The Lightroom 3rd Party Plug-in and Preset Thread

[West Coast Birder]

I decided to start this thread for us to share any 3rd party plugins or presets that we have purchased and found to be useful.

I'll start. I've been looking for ways to add a frame to my photos in Lightroom. I know it can be done in Photoshop and it can be done in Lithtroom Mobile but for yet unfathomable reasons, there is no easy way to do this in the native Lightroom Classic or Lightroom cloud (aka Lightroom) versions. It boggles the mind why such a simple feature cannot be provided.

Anyway, I was looking into this and came upon a plugin called Mogrify. In addition to adding the capability in the export menu (see screenshot below), it has several other features including adding watermarks, text annotations, resizing, etc. that I have not really played around with yet. It is donationware, so you pay what you feel it is worth and get to use it. I paid 5 euro to test it out, but I like it and am going to make another donation to the developer.

 

[paddler4]

I use only a handful of plugins. My stacking program, Zerene, has an export plugin that converts the files to the format and color space you want and loads them directly in Zerene. LR Enfuse is an exposure blending plugin that I much prefer to HDR. And Jeffrey Friedl has a lot of nifty ones (https://regex.info/blog/lightroom-goodies), one of which I use to export photos directly to smugmug.

 

[Ecc233]

I use Smug Syncback as a critical part of my workflow to download changes in keywords made in SmugMug back to LR. However, its website seems to have disappeared, so I hope that Adobe don't do anything to break it.