My wife recently decided that she wanted to get a bunch of images of the kids printed. I wasn’t around and she didn’t know what the best way would be to make a list of those images for me to print. She had lo res copies of all of the images of the kids that I’ve put out for public display over the last year and so she decided to copy the ones she wanted printed into a new folder on my hard drive. I then had to find all of those images in Lightroom in order to prep print quality versions to send to the printer.
In this case there were only a few images so I could have manually searched for them all pretty quickly. But I didn’t do that. Instead I figured out the “right way” to do it so that I could very quickly repeat the process in the future…
There are two broad steps involved:
- Create a text file with a listing of the directory contents. I use “Karen’s Directory Printer” for that.
- Tag the images in Lightroom so that they can be sent to the printer. I use a Lightroom plugin from Timothy Armes called LR/Transporter for that.
Note – If you haven’t used any of Tim Armes’ plugins before, you owe it to yourself to check them out. They are all free for limited use, or by donation for the full feature list. You can find them at Photographers-Toolbox.com. My personal favorite is LR/Enfuse, which allows you to blend multiple images made with multiple exposures (somewhat like HDR photograpahy, only not quite).
