Tag: Adobe Lightroom Classic CC

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I’m lazy. I try to automate routine repetitive tasks. For photo blogging, one task that I performed repeated was export images to upload to WordPress. My workflow used to be, export sized image to disk, upload the image to WordPress, optimize the image with a WordPress plugin, and then edit the image caption for use later in a post. It was tedious.

A few years ago I simplified my workflow with a combination of Jeffrey Friedl’s export filter, and presets, Automattic’s WordPress and Adobe Lightroom plugins. This post is a combination of two posts, Export directly from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress and Set WordPress Image Caption with Jeffrey Friedl’s Metadata Wrangler Export Filter with the addition of information about the use of JPEG mini Pro. You can also consider this an update of the Export directly from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress that includes all the information from Set WordPress Image Caption with Jeffrey Friedl’s Metadata Wrangler Export Filter that includes information about how I use JPEG mini Pro to optimize images.

Requirements

To make this work, you’ll need Adobe Lightroom Classic CC, Automattic’ WordPress plugin, Jeffrey Friedl’s “Metadata Wrangler” Export Filter, and JPEGmini Pro Suite. The requirements assume you’re running macOS Mojave. I don’t use Windows. For me, Linux is a server OS. I also assume that all the required software is installed already including Jeffrey Friedl’s filters and presets, JPEGmini Pro Suite, Adobe Lightroom. Jeffrey Friedl has excellent instructions on how to install and use his “Metadata Wrangler” Export Filter on his website. You’ll need WordPress.com or self-hosted WordPress with Jetpack installed.

Configuration

Setup for the JPEGmini Pro plugin is complete once it’s installed. There are no settings. Setup and configuration for Automattic’s WordPress plugin can be found on my earlier post. JetPack is a requirement for this to work. I don’t think it’s necessary to repeat all the steps here. Setup and configuration for “Metadata Wrangler” Export Filter are the same as in my earlier post on the topic.

Metadata Wrangler

From the export preset window, add the JPEGmini and Meta Wrangler post-process actions to the export preset.

The export template that I am currently using is:

{Title?{Title} —} {CameraName?{CameraName }} {CameraMake?+ {CameraMake}} {Lens?{Lens}}  — ({FocalLengthMM? {FocalLengthMM}}, {Aperture?{Aperture}}, {ISO?ISO{ISO}})

I set the title of the image in Adobe Lightroom before I export the image. Upon export, the template set the image caption by appending the title information along with image specific information.

Example.

Upper Buttermilk Falls along the Gorge Trail, Ithaca, New York — FujiFilm X-T2 + Fujifilm XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR — (16 mm, f/16, ISO200)

Other notes

While the specific setup I use if for WordPress if I used Jekyll or Hugo or some other static site generator, my image file export to disk workflow would work well for that purpose. It’s similar to the preset above, except the images are export to disk. In fact, exporting images from my Adobe Lightroom catalogue to disk, to WordPress, to Instagram, to email etc. is all done with variations of this export preset. The only thing that changes is the export destination.

Summary

I name, size, caption, optimize, and export my image files directly to WordPress using this Lightroom export preset. It’s one step – right-click, then select the export preset.

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Jeffrey Friedl is a software developer and photographer based in Japan. For years he has been scratching his own itch and creating plugins for Adobe Lightroom that make using and exporting images from Lightroom easier. He makes these plugins available for a nominal fee — whatever you want to pay. I’ve used many of his plugins for years.

Need to export images to Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook? Need to control what metadata is/isn’t included during any export? Need to inject Creative-Commons license data into exported images? Jeffrey has written plugins to do each of those things. And some of the export plugins can be combined with other export plug-ins. Which is what prompted this blog post.

Some time ago I [started using the Automattic’s WordPress.com export plugin to export directly from Adobe Lightroom to my Jetpack-powered WordPress.org website. This plugin-in saves me time.

One of Jeffrey’s plugins is the Metadata Wrangler Export Plugin. This “export filter” plugin for Lightroom allows me to strip or modify selected metadata components from images as they are exported.

I just learnt a trick for adding EXIF data to the caption of the images I post to this website and also to Instagram by combining the two plugins.

I use the Metadata Wrangler Export Plugin as a post-process action to overwrite the caption metadata field with image data from my Lightroom catalogue before it is exported to WordPress.

Here’s the information inserted into the caption.

