I wrote a lightroom plugin for uploading images to Tumblr

I’ve been wanting an Adobe Lightroom plugin that exports directly to Tumblr just as the flickr-plugin does but couldn’t find any. So I wrote up one myself. It’s very basic but should do what’s needed. Feel free to comment, request features or hail me if you want.

DOWNLOAD LIGHTROOM TUMBLR EXPORT PLUGIN

UPDATE1 : There’s an advanced plugin located here. See comments below for more details. I love the open-source way to do things!

UPDATE2: Another version: http://beret.tumblr.com/post/9251247804/i-expect-this-to-be-useed-by-hipsters-and-tiff


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  • http://www.etherbinge.org Matt Fisher

    Does this work? My tumblr account doesn’t receive anything when I export.

  • Joachim

    It works for me. I would love if it worked for you aswell. Do you want to help me find the error?

  • http://nathanrodger.tumblr.com Nathan Rodger

    It works! I was putting my tumblr name as the login name, but it should be the correct login, which is email address.

    So I’ve got it uploading, however I’m not sure if tags or description fields are working. Any suggestions on what fields to use – or if that functionality is active?

  • http://www.dagerot.com/about Joachim Dagerot

    @nathan
    Sorry, I haven’t implemented functionality for keywords or descriptions yet. I’m missing that myself so it will be added some day. But it’s sprint and summer is coming up so I can’t promise anything soon! :-)

  • Anonymous

    err… how do you install on Windows Vista ?

  • http://www.dagerot.com/?fcsite=02542003155837670082&fcprofile=12301990283889851420 Joachim Dagerot

    Is there even a lightroom for vista?

  • http://zambelli.tumblr.com zam

    yeah sur, it works on Vista !! what a funny question :)
    So I assume you don’t know how it works on Vista !

  • Joachim Dagerot

    No, haven’t tried. To be honest, I have hardly even seen vista actually! :) Let me know if it works.

  • Mathieu

    Hi,
    Thanks for writing this great little plug-in. It works like a charm. I do have a question though.
    How do I make it work if I have more than one blog in tumblr under the same loggin and password?

  • http://blog.freidling-photography.com Arni

    Hi Joachim,

    First of all: Thanks for writing this awesome plugin!
    Unfortunately though, I can’t get it to work.
    I’m using it in LR 3 and Snow Leopard.
    It keeps saying “Unable to Export: Enter password” even though I have entered it.
    The export button stays grey and inactive.

    Any idea?

  • http://zambelli.tumblr.com zam

    Hi everyone !
    the plug-in works perfectly with LR2 turning on Vista. I just didn’t know how to make work at first, but i eventually found where to click :)
    I had just one question about this plug-in:
    is it possible to add a caption to the photo before exporting it to tumblr ?

    thanks again for this plug in, and feel free to visit my page: http://zambelli.tumblr.com

    cheers

  • Herzog

    Where do you put the file to install it? Do I just doubleclick the tumblr.lrplugin file in my downloads folder, or do I have to put it somewhere in the library/applications support/… etc.? I’m using Mac OS 10.6.. sorry for the simple question

  • Herzog

    So second question: I put the tumblr.lrplugin in this folder (as described here http://blogs.adobe.com/phosphors/2009/09/installing_and_using_lightroom.html):

    Mac OS: /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules

    I enabled it in lightroom under manage plugins in the file menu. No idea how to make it work.

    Can you just write a step-by-step guide setting this thing up? Sorry for the noob question. I’ve never used plugins. Btw I’m using lightroom 2.

    And thanks for the plugin!!

  • http://photos.georgevidas.com george

    I think I stole it from here, I don’t remember. But I modified somebody else’s Lightroom to Tumblr plugin to include captions, and so that you could still set the resolution / etc. There might have been a few other little tweaks.

    It’s still kind of imperfect, but it gets the job done (LightRoom3).

    But enjoy:

    http://people.alfred.edu/~gov1/tumblr.lplugin.zip

  • http://wmederski.tumblr.com WSM

    thanks george for the added caption option, but i’m still hoping for a way to upload it to a secondary blog, rather than my primary one, as requested by Mathieu above…
    thanks again!

  • http://photos.mylivingtech.com th

    @Arni

    Hi Joachim,

    First of all: Thanks for writing this awesome plugin!
    Unfortunately though, I can’t get it to work.
    I’m using it in LR 3 and Snow Leopard.
    It keeps saying “Unable to Export: Enter password” even though I have entered it.
    The export button stays grey and inactive.

    Any idea?

    Not sure about Mac but I had the same problem on my Win7 64bit LR3.

    But I managed to solve it but making sure the plug in directory files are not ReadOnly and have permissions to write/read to all the files.

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