CLIENTSELECTS LIGHTROOM PLUG-IN
Introduction
Lightroom has a well defined workflow for cataloging, processing and
publishing photos but one place where standard functionality falls short
for a professional photographer is how to integrate shopping cart
from a website or simply list of files selected by the client into the
workflow. Manual matching of full or partial names could be a lengthy
process. If you have 2000 images taken at the wedding and your client
selected 200 out of them, it might take you an hour just to go through
your catalog and precisely match client's selection against complete
set in your catalog. This is where
ClientSelects plug-in
comes into place. You just load list of selected photos into plug-in,
set how you want to mark client's selection, click Search button and
have all your picks marked in a few seconds.
Installation instructions
- Download latest version of plug-in
here and extract
it into directory of your choice.
- Go to File/Plug-In Manager, click Add and select directory
where you place the plug-in.
- Plug-in should be available under Library/Plug-In Extras/ClientSelect.
Usage
Plug-in will attempt to match entered search patterns to the filename
in your currently open folder. If match is detected then all options
selected in
Apply Metadata section will be applied to the image.
Search patterns could be full or partial image names and extensions
are ignored because proofs selected by the client are usually JPG format
but you would want to mark your RAW images.
Compatibility
Lightroom 3.0
Windows/Mac
x86/x64
Release History
Ver 1.4.4.0 Nov 21 2011
Fixed search issue on Mac platform.
Ver 1.4.3.0 Oct 25 2011
Fixed case sensitivity issue with the search.
Since some people have reported inconsistent search behaviour I added logging
support to plugin. Send
My Documents/ClientSelectsDbg.log along with bug report.
Ver 1.4.2.0 Sep 7 2010
French translation by Jean-Paul
Ver 1.4.1.0 Sep 2 2010
Fixed search not working if pattern contained LUA's magic characters
Ver 1.4 Aug 30 2010
Added support for translation strings, translated to Russian
Optimized search to allow selection of any source.
Ver 1.2 Aug 16 2010
Fixed color label not setting for non-English installation.
Ver 1.1 Jul 22 2010
Fixed some formatting of search pattern.
Added support for search in collections and collection sets.
Ver 1.0 Jul 15 2010
Initial release. Testing required on Mac, Wista, WinXP 32 and 64 bits.
Unfortunately Lightroom SDK doesn't support setting Pick flag, so this
feature is disabled until further investigation.
Support
Bug report
here
Feature request
here