Lightroom Extras

Plugins and other tools to enhance Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and 3.

 

Plugins

Config Backup plugin Adds 1-click and customisable methods to backup your Lightroom configuration and manage and compress your catalog backups.
Elemental plugin

Helps Photoshop Elements version 6 onwards to work seamlessly with Lightroom, similarly to the native integration between Lightroom and Photoshop.  Enables Lightroom to launch Photoshop Elements directly into photo merge (panoramas), open photos as layers, create smart objects, and start various features with a single click.
Export Backup plugin Adds a post-process action to backup rendered images generated during an export.  These are discarded for many export services.
Metadata Tagsets plugin Adds six new tagsets to the Metadata panel in the Library module.  These configure the metadata fields you can view and/or modify at one time.
Test Harness plugin Helps Lightroom plugin developers by providing menu items to execute and generate standalone plugins from LUA scripts.

 

Miscellaneous

TTG Client Script Converts TTG Client Response Gallery, TTG Highslide Gallery and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro gallery selection emails into smart collections that can be imported into Lightroom.

 

Plugin Installation

To install a plugin:

  1. Download the plugin’s 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, 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.

3 Responses to “Lightroom Extras”

  1. New Plugin Brings Lightroom and Photoshop Elements Together At Last | The Photo Geek - July 5th, 2009

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  2. Rich San Diego, CA - July 31st, 2009

    Hi,

    I have installed the latest config backup plugin for LR2 and I was wondering…
    Should I have both the Configuration files backup and the LightRoom Automatic backup set configured to save to the same folder on my External HD?

    Does the LightRoom Automatic backup save to both a compressed and an uncompressed directory or is compression a feature of your plugin? If so does your plug-in automatically compress the files or must it be set to do so?

    Thanks.

  3. Matt - July 31st, 2009

    A quick summary of the discussion we had over at Lightroomforums.net. Given you are using Mac OSX and have Time machine backing up your main system, having the Config Backups, Lightroom’s inbuilt catalog backups, and the compressed versions of those catalog backups all going to the same (RAID 1) external HDD seems reasonable. I would recommend taking occasional backups to optical media as an extra safety precaution though.

    The uncompressed directory needs to be set to where the Lightroom inbuilt catalog backups end up. The plugin will then copy or move (depending upon the settings) those backups to zips in the compressed files directory. You must call up the plugin (via one of its items in the File -> Plugin Extras menu) to trigger the compression of backups. Adobe hasn’t documented any SDK hook to allow me to do this without user intervention.

    Hope this clears everything up.

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