Web Module Output Sharpening question

Is the web gallery output sharpening in LR2 only available when a web gallery template makes it available? I can't seem to find it under Output Settings for most of my installed gallery templates? I'm guessing that the developer has to make this available and/or the template has to be LR2 aware. Not sure though. Of course, it would be very convenient to make web gallery output sharpening available for any template installed.

I have to follow a somewhat convoluted workflow when doing my photobooks. But in a nutshell.
Import Raw Image from EOS 30D
Apply color correction and capture sharpening (I sharpen until it looks good onscreen)
Export images at their largest size to my Links folder for InDesign. (I design all of the photo book in InDesign.)
Once I know all the sizes for sure in InDesign, I run a script that takes each image into photoshop and sizes the images to 100% and imports them back into InDesign.
I take the sized down images back into LR2 and output sharpen them and update them in InDesign.
I know it's not the greatest workflow, but it seems the the easiest and quickest. I wish there was some way for InDesign and LR to communicate the correct image sizes. But I haven't discovered anything like that yet.

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Output options for Web module

I have several suggestions to improve web gallery output using the Web and Print modules. First, and most important, should be the options to "Preview and Save", and "Export and Upload". With these options, when an event like an upload error occurs, the entire gallery doesn't have to be re-processed. Example: I attempted to upload a gallery of 400 photos this morning. After an hour or so, the remote server closed the connection causing me to have to recreate the entire gallery from the start, and another hour lost. Having the option to save the gallery locally in addition to previewing or uploading would be really practical.
Second, I'd like to have the ability to add info to the grid pages (html gallery), such as file name or rating. A simple drop down menu in the Site Info column...
Finally, how 'bout the ability to add text to the top of a contact print? Example: say I'm printing a grid of selected images from a shoot. I'd like to be able to add identifying info to the top of that printed sheet as well as file info such as file name with each photo.

Rob,
The 9401 is bidirectional, and when set to input, will function as a tristate output. There are a couple of things to keep in mind with this module: 1) When set to input, the lines still have a weak pulldown resistor with a min. value of 45 kOhms, as specified in the manual. 2) Line direction may only be controlled in banks on the 9401. This means that DIO 0:3 must all be set to the same direction, and 4:7 must all be set to the same direction. I don't have enough information about your setup to know if this will provide a complete solution.
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Designer beginner's question: How to populate form with XML web service output?

sorry, here is yet another Adobe Designer beginners question: My form uses a webservice data connection which returns an xml-string like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?> <CurrentWeather> <Location>Sion, Switzerland (LSGS) 46-13N 007-20E 481M</Location> <Time>Apr 26, 2007 - 09:50 AM EDT / 2007.04.26 1350 UTC</Time> <Wind> from the WSW (240 degrees) at 15 MPH (13 KT):0</Wind> <Visibility> greater than 7 mile(s):0</Visibility> <SkyConditions> partly cloudy</SkyConditions> <Temperature> 80 F (27 C)</Temperature> <DewPoint> 46 F (8 C) </DewPoint> <RelativeHumidity> 30%</RelativeHumidity> <Pressure> 29.88 in. Hg (1012 hPa)</Pressure> <Status>Success</Status> </CurrentWeather> What is the simplest and recommended way to extract the element fields to my form? Thank you very much an kind regards, Hans Grund

