IPTC location to Lightroom keyword hierarchy

Background

I’m always geotagging my photos with the help of myTracks. myTracks takes my gps track and adds IPTC location data derived from the track and google maps to my photos.

IPTC location data of a photo

In addition I like to have the location as keywords in my photos, because I created a keyword hierarchy to organize my photos:

part of my keyword hierarchy in Lightroom

Unfortunately myTracks dosen’t create keywords in raw files and Lightroom has no option to import the IPTC location as keywords.

So it was my task to write my first small Lightroom plugin. Lua (the language the plugin is written in) isn’t very complicated. But the Lightroom SDK was pain in the ass. There is an API reference and a short „manual“ but most of the problems I was only able to solve with the help of other open source plugins.

The plugin is hosted on GitHub, so everyone can contribute to it.

Installation

Download the repository via the „Clone or download“ button on the Github page.

After that you can put the „locationKeywords.lrdevplugin“ where ever you want on your disk, but I recommend to put it into

/$home/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules/

After that open Lightroom and go to File > Plug-In Manager… With the button Add in the lower left corner of the Lightroom Plug-In Manager you can select the plugin directory:

Plugin manager of Lightroom

Settings

The Plug-In provides three simple settings.

Settings of the plugin

Parent keyword

You have the option to create the keyword hierarchy below a „Master“ keyword, e.g. „Places I have visited“ or something else. Leave it empty, if all countries should be created at the top most level of your LR keywords.

Display dialog messages if IPTC data is missing

If you have selected a photo without IPTC location a dialog message will be created while proccessing the photo. This can be very annoying, so you have the option to enable or disable it.

Create log file

For debugging reasons you can set this option to create a logfile:

 ($home/documents/IPTCtoKeyword.log)

Usage

  1. Select the photos in your library
  2. Go to menu ‚Library‘, ‚Plug-In Extras‘ and select ‚IPTC location to keyword hierarchy‘

Download

You can get the plugin here:

https://github.com/bw1faeh0/iptcLocationToLRKeywords

Schreibe einen Kommentar