Overview
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ThePhotoGeek's Elemental Lightroom Plugin.

Helps Photoshop Elements version 6 onwards integrate with Lightroom in a
similar fashion to Photoshop.  Enables photo merge, open as layers, smart
objects, and more directly from Lightroom.

Elemental adds 5 new menu items to the File > Plug-in Extras and
Library > Plug-In Extras menus, emulating the integration available to users
of the full Photoshop product.  This includes letting the user select photos
and launch them directly into the Photomerge dialog, or open them as Smart
Objects (a feature Adobe doesnt advertise is available in PSE).  It even adds
some new options for good measure, namely Remove Lens Distortion and the
ability to directly Open in PSE.  And it does this all while avoiding the
Camera Raw dialog which should be redundant given your Develop module edits in
Lightroom.  The only feature I couldnt reproduce was Merge to HDR in Photoshop
because PSE does not have a matching feature.  By all reports the HDR generated
by Photoshop was of limited usefulness so I doubt many would miss it anyway.

Copyright (C) 2009 ThePhotoGeek

More information available at: http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/config-backup/

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Installation
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   1. Download the plugins zip file.
   2. Copy the zip file where you want the plugin to permanently reside, then unzip the file.  This should create a sub-directory called <plugin name>.lrplugin.
   3. Open Lightroom 2, then select the File\Plugin Manager menu option.
   4. Press the Add button, select the <plugin name>.lrplugin directory created in step 2, then press OK.
   5. The plugin is now installed and enabled.  Press Done.

More information available at: http://thephotogeek.com/lightroom/elemental/
