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On the Album Info Section, there is a field for Album Thumbnail, that looks like a free text field.

How can I define an image to be used as the Album Thumbnail in this fied?

Is it defined at LR plugin or in the Back End ?

Regards,

Paulo Tebet

I have rebuild my computer and I am not being able to login to TTG main site to get info about my purchases. I need the latest files to configure CRG both server and LR plugins.

I've tried to recover my password but none of the emails that I probably used is working.

I've tried

paulo_tebet@yahoo.com.br
photography@paulotebet.com
photography@paulotebet.com.br

How can I gain access to my account again??

Regards,

Paulo Tebet

Is there some sort of integration between CRG & Cart?

Can I create a CRG and give the customer the option to buy some sort of prints / Canvas?

I would like to give them the option to select the images and then the "products", sizes and quantity like:

Picture A, 6 x 10 prints, 3 units.  Paypal payment would be nice to have.

Regards,

Paulo Tebet

I have publisher configured and I can publish new CRG albums with extra info that is added before the regular Block and Sidebar copy and it is working just fine.

I would like to use tokens inside by LR Template Catalog, this way I would not have to change anything on the Publisher Setup to include the name of the customer.

I tried to include [CLIENT_NAME] in the copy, but even though I was logged in when I access the gallery , it shows as regular text instead of the name of the client....

Regards,

Paulo Tebet

The more I dig on this product the more I got blown away. It is fantastic!

I have recently discovered the functionality of CE4 Publisher that allows me to use Publish Services from within LR and speed up things and organize them with Colection Sets and Smart Collections publishing the Proof (CE4 CRG) with even Private area support for the customer. Awsome!

I realize that there are some CE4 modules specially built to create web galleries in a very effective way and with lots of features like full screen light box that is one of my required feature to by website.

The problem is that I have some much more requirements specifics to my website that includes:

All my images needs to be organised in a particular way inside my site. Because of this I have never picked up a WP gallery plugin to upload my images, because they either want to upload to the regular wp-contents/uploads or to some custom gallery specific folder. From my initial tests, it looks like CE4 operates somehow in the same way. Even though I can select a custom folder for each gallery to be exported (via Publishing Services) the folders would have a bunch of other stuff inside them.

Right now, I have a way of adding some metadata to each image making to which class of images would them be uploaded to. For example:  wedding, pre-wedding, post-wedding.
This way, using some smart collection logic and FTP publishing services I can have a whole shoot uploading different images to different places inside my website like this;

mydomain/images/going-to-get-married/pre-wedding/
mydomain/images/going-to-get-married/wedding/
mydomain/images/going-to-get-married/post-wedding/

So my premisses to create image galleries inside WordPress is to be able to use images already in the WordPress/Media Library ( I have managed to make my custom ftp upload to show up in WP Media Library).

My big issue has been with the Lightbox. right now I am using NextGen Gallery (free edition ) plus the Next Gen Plus Gallery (paid Plugin) just to have access to one of their lightbox that gives me the ability to use the Full Screen Lightbox as show in here http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/nextgen- … y/6424/543  (

So basically I have to have 2 very heavy plugins on my site ( NextGen + Next Gen Plus) with tons of features that I don't use just to be able to use their "Full Screen Lightbox" on regular WordPress Images from WordPress Media Library.....

Now the real question:

I've seen that CE4 does have a Full Screen Light box that would suit my needs. The "problem" is that is not a WordPress Plugin. I understand that the scope of CE4 modules is way bigger that then just WordPress and can be used to create amazing Images Galleries with stunning Lightbox.

For me the issue is that the only thing I need is a WordPress Full Screen Light box that can be used on regular WP Media Library images.

Is there any change of getting just the Full Screen Lightbox functionality working inside a WordPress site??

