MobileMe Gallery

#1 | Written by Julien Becker about 10 years ago. Reply

Hi,

Congrats ! Excellent plug-in ! I thought I would never find something like this.

I’ve tested to upload some pictures. Is there a size limitation ? I need the original images to be downloaded, without any compression.

Thank you !

#2 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

To upload photos at their original size simply uncheck the Resize to Fit box. However, you still need to specify Resolution – leave it at 96 pixels per inch.

I believe MobileMe has a limit of 6 MB per photo. Currently, the plug-in doesn’t automatically check if a file exceeds the limit, but I will include this in the next update.
- #3 | Written by Julien Becker about 10 years ago. Reply
  
  Thanks for your answer ! The Resize to Fit box was unchecked. The dimensions of the photo in pixels remain the same, but the file size is much lower. Is the file compressed by your plug-in or by MobileMe ? When I upload a picture from the MobileMe App in my browser, the file isn’t compressed. Where does this difference com from ?
  - #4 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply
    
    The plug-in doesn’t compress images. If you chose specific dimensions then Lightroom would resize your photos while rendering JPEGs from your originals. If the Resize to Fit is unchecked then rendered JPEGs would remain at their original pixel dimensions. How can you tell if there is a difference in file size between a photo uploaded through the plug-in and the same photo uploaded through the MobleMe App? Could you provide specific details?
    
    PS: You might want to reply to alloyphoto@alloyphoto.com so we don’t clutter comments with our dialogue. I’ll post a summary when we find what’s causing the difference.
  - #5 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply
    
    Fixed in version 1.1 – Now JPEGs are exported at 100% quality.

#6 | Written by David Wiegold about 10 years ago. Reply

This is just what I was looking for! It works great!

One question? Do you have plans to include the options of allowing downloads in the mobileme gallery (either single image or whole gallery)?

#7 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

Dave, please clarify what you mean. Once photos are exported and uploaded to the MobileMe Gallery they are in Apple’s hands – you can only access them through the gallery interface, and I don’t believe there’s an option to download. On the other hand, why would you want to download – you still have your originals in Lightroom.
- #8 | Written by Julien Becker about 10 years ago. Reply
  
  When you create an album from iPhoto, Aperture or the MobileMe App in your browser, you can specify if the visitor of your gallery can download the photos or the entire album. You can also choose if your album is visible on the gallery home page or even protect an album with a password.
  
  I think that David means it would be very cool to have this options in your plug-in and indeed it would be 🙂
  - #9 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply
    
    Ah, thanks for pointing that out! I’ll definitely add the option.

#10 | Written by Craig Davis about 10 years ago. Reply

To enable the download function of your photos once on the mobile me gallery, until the update is available on this plugin, just go into your Me account > Photos and adjust settings. You can add the download function in there.

Thanks for the great plug-in. Looking forward to the updates you’ve mentioned.

#11 | Written by Johannes Boye about 10 years ago. Reply

Hi Vlad,

seems to be a great plugin … if I finally get it running 😉

The problem is the following: I installed the plugin corectly, which isn’t the licensed one yet (as I would asume) but when tempting to log into to my mobile.me account I receive the foolowing eror:

Error code: 0
Unable to establish connection with the remote server.

What’s the problem, or better: how can I solve the obvious problem?

Thanks for your help.
Greetings from Germany
Johannes

#12 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

Please generate and e-mail me the debug log as explained in the “Support” section of the plug-in home page: http://alloyphoto.com/plugins/mobileme-gallery-lightroom-plugin/.
#13 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

Fixed in version 1.1

#14 | Written by David Wiegold about 10 years ago. Reply

Thanks for adding the download options for new galleries. Now I don’t have to open iphoto at all. Perfect!

Keep up the good work!

#15 | Written by Julien Becker about 10 years ago. Reply

Hi Vlad,

Thanks for your work ! The plugin gets better every week !
But I have one more feature request. Is it possible do add an option to choose the profile. Now the plugin exports by default in sRGB, in some cases I would prefer Adobe RGB.

Cheers

Julien

#16 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

Thanks for your kind words!
I’ll add the option to choose the profile in the next update.

#17 | Written by Tony G about 10 years ago. Reply

Hi Vald,

Thanks for this plug. It has solved my Aperture/Lightroom dilemma once and for all! (Only reason I used Aperture was to manage uploading to mobile me).

#18 | Written by james about 10 years ago. Reply

Vlad,

do you know if this will work when they release version 3 of lightroom, or will I need to re-buy this plugin?

thanks,

James

#19 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

For the last month or so I have been working on the new version to integrate the plug-in with the new Publish Services API, which will be introduced in LR3, and my plug-in will support it. You will need to install an update, however you won’t need to re-purchase.

