Lightroom Plugins – Page 2

Adobe Revel presets applied in Lightroom

3 January 2013January 3, 2013jarnoh3 Comments

In addition to semi-pro Lightroom, Adobe also ships more casual photography package called Revel. While it is not terribly exciting for Lightroom users, it is interesting to know that it actually has the same processing engine as Lightroom 4. You might also consider revisiting it, because it has been recently updated with free subscription model.

What is quite interesting from Lightroom point of view, they have stored all the built-in presets as XMP files inside the application folder (on Mac, the path is /Applications/Adobe Revel.app/Contents/Resources/looks/ In order to access it, you need to right click Adobe Revel.app folder and select Show Package Contents)

XMP files contain the development settings and while Lightroom cannot directly load these files, my Preset Ripper plugin can! It reads XMP settings from JPEG or XMP files into develop preset values and uses plugin API to process the image to new settings.

Here’s a list of all presets I found there; the names are not the same ones shown in the user interface but there are some hidden presets as well (31 in total)

You can “rip” any of these presets into your own photo using the Preset Ripper plugin, either by opening the original XMP files, or by downloading any of these JPEG files below and opening it in the Preset Ripper plugin.

Atlantic

Austell

Bueno

Carson

Corona

Mason

Moreland

Murphy

Olympic

Parker

Porter

Prospect

Savin

Shelby

Spillman

TestBlackenedRed&Green

TestBoldDessert

TestBrandon05

TestBrandon10

TestBrandon11

TestGlowMirror

TestHotMidnight

TestLilac&Lime

TestPalestSummer

TestPinkGreenPale

TestRedSoft

TestRedux

TestSunshine&Rain

TestTinType

Venice

Willowbrook

These photos were developed using Lightroom 4.3.

The Fader 0.5.718

25 November 2012November 25, 2012jarnohLeave a comment

Lightroom develop presets have all kinds of hidden quirks in them. For example, if you use the toggle buttons to disable a certain section of a preset, the slider values are dimmed, and they are saved with their default values into the XMP sidecar file.

However, the actual slider values are still saved to develop presets, and until now The Fader hasn’t taken this into account. In case you have presets which have disabled sections in them with some wild slider settings, there is a possibility that The Fader could incorrectly interpolate these slider values. The revision 718 fixes this oversight.

Download

Download thefader_r718.zip

Changes in version 0.5.718

Improved processing of presets with disabled sections, now we are using defaults
for disabled section values

RAW In-Camera Preview Extractor 0.1.705

10 October 2012October 10, 2012jarnoh2 Comments

I don’t know about others, but my cameras’ preview images do not contain any useful metadata, such as orientation of the exposure.
I’ve now implemented this feature by examining the RAW orientation and losslessly rotating the camera preview JPEG according to it.

Now, the JPEG preview of vertical images should be vertical as well.

Download (Lightroom 4, Mac OS X only)

Download rawpreview_r705.zip

Version 0.1.705

Added rotation of JPEG image, based on the original RAW image EXIF orientation

Focus Mask 0.1.608

4 September 2012September 4, 2012jarnoh3 Comments

Yet another OS X linking fix. Build 580 was only working on OS X 10.8, this one works on OS X 10.7 as well.

Download

Download focusmask_r608.zip

Version 0.1.608

OSX build was incorrectly built and it only worked on 10.8. Fixed by
compiling on OS X 10.7.

Focus Mask 0.1.580

27 July 2012July 27, 2012jarnohLeave a comment

Small linking update to Focus Mask plugin on OS X, it no longer requires X11 libraries to be installed (X11 is the old Unix windowing system, nothing a typical user should know about).

The previous version was accidentally using PNG library from X11, I did not realise that the library shipped by default on OS X is simply a stub with requester to install X11. Since X11 is typically only installed by Unix freaks and developers, I decided to link against a static version of PNG library.

Download

Download focusmask_r580.zip

This version contains error, it only works on OSX 10.8, not OSX 10.7 as expected.

Version 0.1.580

OSX version no longer requires X11 to be installed

Excessor 0.3.579

11 July 2012July 11, 2012jarnoh7 Comments

One user requested ability to select multiple images for Excessor, here’s update that makes it possible!

Apart from that, it now shares the same registration system as all my plugins, and the unregistered version has a slight delay, hoping to remind you that your support makes possible to create all these plugins.

Download

Download excessor_r579.zip

Changes in version 0.3.579

Re-branding

Added ability to select multiple photos

Added registration feature (removes nagscreen)

Added keywording and option to remove it

Leak Lite 0.3.576

11 July 2012July 11, 2012jarnoh2 Comments

I’ve finally taken the time to update Leak Lite plugin for Lightroom 4.0’s new process version. While the process version changes were not that big, the release was mostly delayed by a single bug in the create snapshot button. Myself, I’m usually clicking few dozen times on the shuffle button, and if there are some promising settings shown, I create a snapshot of those settings, and just shuffle a bit more, just in case… After I’m done with the shuffling, I go back to snapshots and decide which one is the to publish and do if necessary, I do some final retouching. All the effects are lossless, so you can adjust them with Lightroom’s built-in gradient tools.

Download

Download leaklite_r576.zip

Changes in version 0.3.576

Re-branding

Updated for Lightroom 4 and Process Version 2012

Added “Create snapshot” button

Added registration feature (removes nagscreen)

Added option to remove keywording

The Fader 0.5.560

7 July 2012July 7, 2012jarnoh12 Comments

Yet another maintenance release!

I received some user comments related to missing LrPhotoPictureView namespace. This class is undocumented Lightroom class which provides UI photo preview and it is not supported by older Lightroom 3.x versions (I recommend running the latest version, 3.6, which does support this undocumented feature). And as you could see from the UI – I was not actually using it for anything, it was simply leftovers from some UI experiments I made.

