LR4 Plugin Keyword Question

AperturePlus

Please tell me something and forgive me if this has been covered.

I know that there is, or was, an issue synching keywords from LR into Smugmug, but it seems that keywords transfer happily now.

The question I have is, that if you change keywords in Smugmug, will they synch back to Lightroom as I can't seem to get them to?

I uploaded a test batch of images and then changed some keywords in SM and they are not appearing in LR4. If I delete all the keywords from SM, how do I get them back in from LR? With the images all on SM and all keywords deleted from SM, if I re-synch the same shots from LR, the keywords never make it back to SM.

Is this part of the Adobe issue, or is it me?

rainforest1155

I'm not sure if it's possible to have keywords synced back to Lightroom. There may not be an option to do this currently. Did you try the 'sync photos' feature in the SmugMug publish service settings?

If you'd like content from Lightroom republished to SmugMug, you would need to mark the photos in question for republishing. That should replace the existing photo on SmugMug and also update caption/keywords on SmugMug.

AperturePlus

Hi Sebastian. I did try to "sync photos" and it does not touch the keywords, in either direction.

I had fairly minimal tags in LR, preferring to put them into shots directly on SM. This was before the plugin came out.

Now that I have all my images keyworded on SM (I have up to 50 keywords per image) and have started using the plugin, I don't want to have to either manually enter them in LR, or in SM.

Is there a workaround for this or is there a fix planned?

EntropicTendencies

The plugin doesn't currently sync keywords back from SmugMug to Lightroom. I believe it is something that David would like to implement, but it is not a trivial task and we cannot make any commitment as to if or when.

Lightroom is the master of the metadata. If you republish you will replace the title/caption/keywords on SmugMug - any changes on SmugMug will be overwritten (I've just spent time confirming this).

You need to avoid re-publishing the images to protect the keywords on SmugMug. I would suggest that you select the images and (in Library grid view) select them and then from a right-click (ctrl-click on a Mac) and select "Mark as Up-To-Date".

Do you know about keyword painting in Lightroom?



(http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Lightroom/3.0/Using/WS7A3A270C-36FB-4698-9039-3BFBF0D76B6B.html)

That's one way of quickly applying keywords in a grid view.

There isn't an easy solution.

Barrie