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Alamy Lightroom Bridge

PatrickC

PatrickC

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14.4
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Is there anyone out there still using it? I am trying after a long hiatus, having decided some time ago that the returns from Alamy didn't warrant the work to upload. They recently asked specifically for archive 20th C images from Latin America, and we have lots so I thought I'd give it a go.

But the plugin is broken again, in LR 14.4. And I got a dismissive reply from the plugin's support email - it seems it has been passed to someone else and Jim Keir isn't interested:
"I do not have any good news for you. The plugin development is on hold, nothing happened for a few years already now. It seems that the product owner is busy with other projects and this was got neglected.
Sometimes you have to do what you have to do, not what you want to do.
Anyway, I tried the upload now with LR 14.3 and it seems to be working fine, it might be that 14.4 has some changes which the plugin cannot handle any more.
...
Other then that, I cannot do much because if it is a bug then it will not be fixed any time soon.
...
Cheers
Zsolt"
 
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You can always create a Disk Publish Service to manage your Lightroom Inventory. You can then upload the Published folder to Alamy in the conventional manner. No plugin needed.
 
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That's one of a number of possible workarounds, but it means that there is no synchronisation between the two. So it becomes necessary to do several steps manually which are automated if using the plugin.

I'm not sure how using a Publish Service is more useful than using ordinary collections.
 
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So it installed, and the result was different. But no joy. Error message says "Error uploading a new image. There was a problem when sending an image to Alamy...(etc). The Export window said "Can't Use Post-Process Action "Scale to Megabytes"
 
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PatrickC said:
That's one of a number of possible workarounds, but it means that there is no synchronisation between the two. So it becomes necessary to do several steps manually which are automated if using the plugin.

I'm not sure how using a Publish Service is more useful than using ordinary collections.
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A Publish Service is superior to regular. export in that the destination is managed by Lightroom as well as any changes to images in the Publish Service collection are automatically marked to be republished
 
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Have you tried to contact the plugin author?
 
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clee01l said:
A Publish Service is superior to regular. export in that the destination is managed by Lightroom as well as any changes to images in the Publish Service collection are automatically marked to be republished
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The problem with using that for Alamy is that once an image has been uploaded and accepted you can't re-publish the image, but you can make changes to the metadata. If you use a publish service to disk it surely just saves another copy of the image over the original? And there's no way you can use it to update anything on Alamy. That's why the plugin uses a multi-stage process.

I have now sent Jim Kier a message through his website instead of going through the support system on the lightroom-plugins website, which seems to have been contracted out.
 
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PatrickC said:
I have now sent Jim Kier a message through his website instead of going through the support system on the lightroom-plugins website, which seems to have been contracted out.
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Which is why I asked about the "author". I wondered if the plugin site is a rip off.
 
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For Information: The 'Support' for Lightroom-plugins.com is genuine, but has been contracted out and, especially for this Alamy-Lightroom Bridge plugin, is not very useful. So far no reply from Jim Keir, so the issue is not resolved. The site looks pretty sad and neglected, so it looks as if he has abandoned these in favour of more lucrative stuff, which is a huge shame and leaves a few people in the lurch for the sake of not very much coding effort (probably).
 
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