Publisher configuration

Publisher settings

On creation

Import folders - On creation of the publish service imports your Photoshelter Archive folder structure. So there is no need to manually recreate your folder structure in lightroom.

Note: Lightroom makes a distinction between collections and collection sets. Where collections can only contain images but not sub collections. Whereas collection sets can only contain collections but no images. So if you have an archive folder on Photoshelter that has both images and sub folders, the publisher will not be able to handle the images in that folder since it creates a collection set to represent it.

Import images - On creation of the publish service attempt to add the images in the folders to the created collections. Results of this option vary considerably. If your entire archive was upload with a previous version of the export plugin, there is a fair change most images can be found and added to the publisher. If the publisher can't locate the images in the previously store metadata, it attempts to find the correct image based on the filename. If you have a naming convention that can uniquely identify the image in lightroom it is possible to automatically add these images to the created publish service.

Example: my photos have a unique filename PKyearseqnr, eg PK201100123. During export I rename the file to PK201100123-image-title.jpg Based on this convention the plugin is capable of finding the correct image in my Catalog. Warning: This image locate action can be very slow, especially for large collections.

On publish

The settings affect each initial publish/upload of an image.

Tag image - mark the uploaded image as Tagged on Photoshelter. This allows you quickly select newly upload image on the Photoshelter website.

Mark searchable - mark the uploaded image as publicly searchable on Photoshelter

Export rating - include the rating you applied in lightroom to the uploaded images.

Note: This used to work well. However a while ago either lightroom or Photoshelter changed and the lightroom rating now always shows up on Photoshelter despite this option. I am discussing with Photoshelter to have this option to overrule this 'automatic' rating export.

On re-publish

This settings define the method used to re-publish a changed image. An image is mark for re-publish by either a change in the develop settings or by a change in the iptc metadata (or manually) A publisher does however not know which caused the trigger, it can therefor not decide if it has to re-upload the entire image or simply update the iptc data.

Always replace image - an image is always re-uploaded to Photoshelter

Always update iptc only - only the iptc data is uploaded to Photoshelter

Always ask me what to do - you have to choose the update method on each republish

Configuration

The publisher also has some general configuration options. These affect how and what information is stored.

your photoshelter url - The url for your photoshelter site It is possible for the publisher to store an url for each published image. It allows to directly open the image in a webbrowser from lightroom.

Example: Mine url for photoshelter is pactphotography.photoshelter.com The publisher then opens an image like this http://pactphotography.photoshelter.com/image/I0000qC586ESIc18

link publisher to catalog - when linked Photoshelter image IDs are also stored in the custom metadata Normally a publish services stores information only in the publisher data. So when you delete the publish service the stored data is also lost. To prevent losing the Photoshelter image IDs of published/uploaded images it is possible to also store this ID in the custom metadata of the image. I recommend using this option since it makes it much easier and reliable to recreate a publish service and import the folders and images. To avoid conflict it should however only be activated for one instance of the publish serivce