Example Of My New Plugin in Action
I've finally released a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom that I've been working on for some time, my “People Support” plugin. Once configured, it can tell you the age of people in a photo, and include that data in exports.
It's consumed me for weeks. The idea of calculating and displaying a person's age seems quite straightforward and simple, doesn't it? It's not. Date calculations are surprisingly fraught with complexity, and presentation all the more so when you take into account dealing with all the languages that Lightroom can work in.
English is simple in that we use the same “year” word for dealing with how long ago something happened (“this picture was taken five years ago”) and how old someone is (“this kid is five years old”). Not all languages are so simple... Japanese, for example, uses completely different words for “years” when talking about ages.
Then you have to take into account special cases, such as the day of birth, or even when someone is tagged in a photo before they're born (think ultrasound scan).
There's still plenty of features I'd like to add, but what I'm releasing today is a good start. Notably missing, for example, is a way to inject people information into exported captions when you're not using one of my many export/publish plugins. But if you are, the configuration for who's name and/or age should appear is remarkably powerful. A standalone solution will come later.
The plugin is here