Search ResultsLightroom allows for a variety of metadata for each photo or video... capture date, caption, keywords, etc., and plugins can add further, custom fields, but sometimes what's offered by Lightroom or existing plugins just doesn't fulfill one's own specific needs. Luckily, it's actually fairly easy to make your very own Lightroom plugin to add your own metadata fields. In this post, I'll show you how. It's fairly quick and simple. It will take far longer to read this post about how to do it than it takes to actually do it. The kind of fields we can add this way [...] View full post » I've just released a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom called Bag-o-Goodies. It's a (currently small) collection of little tools that don't merit their own plugin. One tool lets you compare the shot-taken time between two pictures, such as these shots from yesterday's Kansai Cyclocross races... ... or this set showing the gap between Andy and Antti when they passed me on their final lap... ... or this set of first-shots from my first "real" camera (a Nikon D200) and my current "real" camera (a Nikon D4).... Anyway, there are only three little tools now, but now that I have the [...] View full post » This plugin works in Adobe Lightroom Classic, and older versions as far back as Lightroom 5 (though some features depend on the version of Lightroom). The same download works for both Windows and Mac. See the box to the upper right for the download link (in orange) and installation instructions. Tool Overview The plugin contains these tools, available via the "File > Plugin Extras" menu: • Find Next Photo Group -- identify and group related photos (exposure bracketing, panoramas, high-speed burst, etc.). • Compare Photo Times -- how far apart in time were two photos taken? • Compare [...]View full post » Adobe Lightroom deals with a lot of data -- sometimes thousands of images at a time, each one potentially huge by itself -- so it uses a lot of computer resources. When setting up a machine for Lightroom use, one wants to know what kinds of upgrades will be most effective, and along these lines I got an email from James Palik, a professional photographer who also teaches processing and workflow with Lightroom, asking specific questions about Lightroom resource management. Sadly I'm not the right person to ask about this kind of stuff, but luckily I have a contact within [...] View full post » This plugin for Adobe Lightroom Classic allows you to fix a catalog created via the import from iPhoto, renaming "Event Photos" collections to the name of their enclosing collection set. Optionally, you can move all the collections under one master "Imported from iPhoto" collection set. After making a backup of your Lightroom catalog, just in case, look in the "File > Plugin Extras" menu and invoke "Rename Event Photos collections to the name of their enclosing parent set". The plugin will consider collections named "Event Photos" (or, in non-English installs, whatever Lightroom's translation for that is) only when they are [...] |