LR/Mogrify at version 2.0

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I know Tim's a member here, and will no doubt wander past this thread and add his own thoughts, but I've just install his LR/Mogrify plugin, and felt it definitely deserved bumping back to everyone's attention.

Quoting from Tim's website, he says
"The plugin provides an easy to use interface onto several of Mogrify's features, such as advanced resizing options, sharpening after resize, colourspace conversion, overlaying graphical watermarks and putting borders around your images. To improve your workflow options, the plugin also offers an FTP option."
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I'd heard about it a few weeks ago, but didn't have time to install at the time. The installation of ImageMagick looked a little complicated to start with, but was actually way easier than it sounded. If you've never heard of MacPorts, just use the prebuilt binary. I almost gave up after the MacPorts installation failed twice... :roll:

Biggest benefit for me will be the ICC conversion, watermarking and borders automatically being applied on export, without tying up Photoshop. This is one plug-in I'd highly recommend taking a close look at, and definitely worth a donation for Tim's hard work.
 
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Hi Victoria,

Thanks for the plug. I wasn't expecting the plug-in to be this popular, but it's certainly received it's share of downloads, and I'm often getting new requests for interesting features.

Regards,

Tim
 
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2.1

Oh, and in case anyone missed it, version 2.1 adds several things, including textual overlays which can access the photo's metadata, saturation and brightness sliders and multiple renditions of the watermark.

Tim
 
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2.1 already?! Nice job! I've posted on another forum I frequent regularly too - I'm well impressed with how it works. Few things I've been puzzling over with the watermark sizing, but I'll get back to you on that!
 
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Tim Armes said:
Oh, and in case anyone missed it, version 2.1 adds several things, including textual overlays which can access the photo's metadata, saturation and brightness sliders and multiple renditions of the watermark.

Tim
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can somebody tell about the limit of the not paid version?
can export only 1' photos and after should i buy it?
or can export only 1' photos at once , and other 1' photos at once?

thanks
 
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mantra said:
or can export only 1' photos at once , and other 1' photos at once?
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This one's right Giovanni.

Definitely worth a donation though, and they you can export as many as you like at once.
 
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Version 2.2' is up.

Text annotations can now be oriented vertically.
Both annotations and watermarks can be inset from the edges of the image by a definable number of pixels.

This should allow you to position text exactly within a border. There's an example at the bottom of my LR/Mogrify page:

http://www.timothyarmes.com/lrmogrify.php

There are also a couple of bug fixes.
 
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Tim Armes said:
Version 2.2' is up.

Text annotations can now be oriented vertically.
Both annotations and watermarks can be inset from the edges of the image by a definable number of pixels.

This should allow you to position text exactly within a border. There's an example at the bottom of my LR/Mogrify page:

http://www.timothyarmes.com/lrmogrify.php

There are also a couple of bug fixes.
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sorry my question , this is off topic
but did u reck, consider a exif tool plugins , it's a very very powerful program
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

at last a simple gui with a blank space so we can add the command lines
 
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Hi Mantra,

It's feasible, but I'm not sure what sort of things you'd like to do with it. Can you give some concrete examples?

Thanks,

Tim
 
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I finally had the time to dive into this, and I must say, I am impressed. I had to give MacPorts a few tries (setting my terminal variables finally did it), but now that I've got it working, I'm really liking it. It's great to have more sharpening, border and overlay options.

Nice work! This one is definitely worth checking out.
 
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Hi Sean,

It's not worth the same amount to everyone, so I leave each person to decide for themselves. Are they professional or amateur? Does it save them a lot or a little time? Are they loaded or a starving student? :) Do they need support? Do they need a new feature? etc...

This way it's fair to everyone.

Tim
 
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The plugin requires the install of ImageMagick which in turn requires "Microsoft Visual Studio IDE". I am running Win xp where do I find Visual Studio??
OK got the program installed and also ImageMagick just have to get the program changed from Limited edition having made a donation earlier.

Everything is fine now fully up and running.:)
 
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Once I've donated the software I will receive all further updates or not? In the last 8 days there were 9 updates!
 
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You all..

make me feel like a dullard.

I have installed the plugin, need to donate shortly for the additional upload capability. Anyway, Tim says on his site that I also need to download something from Image Magic but I can't figure out what I need to download and where I need to put it when I do - on my pc that is. I'm running Win XPPro.

This all sounds great for me to upload images to Alamy, but until I can get my 'Brain NOT the size of a planet' to work, I'm halted.

Help anyone please? And just for the road, please keep the replies of a none technical nature for I am stooopid!

Thanks
 
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Victoria, do you have such a step by step for Mac(intel) via MacPort. I have installed Mac port but I'm at a loss as to which of a plethora of ImageMagic Downloads is the right one to DL and the what?

:)

Don
 
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A-haa

Right got that now then - told I was a few bits short of intelligent! - it's asking me for the path of Mogrify Application - oh the questions, so many questions.

Then it has the audacity to ask two more questions, Tim damn you!:), Parameters for start and the end.
 
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hoddo;59'4 said:
- it's asking me for the path of Mogrify Application - oh the questions, so many questions.
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Path is probably something on the order of:

C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.3.7-??\

where the ? depends on the IM version you downloaded. Anyway, it's the path where mogrify.exe lives.

I don't remember what the start/end parameters are about. Any more detail than that?

....brad s
 
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Tim, if WE'RE all getting this confused, it might be worth writing up a nice idiot's guide with pretty step-by-step screenshots! ;)
 
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OK, so...

Plugin installed, ImageMagik installed (thanks Victoria) but one I've played with the export settings a Dos prompt appears (C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe , the image appears in the folder I told it to export to but...

the image is way smaller than I requested and when I close the dos prompt I get the following error appearing...

Failed to run Mogrify, aborting export

The message goes on to say that the mogrify.exe failed to run with the following command line (shortened by the way)

C:Program Files\Imagemagick-6.3.7-Q16\mogrify.exe - virtual pixel mirror etc., etc., etc
 
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I know for the Mac, I needed to have X11 installed. I had it on my iMac anyway, but had to get it for the Macbook Pro. Windows also needs a specific code system installed, I can't remember off hand which it is, but Tim might weigh in on it.
 
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