QRcode [barcode] labels directly from Lightroom®
QRCode [Barcode] Labels from Lightroom®
It’s simple: a photographer sells prints to an event attendee and that event attendee comes back to the photographer with the print with the intention to have reproductions made. Currently, there’s no quick way to identify a photo from an image in Lightroom®, until now. A day worth of work, and we added this nice feature to our soon-to-be-released Lightroom® plugin.
How it works
Simply select the images that you wish to create labels for and then go to the File menu>Plugin Extras>NPG Label Maker. A form is presented where you select the Avery® label size and up to four fields of meta data from the images, or from your account. Click OK and your internet browser is opened where you are presented with a PDF form with properly spaced and formatted labels for the images that were selected. There is a QRCode that contains the UUID identification number on each of the labels. Simply load your printer with your Avery® labels, click print, and presto!
How to find photos from the QRcode?
We’re currently [as of Dec. 12, 2011] in the late stages of development of an in-Lightroom QRcode [Barcode] reader plugin. This plugin will be part of version 1.1 of the NPG Publishing Plugin Suite and we plan to release it as a separate plugin for those who do not wish to use our publishing service.
What else is required?
An internet connection. The Lightroom® API is simply not powerful enough to perform all that is required in order to produce these labels so we simply send the meta from the select photos, along with the label size selection, to our servers where we already have the framework to perform the complex operations in order to build these labels.
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Conclusion
There’s no more relying on memory and spending hours of searching through photos to find the exact one that a client wants reproductions of. What’s more, because the UUID is used to search for the photo, Lightroom® will perform the search quickly so that you can move forward with ordering your prints.
We’re always looking for nifty projects like this to work on to improve the efficiency of the photographer doing business. If you suggest a new feature, and we implement it, then we will share the profits with you. Please use our Suggestion Box to inquire further.
Cheers!
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