The question is still unanswered!
Let me give some details and break up the problem
in more specific questions:
- In Designer 8.1 I click new data binding --> wsdl -->
http://www.webservicex.net/globalweather.asmx?wsdl
A message box comes up and says "cannot load wsdl file"
==> 1. Question:
Why maybe refuses Designer to load the http-wsdl,
although this option is explicitly allowed?
- When I save the wsdl to a file, Designer loads it
without any problems. The web service uses two input parameters
(CountryName and CityName) and returns an xml-string GetWeatherResult)
like the one in my first posting. I drag these fields from the binding view to my form, and it runs ok!
- THE PROBLEM IS, THAT I NEET TO EXTRACT THE ELEMENT FIELDS
FROM THE RESULT XML-STRING!
==> 2. Question:
How to extract xml element fields from wsdl output into a form?
- I tried with eclipse and XmlSpy to build a modified wsdl file
with structured output definition, so that the specific element fields
show up in the data binding view and are usable to my form,
and the modified wsdl maps consistently to the web service result string.
So far without success: In the PDF -preview or Reader-
when the wsdl-binding is executed and the web service output
should show up in the result fields, just nothing happens.
==> 3. Question:
Can this strategy to provide a "modified wsdl" possibly succeed,
and how?
==> 4. Question:
Is is possible -and how?- to check whether an xml string
is valid as web service output against the wsdl-definition?
==> 5. Question:
How to debug a web service connection with Designer?
- Finally I tried to find a way to load the result xml-string
into a local var in the script editor and parse it, much like:
var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xmlDoc.load(DataSet.MyForm.GetWeatherResult.rawValue);
==> 6. Question:
Is it possible -and how?- to use a framework like dotnet?
How to utilize SAX or DOM in Designer?
Many thanks and appreciations for your help!!

Sharpening for web gallery output?

I'm just wondering what you all do to sharpen your images for output to web galleries, since LR doesn't offer this as a possibility.
I guess one way would be to open the images from the gallery folder and do a batch process in Photoshop. But I'm curious to know if there's a simpler or more efficient way to go about it.

[email protected] schrieb:
> I also often post images larger than 800x800 that need a bit more
> sharpening. Herb, would you be willing to share a bit more about
> droplets and how you integrate them with your LR workflow?
In PS, using "Droplets" one can generate operating system level
executables. They provide a mean to hand image files over to "actions"
(macros) recorded in PS.
In order to create an "export action" for LR, one would roughly do the
following:
- In PS, record an action which does the following:
* Apply USM with suitable parameters (like radius 0.9, amount 30,
treshold 3) to an image already opened in PS.
* Save for web/save as JPEG (target folder will be hardcoded and thus
fixed).
* Close image without saving changes.
- In PS, select File / Automate / Droplet and create a new droplet
* Choose an executable file name
* select the previously recorded action
* choose target: none (Since we already saved files to JPEG)
- Put the generated executable or a shortcut/link to it into LR's
"export action" folder.
For export with output sharpen, in LR:
- File / Export
- Choose some target folder (will be fixed; for temporary image files)
- file format: PSD or TIFF
- color space: sRGB (for web export)
- maximum size: target size as needed, e.G. 1280x1024 for SXGA files
- export action: select the previously created droplet
Save these settings as a new export preset (like "SXGA").
From now on, one would just need to export using that preset. LR would
render already resized PSD files, start PS, batch sharpen them and save
JPEG files to the directory chosen while recording the PS action.
Herb

Output settings "metadata" in Web module

In the web-module there is an Output settings called "Metadata" where you can select "All" or "Copyright only". By selecting All i thought that all metadata like caption, keywords etc. was exported so that tis info could be serched from the web, but the in the html I find this " ".
Have I misunderstood this function?
Thanks!
Svein

> Have I misunderstood this function?
My understanding of it is that it retains the metadata (keywords, IPTC EXIF fields...)
i in each jpg image
but not in the page itself.

Question regarding using Lightroom Web Module and Zenfolio

I use LR3 and like the galleries I can make in the Web Module. If I use Zenfolio as a web hosting service, can I upload or export my photos from LR to Zenfolio and use the galleries I create in the Lightroom Web Module,,,or do I need to use the existing gallery templates in Zenfolio? If that is the case, other than using Lightroom to upload photos, is it's Web Gallery Module superflous?
Thanks,
Matthew Kraus

Matthew,
If you are asking if you need to use LR's Web Module to export images to Zenfolio, then no you would not use the LR Web Module but rather use a plug-in to export directly to Zenfolio. Or you can just export to your local HDD and use Zenfolio's upload module to grab the files from your local drive.
Jeffery Friedl has a nice LR plug-in for SmugMug so I am sure his Zenfolio plug-in will work nicely as well:
http://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies/zenfolio
It's free, sort of, after the trial period, like 45-days as I recall, there is a limit on the number of files which can be uploaded. When the trial expires if ya like it you just donate any amount and get to upload any number of files as Zenfolio allows in a session.
Does that help answer your question?

