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This scenario is one that I hit during an event edit for my wife's company. Allow me to explain what I am trying to do and see if there is a solution.

I shot about 250 images for a product shoot. I was only editing and finishing 10 of them. I imported them in Lightroom and culled them mercilessly to about 80 images. I then uploaded from within Lightroom to a SmugMug gallery. I created an event for that gallery so that they could review the images and select the 10 they wanted to be fully finished. (Stray hairs removed, stray threads on the clothes, color tweaking etc.)

So once I had the selected images I did some editing in Lightroom and heavier editing in Photoshop. Where I got stumped was finding a way to use Lightroom to replace the originals with the edited files I made. However the file name is not the same anymore.

What would be the best way to do that? Is there a way to do it? I have even thought about using SmugMug uploader in a web browser but it will not accept the PSD file.

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I can't think of a way to do this. There are only 2 ways I know of to check of a remote image is the same as a local image, the MD5 (which would tell you if its an exact duplicate) or the Filename (which would tell you they're likely the same file). The former wouldn't help you here and the latter is, as you mention, not an option. – Shizam Feb 6 '12 at 4:35
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When you edited in PS, did you do it with LR's "edit in..." menu, or did you export, edit and re-import? – cabbey Feb 6 '12 at 18:49
I right click and do the LR edit in, the same thing occurs if I use Nik software as well such as SilverEFX. – Bradford Benn♦ Feb 7 '12 at 5:34
Have you checked the "sync photos" box on the LR uploader plugin? – Jordan H. Feb 7 '12 at 15:42
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They are new images, sync photos does not line them up either as they already exist in the database. – Bradford Benn♦ Feb 8 '12 at 6:56
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Brad,

Unfortunately, Adobe don't give us an easy way to achieve this. But there is a solution...

  1. Delete the published collection from LR and select 'Leave on SmugMug'
  2. Resync the hierarchy and the gallery will be recreated
  3. Resync the images for that gallery and you will now be given the option between the raw and the edited file as the file to associate.

It's a bit ugly but it works...hoping that we can wrangle Adobe into giving us some better SDK functionality to do more advanced stuff.

There also might be a way that we can automated this procedure in some way.

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I think this approach might be the best tool. Can I delete just the editted images and resync? – Bradford Benn♦ Feb 10 '12 at 2:09
No, unfortunately, LR don't provide the same confirmation dialog that they do for deleting galleries (eg. Yes, No, Leave on Service)...instead, the image record is marked for deletion on the next republish. For this reason, you need to delete the gallery and select 'Leave on SmugMug' – David Parry Feb 10 '12 at 2:20
Once I get back from this trip, I will try it out. The new LR sync tool is changing my workflow for the better. I just need to know where the sharp edges are. If it works like I hope, this will most likely be the answer to my question. – Bradford Benn♦ Feb 12 '12 at 23:43
I can confirm that David's approach does work.If there are many images it could become onerous but it does solve the question I asked. So this could be a reason to avoid galleries of 100's or 1000's of images. However for the few I had it did work. (Yes, I tested it on a test gallery first.) – Bradford Benn♦ Feb 16 '12 at 22:35
@BradfordBenn I've looking at all the feedback from image syncing in general and working up some ideas for improvements. Once such improvement is an option that sets a preference for PSD or TIFF files, so in the event that you have a match for both a RAW and a PSD, it would select the PSD without showing the Conflict Resolution dialog. – David Parry Feb 17 '12 at 0:01
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Bad news Brad, Since they are "new" images in LR, there is not currently any way to replace existing images via LR. You'll need to export the images as jpgs, then use one of the existing replace mechanisms on the site. If you just had one or two, I'd say just do the replace image via the tools menu. Since you have several, I suggest you export them into a new folder named "/newer/" and use the ORIGINAL filenames. Then drag the whole lot into the html5 uploader, switch to 'replace duplicates' and let it go to town.

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I am not giving up yet. If I can get things I uploaded from my iPad to sync with LR, I am hoping to figure out how to do this task. I think I just heard my entire vacation for next week get sucked up.... – Bradford Benn♦ Feb 12 '12 at 23:45

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