that takes the photos you want on your website, and rolls them up into WebPhotoBrowser digestible form, and uploads them to your website, accompanied by audio, video, and whatever other garnish goes good with them.
• Its included in the Photooey - Complete package, or can be downloaded separately here.
• Photooey Lightroom plugin is now free to try and use, or even modify to your hearts content, as long as you agree to the terms-and-conditions on the main Photooey page..
• And MUCH, MUCH, MORE - seriously...

 

Quick Links

• Under The Hood (Details, details, ...)
• On Top Of The Hood (How do you use this thing?)

 

Under The Hood

The plugin is really three plugins - one for specifying image presets for thumb, main, full-view, and hi-rez versions (if desired). - another for processing your photos and updating your website, and a third for sending email links to your friends (or enemies) or for creating links for your web page(s).

 

Image Presets Plugin

This exists as a separate plugin because I couldn't figure out how to roll it into an all-in-one plugin. In any case, You have complete control over all lightroom supported image processing settings for each image version. The result will be a preset file that will be fed to the Web Photos plugin. You can specify a log file then do an export, but its not worth much - the true value comes from defining a preset so that the settings are stored in a named file that can be referenced by the Web Photos plugin.

 

Web Photos Plugin

This is the real workhorse of the three plugins. It takes image presets, and renders all desired versions of your photos, creates support files, and copies the whole mess to a specified directory on your hard disk, and then updates your website.

 

Web Links Plugin

A little plugin to assist in creating links to Photooey for use in emails or web pages. Note: the trickiest part is proper encoding - test before production. The generated links are stored in an html file. From there, you can copy and paste them into your emails or web pages or what have you.

 

 

On Top Of The Hood

a.k.a. how to use this thing as if you didn't have to know anything about whats under the hood.

Installed and invoked like any other lightroom export plugins.

Web Photos Plugin

Settings:

Test Mode - This is one of my favorite inventions: Allows you to put the plugin through its paces, without modifying any files. Detailed results of what it would do are saved in the log file. If it makes it through the test run with flying colors, clear the check-box and let 'er rip.

Incremental Update vs. Complete Update - Choose complete-update if you have every single photo you want on your website selected. Choose incremental update if you just want the selected photos added to your website.

Ignore Dates - Check this to re-render photos and copy support files regardless of source/target file dates. Clear it so that only changed files are updated. In a perfect world, this checkbox would not be needed, since well why would you want to update files that are already up to date? The reason is this: if you didnt get the remote website updated last time around, this will force an update. Or, if you've defined new image presets and want to re-render everything using the new presets. Things like that...

Site Configuration File Name - This is the base file name, full file name, or path, to a lua file that has a bunch of infrequently changing configuration settings that are used by the plugin, like metadata field -> Photooey text mapping, and FTP settings. Documentation for each setting is in the site config file that you will customize.

Collection Name - Name of a collection that can be used to define a subset of the whole enchilada for viewing. Which subset is defined by which photos are selected. The name can be passed to Photooey as a URL param. Web Links plugin can be used to generate links that reference a collection by name.

Thumbnail Image Preset Name - This is the base of the name of a file that contains image presets defined using the Image Presets plugin. The complete path to the file is determined by the preset directory setting in the site configuration file, and uses the default plugin preset extension (lrtemplate). It will be the same thing you see in the lightroom preset section of the export dialog box. For thumbnails. Leave blank if you dont want thumbnails. Default is _thumb.

Main Image Preset Name - This is the base of the name of a file that contains image presets defined using the Image Presets plugin. The complete path to the file is determined by the preset directory setting in the site configuration file, and uses the default plugin preset extension (lrtemplate). It will be the same thing you see in the lightroom preset section of the export dialog box. For main view. May be left blank temporarily to avoid re-rendering images, but after that, must be non-blank. Default is _main.

Full-View Image Preset Name - This is the base of the name of a file that contains image presets defined using the Image Presets plugin. The complete path to the file is determined by the preset directory setting in the site configuration file, and uses the default plugin preset extension (lrtemplate). It will be the same thing you see in the lightroom preset section of the export dialog box. For Full-View mode. Leave blank if you dont want to support a Full-size view (or just get more space on your web server :-) Default is _full.

High Resolution Preset Name - This is the base of the name of a file that contains image presets defined using the Image Presets plugin. The complete path to the file is determined by the preset directory setting in the site configuration file, and uses the default plugin preset extension (lrtemplate). It will be the same thing you see in the lightroom preset section of the export dialog box. For high resolution version. Leave blank if you dont want to support high-resolution photos. Hint: high resolution versions are handled very differently than the others - they may be on a separate web server, or in a product database at a 3rd party ecommerce site, or you can leave on your local machine and configure your web photos to generate an email request when user wants a high-resolution version - sky's the limit.

Remote Update Behavior - Dictates what the plugin does with the web-bound files that get created on the local machine, as follows:

• Concurrent - FTPs them to your web site as soon as they are available.
• Afer Local - FTPs them to your web site after all files have been created on your local machine.
• Prompt After Local - Prompts you what do do after all files have been created on your local machine.
• Dont Upload - Quits after local machine is updated - your job to get them up onto your website.

Log File Path - Path to text file where details of plugin operation, warnings, and error messages are written.

Status of Inputs - Displays the results of input checking, to help you get your inputs in straight. Do not edit this field unless you're just playing.

 

Web Links Plugin

Settings:

Site Configuration File Name - This is a web-links specific site configuration file, specified as base of file name, full file name, or path, to a lua file that has a bunch of infrequently changing configuration settings that are used by the plugin. Not much in it, but whats there is very important.

Collection Name - Specify which collection, created using the web-photos plugin you want to link to.

Page Path - Path to an html file to house the link - may be a pre-existing or non-existing file.

Append - Whether the link should be appended to the specified file, or replace its contents entirely.

Link Text - The plain "English" part of the link.

 

One day, I may have the plugins available for download separate from the complete photooey package - but not today.
Return to the main Photooey page to download the plugins as part of the complete photooey package, and for additional info... Photooey Main Page