Adding a Lightroom action to Export Actions folder

Despite endless monitor calibration with Spyder, my prints from Mpix come out much darker than they appear on my Intel iMac monitor (running OSX 10.5.5). I have tried using Shades to darken my monitor, but I don't like my screen looking that dark all the time, and I am afraid if it is not on all the time I will forget to use it when photo-editing. I am considering leaving Shades off and adding an action to my export preset for printing that would increase the brightness in Lightroom 2.1 by a certain amount. I know I could use a Photoshop droplet to do the same thing, but Lightroom will already be open, so I'd prefer to do it in Lightroom. How would I go about creating this action? I think I know where it goes once I've created it, but I don't see any menu item or subject in the Help files for how to create one. I'd appreciate any available help. Thanks

You should try using their icc profiles.
Apparently, they will send their profiles if you ask for it as others have been having the same issues with Mpix. I you have LR 2, you can export directly to these icc profiles. Also, make sure that you calibrate to a reasonable brightness of around 100-120 cd/m2, which is usually around 2/3 of the brightness scale on most monitors. These intel iMacs have very bright screens and might need even lower settings.

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Is there any way to change the parameters LR send to programs (WIN)?
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Same thing with my email program thunderbird, opening it after export it reports "e is not a registered protocol".
Also i tried to edit export presets manually to add command line parameters to programs that are opened (forexample filezilla.exe -s defaulsite), but those parameters were ignored.

Yes you can drag files straight to filezilla. BTW if i change my export location to somewhere in F:\ drive LR now passes "f" parameter to programs. I would understand LR would pass the whole folder to programs or would not pass anything, but this is quite annoying. Or LR passes some arguments in "table form" where first cell is drive letter...
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Lightroom Export Action and Automator

Hi. Have an interesting anamoly that I hope someone an explain to me. I am trying to leverage Adobe Lightroom's export preset post-processing option to help in importing photos into iPhoto (where I can make easy use of the .mac photocasts). I created an Automator workflow comprised of the following actions: 1) Get Specified Finder items (with the export folder from Lightroom selected) 2) Get Folder Contents 3) Import Photos into iPhoto (with the delete source option selected).
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Lightroom export actions crashes photoshop

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This is a problem that has eluded me for a while. Im running Lightroom 3 and photoshop cs5 (both have the latest updates) . Now I've created droplets that run various actions. In lightroom I export images and use export actions dialog box to have lightroom run the droplet.
However now I get a "photoshop cs5 has stopped responding" and a "droplets can not communicate with photoshop.
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Stacking on Export / Actions files

Why can't I Export a folder of DNG's , run a CS3 action and have the output imported and stacked to the original DNG (in the same folder) ... weather it be a PSD or JPG.
Just curious ... LR does it so well with Ctrl+E

Try this http://lightroom-news.com/2007/02/12/export-presets/ and this http://photographyshow.blogspot.com/2007/02/using-your-adobe-bridge-presets-in.html

Help with AppleScript as Export Action

I've been trying to get an AppleScript working as an Export Action in Lightroom 3 on OS X (10.5) without success.
The script (modified from one I found):
on open theObjects
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I've also tried it as:
do shell script "/opt/local/bin/mogrify -colorspace Gray " & (POSIX path of theObject as string)
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Any help or insights appreciated!

banacheq wrote:
... It didn't even occur to me to look in "File Format" for converting a script to an application.
Apple sometimes makes things "too" easy. Its like trying to find the salt shaker when its right by your plate...
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I am unable to create an Action to Export from .ai to .psd. The OPEN and EXPORT steps in the Action

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The steps in the Action such as Open and Export seem inextricably linked to the file from which the original Action was recorded.
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I'd recommend to exactly describe what you're doing. How did you set up your action? Which settings did you choose in the Batch Process dialog? What exactly went wrong? What did you expect instead?
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Export Actions

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Make an action in PS that does this, then make droplet of that, put into LR folder, run. Although I'd be inclined to just make a copy of the folder from time to time.

