Automatic upload Plug in for Lightroom and Smug Mug

[Alison Taggart-Barone]

Hi All:

I manage a complicated photo collection with Lightroom CC and Smug Mug. I process the images in LR , then drag and drop them down into the Smug Mug galleries for publishing. The aim is to have an exact duplicate folder structure and contents in both places.

Can I get an automatic upload plugin so I don't have to spend so much time dragging and dropping? I manage over 100 galleries, and it takes quite a bit of time and is rife for operator error.

Thanks!

Alison Taggart-Barone

Photo Editor

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

[kglad]

[moved from Adobe Creative Cloud to Photoshop Lightroom]

[johnrellis · Accepted solution]

See here: SmugMug | Install or update the Lightroom plugin

[Alison Taggart-Barone]

Thank you, but I have no issues installing the Lightroom Smug Mug Plug-in.

I'm looking for a custom plug-in to automatically update everything from my

LR catalog and folders to the identical SM folders and galleries. As I said

before, currently I have to drag and drop manually to accomplish a

duplicate situation between the two collections and it's extremely time

consuming. How can I get something written to do this automatically?

Alison

[johnrellis]

I don't believe the existing Smugmug plugins will mirror the folder structure in your catalog.  The plugins are all based on the LR publishing paradigm, where the plugin syncs the published collections in your catalog with the Smugmug service. 

Perhaps changing your workflow would be another way to avoid manual drag-and-drop from folders to collections: Rather than use folders within LR to organize the photos, use the publish collections themselves as the primary means of organizing the photos.  Import the photos into LR from whatever folders they happen to be stored in.  But then organize them into the desired hierarchy using the LR publish collections.

If you want custom plugin programming, you could post a note on the Lightroom SDK forum, where plugin developers hang out: Lightroom SDK . Or you could try contacting Jeffrey Friedl, the most expert developer of LR publishing plugins (but I don't know if he does contract work).

[Alison Taggart-Barone]

Thank you !!! I willow into both of these contacts.

Alison