Web module questions

is it necesary to have a web module in order to use servlets? and where is a good tutorial for web modules i need to know wich files are necesary web.xml .war those files how to build them in order to just run one simple servlet, in the examples from javaee5tutorial there are many files are all those files necesary?:
/build.xml
/web/WEB-INF/sun-web.xml
/web/WEB-INF/web.xml
/nbproject/build-impl.xml
/nbproject/project.xml
/nbproject/project.properties
etc...

http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/

Output sharpening on export

I wonder if there is a way to specify an amount of sharpening that shall be applied to an exported image that is going to be scaled down e.g. for web presentation. My preferred solution would be to include this into an export preset.
I have used this "output sharpening" feature (also known as "web sharpening") within the export preset e.g. in Bibble Pro 5 (yes, another RAW converting software) and it really helps avoiding loss of sharpness as a result of scaling down images. I agree that this is not necessarily needed for each and every image but there are quiet some cases when output sharpening gives them some punch.
As a newbie to Aperture this is what I have learned so far:
Aperture provides various tools to adjust sharpening of images, starting with the sharpening adjustment applied to RAW files (RAW fine tuning) continued by "Sharpen", "Edge Sharpen" up to the possibility to "brush in" sharpening to certain parts of an image.
Apple was so kind as to provide a nice introductory movie clip to illustrate the basic usage of edge sharpening
All these adjustments are applied to the image in its original size of course. As soon as I export images and downsize them (using an appropriate preset) I do not seem to have any influence on how post-processing continues (re: sharpening). I have to rely on how Aperture handles this internally (right?). Surprisingly, this is different when it comes to printing. If the output is print the user may adjust the amount of "output sharpening".
As far as I have seen I am not the first and only one who faces this issue. A more elaborate article on output sharpening with sample images in context with Aperture is given e.g. here.
Another interesting review on "Sharpening with Aperture 3" can be found here.
Of course I have also searched the forums for a suitable solution. As far as I can see a satisfactory solution has not been outlined so far:
Sharpening upon jpeg export
Sharpening export workflow question
Output sharpening
Sharpening during exporting process
Maybe there are some news or workarounds in the meantime. I'd appreciate your proposals and look forward sharing your experience on this issue.

Kirby, I thank you for your kind answer. It is very much appreciated!
After reading one of the articles quoted in my original post I thought that the "BorderFX solution" for output sharpening on export would no longer work. But it obviously does as you report.
In the meantime I have had a look at the BorderFX website. Many features for a plugin - more than I usually need - but an interesting project anyway!
As you supposed I am not that keen on using a plugin for just the sharpening of images going to the web. But it's at least a workaround which I think is worth while a try.
So let's have a try!
For anyone having a similar problem I attach two sample images which I exported
a) with the built-in export feature of Aperture (3.2)
b) with BorderFX (1.5.3) and the settings you recommended
Please be sure to click on the respective images as the previews look horrible to me at first sight!
a) Aperture Export (resize to 600 px height)
b) BorderFX export (resize to 600 px height, Edge Sharpen: Intensity: 0.5, Radius 1.00)
The image size allowed to upload here is quit limited, but I think the difference can be noticed. Maybe the sharpening in b) is already overdone but the comparison shall only serve as a first shot.
If somebody from the Apple Aperture team comes across this thread:
Maybe we can have a "sharpen on export setting" right within Aperture one day?
This is what e.g. Bibble offers in this respect:
In this case post processing is similar to an unsharpen mask filter setting.
I edited my message after I have seen the artifacts appearing in the preview images.

How do I use the Web module to upload video to my website?

I'm using the Lightroom HTML gallery to upload my photos, fine and dandy, very happy with it. I also have some videos trimmed in Lightroom that I want incorporated into the gallery. This doesn't seem to be happening, instead I just get thumbnails. What/how do I incorporate my video clips into my web gallery? I moved over from jAlbum so I could have a simple one-tool workflow, so I'm really hoping that this is possible.

You can combine stills and video for output to h.264 (mp4 file) for example to upload to Youtube or Vimeo.
FTP upload will be subject to the limitations of your host. The web module within Lightroom creates all resources to link to the file index.html
The forthcoming LR6 is anticipated to have HTML5 galleries.

