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How do I import star ratings and tags into a lightroom catalog from a data file?

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May 15, 2024
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I've got a photoshoot of new images imported into lightroom classic, I have also sent those same images to a cloud based AI solutions provider who's system generates tags (keywords) and star ratings for them, that system returns a data file that references the image file name and adds columns for the the keywords and star ratings. I'm hoping someone can point me to a lightroom plugin that I can use to import that data into my lightroom catalog.

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Correct answer john beardsworth

Thanks again,

Interestingly my creative cloud desktop application doesn't know about it??

Lightroom Classic's plugins and well-respected plugin vendors like Photographers Toolbox (I also have my own plugins there) existed long before Adobe implemented the CC app and started trying to sell extensions through it. Also LrC's technology is a one-off in Adobe's offerings, and neither Adobe nor plugin authors found it worth trying to squeeze a square peg into a round hole. So plugins have never been integrated into the CC extension environment, where you just find LR presets and other trivial stuff.

john beardsworth

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Look at the plugin LrTransporter which is designed to import data from text files and match them to the photos using the image file name.

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ph0t0ZdealAuthor

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Thank you as well, have you used this plugin yourself and or do you know if it can import the type of data I'm concerned with? I'm looking for that now.

john beardsworth

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Thank you as well, have you used this plugin yourself and or do you know if it can import the type of data I'm concerned with? I'm looking for that now.

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Not myself, though I know of plenty of people who have found it ideal. It's been around for ages, has a good reputation, and can handle different types of text file.

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richardplondon

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I don't have a recommendation for a LrC plugin, but another approach to investigate may be external utilities which can update XMP metadata. So a sidecar XMP file in the case of proprietary camera Raw, otherwise embedded metadata in e.g. a camera JPG or a DNG.

The sequence would in that case be: ensure up-to-date XMP metadata is written out to file system for the images concerned; externally amend that to impose these keywords and star ratings; read XMP metadata back into the Catalog for the images concerned. Reading and writing XMP is standard Catalog behaviour and needs no plugin, albeit if there is such a plugin it should streamline the overall process. Exception: virtual copies cannot write out, nor read in, external metadata.

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ph0t0ZdealAuthor

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Thank you, I like this approach... sounds like I would need a way to convert the AI system datafile into and a batch of XMP file's that would need to be saved somehow to the source images that are already present in my lightroom catalog? Can you elaborate, feel free to message me if you prefer.

johnrellis

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The LR/Transporter plugin mentioned above is the way to go -- it will import an industry-standard CSV file, presumably the same format generated by the cloud service.

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