#20 | Written by mark about 10 years ago. Reply

Great plug-in thanks so much.

#21 | Written by Sam about 10 years ago. Reply

I have a mac and recently purchased the plugin. What are the steps to get the 1.12 update to work?

#22 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

If you had an older version installed, just replace the files in the installation folder with the new ones.
Please e-mail me directly (alloyphoto@alloyphoto.com) if you need additional support or troubleshooting.

#23 | Written by ian about 10 years ago. Reply

Love the plug-in, no need for Aperture anymore. One question/comment though. My photo’s appear in reversed order online. Is there something I’m doing wrong?

#24 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

Thanks for liking my plug-in! 🙂
Here is what you do to impose the “correct” sort order:
In the Export dialog, scroll down to the MobileMe Gallery Options section and select the Sort photos in the order they are exported (override MobileMe sorting).
- #25 | Written by ian about 10 years ago. Reply
  
  That did the trick, many thanks

#26 | Written by Randy Black' about 10 years ago. Reply

I cannot upload to my MobileMe account. I get and error 631 attempt to index field ‘guild’ (a nil value)

I am using v1.9, and I have checked: the entire folder for the lrdevplugin is in the Adobe/lightroom/modules folder..

#27 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

Randy,
Version 1.9 is outdated. You should download and install the latest version.

#28 | Written by tgfaller about 10 years ago. Reply

Does MobileMe Export 1.16 link to Lightroom 3 “Publish Services”

#29 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

Version 1.16 does not support Publish Services. I am waiting for Adobe to resolve the issue with Lightroom 3.0 for Mac. Once this has been squared away I am going to release a new version of the plug-in (1.17?) with added support for Publish Services and a couple of new exciting features.
- #30 | Written by tgfaller about 10 years ago. Reply
  
  Thanks for the reply. I’ll look forward to the new version!

#31 | Written by Tim Lajoie about 10 years ago. Reply

Thanks for the really great plugin. Works exactly as expected and will save me a bunch of time and hassle from having to deal with iPhoto. Nice job.

#32 | Written by Nicolas about 10 years ago. Reply

Hi, thanks for that great plug-in. will there be a feature to password protect a album?

thanks

#33 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

Unfortunately, the MobileMe interface doesn’t provide this capability. If Apple eventually implements it, then I will add the feature to my plug-in as well.

#34 | Written by Marco Loumiet about 10 years ago. Reply

Will you upgrade the plug-in for a Lightroom 3 compatibility?

#35 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

The plug-in is already compatible with Lightroom 3, as outlined in the System Requirements section above. Yes, it doesn’t work yet in Lightroom 3 for Mac for most users, but this will remain so until Adobe fixes the bug causing authorization failures in LR 3.0 for Mac (again, explained above).
What exactly did you have in mind?

#36 | Written by Bob about 10 years ago. Reply

I have a new Mac Mini (2010) running OS X 10.6.4 and Lightroom 3 trial (64-bit) and the plug-in to MobileMe is working fine. I will purchase if this is correct. Why do you say it won’t work in this environment, or what am I missing?

There are some options on the export I can’t choose, like Gallery Options to sort photos, but other than that it’s working.

Thanks!

FYI MobileMe supports password protected albums published from iPhoto or Aperture.

#37 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

Bob,
What I have seen happening in the past, the plug-in would work once or twice with no issue, then it starts giving the “Unexpected server response” error. Overall, this bug causes a very intermittent behavior.
I would suggest trying to log in and upload pictures a few times more before you make your purchasing decision. Otherwise, I would recommend simply waiting for the next Lightroom update – supposedly, the bug will be fixed there.

PS: iPhoto and Aperture use a different method of uploading photos, this is probably why the MobileMe web interface doesn’t have this feature, and so doesn’t my plug-in.

#38 | Written by Bob about 10 years ago. Reply

I kept getting the message that I couldn’t upload more than 10 photos, so I purchased for $15. Not a big deal. I occasionally see the Unexpected server response error, but try to login again and it seems to work and I can upload.

Thanks for continued development on this and I hope Adobe fixes whatever they need to fix for us.

Your plugin might be just what I need to choose and buy Lightroom over buggy Aperture 3. I’m evaluating both and so far Lightroom in a couple hours has impressed me with it’s stability much more than Ap3.

#39 | Written by Patrik about 10 years ago. Reply

Any news on the Publishing mode?

