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If it is not too much to ask for another X3 feature... I would like to see the capability to upload some images directly from within Lightroom. This feature is available in Flickr, 500px, ShootProof among a few more photography websites.

You mean you download plugins for lightroom so that there is some direct upload button from within the application to those services? Basically it would just be a shortcut to upload images into a folder of your X3 gallery. Keep in mind, all those services you mentioned are hosted (and normally paid) services running on dedicated application server ... We could touch upon that area ourselves (thus my post here), but as long as users demand to run everything on their own server, then features like this will be much more complicated ... Not impossible, but always much more complicated.

I'm not sure how it will be implemented Karl, I just thought it will create a better workflow for uploading images to X3.

The now defunct Pixelpost used to offer this feature so I thought it is easy to do. :)

Indeed, having a Lightroom Upload Plugin (Plugin installed in LR and connecting to the Site via API key) would be a nice feature.
The System I've used before switching to X3 (koken) provided such a Plugin (self hosted page) and it was helpful.

UNFORTUNATELY - and this would be one of the issues with pages, hosted on a Webspace provider and not on your own server - Uploading the imaged directly from LR could cause issues with the max. file upload settings of your webserver.

Thanks. noted  :thumbsup:

Hi Karl

Any plans so far?

Rgds
Gert

Possibly for X4, which I may start later this year.

Until then, this might be useful, the direct upload from Lightroom zo X3 via ftp:

https://mchlksr.de/fotografie/lightroom ... rheiraten/

I configured my Lightroom according to this guide and it works fine, even if it's not a sync.

Hi
Thanks for your answer.

I'll look into that as well. I'm using Private/Public Key and SFTP to access my server, so things are a little bit more complicated..

Gert

gand wrote:I'll look into that as well. I'm using Private/Public Key and SFTP to access my server, so things are a little bit more complicated..

:thumbsup: FYI, any Lightroom plugin will also need to communicate with your website via FTP/SFTP.

The main advantage of an LR plugin would be that changes to an image would cause the image to be uploaded again. And that would be a huge win.

In LR there are already information for a FTP-Server connection (in Web-Galleries). May be these connection data can be used in a first step. Web galleries are not used by most LR users.

hpdorn wrote: The main advantage of an LR plugin would be that changes to an image would cause the image to be uploaded again. And that would be a huge win.

I'm sure there are several advantages. With the above in mind, I assume perhaps you have been using Koken? That would only work effectively when synchronizing the "original" non-resized image. The system will then need to create resized versions, and make sure they don't get cached in browser or on CDN. I believe Koken was storing original images on server (which requires a lot more storage and server CPU to for resizing), and it would need to manage output for resized versions. Not optimally efficient, but there are always compromises.