This update fixes some intermittent issues with uploading photos and adds the ability to submit the debug log for troubleshooting directly from the plug-in. For a detailed list of changes in this version, see the Photobox plug-in home page.

Lots of new functionality is packed under the hood of the seemingly familiar  user interface. You can find a very detailed overview of the new features in Victoria Bampton’s blog.

One of the new features is the new Publish Services, a very important addition to Lightroom, which offers a completely new approach to the way we get our photos to online photo labs and photo galleries. You can learn about Publish Services from Jeffrey Friedl’s Article. Even though the article is focused primarily on his Export-to-Flickr Plug-in, it provides a very good general coverage of Publish Services and explains how you configure and use them.

For the last few months I’ve been learning the new concept and the new API that goes with it. In the next few days I am planning to release an update for my MobileMe Gallery Plug-in that will enable support for Publish Services. Also, other plug-ins will be updated to provide better support for Lightroom 3, and most of them will also support Publish Services!

However, there is a fine print! Considering the amount of time and sweat that went into the development and integration with the new API, I am planning to open support for Publish Services only to registered users.

I am releasing this plug-in under the Shareware license. If you are running an unregistered copy, you will be limited to upload only 10 photos at a time. To remove this limitation, a registration fee of $15 is required (per single user).

Here is the link to the plug-in home page: Snapfish Plug-in

Changes:

• Now the plug-in generates output even if the template contains misspelled metadata field names
• The option names in drop-down lists are no longer truncated.
• Added the option for automatic checking for plug-in updates (see the Plug-in Info section in Lightroom Plug-in Manager)

Export to Costco Photo Center (US): 20100124.8
Export to Costco Photo Centre (CA): 20100124.3
Export to CVS Photo Center: 20100124.2

Both Costco plug-ins also feature a fix for a mild annoyance with some photos taking their time (up to 5-10 minutes) to show up in the online album after the export.

A note for LR3 Beta users: due to some internal changes, Lightroom 3 Beta no longer displays the branding graphics at the top of the export dialog.

I, among thousands of other Lightroom fans can’t wait to get my hands on LR3, which appears to be scheduled for release around April. Many users, however, have already jumped the gun and started using the beta version not only for testing (as advised by Adobe), but for their photo processing needs as well. This release of my Adorama plug-in is an attempt to support their optimism and trust in a great product by giving them the ability to export photos from Lightroom 3 Beta to AdoramaPix.
This update also fixes a couple of issues with saving user choices and reusing server connection on subsequent exports.

There was a Mac user who reported an issue with the export dialog being too wide and truncated on the right-hand side. Unfortunately she didn’t reply to my requests to provide a screenshot. If anyone is experiencing the same issue, please send me a screenshot so I can see what’s going on.

So I decided to throw the guy some rope and developed a plugin, which does just that and a bit more. The plugin can list photos in multiple formats: HTML, plain text, CSV. Other formats can be easily added via the configuration file and an output template. Each template can be individually customized to include any metadata fields along with the file name.

The user can choose to open the output file in the default program (i.e. Notepad for text files, web browser for HTML files, or Microsoft Excel for CSV files), or in Mozilla Thunderbird in compose mode with the generated file automatically added as an attachment.

Download and use this plugin free of charge, all I ask in return from you is to provide some feedback. Let me know if you liked or disliked the plugin, or suggest features to add.

Visit the Export List plugin page to download the package.

This version contains several nice additions and improvements.

Download and use this plugin free of charge, all I ask in return from you is to provide some feedback.

Visit the Export to Costco Photo Center page to download the plugin package.