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"Load iPhoto keywords into gallery keywords field"

T'would be very useful....

Dates are All Messed Up

The dates uploaded to Gallery2 should be the album/photo dates of the pictures in iPhoto, not the upload dates.

Export titles and comments configuration

I'd like to be able to export information to the gallery 2 title field, description field, AND summary field for a photo. iPhoto only has title and comment fields, so the summary needs to be drawn from the comment field. If this fab plug-in did this, it would save everybody a lot of work & frustration. This is important because the Summary field, is displayed in Gallery's index view, and the caption is only seen in the single photo view. PLEASE let the plugincopy the iPhoto comment to BOTH the Caption AND Summary fields in Gallery!

One suggestion is to take the first 255 characters of the comment field and use that as the summary field for albums/photos (since the summary field only allows 255 characters). This is what I do by hand now and I think it works nicely.

iPhoto allows one to attach keywords to a photo, and these could optionally be exported to gallery as well.

The steps to get your iPhoto comments into the Gallery2 summary field are easy if you have access to the web server and database. I log on to the server running Gallery2, and open a mysql session:

$ mysql -p gallery2

Enter password:

Reading table information for completion of table and column names

You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.

Your MySQL connection id is 170 to server version: 5.0.18

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

Then I paste in the SQL query I wrote to copy the description field to the summary field:

mysql> update g2_Item set g_summary = g_description where g_summary is NULL;

That will take all of the photos you've just uploaded (which will have empty summary fields) and set the description field. If you're not running mysql you may need to run the commit; command to commit the change to the database.

Return to the Gallery2 Site Admin page, go to Maintenance, and run the Delete Database Cache command. That will force your new summary entries to show the next time you visit the gallery.

iPhotoToGallery no longer seems to be working with the latest update to iPhoto 7.1.3. Uploads hang, no error messages, but just stop uploading. Also when I try to create a new album, it looks like its corrupt. I can't upload anything to that folder and I can't delete it through the gallery web interface. Is anyone else having issues with the latest version of iPhoto? Any plans to update iPhotoToGallery?

Set the date field in gallery to reflect the date from iPhoto, not the date uploaded.

Support for iPhoto 7 (iLife 08) Any chance this will happen? Development seems to have stalled quite a bit. [Motion seconded] [thirded - doesn't export titles for me, making me have to copy and paste them all in. Is anyone else having this issue?] The plugin seems to work just fine for me in iPhoto 7. Titles doesn't export for me either. And in latest update (the 2nd) the panel doesn't show at all! I tried to reinstall the plugin but nothing happened. I'll donate a few bucks if this issue is resolved!

I've never developed for Mac OS X before, but I can't imagine that integration with iPhoto '08 will be difficult for someone that has been using the cocoa framework before. Apple have uploaded a new API for writing export plugins to iPhoto -08. Anyone up for it?

changes to gallery remote protocol in gallery 2.2 break iPhotoToGallery A security enhancement to the gallery remote protocol has broken the iPhotoToGallery plugin. Updating iPhotoToGallery to work with the new protocol should be relatively easy. See http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery_Remote:Protocol#authToken and http://gallery.menalto.com/node/58109 Tip: try updating the remote plugin to version 1.0.9.

Add an "Uploaded" keyword locally after uploading

It would be useful (and not too hard I guess) to allow optionally tagging successfully uploaded pictures in iPhoto with a user-configurable keyword like "Uploaded". Then a smart album could be created with, e.g. all photos 2 stars and above that need uploading.

Set new album title from name of the active iPhoto album

My workflow is normally to create a new album in iPhoto drag the pictures I want to it, then open iPhotoToGallery where I create a new album and then do the export. It would be neat to have the Album name defaulting to the name of the active iPhoto album.

iWeb to Gallery

Could you make an easy way to intergrate iWeb to Gallery?

Outline View

Replace the "Add to album" drop-down list with an NSOutlineView. As my gallery grows, it becomes harder and harder to find the album I'm looking for in a flat list. I tried to add this myself when you released the source, but then I ran out of time... (sorry!) Thanks for all you do.