I assume it will be quite useless in unregistered mode, but hopefully we get to try it atleast (10 pictures max published…).

With working publishing I will be registering.

#40 | Written by Vlad about 10 years ago. Reply

Patrik, I am planning to add support for the Publish feature when Adobe fixes the issue with LR3 for Mac OS.

#41 | Written by mers about 9 years ago. Reply

I cannot login using your application.
I was able to do this before but not now.

OS10.6.4
Firefox 3.6.8
Downloaded latest version of your app

#42 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

Please submit a debug log as explained in the Support and Troubleshooting section. You’ll find a link in the Related Links section on the plugin’s home page.

#43 | Written by Sofus about 9 years ago. Reply

Just bought your plugin. Nice setup and good work. BUT if it keeps striping all my exif from my photos its really useless. The main reason to buy this was to make it talk with my ipad and iphoto, without duplicating my photos. I GEO tag all my photos and also miss the caption. Are you working on a fix for this?

#44 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

If anything is stripped, it is stripped by Lightroom, not my plugin. Please make sure the Minimize Metadata option on the Export/Publish dialog is not selected.

#45 | Written by gphoto about 9 years ago. Reply

Hello Vlad, Im having a similar problem as Sofus. When I export the photos to MobileMe, the photo titles are not displaying underneath the photo after the have been uploaded and published. I made sure the box for “minimize metadata” was NOT selected. Please advise…

#46 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

Thank you! I have been able to reproduce and fix this issue with stripped photo titles in version 1.18.3, now available for download.

Although I must say, Sofus had a different issue – he was saying the entire metadata got somehow stripped. I re-tested, and the metadata remains intact, unless you select the Minimize Metadata box in the Export dialog.

#47 | Written by Sofus about 9 years ago. Reply

Hi Again i was able to make it work now, it seems that version 1.18.3 did. Thanks for quick and thourough action!

#48 | Written by Ian about 9 years ago. Reply

How do I upload to mobileme so that no title shows up. I cannot get rid of some kind of file name or index number.

Thanks

#49 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

When you create a new album, clear the “Show Titles” box in the New Album Properties window.
- #50 | Written by Ian about 9 years ago. Reply
  
  Thanks, I worked this out after posting. Is it possible though to have titles show up where I have entered them in metadata but files with no title to remain blank? I do not want a mixture of titles and file names.
  
  Thanks
  - #51 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply
    
    Sure, this is where you use the new text templates. Use the title metadata field as the primary template, then an empty “fallback” template if the metadata field is empty:
    
    Primary Template: {{Title}}
    Fallback Template:
    Use if blank: {{Title}}
    - #52 | Written by Ian about 9 years ago.
      
      Seems logical but I cannot make it work. I still get a mixture of titles and filenames.
      
      Thanks
    - #53 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago.
      
      Ian, please e-mail me with a screenshot of the template settings and the resulting photo properties in the MobileMe gallery, so that I can understand where exactly things go wrong.

#54 | Written by Ian Matthews about 9 years ago. Reply

Also changing the metadata title does not mark the photo to be republished. It does in other publish services ie Facebook

Thanks

#55 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

Thanks for letting me know! This will be fixed in the next update – 1.18.4

#56 | Written by Thomas Leopold about 9 years ago. Reply

Thanks for the great job you’ve done here and the well-understand instructions! I am glad that there is this program. It helps me with my future projects. The upgrade and the activation was done quickly (Mac OS X, Vers. 10.6.4 / Adobe LR3 Vers. 3.2)!
Thanks again 🙂

#57 | Written by Danijel about 9 years ago. Reply

Hi there, thanks for a great plug-in – it is a real timesaver…

There is one small issue though, and I take it that it might not be an issue at all and that I am just doing something wrong – when I upload photos to my MobileMe gallery – the preview image does not “skim” if you mouse over it – any ideas?

Take a look at http://gallery.me.com/danijelmihajlovic#gallery – galleries up to and including Goran BREGOVIC were exported via iPhoto and their previews “skim”, the later ones were exported using the plug-in and their previews, well, do not “skim”…

Thx a lot,
Danny

#58 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

You are right, this is not really an issue, it’s rather a feature available only when you upload through iPhoto or Aperture. The things is, when those two products upload a photo they render a special multi-framed image for the scrolling thumbnail. With Lightroom, we are limited to only one rendition, the one you specify in the export settings dialog, so there is no way to generate additional thumbnails on the fly, let alone concatenate them into a multi-framed JPEG.

