Today a new version of the LightroomStatistics Viewer is published.
This new version checks if there is a new version of your report available.
You can download it for free from our download page.
In order to profit from this version check, you will need to upgrade your reports.
See the forum topic “How to download and update“.
Finally our new Lightroom plug-in “Photo list importer” is published at Photographers-Toolbox.com.
Do you get lists of selected photos from clients? The challenge is how to transform that list into a selection of photos in Lightroom,
without manually copy and pasting them.
This plug in reads a file or the clipboard with file names, searches for these file names in Lightroom and stores these in a collection called “LRS_Photo_List” for furher processing.
Finally our new Lightroom plug-in “Find similar files” is published at Photographers-Toolbox.com.
This plug-in was born out of a request of a professional photographer reworking old RAW images with Lightroom 4. The new process version of version 4 enabled him to rework old images and do this previous were not possible.
Yet, doing so he needed to find and cleanup his old master and derivative files.
Another usage of this plug-in is to find all JPG, TIF etc versions of an image.
Select a couple of images and this plug-in will find all images in your Lightroom catalog that have a similar file name.
It assumes that you have a naming strategy.
Peter Krogh, author of the DAM book, and Richard Anderson share some best practices how to handle Original and derivative files on dpBestflow.org . See also the paragraph on file names.
The same bug that was found in the “Images per lens” report affected also the free “Images per camera” report.
A new version of the report has ready for download. Also the packages that contain this report have been updated.
Download this free report from the Download page.
A bug was reported to the Lenses per camera report.
When running the report against the images in the Quick Collection, this chart contained all the images in the catalog and not only those in the Quick Collection.
The bug is fixed. You can download the new version of this report or the package in which is contained.
For more information on downloading and updating, see forum topic “How to download and install update”
The LightroomStatistics team
After 3 months of testing and using the Assessment report it appeared that the info on the White balance, Temperature and Tint, was not adding any value. Further for all users shooting in RAW there is no “default value”.
Because less can be more, we removed this info.
The new report is uploaded and a new sample is ready for download.
If you have any thought about it, please give me feedback.
Last Friday I was invited by Frank Doorhof to give a demo of the LightroomStatistics products. We had a very interesting conversation. He also showed me his beautiful new studio.
He wrote:
Today something totally different, although still very interesting for us photographers and teachers.
We all know Lightroom right?
But did you know that with the proper plugins you can get a lot of information about your Lightroom usage out of it?Last week I met up with the writer of this series of plugins and asked him to write this guest blog for the blog, I hope you enjoy it, and make sure to checkout the plugins they are very cool.
Today my blog was published, see : blog.
Thank you Frank!
There may be times when you would like to export all the file names of some photos in Lightroom to an Excel sheet or a text file or one of the other export formats for further processing?
This only takes three simple steps:
LightroomStatistics is open, you can export to:
Upon a request I upgraded the report “Find RAW + JPEG files” to Find RAW + NON RAW files. So not only the JPEG version is found, but also the TIFF, PSD or … version.
This report will list all JPG, TIFF, … files in one column and the corresponding RAW version in the 2nd column. The third column contains the base name.
When saving to a CSV file and and importing it into Lightroom with the Photo List Importer Lightroom plug-in all the NON-RAW files are imported into a collection called “LRS_Photo_List”.
This is the distinction with the Duplicate file name finder. This report will list all photos with a duplicate name. So the RAW and all corresponding NON-RAW photos are imported in the “LRS_Photo_List” collection.
The Photo history and Develop Statistics reports have been upgraded and include now the estimated costs of the develop work.
For professional photographers time is money.
It is important to know what the work on a series of photos did cost based on the develop work in Lightroom.
Based on the hour rate you specify, the estimated develop costs are calculated.