This is a reprint of my JanFeb 2011 feature article in Photoshop User magazine. A subscription to Photoshop User magazine is benefit of becoming a member of the. Ive put together a list of some of the most frequently asked questions about Lightroom. If you have suggestions for an additional question, please leave a comment. This page covers the answer to common questions that I Jeffrey Friedl, an American software guy and hobby photographer in Kyoto get about my plugins for Adobe Lightroom. Download and get free Mac Photoshop Lightroom CC 2015 v6. OS X Full Version with crackserial numberkeygen. Lightroom CC 2015 6. Creativity Design Creative Cloud Plans. What is Creative Cloud Creative apps and services for everyone Photographers Lightroom CC, Photoshop and. Jeffrey Friedls Blog Jeffreys Metadata Wrangler Lightroom Plugin. This export filter plugin for Lightroom allows you to strip selected. You can use it, for. Lightroom develop history. You can also injectoverwrite certain metadata fields title, caption. Lightroom catalog. This plugin works in Lightroom 7 and older versions as far back as. Lightroom 3, though some features depend on the. Lightroom. The same download works for both Windows and Mac. See the box to the upper right for the download link in orange and installation instructions. Note Please see the FAQ and known issues before reporting bugs. Overview. Heres a screenshot showing the options and features of the Metadata. Serial Number For Lightroom 6 Mac' title='Serial Number For Lightroom 6 Mac' />Wrangler as it appears in the Export Dialog after the plugin. In the screenshot. Touch of Privacy preset for data to remove has been selected items that the plugin. Get ready to scroll. Wow. The bulk of the dialog is for selecting which bits of metadata to remove. Other sections toward the bottom. What metadata you choose to strip and to leave intact. For example, it makes. In such a case, it may well. On the other hand, it may well make sense to preserve most metadata. In any case, only the exported copy of the image is affected both the. Lightroom library are never changed by this. Its a FilterI call the Metadata Wrangler an export filter, but in the official. Lightroom vernacular, its a post process action. The point is that. Export to Flickr plugin, this. Project Management Tools Open Source there. Publish operation in. Lightroom. It can be used in conjunction with the standard Files on Disk. Export to. Zenfolio, Export to Picasa. Web, or any other third party export or publish. Installation and Activation. Before it can be used as part of an export, the plugin must of course first be installed into Lightroom. Lightroom plugin Install instructions. Then, for any particular export or Publish Service, the plugin must be. Heres an example showing the Export dialog set to a. The list of filters post process. If you dont see that Post Process Actions section, it means that the plugin has not been. Revisit the Plugin Manager to make sure the plugin is both installed and. A Lightroom plugin can provide more than one filter, though the Metadata. Wrangler has only the one. I would have liked to separate the various parts of the huge Metadata. Wrangler dialog into more easily managed separate components that could be. Lightroom allowed multiple sections, and. Export presets, preferences, and Publish setups. Anyway, in the screenshot above, the jf Metadata Wrangler label next to the small red circle is the. Metadata Wrangler below it is the name of the filter. Select that filter and click the Insert button to. In the screenshot above, a Metadata Wrangler section has been added to the export. I added the red arrow to the screenshot to highlight its location. Clicking on that section header opens up the section to display the long list of options. At this point, youre ready to configure the plugin to do what you want. Pro tip saving your configuration settings as part of. For Publish, the specific configuration settings are saved with each Publish Service. Metadata Can Be a Bit Tricky. I dont know that theres a good reason for it, but its turned out that. Luckily. Phil Harvey has created the most excellent exiftool library. Its the same metadata handling. Exif viewer. I pass along half of any gifts I receive in relation to this. Phil. Nevertheless, some of the metadata mess remains exposed to you, the. XMP blocks. Heres part of the. Metadata Wrangler in Lightrooms export dialog dealing with XMP blocks. You can have all XMP data preserved or stripped by clicking on the. XMP Blocks label at the top, but if. Its a bit cryptic for. XMP block. info at the exiftool site lists exactly what fields are in each block. The XMP Info button in the dialog links to that page as well. Two of the XMP blocks are fairly straightforward. The XMP crs. block contains all the information about Lightroom develop adjustments. Youll want to strip this. The XMP exif block contains a repeat of most of the Exif data. Im not sure that theres. I generally strip it unless I intend the exported image. Presets. The Metadata Wrangler supports its own preset mechanism. The dropdown near the top of the Metadata Wrangler export dialog section allows you to. Preserve Metadata and Remove Metadata are standard presets that. You can createa new. The current settings for the Metadata Wrangler are also part of any. Lightroom Export Preset that you create while the Metadata Wrangler is. Note that the individual settings are saved to the. Lightroom export preset, rather than any Metadata Wrangler preset name that. This means that if you create a Lightroom Export Preset. Metadata Wrangler preset, that. Lightroom Export Preset. This. paragraph is a bit confusing, sorry. Metadata Not Explicitly Listed. The bottom of the dialog section includes a catch all item that governs. When Remove is selected here, all metadata is removed, and then only. Preserve elsewhere in the dialog are added. Conversely, when Preserve is selected, the items explicitly listed. Remove are manually removed from the exported image. I believe that the end result is always the same that all. Ive included this option as a just in case. When Im exporting small. I strip everything. I explicitly want to keep the ICC Color profile, and the. Removing Whats There. Its important to keep in mind exactly what the main section of this plugin does it removes metadata placed into the. Lightroom when Lightroom created it. As discussed below, this plugin can addmodify. Lightroom adds to begin with. Lightrooms standard Metadata section of the ExportPublish dialog is where you specify the base metadata that Lightroom. If in that standard Metadata section you tell Lightroom. Copyright Only, then most of the ExifXMPIPTC. Personally, when I use this plugin which is always, I leave the Metadata section configured to Include All Metadata, then use this plugin to decide what I really want to keep. Other Features. The dialog then continues with sections for additional features. Lightroom generally strips location data from areas marked private in. Map Module. If Lightrooms all or nothing approach is too aggressive. Then we have some special keyword handling The last part of the keyword section allows you to insert keywords into the exported copies. Because this supports. For example, City,State,Country would add the citystatecountry metadata of each image into its keywords. Make Model would add one keyword built from the cameras make and model. Normally, location related tokens have no value if the image is in an area marked private in the Map Module. Also see the token docs for other ways to override a private location. Finally in this section, a few miscellaneous options Adding Data. After this plugin has removed whatever metadata youve asked it to remove from the exported copy, you can have it. Title and Caption with data crafted from your Lightroom. This might be useful if the normal exportpublish doesnt provide enough flexibility in constructing the for example Title. Availability. This plugin is distributed as donationware. I have chosen to make it available for free everyone can use. Registration is done via Pay. Pal, and if you choose to register, it costs the minimum 1 cent Pay. Pal fee any amount youd like.