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Plugins are added and maintained via Lightroom'sPlugin Manager, which is accessible from Lightroom's Filemenu, and also from a button on the Export Dialog itself.

Here's a screenshot of the Plugin Manager on my system, after Iinstalled half a dozen plugins. At the moment Gta 5 free for mac. , it's showing my“Metadata Wrangler” plugin selected. Mouseover the labels atleft to highlight areas of the screenshot..

Installing a New Plugin

(short version)

Installing a plugin for use with Lightroom usually involves these steps:

1. Downloading a zip file from a trusted plugin source.
2. Unzip the plugin, and move the resulting “..lrplugin” folder to wherever you'd like to store your plugins.
3. Bring up Lightroom's Plugin Manager and tell Lightroom about that folder via the Add button.

Installing a New Plugin

(long version)

0. Clean out old versions of the plugin, if applicable.

1. Download a zip file from a plugin source

Plugins are available from a variety of sources. My plugins are availablefrom my Lightroomgoodies page. I also list there other notable sources.

Warning:a Lightroom plugin has as much accessto your system as Lightroom itself, so for most people this means that a Lightroomplugin can access (and read/delete) any file on your system, so when choosingto install a plugin, exercise the same prudence you would use when downloadingprograms from the Internet. Just as when choosing to install a program, choosingto install a Lightroom plugin involves trusting that the programmer is both trustworthyand competent.

Some browsers unzip the download automatically for you, and with others you unzip ityourself. In either case, you should end up with a folder whose name ends in“.lrplugin” or“.lrdevplugin”. (On aMac, a “.lrplugin” folder actually appears as a “module”package.)

You don't normally ever need to be concerned with the contents of aplugin folder, but if you need to confirm that the folder actually containsa plugin in the first place, check for an “Info.lua” file. (On Macs, youmay need to “Show Package Contents” in Finder to view the filesinside.) I mention this because some programsthat produce zip files create a “...lrplugin” folder intowhich they drop the actual plugin “.lrplugin” folder, whichcan cause confusion.

2. Move the plugin folder to wherever you'd like to store your plugins Paragon ntfs for mac 17.

Lightroom allows you to keep the pluginswherever you like — you just have to tell it where you place each one— so it's up to you to pick a spot to save them. Perhaps a“Lightroom Plugins” folder in your “Documents”?

When you “Add” the plugin to Lightroom, you're just adding a referenceto the location. It's only natural to think that a copy of the plugin wasmade when you “Add”, but Adobe doesn't do that, so be sure not to deletethe plugin files from disk.

3. Tell Lightroom where the plugin is

Bring up Lightroom's Plugin Manager, either from the Filemenu, or from the Plugin Manager button on the Export Dialog. Clickthe Add button, then navigate to the “.lrplugin” itemfrom the previous step.

Plugins can add functionality in any combination of the following:

• A Publish Plugin adds a new publish service to the list availablein the lower left of the Library Module, in the “Publish Services” panel.

• An Export Plugin adds a new destination to the list available inthe “File > Export..” dialog. See here.

• A plugin can add export filter modules that can be used with any Export or Publish action. See here.

• A plugin can add features to the “File > Plug-in Extras..“and/or the “Help > Plug-in Extras..“ menus.

Again, a plugin can have any combination of the above. In particular, plugins that send filesto remote photo-hosting sites can be Publish only, Export only, or both Publish and Export.

A plugin might not provide services through any of the methods shown above. My Folder Watch plugin, for example, provides all of its servicesfrom the Plugin Manager itself.

An export plugin can be selected by bringing up Lightroom's exportdialog, then clicking on the “Hard Drive” popup menu at the top..

Thatbrings up a list of the export handlers available, the three built in items(Email, Hard Drive, and CD/DVD), as well as any added by plugins that areboth installed and enabled..

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Some plugins provide generic support that can be used with any Publish or Export action. For example, my MetadataWrangler plugin allows you to strip selected metadata from exportedcopies as they are produced. It can be used with any Export or Publish action, whether via Lightroom standardmethods or unrelated plugins.

Adobe calls these “Post-process Actions”, but most people call them“Export Filters”.

Once you've added and enabled a filter plugin via the Plugin Manager, itshows up in the lower-left of the export dialog..

Click on its name, then the Insert button at the bottom, andyou'll see it added to the main dialog. In the screen snippet above, the“Metadata Wrangler” dialog section is shown collapsed, so you only see itsbanner. If you were to click on the little triangle beside the name, you'dsee the full dialog for the plugin, which, in this case (my MetadataWrangler filter) is huge (see herefor a screenshot).

Plugin Maintenance & Upgrades

Once a plugin has been installed with Lightroom, you can enable or disable it from the Status section of the PluginManager. A disabled plugin can't be used from within Lightroom, but remains available in the PluginManager, so it can be easily enabled when you want to start using it again.

You can have Lightroom forget about a plugin with the Remove button, on thebottom of the left-hand column.

If the Remove button is grayed out for a particular plugin, it's because the plugin is located in Lightroom's systemarea. Such plugins can be removed only by deleting the plugin files from disk.

The Status section might also display plugin version and web-siteinformation, if the plugin provides it (such as in the screenshotabove).

Upgrading a plugin

Upgrading a plugin to a newer version is similar to installing the firsttime, except that if you replace the original“.lrplugin” folder with the new one, you don't have tore-register the location with Lightroom. In that case, you simply need torestart Lightroom, or click the “Reload Plug-in” buttonin the Plugin-Manager's “Plug-in Author Tools“ section.

If you install the new version in a new location, and register it viathe Plugin Manager, the previous version will remain, but be disabled. You can enable only one version of any particular plugin at a time. SimplyRemove the older versions when you no longer need them.

I've built an upgrade mechanism into my plugins, such that when a newversion is available, you can simply press the Upgrade Now button inthe Plugin Manager. That causes the new version to be downloaded andunzipped in place over top of the old version. You then press the ReloadPlug-in button, or restart Lightroom, to have the new version takeeffect.

(If something goes wrong with the upgrade process, you'll have tomanually download and install the new version. In such a case, you mightwant to inspect the log file left in the temporary-files area of thesystem, named for the plugin, e.g. “flickr-log.txt” for myFlickr plugin).

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Please do not report bugs or other comments related to my plugins here. Please do those on the appropriate per-plugin page (linked from my Lightroom Goodies page).