lex_jenkins Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 <p>While I'm satisfied with mpix for their prints to Ilford b&w RC paper, I'm a bit frustrated by the lack of a direct export from Lightroom to mpix. (<em><a href="http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies">According to Jeffrey Friedl</a>: "Don’t expect (a Lightroom-to-mpix exporter plugin) any time soon… mpix has made it clear that they do not want an uploader from Lightroom. No idea why. —Jeffrey"</em>)</p> <p>This lack of an export feature helped me to miss a deadline for a free shipping offer this week for mpix. Too bad. I had organized the photos I wanted printed into a Lightroom collection, which was useless for uploading to mpix. I had to go through Windows Explorer, which took much longer and I missed the deadline by five minutes.</p> <p>Any other recommendations for online printing services that do play nice with Lightroom? Otherwise I suppose I'll need to use one of Lightroom's options for starring, flagging or marking files to be printed in a way that can also be recognized by Windows Explorer, since that's the usual default for online uploaders from Windows PCs.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitaldog Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 <blockquote> <p>Any other recommendations for online printing services that do play nice with Lightroom?</p> </blockquote> <p>I'd ping Jeffrey and ask him, he's a very smart fellow that knows about these options (I personally haven't used any). </p> Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management" (pluralsight.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg_thornwall Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 <p>Can you use the Lightroom FTP plugin?</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Smith Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 <p>Lex,</p> <p>Why not just export them (setting them to the specs you require for Mpix) to a special folder and then use the MPix tool to navigate to the folder and upload them en masse. I don't really see the problem? I do this with Bay Photo all the time. It's only slightly less convenient than using a Lightroom add on, surely?</p> Robin Smith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marc_rochkind Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 <p>There is a non-free upload plugin for Adorama last time I looked. However, I didn't want to pay the money so did it very efficiently using Robin's method.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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