Because of my very unique needs I believe that CE4 Autoindex, CE4 Gallery would not be useful.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

If I could not find a better way I will have to keep using an AK-47 plus a Magnum 44 to kill a fly.... (hope it translates... ;-) )

Regards,

Paulo Tebet

Not sure if this is the right place to submit feature request, if not please direct me to the proper place.

First of all let me tell how much I appreciate this plugin. After seen a lot of possible candidates for Proof Galleries, TTG-CRG is by far the best one and it is the one I have selected to be part of my workflow.

Just because I have been using it so much and have coming from the IT Software industry I came out with a few ideas I would like to present to see if they make sense and is feasible to be considered for future implementations.

1.) SELECTS or REJECTS

Depending on the number of the pictures submitted to customer and how inclined are them to Select or Reject the images, we need a way to indicate this. On a wedding shooting with 100s (some photographer will have 1000s) of images, I believe it will be easier for the client to only select the rejects (hopefully a minority of the images) instead of selecting the Keepers (hopefully the majority of the images).

I though on some ways of implementing this:

1a) We can just tell them in the Block to let us know when submitting the images on the Comments field if the selections are Keepers or Rejects.

1b) If we could change (add) fields to the submission form that would be very good. I could include a Radio Button options with "Selected images are Keepers" and "Selected images are Rejects" and this field would be mandatory. This way there is no chance of miscommunication

1c) The best solution in my opinion would be on the Full Viewer to have icons on the status bar indicating which type of selections are being made. As a suggestion the icons could be controlled with keystrokes like in Lightroom  P (Pick), U (unpick), R (Reject)

2.) KEYBOARD SELECTIONS AND STAR RATING SUPPORT

One of my objectives in my business it to provide the best experience possible for the customer. Trying to offer the best they can need in a faster way possible. In my opinion the fastest way user could Cull, Select and Rate their images is keyboard base. That's how I do my Culling and Rating for my RAW file in the beginning of my workflow. I use the keyboard arrows key to move forward and back and 1 to 5 for rating the images.

Right now the best scenario I've got was in the Full Viewer interface to use the keyboard arrows key to navigate among the images and letting the mouse pointer just over the Select/Unselect icon. This way customer could just arrow, arrow, click, arrow, click etc...

2a) Allow at least in the Full Viewer the ability to select/unselect an image with a Keystroke.  As already covered in item 1c a better way would be to use P (Pick), U (Unpick), X (Reject) .

2b) I would also suggest that the numbers 1 through 5 would rate the images accordingly, not being necessary to Edit image by image just to rate them.

3.) OPTIONS

3a) A combination like Ctrl-1 through Ctrl-0 would allow to toggle the Options without the need of using the Edit icon that would only be used for Annotations. If customer would like to write a note on a particular image for example to crop the image to exclude Aunt Sara from the composition, then the Edit icon would be used.

So in this case we could have:

Ctrl-1  --> Toggle Option  1 ( In my case "Album Cover" )
Ctrl-2  --> Toggle Option  2 ( In my case "Poster" )
Ctrl-3  --> Toggle Option  3 ( In my case "to be used in a video clip" )
Ctrl-4  --> Toggle Option  4 ( In my case "Invitation" )
etc...

4) EXPAND FILTERING SYSTEM

The filtering system is already implemented because we can now filter based on selection criteria of the images.

4a) I would like to suggest that some sort of filtering mechanism could be provided to filter based on Color Flags and / or Star ratings

4b) Being able to filter based on Option selections would also be useful. The UI could bring the content of Option 1, Option 2 based on the Feedback Profile.

5) IMPORTING MORE THEN THE COLOR FLAGS

5a) I would like to suggest also that besides the Color Flags set in LR that things like Star Rating, Pick, Unpick, Reject status would also be possible to be imported if so desired.

6) ADDING STAR RATING DIRECT ON THE THUMBNAILS

6a.) Besides Star Ratings, maybe the first "n" option should be available in the thumbnails too. If not overlaid maybe just below the thumbnails.

Best Regards,

Paulo Tebet