Lightroom plugin

alaios

Dear all,
I just got my lightroom smugmug plugin installed. And I am happy.
Can someone explain when I see a photo in a dgrin gallery (inside lightroom) if this is the online version of the photo or the offline version I have in my computer.

Is there any guide where it can explain me what is the potential of this lovely plugin?

I would like to thank you ffor your reply
Regards
Alex

leftquark

When in Lightroom it's always the offline version on the computer. The only time you'll see the version on SmugMug is when you're browsing your SmugMug site, or using our Mobile Apps.

The SM LR Plugin makes it very easy to upload photos, re-edit and re-upload, and keep metadata updated. We're actually running a Lightroom Plugin webinar on Tuesday and Thursday next week, if you'd like to attend. You can sign up here: http://tinyurl.com/huw84l5

alaios

Great. Will we be able to download and view it afterwards?

Ferguson

alaios wrote: »

Great. Will we be able to download and view it afterwards?

I sense a potential misunderstanding.

The NORMAL way that one would use smugmug in general is as a way to display your photos, while keeping the master copy on your own system(s). It is not really intended as the primary storage (please note I say this as a customer and with no official backing).

To take my case in particular, all my photos are on my desktop, backed up to external hard drives and also to the cloud. If I want to edit them, I edit them on my desktop.

I also then "publish" some of them to the Smugmug web through Lightroom and the lightroom plugin. These make copies (potentially changing them on the way, such as resizing them).

While I CAN download them from Smugmug then, and edit what I get down, I would not. The originals are of higher quality (at least for me) and raw (again, at least for me) and so I would always go to the originals, not Smugmug, if I wanted to edit them.

Now.... that might be different for someone with a mobile device only. They may want to use Smugmug as their primary storage rather than the cell phone. But they wouldn't generally use Lightroom for that, nor the plugin (which is a desktop thing). (Maybe Adobe eventually will get everyone using Lightroom on cell phones, but I may just shoot myself if they dumb it down that far.)

Does that help?

leftquark

I think he meant: "Will we be able to download and view THE WEBINAR afterwards"?

The answer to that is Yes, it will be on the SmugMug YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/smugmug

Ferguson

leftquark wrote: »

I think he meant: "Will we be able to download and view THE WEBINAR afterwards"?

Sigh... I wish English was my second language, then I might pay more attention to what I read.