If, however, one day I find a solution, I’ll definitely implement it. I agree, it’s a nifty feature.
- #59 | Written by Danijel about 9 years ago. Reply
  
  Hey Vlad,
  
  Thanks a lot for a prompt reply and a clarification…
  
  All the best,
  Danijel

#60 | Written by Sebastian about 9 years ago. Reply

Hey vlad,
thanx for the great plugin – keep up the great work!
i have just one question: if i choose “publish” instead of “export” i don’t have the possibility to chose for overriding the mobileme sorting – so i always use exporting while i think publishing would be much more comfortable – if it would be with the option of overriding. can you help me with this?
thank you in advance
sebastian

#61 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

Hi Sebastian,
When you use “publish”, the sort order is enforced automatically to keep your published album in sync with the filmstrip in Lightroom, this is why there is no such option for manual control. Just keep in mind, your online album may get out of sync if you also use other methods to manage your photos, i.e. if you “export” to a published album, or use the web admin interface to upload or re-order photos in your album.
The rule of thumb here is simple – published albums are online representations of Lightroom collections, they must be managed through Lightroom to stay in sync.

#62 | Written by Kent about 9 years ago. Reply

Hey Vlad!
Love your plugin, and it is a real nice one this. It saves me alot of hassle with iPhoto and stuff like that. I have just one question I’ve been troubleing with lately, I had to reinstall Lightroom, and install the plugin again. Now the plugin didn’t show any albums, but they are still in mobileme luckily. Here comes the “problem”: I had to get the pictures from mobileme, down to my computer, and upload them again to make it work, is it possible to make an option to make this plugin look for already established albums, and pictures, so it can “update” itself in lightroom? In that way I have full control of my albums and can run everything from lightroom.

Thanx, and again, a very good job with this one!

#63 | Written by Sandy about 9 years ago. Reply

Hi Vlad,
I seem to have the same issue as Kent. I’d like to be able to sync or display some albums I had in MobileMe Gallery before I started using your plugin. It would be great if the plug-in could look for established albums, add them to the MobileMe Publish Service in Lightroom.
Thanks.
- #64 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply
  
  Thanks, this feature is definitely on my list. This is something I am planning to work on once v1.21 has been officially released (currently it’s in beta, and it contains tons of new stuff)

#65 | Written by Ted about 9 years ago. Reply

Hallo Vlad,

hatte nach der Installation Probleme, Photos zu exportieren. Ein kreierter Ordner entstand auf MobileMe, allerdings ohne Photos. Eine Support-Anfrage über die Debug-Funktion wurde binnen weniger Minuten mit einer eMail und angehängtem Fix beantwortet. Seitdem läuft alles wunderschön. Und das alles an einem Samstag abend! Gratulation, so müßte der Support in Germany auch funktionieren.

Gratulation und viele Grüße aus Deutschland

Ted

#66 | Written by Jack7275 about 9 years ago. Reply

I’m a new user and somewhat confused. How do I Remove photos from Mobil Me or change a typo. So far your plug in is great!!

#67 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

Hi Jack,
You can remove photos using the admin interface of MobileMe. You can also re-export photos with the “replace” option.

Or if you are using Publish Services, simply photos should become automatically marked for re-publish when you modify their title or caption in the Metadata panel. Simply click Re-Publish and your changes will be uploaded to MobileMe.

#68 | Written by Jack7275 about 9 years ago. Reply

Vladimir- How do I include the Medadata on the published uploads to Mobile ME?

#69 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

Hi Jack,
In the publish service’s settings scroll down to the Metadata section and uncheck the Minimize Embedded Metadata option.

#70 | Written by Valérie about 9 years ago. Reply

Hi there,
I have tried the plugin and it seemed great, but why doesn’t it carry the meta over when the box is not ticked????
Especially the author and copyrights?
I use LR/Mogrify 2 with Lightroom3 on MAC leopard…
Thanks for the feedback
Valérie

#71 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

Hi, probably because MobileMe does not have a way to show that information. Otherwise all metadata is transferred over and should be stored in the JPEG image.
In fact, MobileMe does not show IPTC metadata, only EXIF, this is why Copyright and Author fields are not visible.

#72 | Written by David E. Liddell about 9 years ago. Reply

I’ve installed the latest version of the plugin. I’m thrilled about the custom sorting option except that I don’t see it. I see the old sorting options. I’m using version 1.21.1 build 3399.

What am I missing?

Thanks… David

#73 | Written by Vlad about 9 years ago. Reply

Dave, the sort options are on the Album Properties screen – click “Edit Album” if you are in the Export dialog, or double-click your published collection if you are using Publish Services.

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