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LightUp comes in two flavors, FREE and Registered. Start with free.
This is one of the hardest parts of installing the plug-in, where to put it? You aren't required to put it in any one specific place. Consider putting it in a location that is always available (not a shared or network drive, for example), and somewhere that doesn't get trashed. I installed mine in a special directory just for 3rd-party Lightroom Plug-ins.
Once you found your permanent location for LightUp and have unzipped the archive, open Lightroom.
Right-click on any photo and choose "Export" about halfway down the menu, and then "Export ..." from the flyout menu.
This opens the typical Lightroom Export Dialog Window.
Click the button at the bottom-left that says "Plug-in Manager ..."
Lightroom will now open a new window called the "Lightroom Plug-in Manager". This page will show you all of the plug-ins you have installed, and their status.
Again, look down at the bottom left. Click the button that says "Add". You will be prompted to locate the LightUp Plug-in (wherever you happened to save it). Remember: your plug-in needs to be on your hard drive somewhere that it won't be deleted or moved -- or it will stop working!
To configure the Plug-in, start your first export session. Right-click on any photo and choose "Export" about halfway down the menu, and then "Export ..." from the flyout menu. This brings up the Lightroom Export menu. Notice that the "Export To:" drop down now includes "Meetup Event Album" as an option.
Before using the plug-in with Meetup.com, you have to give it "permission" to post images on your account. Otherwise, it might posts images to my account. We may not go to the same meetups.
The first time you select "Meetup Event Album" from the "Export To:" option box, you will see that the "Login" button is available. Click that button, and Lightroom will ask permission to contact Meetup.com on your behalf. Click the button that says "View authentication page on Meetup"
LightUp for Lightroom will now open your default web browser, and take you to a special web page on Meetup.com. You can verify you are on Meetup by looking at the URL. LightUp for Lightroom is an approved application at meetup.com.
You can see LightUp listed under the Meetup Application Directory at http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/apps/
Click "Allow" to continue.
CAUTION: This step includes a Lightroom Popup that might get "lost" under other windows. When you receive your app auth code from Meetup.com, minimize or close the Meetup.com window.
Meetup registers LightUp for Lightroom with your account and provides you a special key. Meanwhile, LightUp has opened another box on Lightroom with a special empty box.
Copy this string of numbers from Meetup and paste it into the special dialog box provided by Lightroom.
Note: This small window may pop-up behind your web browser! Minimize windows to find it.
Did I mention that this little window pop-up from Lightroom might end up under your web browser? Close Meetup.com if you can't find where to paste the auth code!
After you authenticate with Meetup, the plug-in's first task is to grab and save a list of your meetup groups. Since this list is Cached to make LightUp for Lightroom faster, you will need to press the "Refresh Groups" button each time you join or leave a meetup group.
Right click on an image (or group of images), and select "Export", then "Export ...". When the Lightroom Dialog box appears, select "Meetup Event Album" from the "Export To:" drop down list. Your list of groups will appear in the "Groups" box.
Click on the desired group and wait a few moments for the list of events to populate, it won't take long. Once it populates with events and albums, select one.
The "Export" button at the bottom of the Export Dialog box becomes available. You can now export your image to this Meetup.com Album!
LightUp for Lightroom provides a unique (and cool) feature for photographers. It allows you to post select EXIF and Lightroom metadata as a comment on your photo. For photography instructors, or people interested in getting feedback, this is valuable information that people often request.
"Tokens" represent metadata information available in Lightroom. These are both EXIF image information and metadata you provided Lightroom about the image. Placing the tokens in the "Current Pattern" window update the "Example" below the box.
Select one of the "Tokens" from the three drop down boxes, and then press the "Add Token" button. This populates the large textbox with the tokens you selected. The "Example:" displays how your image comment will look when posted.
After each image is posted, LightUp will automatically create the first comment with the EXIF and Lightroom Metadata as you configured it.
Thank you to everyone who has downloaded my plug-in over the past 4 years, and provided awesome feedback. The plug-in remains free with an image upload limit, just like previous versions.
Donate $20 and I'll send you my personal thank you, and a copy with no restrictions.
The free version includes vanity links to my other projects:
| Lightroom 4 | Lightroom 5 | Lightroom 5 | Lightroom 6 | Lightroom 6 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donation | FREE | FREE | $20 $10! | FREE | $20 |
| System | Mac | Mac / Win | Mac / Win | Mac / Win | Mac / Win |
| Full-Resolution Uploads | |||||
| Multi-Image Uploading | |||||
| List Meetup Groups and Events | |||||
| Customizable Comment Posting | |||||
| 25 Basic EXIF tags for Comments | |||||
| 45 Advanced Metadata tags | |||||
| 8 Model / Portrait Meta tags | |||||
| New GPS EXIF tags | |||||
| Duplicate Upload Checking | |||||
| Automatically Update Image EXIF Data (Address, State, City, etc) from Meetup.com Event Location | |||||
| Automatically Add Lightroom Keywords from Meetup Data (Location, Event and Group Name, etc) | |||||
| Automatically Add Lightroom Keywords For Camera Data (Camera make, Lens, etc) | |||||
| Share your Camera and Exposure Info in an Image Comment with NEW PRESETS! | |||||
| Meetup.com URL to your image is saved in LR Metadata | |||||
| Automatically add EXIF "Title" as meetup.com photo "Caption" | |||||
| Uploads per Export | 10 Images | 10 Images | Unlimited | 10 Images | Unlimited |
| Ads | Joe's Ads | Joe's Ads | None! | Joe's Ads | None! |
| Current Version | 1.0.4.4 | 1.0.5.1 | 1.0.5.1 | 1.0.7.0 | 1.0.7.0 |
| Download | Download | DONATE | Download | DONATE |
| Version | Details |
|---|---|
| 1.0.7 |
Version 7 is the biggest set of new features to date! (Note: Some features only available on the registered version)
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| 1.0.6.1 |
Fixed an issue with version numbers that significantly angered one user |
| 1.0.6 |
Added Additional GPS options for meetup image comments. |
| 1.0.5.1 |
Final build for legacy Lightroom 5 Users
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| 1.0.4 |
Final build for legacy Lightroom 4 Users. |
| 1.0.4 |
Build for Lightroom 5 Users
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| 1.0.3 |
Added LR3 Support and better instructions for API
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| 1.0.2 |
Fixed bug that caused assertion errors, added "albums" not just "events", display number of photos in each album. |
| 1.0.1 |
Added "Check for Updates", "Contact", "Donate" buttons |
| 1.0.0 |
first public release |
| 0.16 |
saving all settings as preferences |
| 0.15 |
ignored "The" when sorting group names |
| 0.14 |
added "LightUp" section with "check for updages" button |
| 0.13 |
resorted the meetup groups by name |
| 0.12 |
resorted the events by date |
| 0.11 |
added a test button so users can see they are "logged in" to meetup |
| 0.6 - 0.10 |
added checkbox options on the camera settings section |
| 0.5 |
added custom camera settings to the message text, added "label", "caption", and "URL" to the message |
| 0.4 |
added spooling off a custom message at the bottom of the image |
| 0.3 |
added dropdown for groups, added dropdown for events based on groups |
| 0.2 |
added "get api key" button for quick access |
| 0.2 |
added "get api key" button for quick access |
| 0.1 |
first initial build with actual photo uploaded to the meetup.com beta site using api key |
