A while ago, I made the decision to purchase Lightroom, and then upgraded to Lightroom 2.  I’ve since added J. Friedl’s Facebook and Flickr plug-ins, and found them to be pretty useful.  Toss in the LR2/Mogrify plug-in, and life gets even better – LR2’s native watermarking is not very good.

As I’ve started to post my images across multiple sites, I’ve found I have the need to track where I’ve posted a particular image.  Enter the Adobe Lightroom SDK, a text editor and 15 minutes of effort, culminating in a custom plug-in for Lightroom that allows me to track precisely where I’ve posted an image to.  Even nicer, the fields are available in the metadata filter part of the Library, so I can open my catalog of 18,000 photos and ask Lightroom to tell me which ones were taken with the 50mm lens, and were uploaded to Flickr.

Pretty nifty.

Shanade Morrow