upload from Lightroom - how to display both Title and Caption?

jcdilljcdill Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
edited August 1, 2008 in SmugMug API Support & Integrations
Can someone tell me how to configure my Smugmug page and the Lightroom uploader widget so that both the image title and caption are passed thru and shown on Smugmug?

Right now, if I have a title but no caption in the metadata for the image, the title is shown on smugmug. If I have a title and caption, the caption is shown but not the title. I want the title shown as the "image name" and the caption shown as, well, the caption. I'm trying to create a photo blog similar to Schmoo's page at: http://www.schmootography.com/gallery/4507233_VMW7D#341594393_BKA2D

Where her page shows the date, I want to show the "Title" metadata, and then under the "Caption" metadata from the Lightroom.
JC Dill - Equine Photographer, San Francisco & San Jose http://portfolio.jcdill.com
"Chance favors the prepared mind." ~ Ansel Adams
"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." ~ Terry Pratchett

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 31, 2008
    LR Title shows up as Caption on SmugMug. Put the date and your caption there.
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  • jcdilljcdill Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited July 31, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    LR Title shows up as Caption on SmugMug. Put the date and your caption there.

    I want BOTH. I want a title, and then a caption. I want this data taken from the Title and Caption metadata fields in Lightroom.
    JC Dill - Equine Photographer, San Francisco & San Jose http://portfolio.jcdill.com
    "Chance favors the prepared mind." ~ Ansel Adams
    "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." ~ Terry Pratchett
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 31, 2008
    jcdill wrote:
    I want BOTH. I want a title, and then a caption. I want this data taken from the Title and Caption metadata fields in Lightroom.
    Yeah I'm trying to say, that there's no place to put 'em both :)

    SmugMug has a caption field - in LR, the Title will fill this. It's really the IPTC Description field.

    Clear as mud?
    Andy

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  • jcdilljcdill Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited July 31, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    Yeah I'm trying to say, that there's no place to put 'em both :)

    SmugMug has a caption field - in LR, the Title will fill this. It's really the IPTC Description field.

    That's not working for me. I have different data in the Title and Caption fields in Lightroom, and this data matches the Title of the image, and the Caption for the image. I'd really like the uploader widget to put BOTH pieces of data into Smugmug. I don't care if you put them into one field or two on your end, but I need BOTH pieces of data to make it to SM during the upload. Is there any way to do that?
    JC Dill - Equine Photographer, San Francisco & San Jose http://portfolio.jcdill.com
    "Chance favors the prepared mind." ~ Ansel Adams
    "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." ~ Terry Pratchett
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 31, 2008
    jcdill wrote:
    That's not working for me. I have different data in the Title and Caption fields in Lightroom, and this data matches the Title of the image, and the Caption for the image. I'd really like the uploader widget to put BOTH pieces of data into Smugmug. I don't care if you put them into one field or two on your end, but I need BOTH pieces of data to make it to SM during the upload. Is there any way to do that?
    Jeffrey Friedl who wrote the uploader from Lightroom would best answer that I guess ne_nau.gif
    Andy

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  • jcdilljcdill Registered Users Posts: 225 Major grins
    edited August 1, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    Jeffrey Friedl who wrote the uploader from Lightroom would best answer that I guess ne_nau.gif

    What's the best way to contact Jeffrey?

    I'm cool with some regular expression hack in the uploader tool's config if that would accomplish what I want to concatenate the fields. Does anyone know if this is possible?
    JC Dill - Equine Photographer, San Francisco & San Jose http://portfolio.jcdill.com
    "Chance favors the prepared mind." ~ Ansel Adams
    "Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." ~ Terry Pratchett
  • mike.strockmike.strock Registered Users Posts: 147 Major grins
    edited August 1, 2008
    jcdill wrote:
    What's the best way to contact Jeffrey?

    I'm cool with some regular expression hack in the uploader tool's config if that would accomplish what I want to concatenate the fields. Does anyone know if this is possible?
    Here's Jeffrey's site: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/smugmug/

    Contact away.

    Mike.
    Mike Strock
    http://www.fourangelsphotography.com/
  • cmasoncmason Registered Users Posts: 2,506 Major grins
    edited August 1, 2008
    mike.strock wrote:
    Here's Jeffrey's site: http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/smugmug/

    Contact away.

    Mike.

    you may want to read here: http://regex.info/blog/2008-05-23/822

    as I recall the plug in has options for setting what info goes where
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