Camera, Images, Action !!
To paraphrase a well known saying. If you have followed these last few posts you will know that we are sending images from Lightroom Mobile to ShutterSnitch where we have configured Metadata & FTP locations to send the images to. Now lets tie it all together.
Accessing the gear icon for the actions.
The sliding arrow points to the action that will be applied to each image as it arrives in the application. So what does this particular action do?
That action on my system, changes the file name to suit the destination (I wont break this down – it should be self evident once you add this task to your action) then it applies one of the Metadata presets (as I showed a few posts back). Finally it exports to the FTP location.
The clever bit being that if the send to the location is a success , the action “Sent Alamy” is also run. What does that do?
It applies another Metadata Preset (one that only sets the rating and label).
Then it moves the image to another collection “ALL SENT”
This (hopefully) leaves the initial collection empty as all the images move out of it as they are sent. Any that do remain need re-sending.
The final 2 images of this post show Lightroom and ShutterSnitch sitting side by side on the iPad screen (use the 3 dots to set up split screen view) allowing editing to continue as ShutterSnitch sends.
This post ends the workflow as it is on the iPad itself. The next post will start to look at how I work on the desktop, moving the images off of the iPad, consolidating the images in the main library and other processes that have really advanced my workflow. (Beware – Lightroom plugin’s ahoy!)
Any comment or questions – get in touch!
Julie Edwards-X 