exporting metadata to excel

[markbolton]

Hi all... I did have a brief look in the archives for this and was surprised to not find anything, but I may have missed it, so apologies in advance if I did.... I am uploading to Alamy, and like to normally upload the keywords seperately as an excel file... in the past I have done this with Expressions (Iview), but would like to find a way with LR2... anyone got any ideas? many thanks, Mark

 

[johnbeardy]

Did you know there's an Export Keywords command?

 

[Denis Pagé]

The nearest thing I see to what you want is LR/Transporter from Tim Armes. Maybe you can output to CSV and then make XLS from it... :roll:

 

[Denis Pagé]

Did you know there's an Export Keywords command?

I think the OP just want the keywords relevant to the exported images. Not them all... :roll:

 

[johnbeardy]

You're probably right. He can always take the images into iView/EM and copy toi Excel from there.

 

[pkzphotos]

check out http://pkzsoftware.com/LME.aspx

Pete

 

[PatrickC]

Mark

I use Tim Armes' LR/Transporter for exactly this - extracting keywords for Alamy.

It's a shame that Lightroom doesn't have an option to add custom metadata fields so that we can prepare Alamy's three-level keywords in Lightroom.

It would also be good to have an Alamy uploader plugin.

I've also lodged a feature request to enable selecting and copying keywords in the Library module with 'will export' selected, so that I can update keywords on Alamy interactively.

LR/Transporter does the job though - try it.

Patrick Cunningham