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Jumping Without a Hoop
Here at our studio, we began providing RAW processing services for wedding, portrait, and editorial photographers in early 2008. Since then we have processed thousands of photos for clients and have spent countless hours delivering them via client supplied hard drives and FTP. One challenge we continually run up against is jumping through numerous hoops to generate edits in Lightroom and deliver those edits (images only) to our clients over FTP. I personally experience the same frustration as I work to backup my images to an offsite storage location.
There are a couple ways to export your work in Lightroom:
- Export as JPEG
- Export as PSD
- Export as TIFF
- Export as DNG
- Export as ORIGINAL
All of the above being what I will call ‘local storage export’ options. Should you want to dig in deep on these options, see Adobe’s Lightroom Live Help
On the web-based side of things we have:
- Web Gallery FTP
- flickr upload (via plug-in)
Despite the fact that our team would like to be able to deliver our images directly from Lightroom and not have to leverage a third party tool {insert your favorite FTP client here}, we have yet to see a plugin or native feature build into Lightroom. We have seen numerous comments on this blog and Adobe Lightroom Forums for this capability, and we have faith Adobe will bring this to life in a pre-2.0 version of Lightroom. If you would like to support this call for action, you can communicate this to Adobe directly.
As much as I want to avoid making this entry a Lightroom wish list discussion, we are standing firm on the fact that direct upload of image files to a remote filesystem is an absolute must-have for photographers.
Best Wishes,
|Brandon Oelling
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Comments (11)
I'm relatively new to Lightroom so I'm not sure if this feature is already "baked in," but what about direct write to DVD from inside of Lightroom?
Direct-to-DVD and/or CD is currently available in Lightroom. Our goal is to have a direct-to-ftp (images only) export method - which is not currently available.
Maybe I'm just used to my current workflow, but I would not want to export directly to ftp within lightroom as my ftp client does an excellent job and offers many (scriptable) options that I doubt we would ever see in the core lightroom product (due to the vagaries and complexities of cross platform ftping).
That being said I see no reason that a solution which would suit you could not be built using the Lightroom Export SDK, given a moderate amount of effort -in fact it comes with example ftp code which may already do the job (I have not yet explored it).
I believe an optional plugin is the place for this functionality to avoid overall bloat and slowdown of the core product for the people who don't want it!
I would love to see you bring this to life Andrew!
I know of at least two Export plugins that FTP your images straightaway. The SDK from Adobe comes with a sample FTP plugin, and Tim Armes' LR/Mogrify plugin also does FTP (and can do only FTP if you simply don't request any of the watermark/border/etc. options): http://timothyarmes.com/lrmogrify.php
Download the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 1.3 Export SDK from http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5Flightroomsdk
Unzip the downloaded file. You will find a folder called 'Sample Plugins'. In it you will find a folder called ftp_upload.lrdevplugin
copy this whole ftp_upload.lrdevplugin folder to
mac - ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules
win - C:\Documents and Users\username\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Modules
Restart lightroom, now when you export you will have an option to FTP Upload instead of just Export Files to Disk
Hopefully this will address your needs
lol.. how could you not know this being such a LR expert? Credability... just sunk!
Cool to see that extending Lightroom via plugins can work wonders for my workflow. Thanks Andrew!
I have to say ... anomy, you're wasting bandwidth with your stupid comments ... get a life you jackass.
One clarification that I need to make on this particular post is we need to deliver RAW versions of our work over FTP - not post-processed JPEG's.
|B
I've used the flickr/mogrify plugin for quite some time. I've been looking for a raw uploader as of late as well. Anyone know if this functionality?
hey anomy: you say 'Credability', the rest of the educated world says 'credIbility' lol
Here's another 3rd party for export from LR to Smugmug: [url]http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/lightroom-smugmug/[/url]