Syncing

It'd be wonderful if iPhotoToGallery could sync up your Gallery with iPhoto and not just simply add pictures, thus your local albums could be mirrored and updated without manually having to find what the last picture uploaded was. I'd be willing to make a hefty donation for this feature...

JPEG Quality Options

It would be great to be able to control the quality and other options of the JPEGs being uploaded - I often find that the automatic setting has too much artifacting for my taste. I totaly agree! Very important, because the default setting leads to a poor quality!

Export Keywords

As noted above, it would be outstanding if iPhotoToGallery would export iPhoto keywords to the Gallery keyword fields. Please, could someone who knows how to write code implement this? :)

Rating Export

It would be very useful if iPhotoToGallery could send ratings up as well as title and description.

Syncing Basic Data

It would be great to have some limited push/pull technology for syncing the ratings/title/description to pre-existing photos. E.g., if a photo already exists(as indicated by whatever other unique signature Gallery provides via it's API, timestamp, etc.), comments, ratings, etc. are simply updated. Providing a similar simple down-link (comments/ratings/title for matching photos) would also be very useful. Full image data syncing might be too difficult, especially given the mismatch between Gallery and iPhoto's organizational semantics, but (depending on the richness of Gallery's API) syncing the simple stuff given simple circumstances could be very nice, and not too hard to implement.

Upload RAW format pictures

Most of my pictures are stored in iPhoto in RAW format. I would be great if an option is available to allow upload of RAW pictures into Gallery without converting them to JPG.

Support AuthDigest

Since "basic authentication" has the issue of sending the password over the internet in plain text, my server is set up to use "digest authorization" - it would be great of iPhotoToGallery would support AuthDigest as well so that I would be able to log into my gallery and use the plugin.

Movie Upload

Since iPhoto supports movies and Gallery supports movies it would be great if iPhotoToGallery would upload the movies. I second this one! (Thirded!!)

utf 8 Support

PLEASE support UTF-8 for all non-English languages. Exporting German descriptions from iPhoto (for example) will end up in totally garbled text. See http://peinliche-bilder.de/main.php/v/Computer/SLES10-Installation/ for an example.

Bug: Cuts strings at international characters (see above: UTF-8)

When using international characters (in my case, a with a ring, a with two dots and o with two dots (swedish)) the strings are cut. It would be great if this handy plugin supported these characters :)

Water please!!!

Add a feature to apply a simple water mark, it could even be text based and doesnt have to be connected with gallery or iphoto. Bulk watermarking (out of iphoto) would make life much easier for me. Thanks.

Another Watermarking request. If possible an option to trigger Gallery into adding the watermarks using the default watermark that gallery has loaded.

Keyword upload

Needs Gallery to support keywords/tags first, but it's on their feature vote page ranked rather high. You can find details on it here.

Another vote for support of tags!

sftp suport

most providers use sftp now. (But this does not impact Gallery in any way, does it?)

Convert Color Profile

I Usually use Adobe 1998 in Photoshop and for iPhoto since it prints better. But sRGB IEC61966-2.1 is better for web. Right now i save 2 versions out of Photoshop, one for iPhoto/Print and one for Web/Gallery.

Lock Ratio when doing Auto Scaling

Currently user must enter both max width and height for scaling. It'd be nice if there was a "lock ratio" button so that the user only had to enter either the width or the height and then the other value would be computed automatically based on the ratio of the original.

Automator

It would be great to use at least the gallery upload part as an Automator Workflow so everyone could export Images not jut from iPhoto. (Especially from Aperture it would be great to export images with an Automator Workflow)

Album Names

Currently, the plugin names albums on the server (in the g2data/albums directory) as "album_001" and such. Would it be possible to allow users to enter their own directory name?

Simultaneous upload while making category

Currently one first has to make a category and then you can upload the pictures. I usually take some time writing the description for the category and it would be very nice if there were some kind of "Start uploading pictures in background" button on the "Create new category". This way the uploading of pictures could already be done when one has finished writing the description.