I want to use the Web module to publish to the a website... What kind of server do I need to be able to publish my website?

I want to use the Web module to publish to the a website... What kind of server do I need to be able to publish my website?

You don't need a server, you just need a web hosting package such as the ones from GoDaddy or many other hosts. You then send the web gallery directly from LR to your web space.
As you're asking such basic questions, it might be best if you read articles like this and see if a friend or colleague can get you started.

Output sharpening in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Photoshop CS5

Output sharpening in Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Photoshop CS5
I want to do two-pass sharpening - capture and output - with output capture done just before I print. I do the initial (capture) sharpening in the ACR Detail/Sharpening panel, with Amount slider set to, for example, 100. Then, I open the image to PS CS5 as a Smart Object, and use layers and masks for further editting.
My question is, can I go back to ACR for the final (output) sharpening pass? When I re-open the file in ACR, the Sharpening Amount slider is back to zero, but the other three sliders are still at the settings I used at the start of the process, i.e., the capture sharpening. If I again set the Amount slider to a positive value, then again open the image in PS for printing, will my second pass through the ACR Sharpening panel take effect - will it accumulate on top of the initial sharpening?
By the way, the reason I want do output sharpening in ACR rather than, say, PS Unsharp Mask, is so I can use the Masking slider in ACR, which is much easier than the comparable techniques available in PS. I am aware that some say you should not do any masking for the output sharpening. I'd like to though.
Thanks for ideas.

This is pretty much the way I do it, and I also always found ACR sharpening superior to anything in Photoshop. There is the "sharpen for output" in ACR, but you have little control over it.
The tricky part is feeding the file through ACR a second time. I don't think re-opening the Smart Object will do anything more than you could have done the first time. I do it with a rendered TIFF, and have an intricate set of actions that I run in the Image Processor Pro. It's a mess, and you don't want to know.
The frustrating part is how to action ACR. I just can't figure it out. It'll work, and then I have to change some setting and the action stops working. I suspect you need a script, but so far I haven't found any.
So I've come to a compromise: I first process to TIFF in a temp folder, then I bulk open them in ACR to sharpen, then a second process to finish up.
For less critical files I have a sharpening action that comes close, involving edge masks and blend ifs, using smart sharpen which tends to preserve edges better than unsharp mask, and with less accumulation of noise.
Bottom line: I'm also very interested in further comments to this. BTW, I recently bought Lightroom 4, so maybe there is a posibility using that in a mixed workflow.

Content in a Web Module

Hi,
I am having a very irritating problem. I want to use a filter to transform some content however I do not want the content to have to be inside the .war archive.
If I place the content in any other location the filter cannot be set to operate on it.
If I place the content in the .war archive then every time a designer changes the content I have to rebuild and re-deploy the web-module.
Any idea how I can either have content (which is not in a web-module) be accessed through a filter , or how I can have content appear in a web-module from some other location?
Please help, this is a real show-stopper for our project. Thanks.

I don't think filters are really the way to go about this, rather, create a servlet that handles requests something along these lines:
void service(HTTPServletRequest request, HTTPServletResponse response) {
// get document root, base directory for all the xml files
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// get the document name
String path = request.getPathInfo();
// do some checking on path to make sure it doesn't contain
// '..' or anything like that, throw an exception if it does.
// create a java.io.File object representing the file:
File file = new File(docRoot, path);
if (/*browser is IE6*/) {
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    // request.getOutputStream()
else {
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    // to request.getOutputStream()
}If this servlet is bound to a context called "context1", and the servlet is bound to "xml", requests for eg. /context1/xml/dira/dirb/doc1.xml will result in request.getPathInfo() returning "/dira/dirb/doc1.xml", given that the servlet-mapping element in web.xml is specified correctly (use a wild card: /xml/*).
And be warned, I just typed this in without trying to compile it, so it probably contains bugs!

