Lightroom Solutions

ListView 2 – beta

A new version of my ListView plugin is coming, and you can try it now.

OpenDirectly 3.1

I've released a couple of updates to my OpenDirectly plugin especially for sending files to Adobe Camera Raw for Generative Expand and other adjustments not yet in Lightroom.

Cropping with generative expand

Julieanne Kost’s demo of Adobe Camera Raw’s new cropping with Generative Expand (AI-powered) is typically no-nonsense and crystal-clear. There’s also a great explanation of the idea behind the new render DNG command. I certainly don’t advocate Generative Expand for routine use. After all, creating new pixels on computer should cross one’s ethical red lines and ...read more

Search & Replace 3.3

I’ve just released version 3.3 to fix a harmless bu t very annoying bug that I introduced yesterday – sorry – and I took the opportunity to address what must be one of the most frequent questions about the plugin – why can’t it access the User Comment field? No-one knows why Adobe have never ...read more

jb Video Metadata 3 – beta

Changes to jb Video Metadata 3 are mainly to how you choose fields, and how many fields you can write.

Search & Replace 3

A couple of changes to Search & Replace look small on the surface but are such a significant extension to the plugin's capability to merit a jump to version 3. It now lets you use LR's facial recognition regions, and can confirm reverse-geocoded locations so they are usable by plugins.

AI and presets

For some reason this morning I wondered how far I can control Lightroom with an AI tool like ChatGPT, and one thing I tried was to see if it could create a preset based on my edits. So I uploaded unedited and edited versions to ChatGPT, and told it to generate a preset.

Lr14.4 Last selection

There's a nice little preference that's been added to Lightroom 14.4 which is easy to overlook - a preference to remember the selection in each source.