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Demo on New Couture Book Lightroom Plug-In

Rafael Loureiro! — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:35:39 GMT

We're really excited about our new release of our Plug-in for Adobe's Lightroom, so we thought we'd make a little video demo of how it works.

After you have downloaded and installed the Plug-In (for more info on installation, check out: ), this demo will show you how to use the plug in to export your images to your COUTURE BOOK account directly from your edited Lightroom library.

Here's everything in a nutshell:

   1. Install Plug-in
   2. Open the images in Lightroom that you want to export
   3. Click on the export button on the bottom right
   4. Change the option from Export to Disk to Export to COUTURE BOOK
   5. Make sure your Jpeg export settings are set to 100%
   6. Pick the project you want to upload to, or type in the name of a new project
   7. Hit the Export button to start the export

This will send all of your corrected images automatically to your COUTURE BOOK account. Once it's completed, it will open a browser window to the login page, and you can continue with your book order.

Lightroom Export PlugIn

Rafael Loureiro! — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:58:28 GMT

Step 1: Download

DOWNLOAD PLUGIN HERE

A plugin consists of a folder worth of files, with the folder having a name that ends with “.lrplugin”.
Installing a plugin involves simply moving the plugin folder to a place where Lightroom will find it, then restarting Lightroom.

Upon downloading, you'll want to unzip to create the plugin folder, then move that folder to the proper spot as described below.

Step 2: Installation

(The following applies to Lightroom 1.4 only. Lightroom 2.0 has different instructions. Skip to the bottom to see those.)

Installing on a Mac
You can simply click on it in Finder, and it will install for you. Cool.
To install either one manually, move the plugin folder to

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/

to install for all users, or for just yourself, to the folder of the same name under your home:

~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/

In either case you'll have to create the Modules folder within the Lightroom folder if it's not already there.

Installing on Windows XP
Move the plugin folder to this folder:

\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Modules\

where username is your Windows username. Note that you may have to visit the Folder Options dialog to allow the normally-hidden Application Data folder to be seen.

You must create the Modules folder within the Lightroom folder if it's not already there.

As an example, on my XP system, the “COUTUREBOOK.lrplugin” folder ends up as:

C:\Documents and Settings\rodrigo\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Modules\COUTUREBOOK.lrplugin

Installing on a Windows Vista
Move the plugin folder to this folder:

\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Modules\

Here, too, you'll have to create the Modules folder within the Lightroom folder if it's not already there.

Testing the Install
Restart Lightroom, select an image, then bring up the export dialog. Clicking in the top area of the export dialog should then bring up the newly-installed plugin in the list.

Uninstalling
You can uninstall or disable a plugin in a number of ways:
Delete the plugin folder, or move it to where Lightroom won't find it
Rename the plugin folder, for example, to “flickr.lrdevplugin-disabled”
Rename the “Info.lua” file inside the plugin folder (all plugins have an “Info.lua” file), e.g. to “Info.lua-disabled”

Lightroom 2.0 Installation

In Lightroom 2.0, navigate to File > Plugin Manager to bring up the plugin-manager dialog, click on the [Add] button in the lower-left, and navigate to wherever you've placed the “.lrplugin” folder for the plugin you'd like to install.

COUTURE BOOK tour bus comin' round the bend

Rafael Loureiro! — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:02:01 GMT

Just in case you haven't seen it yet, we've teamed up with David Jay, ShowIt and Adobe and will be coming to a town near you!

We're going to be traveling in style in this new tour bus that DJ hooked up:

The tour starts at the end of the July and goes through the begining of September. Here's a link to the dates, locations, and registrations: http://www.davidjay.com/tour

Find a stop close by, sign up, and we'll see you there!!