Lightroom Archives

Search and Replace 2.1

It’s a pretty good principle that if one person complains or can’t figure something out, there will be many more that I never hear from. Soon after I released Search and Replace 2.0 a few people contacted me with concerns about copying from the four IPTC Location fields, and I had to admit that my …read more

Lightroom 12.3

Lightroom 12.3 came out today and the headline feature is an AI-derived Denoise. I’ll admit that I am ambivalent about it: I’m not so concerned by noise that I’ve bought any of the 3rd party AI-based apps. It’s slow I don’t particularly want an extra (big) DNG in addition to the raw file. Maybe it’s …read more

Search and Replace 2.0

Version 2.0 is released today with a lot of tidying up and polishing, and a few subtle new features. What I hope will be most popular is that you can now launch plugin functions from keyboard shortcuts. While the Mac operating system already lets you set up a keyboard shortcut to run the plugin’s menu …read more

Lightroom to Instagram

How do you post to Instagram from Lightroom on your Mac or PC?

Video Metadata 2.0

I’ve just released version 2.0 of my Video Metadata plugin which reads and writes metadata to video files. The main changes are the introduction of quick access URLs to allow commands to be launched from keyboard shortcuts, and a new Run in Windows/QuickTime command to play videos in the operating system’s default video player.

Lightroom 11.2

Lightroom 11.2 just has a couple of little tweaks to masking and “improved responsiveness in the Library module, especially during multitasking”

Lightroom 11 – Masking

A couple of days ago Adobe posted a sneek peek of a feature coming in the next version of Lightroom – bringing together local adjustments as Masking and adding significant new capabilities. I use local adjustments extensively, mainly the Radial and Linear Gradients, the brush to a lesser extent. For example, I frequently add a …read more

Capture Time to Exif 2.1

I’ve just released version 2.1 of Capture Time to Exif which refines how it handles Exiftool on Mac versions from Catalina and Big Sur. It should no longer be necessary to install Exiftool separately.

Capture Time to Exif 2.0

Today I released version 2 of my plugin Capture Time to Exif. The main changes are a major update of the interface’s layout and better handling of Exiftool on Mac.

Syncomatic 4.0

Syncomatic 4.0 includes performance improvements and extra options

Lightroom 10.0

Lightroom 10.0 has just been released, and you can see the new features listed here. It’s not a radical upgrade and the new features seem barely worth a full version number.

Syncomatic 3.3 (ie 4.0)

Not much has changed in 3.3 – except for performance….

Lightroom 9.3

Not terribly exciting, though the new local Hue slider can help you shift colours in parts of the picture. Use it in conjunction with the range mask.

Big PSBs and fooling Lightroom

A workaround to catalogue very large PSBs

Search & Replace 1.7 (ie 2.0)

I said April, and it’s the 30th, so here is Search & Replace 1.7 with extra features and general tidying up to make it more intuitive to use.

Capture Time to EXIF 1.26

I’ve just released version 1.26 of my plugin Capture Time to EXIF with changes like more EXIF fields like camera can be written by the plugin and improved preview when user chooses to use the Capture Date entered in the Metadata panel.

Open Directly 2.0 (beta)

Version 2 has a range of enhancements – number of apps increased from 6 to 15, second quick menu added. The beta is here, called version 1.7 but will be released as version 2 later this week. If you already own it, the upgrade will be free.

JPEGs sidecar killer

As I have written in another post, I am a big advocate of importing files using the Embedded and Sidecar Preview workflow. With my Fuji X-T2 set to Raw+JPEG, it allows LR to quickly display full resolution previews from the sidecar JPEGs. But once I have reviewed the pictures I no longer need the JPEGs …read more

ISO-dependent presets

Here’s a little script that generate ISO-dependent preset section from one’s previous editing. You select a bunch of edited photos, run the script, and calculates average sharpening and noise reduction per ISO which you can slot into the preset file.

Merge to Panorama

While this site is about Lightroom, I thought this article From the ACR Team: Merge to Panorama was worth pointing out as it combines in-house knowledge about the LR/ACR processes with thoughts about using the camera to take advantage of them.