I've updated my Video Metadata plugin with a small but potentially-useful option suggested by a user - saving the Will Export keywords to the video ..read more

If you read anything about the newly-released Lightroom 13, put aside any of your thoughts about HDR and read this article High Dynamic Range Explained by Adobe's senior engineer Eric Chan. To me Adobe's prioritising HDR editing is an educated bet on where we are going to be in the not-too-distant future, it's Adobe trying to get ahead of the game, and only time will tell - no matter how useless I find it ..read more

I've recently added a couple of new features to my Capture Time to EXIF plugin both requested by users - you can now set much older dates, and when updating multiple images, you can now add various intervals to each image in the batch ..read more

Adobe have recently said that they're discontinuing the Creative Cloud Synced files service by February 2024. As the Microsoft 365 account for Office includes 1 TB of free storage, what do you think about it as an alternative ..read more

Q: Is there an option to create a linked smart object instead of an embedded one when exporting a photo to PS? A: No, in LR there is no option to do that – that’s a shame – so you have to do something like this: First in LR do a Cmd S (Mac) or ...read more ..read more

I've just released version 2.2 of my Search and Replace. The main changes are in the Workflow Filters area where I've added more fields which can be displayed in Library Filter or smart collections. I've also added a command to delete JPEG sidecars for selected raw files, and Caption Builder can now write to title, headline, instructions and to the plugin's 16 custom fields ..read more

I’ve just released version 2.1 of my plugin Open Directly which allows you to send raw files directly to other programs. For example, let’s say you want to process a photo in Capture One. If you followed Lightroom’s External Editor method, Lightroom would first convert raw files to PSD or TIF and would defeat the ...read more ..read more

Version 2.0 is coming very soon – it’s available here for testing – and contains a lot of tidying up and polishing. findreplace.lrplugin 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 ...read more ..read more

How do you post to Instagram from Lightroom on your Mac or PC ..read more

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 ..read more