LrC: Sync Smart Collections with Adobe Cloud

Lightroom Classic (LrC) is fantastic for organizing large photo catalogs… but one longstanding limitation has frustrated many people: you cannot sync Smart Collections directly to Adobe’s cloud ecosystem (Lightroom CC for mobile/web). Only regular collections can be synced.

To work around this, plugins like Any Source have already implemented clever solutions but I wanted something that fit my own workflow better. That’s why I created the LrC Smart Collection Sync plugin to mirror smart collections into regular collections for syncing, with a few improvements I needed myself.

Lightroom Classic won’t let you sync Smart Collections directly, so:

• This plugin automatically mirrors selected smart collections as regular collections.
• Those mirror collections can then be synced through Lightroom Classic’s built-in sync to mobile/web/cloud.

The Any Source plugin does that too, but my plugin also:

• Lets you set the interval when background syncing occurs, from 10 seconds to 300. This is how often mirroring of smart collections with normal collections happens, not syncing with the Adobe Cloud.
• Automatically pause sync while editing (so it doesn’t interrupt your workflow)

All this makes syncing smart collections more streamlined and controllable.

Back in 2020 I posted here about using Any Source, and I’ve been using it ever since, but I never used any of the other features of that fine software and I wondered if it would be difficult to write my own mirroring plugin with the help of Claude Code that is.

The result is a new, simpler plugin. It’s also open source if that matters to you.

Install

Installation is easy enough:

• Clone or download the plugin by clicking on the CODE button and clicking the “Download ZIP” link.
• Place lrc-smart-collection-sync.lrplugin in your Lightroom or Pictures directory.
• Add it through File → Plug-in Manager in LrC.

When enabled, it will add 2 new menus to Plug-in Extras:

• Smart Collection Sync…
• Sync Now

Usage

• Go to File > Plug-in Extras > Smart Collection Sync…
• Select the smart collections you want to mirror
• Set your sync interval
• Enable auto sync or run a manual sync

Check “No sync while in Develop” to disable syncing while you’re working on a photo. I noticed while editing photos that Any Source would sometimes sync, and the syncing action became part of the undo which was annoying.

Once the collections are created, tell LrC to sync them with the Adobe Cloud. You can now edit them in Lightroom.

This is the first release of the plugin. It seems to work ok for me. If it takes a while for the configuration window to appear, optimize your Lightroom Catalogue. That really helped me. I guarantee nothing except that this will take up space on your computer!

I don’t have any “new release” checks added but I’ll post here about major changes, or you can watch the GitHub repository to get updates.

PS. The Any Source plugin is really a great plugin with many more features. If you use Lightroom Classic you’ll probably find something in there that will be useful.

Heute um 18 Uhr wieder eine Happy Shooting Live! @chrismarquardt und @nSonic sprechen z.B. über Spaß mit Altglas, außerdem News zu den Geminiden, Adobe Cloud Sync und Capture One Express. Nicht verpassen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jQ3iX-7toA

#hslive #altglas #geminiden #adobecloud #wrint

Cloud-Fotos für KI-Trainingszwecke: Adobe wehrt sich gegen Vorwürfe

Mit Bildern und Videos aus seiner Cloud will Adobe künftig keine KIs trainieren. Dies sei auch bisher nicht der Fall gewesen, sagt das Unternehmen.

https://www.heise.de/news/Das-ist-nicht-einmal-vorgekommen-Adobe-wehrt-sich-gegen-Vorwuerfe-7464474.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Adobe #AdobeCloud #AdobeCreativeCloud #DALLE #Datenschutz #Fotografie #GenerativeAI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #ctFotografie

Not long after the courier had dropped my parcel, I was into building that replacement for my old HP #desktop #computer

Under the hood a current gen #IntelCorei5 13600K and 32GB DDR4 #Memory with 1TB of #NVME storage.

It was the first time that I could properly test drive #Windows11 which I had heard so many #glowing comments about (sarcastic btw).

I didn't believe the popular opinion entirely on Windows 11 as people always get grumpy about the new versions but boy was I in for a bit of fun!

The first ISO I downloaded failed to copy to a thumb drive 3 times in total, before I downloaded one via the official tool. First boot following install had no ethernet connection, so it wouldn't let me get anywhere and once relocated to a connection gave me no insight into why after completing some initial steps it went #blank on screen for a bit, so there was some initial confusion rebooting before it finally got going.

Next, it decided to crack the sads and reboot while I was installing #drivers a few times, before I isolated some causes for concern (which included BIOS updates).

That wasn't the end for troubles mind you, while installing #AdobeCloud I was presented with issues accessing Visual C++ Redistributable msi installer files, which I discovered after trying to reinstall a few of those, could be potentially remedied by adjusting the virtual address space that 32 bit apps have access to via bcdedit /set IncreaseUserVA.

Now that I've got an #audioeditor and some #videoediting software installed, we seem to be running stable....but I can imagine that most users would be ready to chuck the computer out of the nearest window hours before I got the darn thing working.

Think I need a bit of #Sleep now before I get a chance to do some more with the system!

Via twitter: Adobe has 'opted in' anything you store to AdobeCloud into AI building systems, and you have to manually opt out (under 'content analysis')

https://twitter.com/CrownePrints/status/1610441583899418624

#AdobeCloud

Und noch ein Abo: Warum Adobe Pantone-Farben kostenpflichtig machen darf

Wer mit Adobes Creative Cloud-Anwendungen Pantone-Paletten nutzen will, muss künftig ein Abo abschließen. Daran führt auch juristisch wohl kein Weg vorbei.

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Und-noch-ein-Abo-Warum-Adobe-Pantone-Farben-kostenpflichtig-machen-darf-7338770.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.-.-

#adobe #pantone #adobecloud