Watermarking please

The Gallery2 watermarking module doesn't allow bulk watermarking - each image must be done individually. Any way of doing this before the upload?

Watermarking & EXIF

I've been using iMagine Photo's, http://www.yvs.eu.com/imaginephoto.html, AppleScript support to edit EXIF metadata (copyright and author info). This might be useful for bulk watermarking/copyrighting solution.

Bug? Export after rotation

I've noticed that if I use iPhoto 6 to import the pictures from a camera, fix the rotation on the pictures (some pictures were taken with the camera held sidesays) and then immediately exported to Gallery using the plug-in, what gets uploaded to the server does not reflect the rotations (i.e. it uploads the original non-rotated pictures.) I have found that if, after fixing the rotation, I export the pictures to the disk once, then the "Export to Gallery" operation uploads the correct pictures.

More debugging! I'm having a terrible time figuring out how to make iPhotoToGallery work correctly in my setup. All I get is a "Status Failed. Could not upload." message. I've tried all the suggestions for fixing this problem, and for one golden moment I thought it was fixed - I managed to upload about 30 of a 489-picture album before the Status Failed message showed up. It hasn't worked since.

I want more debugging! Perhaps an activity display (like Safari or Mail), perhaps a log file written to disk. The problem is likely somewhere in my server, but I need a place to start looking.

Added by Martin R. Ehmsen: I had the exact same problem, but found the solution. The problem is caused by upload_max_filesize set too low for php (in php.ini). I changed it from 2M to 5M and that helped.

Support for iPhoto->Lightbox Lightbox is a commercial product that I set an artist friend up with some time ago. I want to make it as easy for her to update her Lightbox collection as you have done for Gallery with this cool tool. since you provide source, I'm inclined to take a crack at it myself. part of her use pattern is built around applying keywords in iPhoto (made even easier with the Keyword Assistant add-in), which then are instrumental for visitors to navigate the large body of work her web site. as a programmer, no doubt I truly suck, but if I can hack it successfully, I'll pass you back my keyword-migration code in case it helps with Gallery. [I've only looked recently at Gallery2, and it seems to have keyword support now??]

  -- Adrian Russell-Falla, adrianrf <at-uh> gmail (doh-tuh) com 

Aperture to Gallery2 Export plugin
Hi Zac, Great Plug in, works brilliant for me on my PB G4, running Tiger 10.4.8, currently. So would it be possible for the same for Apples Aperture, so an Aperture to Gallery2 Export plugin. There is the beginings of a discussion about such here: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/41396<br> And the Aperture export api available for version 1.5, here: http://www.apple.com/aperture/resources/exportapi.html

Please let me know should anything develop.

Good luck and thanks again for your efforts,

Richard (a) Rainsford.Net

http://www.rainsford.net

Keywords ... again Gallery 2.1 seems to support non-searchable keywords. it would be great if the plugin could support them too! I've taken to using keyword assist to give keywords to my photos and stopped giving my photos titles or comments, so keyword support is key for me.

Thanks!

Logging and skipping

It would be perfect if iPhotoToGallery would keep a log of failed uploads and then skip those failed uploads. Cause fe I have to upload >5000 photo's and if photo's are too big, it will just stop and then you will have to search that particular photo. (btw the big is like in more then 6 MB per photo and is unfortunately not a php.ini setting)

Thanks!

Client-side thumbnail geneation

When uploading large number of pictures to a shared hosting account, you can generate a server overload caused by the thumbnail generation. So my suggestion is to implement the generation on the client side (if the protocol supports it. If not, maybe the gallery remote plugin for g2 can be altered to support it). Or maybe there could be an delay-feature, so that only ever X secs a new photo is transferred.

Many thanks!!!

Download Gallery Album to iPhoto Album/Roll

It is awesome to be able to pick an album in iPhoto and upload it to an album in Gallery. How about the other way? Select an album in Gallery and download it to an album in iPhoto?

