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Open Lightroom click File | Plugin Manager... then click the Add button. Select the inaturalist_lookup.lrdevplugin folder.
If installed correctly you should see the inaturalist plugin in the Plugin Manager list.
In Lightroom select one or more photos. Click Library | Plug-in Extras | Lookup Name. You should see the dialog below:
Type in some text like "Belte". The plugin will lookup iNaturalist for a matching name. It will only start searching when you stop typing.
I can see "Belted Kingfisher" is on the top of the list so I can just press the "return" key. If I wanted a different organism like "Tricolored Bumble Bee", I could press the "Select" button on the right of the name.
If you press the Ok button it will select the top organism. If you press the Cancel button, it will not change the metadata fields.
Once selected, the plugin will fill in the iNaturalist metadata for each selected photo.
If your photo has more than one organism type in it, you just simply need to open it again and enter the new organism and it will also add it to the metadata fields
To remove an organism from your photo, you just need to enter the organism name again and it will be removed. It will only remove the name if all photos contain the name you want to remove, otherwise it will add it to all photos without the name.
Here is an example of a thumbnail with 2 different birds in it. I have set up Lightroom to show captions under the thumbnails as shown below.
When adding iNaturalist data to photos its handy to show the iNaturalist Metadata. To show the iNaturalist metadata Open the Metadata section on the right side of Lightroom as seen here. Click on the iNaturalist Metadata link at the bottom
You should now see the fields used by iNaturalist
I strongly encourage you do not edit these fields because you may end up with messy data.
If you want to show the caption on each thumbnail in lightroom like I have shown above follow these steps:
In Lightroom click on View | View Options. Under the Compact Cell Extras select Caption in the dropdown box as shown below.
In Lightroom you cannot map keys yet, but on a Mac you can through settings.
On your Mac Open Settings
Click the Keyboard icon, then the Shortcuts tab at the top.
Click the App Shortcuts item on the left as seen below
Click the + button at the bottom
Find Lightroom in Applications List. If not there, click "Other" and find it. In Menu Title enter
Library->Plug-in Extras-> Lookup Name
Its important you have 3 spaces before "Lookup Name"
Enter your keyboard shortcut. In my example I choose Shift | Option | L
Now if you go back into Lightroom, select Library | Plug-in Extras. Next to the Lookup Name you should see your keyboard shortcut.
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