Another change is in the tone curve interpolation, the lagrange interpolation makes the curve quite unstable when lots of keypoints are used, so I’ve done some additional research to make sure curves are now properly interpolated with the same algorithm Lightroom uses internally (hermite spline interpolation, as presented in book Numerical Recipes).

Download

Download thefader_r560.zip

Changes in version 0.5.560

Fixed “An internal error has occurred: Could not find namespace: LrPhotoPictureView” on
older Lightroom 3.x releases

Fixed clamping bug in point curve

Replaced point curve lagrange integration with hermite spline

Focus Mask 0.1.535

8 June 2012June 8, 2012jarnoh3 Comments

I’ve updated the Focus Mask plugin with pick/reject buttons, which are very handy way to get rid of out-of-focus images.

Here’s my own workflow with Focus Mask. First, simply select the photos (shift-click, up to 32) and start Focus Mask plugin.

Click “Decrease Flag Status” button so that all the photos are in rejected state. Now raise the photos you see as good enough focus by clicking on “pick” or “unflagged” radio buttons (on Mac, you can also click the photo itself, its flag status is then increased). Clicking OK will make the pick changes permanent.

Download

Download focusmask_r535.zip

This plugin is only compatible with Lightroom 4. If you are running LR3, I could perhaps modify plugin so that a subset of the functionality would be available on Lightroom 3.x versions, but yet there has not been significant interest for that!

Sneak preview of focus peaking plugin

30 May 2012May 30, 2012jarnohLeave a comment

I’ve finally been implementing an old plugin idea of mine, showing in-focus areas in Lightroom. Nowadays, it seems to be called “focus peaking”. I’m processing the image and showing red dots where the suspected focus is in.

~~No downloadable version yet, it is still in prototype phase, but I guess the screenshots should speak for themselves:~~

Now downloadable

And of course, it supports viewing multiple images at once, so that you can see which images are in focus and which are not.

Currently, I’m missing cropping (focus mask is always shown from uncropped image), and ideally I’d like to add pick/reject buttons next to each image. But if there’s enough interest, maybe I could release it in beta version.

Sneak preview for improved Lightroom RGB curves editing plugin

7 April 2012April 7, 2012jarnoh10 Comments

Lightroom 4.0 finally added possiblity to adjust RGB curves, that is well communicated from the Lightroom evangelists (both paid and non-paid). What is not communicated, is that the curve editor itself is like a time capsule from the 90s!

Previous Lightroom versions contained the same point curve editor, where it was used to modify the intensity curve. The editor is quite minimalistic, it has possiblity to adjust the curve control points X,Y values and ability to set couple of preset curves (linear, medium, strong contrast). It is basic but does it job… except that the RGB curve mode loses the presets (ok, there is still Flatten Curve option, but that’s it!). And, I don’t really know anyone can make adjustments based on the individual curves: Lightroom 4 does not even show the RGB curves on screen together, you can only see one component curve at a time.

I’ve been working on a little plugin, which integrates to Lightroom 4, but allows a few tricks with the curves. On the left hand side, you can see a early screenshot of the plugin, the CurveMonkey is a working title, but those tend to stick around in my projects…

Most important feature is that you can see all 4 curves at the same time, and you can adjust them “live” with Lightroom, the changes are reflected to Lightroom instantly. I’ve added some necessary options to the context menu, so that you can select the most common curve presets and also copy and paste between the different curves (the bottom screenshot shows the context menu).

What is also included between the intensity and RGB curves, is a special gradient visualizing effect of the RGB and intensity curve combined. I got this idea few years ago, but I’ve never seen it in use in any image adjustment software, so perhaps it’s time to put the idea into good use!

The plugin is not (yet) ready for release, as there are some quite tricky bugs left, but it should be finalized shortly for Mac OS X release. Windows users will have to wait until June or so.

Let me know what you think!

The Fader 0.5.384

6 March 2012March 6, 2012jarnoh9 Comments

Lightroom 4.0 was released today, congratulations for the whole Lightroom team for another fine release!

Also, I decided to release update for The Fader to just celebrate that 🙂

This update provides the ability to fade between point curves (you know, the flip side of Tone Curve section). As the curves are not really “fadeable” directly, I’ve cooked up some Lagrange interpolation and just increasing amount of control points as necessary.

Here’s some screen captures — first the RGB curve settings of Lightroom’s built-in Cross Processing 3 preset:

Now use The Fader to blend in 50% of Cross Processing 1 preset. This preset has a straight RGB point curve, which should straighten the curves a bit.

Final result:

And as always, this is applied using the non-destructive pipeline, so you can freely edit the settings further yourself.

Download

Download thefader_r384.zip

Changes in version 0.5.384

Support for fading tone curves (in PV2012 also RGB curves)

Fixed trashcan issue (again, it was accidentally commented out for debug)

The Fader Quick Tutorial Video

28 February 2012October 26, 2015jarnoh26 Comments

Preset Ripper 0.1.377

16 February 2012February 16, 2012jarnohLeave a comment

Download

Download presetripper_r377.zip

Version 0.1.377

Initial version

Sliders are supported, gradients and brushes coming in future updates

The Fader 0.5.370

7 February 2012February 7, 2012jarnoh2 Comments

Download

Download thefader_r370.zip

Changes in version 0.5.370

Support for Lightroom 4.0 Process Version 2012’s new basic sliders

Added warning sign when fading between process versions

Streamlined user-interface by removing extra text fields

Numeric input field, allows adjusting using arrows and steps (Windows pgdn/pgup, OSX: shift+arrow)

Much faster startup, preset lists are now cached between runs

Progress bar while presets are being enumerated

Added registration feature

Added option for tagging keyword LR_TheFader (registered only)

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