2 different problems using Export Action

I'm using LR 1.1 and Photoshop CS3 on a MacPro and PowerBook. I created an identical Action in PS to use as an Export Action in LR. It was to export .dng files, open them, run Noise Ninja (many were high ISO shots), and some other things.
On one Mac, the files would only open in Adobe Raw Converter, so I'd still have to click to go further for each. With the other, I'd get an error message immediately in Photoshop once the file opened, saying "Feather Command not available". (I had done nothing consciously in creating the Actions (later Droplets) to put in such a command.
My guest teacher, who knows Photoshop (and Lightroom) far better than I, knows of now reason why such a "feather" error would come up.
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I've modified the script so that it now actually works as I want it to (more-or-less).
I will look into using Get-Hotfix instead of WMIC to check that I am happy with the returned data.
Modified CSV (I changed the Patch column to a known value to simplify replace operation, I couldn't figure out how to replace " "):
ServerName,OS,ServicePack,Patches,,,,,,,
SERVER1,Server 2003 R2 Enterprise,SP2,None,,,,,,,
SERVER2,Server 2003 R2 Enterprise X64 Edition,SP2,None,,,,,,,
Working code.
$currentPath = "$pwd\"
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$CSVLoc = @()
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Write-Host "Service Pack: $ServicePack"
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wmic /node:$ServerName /output:$ServerFile qfe list
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Thanks,
Stephen

OSB : How can we copy actions from one project folder to other projects?

How can we copy actions from one project folder to other projects in OSB?
For eg:
I have a service call out action in Project1/proxySer1
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Espicially, in our case error handling callout is common to all of our projects and we should be able to copy from one to another.
Edited by: user10367892 on Aug 20, 2009 12:28 PM

Thank you for the reply.
It was my fault. I was on two different servers, while i was doing this and so didn't work. But copy /past action works as you suggested.
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What 'item type' do I use to add action to SCHEDULER CHAIN folder?

I am using SQL Developer version 3.1.06.82
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Edited by: 975201 on Feb 28, 2013 8:24 PM

>
I would like to add a User Defined Extension to a Scheduler CHAIN. I am looking through the Namespace for Version 3.1 at: http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/sqldeveloper/3_1/dialogs/index.html. Under the COMMON OBJECT TYPES, I do not see any of the Scheduler items. I was able to use <item type="SCHEDULER"> to add an action to the SCHEDULER folder, but what I really want to do is add an action to a CHAIN.
>
Those COMMON OBJECT TYPES are database schema objects so SCHEDULER or CHAIN would not be in those lists.
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I suggest you change your thread subject to match your question and maybe one of the developer team members will notice it.
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Exporting action script in 2nd frame

I have a preloader in frame one so I export frame for classes
in frame two in the publishing settings. I have a scrolling
component in the .fla and when I set up the linkage for the
scrollable movie clip, it exports into the 1st frame. How do I tell
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of the conflict with the publishing settings set at frame 2, the
scroll bar won't work unless I publish export action script into
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Darryl

Thank you for replying. I was instructed that it is better to
have the action script load in the second frame if my preloader is
in the first frame in order for the page to cache faster on the
users PC. So in the Publish Settings, in the Flash Tab under
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Mogrify 2 in Lightroom 3.4 Export disruption

Windows 7(professional)-8ram 4 core-video ATI 5850 and Windows updates current
Lightroom 3.4 has been VERY slow to load; click the icon and wonder if the shortcut was clicked then it appears.
The Windows updates for May were installed and suddenly the shortcut click produced a response in the regular amount of time... or like any other software started.
I include this update info because that is the only operating system thing that has been a change. The video board was updated earlier in the month and no aftereffects.
The screen flashing when moving to the export dialog started. This flashing of the Info dialog box used to happen in the previous versions. It had stopped in v3.4
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There is a choice in the mogrify to have a text log and I have had that selected but no text log appears on the desktop location.
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I'm replying to my own query.
Steps taken to get Mogrify 2 to operate smoothly in the Export dialog....eliminating Lightroon is not responding.
I updated the video drivers for the ATI Sapphire Radeon 5850.(11.2 which gives a more efficient catalyst manager)
Removed the recent mogrify download and reinstalled it.
The reinstall was placed in the root of the drive F.
I suspected that I had it too many folders deep as a result of unzipping to an existing folder I created.Now it is in its own folder LRmogrify2.irplugin
Listed it in the Antivirus 'ignore list'
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