Coronavirus lockdown
My unreleased version 1.70 will be renumbered as version 2.0
I hope you are well and are staying safe.
Hopefully you’re also finding ways to stay sane and to put the Coronavirus / Covid 19 lockdown to as good use as you can.
I doubt that I am unusual in trying to invest some of this grim period in doing things that I continually put off until tomorrow, domani, manana…. For me that has included re-reading old favourites, working on my pasta making and some other cooking skills, communicating with friends – in other words, all the normal stuff. I will say that my books have been 100 Years of Solitude and The Decameron (I have a black sense of humour).
But I also wanted to put some effort into updating my plugins, and have begun recording some videos showing how you can get the most out of them.
Some of the plugins were first written over 10 years ago. Isn’t that frightening? Back then I was new to the Lua programming language, and the old code looks fine though at times inelegant. All the plugins have had improvements over the years, but now’s the time to make big leaps forward.
There is a separate post on Open Directly, but I have also been doing a lot on Search & Replace – for example, see this video showing On This Date. So this is your chance – what would you like to see in Search & Replace?
Hi John, I feature that I miss is the ability to run all of my Favorites in a batch instead of having to select one by one and execute the transfer.
Since you’re asking, something I’ve always wanted would be when I’m exporting IPTC Locations to Keywords, the ability to choose whether or not to export the 4th level keyword. And perhaps the icing on that particular cake would be the ability to set the “Include on Export” attribute individually for each level. Thanks for your hard work!
Sara
OK, I have already been looking at that area and had already added control over missing 4th level. I’ve just added it for each level – it’s not working as it should, but it will!
But if the keyword already exists, set to export? Should I update it (if that’s possible)?
“But if the keyword already exists, set to export? Should I update it (if that’s possible)?”
For me the prefered method would be that if the keyword already exists the newly-selected value (export or not) should override the existing value. Not sure it that’s what anyone else would prefer, however.
I’ve checked again, and existing values are not going to update. People will want options either way, and Adobe’s mechanism to update keywords is such a nightmare (for a long time the plugin didn’t write keywords at all) that any updating needs to be done as a separate task. 2.1?!
Oh well, I’ll be happy with whatever you can give us!
Hello John,
One feature I would like to see added to Search & Replace would be the option to select the Person Shown IPTC Extension field when using Caption Builder. I feel this would add to the ability to use Search & Replace not only to audit the Person Shown field for missing metadata, but add capability to create subsequent Captions and Headings using this ‘missing’ field.
Thanks for your consideration of this request,
Stephen
Not sure why it wasn’t included, Stephen, but I took a quick look and it looks easy to do…..
John
Hello John,
Thanks for the consideration of my request. I’m ready with my credit card to upgrade to Search and Replace Version 2 (Person Shown) Special Edition :-),
Regards,
Stephen
Excellent, Thanks for the new Smart collection panel.
Wolfgang
P.S.: My wish: a function for add Date (exposue time, example format 2020-04-11) to folder names (Prefix or Suffix. Thanks.
I’m reluctant to do that one! LR doesn’t allow a plugin to change a folder name inside LR. While I could tell the OS to do it, you’d then have to fix the missing folders!
Ok, in the early days of Lightroom I created many folders with different names. No date. Now I see a chaos of folder names. I wanted to add the date to the name of each folder. Possibly from the earliest date to the latest date of the files in the folder. Example Folder name old: “Elbsandsteingebirge Fruehling” – New desired: “2013-04-22 – 2013-05-3_Elbsandsteingebirge Fruehling”. I have to do it by hand – means a lot of work.A re-import would be a tedious possibility.But that fails, because I lost all development settings and metadata.
Thanks and regards Wolfgang
I see that as too risky to include in the plugin, and not generally-usefuk. But it is scriptable, only you would have to do a save metadata to files before doing anything like reimporting. It would also mean those folders no longer correspond to your backup. Personally, I would live with the way things are – though I don’t have chaos, to some extent that is what I do with my own older folder structure.
Thanks for your reply. Ok, I’ll listen to your warnings and will take the trouble to rename my folders in parallel – including the backup. That was an important hint with the backup. Thanks. I can work with two computers. To be on the safe side I will print the folder structure of the main folders and subfolders from both the main hard disk and the backup. This should work if there is enough time.
Regards Wolfgang.
I’m waiting now for the Search & Replace version 2.0 Plugin tu upgrade.
I’ll make 1.7 = 2.0 available tomorrow!