{Title?<p>{Title}</p>—}{Caption?<p>{Caption}</p>—}

<p>{CameraName?{CameraName}} {Lens?+ {Lens}} {FocalLengthMM?@ {FocalLengthMM}}, {Aperture?{Aperture}} {ShutterSpeed? at {ShutterSpeed}}, {ISO? ISO {ISO}}</p>

{RightsUsageTerms?<p>{RightsUsageTerms}</p>}

These preset template tokens inserts the image capture information such as camera make and model, and image EXIF data.

On my WordPress website, images with a caption display will display capture information.

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Last month I wrote about a plug-in to export images to WordPress from Adobe Lightroom. This month, I am writing about exporting from Lightroom to Instagram.

In the early days, Instagram was all about mobile photography. You used the app to snap a photo, applied a filter, added a few hashtags and posted the image to the Internet. But eventually, people started posting DSLR images to Instagram. The process was not quite as instant. Most DSLRs don’t have Wi-Fi and even if your does, the posting process involves transferring the image to your smartphone and importing to the Instagram app. If you wanted to do more editing and post-processing before posting to Instagram, you have to transfer the image from the computer to your smartphone and then import to the Instagram app. But there is a faster way.

LR/Instagram is an unofficial publish plugin for Lightroom, allowing you to post photos directly to your Instagram account from Lightroom. There is no need to export to a folder and then transfer the photo onto your smartphone.

Screen Shot of Lightroom File MenuFirst, you need to install the plugin. If you are already familiar with plug-in installation follow the normal process for installing LR/Instagram. If you have never installed a Lightroom plug-in, plug-in author Jeffrey Friedl has written an excellent overview of the process.

Once the LR/Instagram plugin has been installed you’ll need to create a Lightroom publish service. The Publish Services connection allows LR/Instagram and Lightroom to communicate with your Instagram account. You can find the Publish Services panel in the lower left-hand corner of the Library module. Click the “+” and click “Go to Lightroom Publishing Manager.”

The Lightroom Publishing Manager will display a list of existing Publish Services. Click “Add” to create a new publish connection and select LR/Instagram from the drop-down list. You can optionally enter a name for this connection. Click Create to create the connection. Once your connection entry has been created you can configure the connection.

Select the LR/Instagram connection in the left pane of the Lightroom Publishing Manager. Once you authenticate with your Instagram account information, the connection is ready, and you can start exporting images to Instagram. However, before you start doing that there are some additional preferences that will help make the best use of the plug-in.

To avoid having my post fill the timeline of my viewer, I normally post only one image at a time to Instagram. I control this via the Upload limit preference. This limits the number of photo upload per publishing action. Originally, Instagram only supported square cropped images. However, recent updates to Instagram allow the posting of images in landscape and portrait modes. I welcome this change but if you are nostalgic for the square format, you can enable that preference.

LR/Instagram provides a new metadata panel, where you can add captions and hashtags to be published along with your to image. I created a custom template using a set of template tags to customize how the metadata information appears when I publish my image.

My template looks like this:

`{title}
{caption}

{cameraMake} {cameraModel} + {lens}, {shutterSpeed}, {aperture}, {isoSpeedRating} @ {focalLength} (~ {focalLength35mm})

{Hashtag} {#keywordTags}`

Here’s an example of what that looks like when posted to Instagram.

Once you have your template set up, save the changes to the Publish Service. Now you can drag photos to the publish collection, then click Publish to immediately upload your photos to Instagram. If you want to change the caption and hashtags after posting an image, you can edit the information and mark the image for re-publishing. When you click the publish button, LR/Instagram will update the information on Instagram. The original image, however, will remain unchanged.

Adobe Lightroom, Publish Services
Drag images from your catalog into the photostream area under the publish service. Click Publish to post to Instagram.

The LR/Instagram plugin is compatible with Adobe Lightroom CC, or LR 3.0 (or later), on Windows XP (or later) and Mac OS X 10.7 (or later).

If you modify photo after publishing, the photos go to “Modified Photos to Re-Publish” state. Since it is not possible to replace a photo in Instagram, the photo content is not actually updated from this state. However, the plugin does update captions and hashtags on republishing.

The LR/Instagram plugin is 100% free to download and try. The developer simply asks that you if you like it, show your support by registering it for $10 from Lightroom Plugin Manager.