Skip Uploading

Although syncing would be ideal, it's a harder problem. A good first step that would satisfy a lot of what I need syncing for would be to have a way to update metadata such as comments for previously uploaded (and not renamed) pictures.

My two Cents (Syncing)

I know you must be very busy with all the feature requests, but, as someone else mentioned above - the ability to get iPhoto to sync with Gallery would be awesome! In fact, it would be EXACTLY what I have been scouring the web for the past few days. From what I understand, this would be very difficult.

Auto-create Albums I think the only thing missing (or maybe I just missed it and it's already there) is to have iPhotoToGallery automatically create the albums in Gallery that correspond to the folders and albums in iPhoto. It would be nice if I could just say "add folder to Gallery" and it would take the folder and its sub-folders and albums and create the same tree in Gallery. Thanks for an awesome plugin!

Thank you for all your time and effort!

nuked gallery although mentioned in your FAQ, Nuked Gallery support would be fantastical! thanks dude...

iPhoto to Plogger

http://Plogger.org/ is a simpler, easier to use photo gallery. They have an experimental Plogger Remote, similar to Gallery Remote. It's supposed to work with any transfer utility based on the Gallery protocol. I tried several times to connect to my Plogger gallery. iPhotoToGallery kept saying "Bad username/password" even though I used the same login and password as for my Plogger admin. Another Plogger user had the same thing happen. It would be nice if these two could work together. http://plogger.org/docs/remote/

Test with MediaShare module for Postnuke: Looks like with some testing and minor tweaks this plugin could work with http://www.elfisk.dk/index.php?func=viewpub&module=pagesetter&pid=10&tid=10 Might just want to talk with Jørn Wildt (jw AT fjeldgruppen DOT dk).

Please add a plugin to upload videos from IPhoto to Gallery!!!!

JPEG Quality

The quality of resized images is poor. An dropdown field (60 / 70 / 80 / 90 / 100 percent) for JPEG quality would be very helpful and should be the easiest way to go without the risk of someone breaking the app by entering illegal values.

cheers from Berlin!

How about the ability to create new information fields for the photo, album or the entire library? I deal with a lot of work from different artists, so the sort of field I like to see is ArtistName, email, etc... Right now I just shove everything into the comment field which isnt nice because I sometimes want the picture with just the artist name (or email or telephone or a combination of things).

Added 12May08: Thanks for the great plugin. I'm successfully using it with iPhoto 7.1.3 (build 364). I'm having two minor issues. The first problem I see is that under the menu of galleries available, all the items are blank except for the top-level. However, since I know the order in up on the server, I can select the correct one, and photos will be properly loaded there. Second, if I create a new gallery with the plug-in, it creates an album with the proper title, but the album's name is "album" (these are two different fields in the G2 database).

TIFF Uploads When I upload a TIFF file using the plugin, Gallery thinks it has a mime type of image/jpeg. However, when I upload the same TIFF file using GalleryRemote, it displays a real JPEG, and gives me an option to download the original file. I would like it if this plugin could detect that it's uploading a RAW or TIFF tile and do the same handshaking that GalleryRemote does so the picture gets handled correctly.

Thumbnails Broken When uploading from iPhoto 6.0.6, almost everytime, I have lots of broken thumbnails. I have found that they can be easily fixed within the admin section of G2; but it sure would be nice to isolate, and fix this bug

Change Filename on Export It would be great if there was an option to set the filename of the exported object to the image's Title. This would be pretty trivial to implement, I hacked a version to always do this but of course an option would be preferable : )

Update an existing album with new pics Thanks for the tool! Rather than re-uploading all the same pics to add a few new ones to an album, or deleting and re-uploading everything, it would be nice to have it know which pictures were already in the album and upload the new pics ... or automatically delete the original pics and re-upload everything in one shot.

Support exporting GPS data selected in iPhoto '09 If the place of a picture is set via iPhoto '09, it does not get transferred to the gallery. However, if a picture is exported to the file system (by included exporter of iPhoto), the GPS coordinates are embedded into the picture. So I'd guess this should also be possible for iPhotoToGallery. Keep up the great work!