Lightroom web module

Re "Lightroom Web Module"
In the "site info" panel, I type the word "exit"
In the "web or mail link" section, I copy and paste the web page address of the page on my site
I wish it to be directed to.
I preview this with the Lightroom "Preview in Browser" button.
All works perfectly well including the exit link.
I then export it into my website "local file".
Create a link from text on my web page to the lightroom created gallery (I'm using Dreamweaver)
Then save changes in Dreamweaver and click preview in browser.
The Gallery works fine with the exception of the exit link.
I have the same problem in the Web HTML Gallery
I have also downloaded Lightroom 3.6 from Adobe labs and had the same result.
Any Suggestions
Many thanks...David

Hi Pete. Thanks for your reply.
Tried replacing exit with home without any results
Doubbled checked the link address was correct in lightroom...it was.
Just tried something I had not tried before. Up untill now, I was using only the "preview in browser" in
Dreamweaver.
When I uploaded the gallery to the remote server and went to see if it worked on my site it did !!!!
Not sure why it won't work in the "preview in browser" in dreamweaver but.....a question for bigger brains than mine..
Many Thanks for your help
Dave

How to make Web module produce different-sized JPEGs for different pictures?

Hi --
Googled this question, searched the "help" on Lightroom, searched Adobe, downloaded the latest version of Lightroom, searched this forum, no help, so I'm asking:
I'm using the Web module in Lightroom (which I've already used to create five other sites) to put together a site. Normally, I just set the JPEG size to "1024" with the "Size" slider under "Image Pages," and normally that's fine.
In this case, however, I'm posting some telephoto shots of dolphins and some of the pictures are cropped below 1024 on both height and width of the raw image, and so LR renders a JPEG that it upsamples and of course it looks terrible.
Is there a way say, "okay, LR Web module, 1024 pixels' width or height is fine for most of the pictures, but these two shouldn't be more than 400 pixels on either dimension?"
In case it matters, I'm running LR on a Vista 64 system, 3 GB RAM.
Even if you can't help, thanks for taking the time to look at the question!

Hi,
The slide duration in presenter is automatically adjusted according to the time of the audio inserted on that slide.
How are you inserting audio on slide ? Recording or inserting using presenter option ?
You cannot create a movie format like avi, mp4 etc
But you may publish the presenttaion in the swf format which will play in a browser or a swf player. To play in the broswer you just need to have Adobe Flash Player installed on your system. It will play like a movie in the broswer.
Let me know if you need some more help
Thanks,
Alpi Agarwal
Adobe Presenter Engineering Team

Web modules don't get deployed to cluster instance directory

Hi,
I have a domain with one cluster, which has one instance. Sometimes (!), the web aplications I deploy don't get unpacked in the directory {instanceRoot}/applications/j2ee-modules but only in {domainRoot}/applications/j2ee-modules. When that happens, they don't work and I cannot access them through their URL.
I deploy them using the web admin console, enable the to the cluster in question. Everything goes ok (or at least the UI says so) and in the domain.xml I have this:
<web-module availability-enabled="false" context-root="/myapp" directory-deployed="false" enabled="true" location="${com.sun.aas.instanceRoot}/applications/j2ee-modules/myapp" name="myapp" object-type="user"/>
<server...
<application-ref disable-timeout-in-minutes="30" enabled="true" lb-enabled="false" ref="myapp"/>
<cluster...
<application-ref disable-timeout-in-minutes="30" enabled="true" lb-enabled="false" ref="myapp"/>
In both the apps the were copied to the instance applications dir and in the ones that remained only in the domain applications dir (and do not work). In the latter, the location dir does not exist.
Anyone has gone through any similar situation? This deployment process is a bit confusing for me, wrt instances, clusters, domains etc.
Thanks!
Jo�o.

Thanks for the answer.
But how is this mechanism controlled? Sometimes, the domain just doesn't seem to propagate the changes to the cluster instances (or stand-alone instances). For example, sometimes when I change a property of a data source through the admin gui of the domain, it does not get propagated to the desired instance config, even after restarting the whole system.
I think that it may have something to do with the manual changes that I have to do sometimes in the domain.xml file (this is neede when you have huge config changes to be replicated in many servers).
Is there any option to enforce the replication of the config from the domain to the instances? Or at least to make it verbose so that I can realize what is going on underneath.
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