Is there a Photoshop Blog-This Plugin?

October 13, 2005 9:59 AM

Is there a Blog-This photoshop plugin? If not, is anyone interested in developing one?

I'd be willing to setup a fund to help pay for it, if one can't be found. Here is what I'd like it to do:

It should be able to post to your photoblog (or flickr) using the Atom API (or one of the other blogging API's). It should have the option of pulling the Title, Description, and other stuff from the EXIF/XML metadata stored in image files, or it should let you supply that yourself. If I had this, I could edit my photos, annotate them, tell the plugin what size to post the photos and what size the thumbs needed to be, then have it resize and upload and make the post. And, I could use it in batch from the file browser after annotating the images metadata (and if the plugin was sophisticated enough to let me specify a post date in the metadata all the better, because then I could future post images in bulk without having to create a post for every image). Perfection.

posted by walljm to computers & internet (9 comments total)

Sounds like something that would be more useful as a standalone application rather than something you'd need to use from inside Photoshop.
posted by zsazsa at 10:46 AM on October 13, 2005

Sounds like something that would be more useful as a standalone application rather than something you'd need to use from inside Photoshop.

Having to save the image out of Photoshop to a file and load it into a separate application is "more convenient" than simply uploading it from within Photoshop? *boggle*
posted by kindall at 11:01 AM on October 13, 2005

Whoops, you said "more useful," not "more convenient." Sorry. But all my photos go through Photoshop anyway, and the convenience would be very nice.
posted by kindall at 11:10 AM on October 13, 2005

The Photon plugin for iPhoto does this very thing. Perhaps you could contact the developer and see if s/he would be interested in a PS version?
posted by o2b at 12:01 PM on October 13, 2005

I get tired of having so many different photo management programs. I'd like to be able to simply use photoshop and nothing else.

I like the way the Photoshop CS filebrowser lets me annotate photos using EXIF data. I think the convenience of having a Photon like plugin in photoshop would be more useful than a stand alone package. It prevents me having to add several more steps to the workflow of posting photos to my photoblog. Once i finish editing a photo, i simply launch the plugin, tell it what sizes, add my annotations, and hit plublish. No ftping, no opening my browser.
posted by walljm at 12:34 PM on October 13, 2005

The kicker is going to be finding someone who has the Photoshop SDK. It currently costs $200 to possibly get access to the SDK. If you want to pay for my ASN membership, I'd be more than willing to do this, but I don't have $200 to drop on it.
posted by devilsbrigade at 2:16 PM on October 13, 2005

I just thought of this two days ago! Sorry I'm not at all useful, but I had to mention it.
posted by skryche at 8:16 AM on October 14, 2005

I was hoping someone with the SDK (they are out there), possibly the 6.0 SDK, would think it a great idea and put it out there. You're right devilsbrigade about getting ahold of the SDK.
posted by walljm at 8:54 AM on October 14, 2005

Oh, Devilsbrigade,

Apparently you don't need to be a member of the ASN to get the SDK. I requested access a couple days ago, and found teh link to the SDK's working just now. I have the CS and CS2 SDK's on hand.
posted by walljm at 8:57 AM on October 14, 2005