Replacing pics once they are ordered

firststring74

Please help! I do mostly event photography. I am unable to edit every pic before it goes onto my smugmug website. Once people order pics, I do some basic editing (crop, remove blemish, straighten etc). I then try to replace the pic that they order with the corrected one from Lightroom 1.4 (I know I haven't upgraded). The corrected pic will not upload, it appears OK in Lightroom, but when I search for the pic on the computer using the replace button on the smugmug website I can only find the the original unedited one. I have tried a search and have been unable to solve this issue using the information that I have found. Can someone please give me some advice?

Thanks!

Andy

Are you sure your replacement photo is

* in sRGB Color Space
* not larger than 48 Megapixels
* not larger than 24 Megabytes

afarber

Are you exporting from Lightroom? The way Lightroom works, it tracks all edits in the database file - not in the original image. It does that so that you can always go back to the original image. That's one of the most important and useful aspects of Lightroom.

In order to have a jpg of the edited photo, you must export it from Lightroom and save it somewhere on your harddrive. The way I do it, I have a subfolder within the specific shoot folder - this I use for finished, edited and exported photos. You could replace the original jpg with the newly exported one, but that goes against the whole concept and could theoretically leave you with a subpar image - jpg recompressed to jpg.

I hope that helps. I apologize if I misunderstood your dilema.

firststring74 wrote:

Please help! I do mostly event photography. I am unable to edit every pic before it goes onto my smugmug website. Once people order pics, I do some basic editing (crop, remove blemish, straighten etc). I then try to replace the pic that they order with the corrected one from Lightroom 1.4 (I know I haven't upgraded). The corrected pic will not upload, it appears OK in Lightroom, but when I search for the pic on the computer using the replace button on the smugmug website I can only find the the original unedited one. I have tried a search and have been unable to solve this issue using the information that I have found. Can someone please give me some advice?

Thanks!

firststring74

afarber, you are right on it. I knew Lightroom worked that way. Thanks for the work around.

C

afarber

No prob. It's not really a workaround - just the way it's designed. There is a plugin for Lighroom that will export directly to Smugmug. It essentially exports to a temp file, uploads, and deletes the temp jpg. Search for it...should be pretty easy to find.

firststring74 wrote:

afarber, you are right on it. I knew Lightroom worked that way. Thanks for the work around.

C