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Exporting to Wallpaper from Lightroom

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 02:33:41 -0000

I have recently switched from Aperture to Lightroom and missed the ability to export straight from my photo tool to the desktop of my Mac.

If you're in the same boat I've figured out a way to get the desired feature wedged into Lightroom.

Create a folder that will store your exported images. Mine is located at ~/Pictures/Wallpapers.

Create a post-processing filter that will take the exported file and set it as the wallpaper. Open AppleScript Editor and use the following code to create an application in ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Export Actions mine is named wallpaper:

on open theObjects
    repeat with theObject in theObjects
        tell application "Finder"
            set desktop picture to {theObject as string}
        end tell
    end repeat
end open

Create a Lightroom Export preset. This is going to be customized based on your setup, but some things I did to make mine work better are:

Export to a "Specific Folder", the one you created above.
I chose to overwrite without warning so that the files will be replaced if I edit and re-export them.
Resize to fit "Width & Height" set W and H to your display size.
For Post-Processing choose your plugin, wallpaper.

Enjoy!

Relaxing

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:45:31 -0000

Almost Summer

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:02:30 -0000

This is a BBQ kind of night.

Sparkle Shoes

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 01:40:50 -0000

Chicks

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 18:55:37 -0000

This one is named "Car Alarm".

Cliff Edges are Dangerous

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:46:00 -0000

Boardwalk

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:13:46 -0000

Lillies

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:50:08 -0000

Scarlett's Fourth

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:15:08 -0000

I took a few pictures at Scarlett's fourth birthday party, but I think most of the ones in the gallery ended up being Naomi's shots including the one above.

Speedy "Dynamic" Elements on a Static Page

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:23:31 -0000

Moving to a custom static site generator killed my old solution for Twitter and Pinboard integration.

To mitigate this I came up with the following javascript that would pull the information from publicly accessible JSON feeds and integrate it on the client side:

$(document).ready(function() {

     // using jquery built in get json method with twitter api, return only one result
     $.getJSON('http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=amdavidson&count=1&callback=?', function(data)      {{

         // get the date and make it pretty
         var date = Zepto.timeago(data[0].created_at.substring(3,11) +
           data[0].created_at.substring(25,30) +
           data[0].created_at.substring(10,19) +
           data[0].created_at.substring(19,25));

         // result returned
         var tweet = data[0].text;

         // process links and @replies
         tweet = tweet.replace(/(\b(https?):\/\/[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|])/ig, function(url) {
             return '+url+'">'+url+'';
         }).replace(/@([_a-z0-9]+)/ig, function(reply) {
             return  reply.charAt(0)+'+reply.substring(1)+'">'+reply.substring(1)+'';
         });

         // output the result
         $("#tweet").html('"'+tweet+'"');
         $("#tweet-date").html(date);

         // display the twitter block
         $("#twitter").css('display', 'block');
     });

    // using jquery built in get json method with pinboard api,
   $.getJSON('http://feeds.pinboard.in/json/v1/u:amdavidson?format=json&cb=?', function(data)      {

         // get the title.
         title = data[0].d;

         // get the url.
         url = data[0].u;

         // get the description.
         description = data[0].n;

         // get the date and make it pretty.
         date = Zepto.timeago(data[0].dt);

         // output the result
         $("#pin-title").html(title);
         $("#pin-description").html(description);
         $("#pin-link").attr('href', url);
         $("#pin-date").html(date);

         $("#pinboard").css('display', 'block');
     });

});

Unfortunately, this was very slow, especially for Pinboard. Adding 1-1.5 seconds to my page loads. In an effort to alleviate this I started caching the JSON files on my server with these cron jobs, not wanting to put too much additional load on my server, I only pull them every half hour.

0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/curl -s -o
pinboard.json
'http://feeds.pinboard.in/json/v1/u:amdavidson?format=json&count=1'
0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/curl -s -o
twitter.json
'http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?screen_name=amdavidson&count=1'

Then changed the .getJSON lines to this:

$.getJSON('/dynamic/twitter.json', function(data) {

//and

$.getJSON('/dynamic/pinboard.json', function(data) {

Enjoy the faster page load times.