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The Photographer's Toolbox is proud to distribute many of the leading plugins for Adobe Lightroom.
We are also available for custom plugin development.

Image Manipulation

Author: Timothy Armes

This plugin allows you to add watermarks, borders and text annotions to your images as they are exported from Lightroom.

Offering a great deal of flexibility in the desired output, it is ideal for those wishing to export images for use on websites or anywhere else where a final presentation of your image is required.

It also includes other useful features, such as the ability to compress an exported JPEG to a maximum file size.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Timothy Armes

This extremely popular plugin allows photographers to blend multiple exposures together directly from Lightroom.

Compatible with Lightroom 3 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Timothy Armes

Create a “Storyboard” of images in a grid-like fashion. This is a great plugin for presenting images that work well together.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Lightroom Statistics

Replace during export a (background) color with transparency. Ideal for product images etc. No extra steps, no extra tools / programs needed. The final image is stored in PNG format.

Metadata Handling Tools

Author: Timothy Armes

Keyword Master is a keywording assistant for Lightroom 3 and later - an incredible productivity boon for photographers who sell their image on line.

Compatible with Lightroom 3 ad latner

Author: Lightroom Statistics

Translate Titles, Captions and Keywords into a target language. When for example, delivering to stock agencies supplying titles, captions and keywords in English is a requirement. And if selling is your business, good meta data makes the difference! However translating is arduous and tedious, a necessary evil. The Translator plug-in makes translation fun.

Author: Lightroom Statistics

Exports photos into multiple directories, optionally based on it's keywords. Useful when exporting all different persons or products into their own directory/folder.

Author: Timothy Armes

PLUS for Lightroom is a plugin for professional photographers who wish to embed PLUS metadata into their images as they are exported from Lightroom.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Timothy Armes

The swiss army knife of metadata plugins for Lightroom. LR/Transporter allows the photographer to import metadata into Lightroom from CSV files, modify image metadata vales based on existing fields and export metadata using a powerful approach to create output files in the format specified by the user.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Lightroom Statistics

This plug-in checks for missing metadata. All professional photographers working with a stock agency know that delivering metadata along with their photos is essential and often required. But also when publishing to clients or the web, metadata like keywords, title, caption, creator and copyright information is essential!.

Author: John Beardsworth

Search Replace Transfer is designed for bulk searching and replacing of text in Metadata Panel fields, and parsing metadata for workflow control.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: John Beardsworth

Capture Time to Exif is essentially an in-Lightroom interface for Exiftool, Phil Harvey's highly-respected application for reading, writing and editing meta information in a wide variety of files.

With Capture Time to Exif you can easily update the Date Time Original EXIF field of scanned images. Advanced uses can specify their own command line to EXIF tool in order to update other Exif/IPTC fields too.

Compatible with Lightroom 3 and later

Author: John Beardsworth

Sync metadata between images with the same filename but different extensions.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Lightroom Workflow

Author: John Beardsworth

Opens images directly in any program the user chooses. The plug-in sends the original file and invokes the other program.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Timothy Armes

Synchronise the ratings you've applied to your JPEGs on your iPad using ShutterSnitch with your RAW images in Lightroom.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Timothy Armes

Keyword Master is a keywording assistant for Lightroom 3 and later - an incredible productivity boon for photographers who sell their image on line.

Compatible with Lightroom 3 and later

Author: John Beardsworth

ListView is a plug-in for Lightroom 3 and later that displays images in a list style just like in most other DAM (digital asset management) programs. Sometimes it's a lot easier to review your metadata entry in a list than by scanning through a grid of thumbnails.

Compatible with Lightroom 3 and later

Author: Lightroom Statistics

Are you searching for derivative image files, like your master, black-and-white, web and other versions of an image? Do you want to find all the different file type versions of an image, like the RAW, DNG, TIFF, JPEG, ... version? Then this is the plug-in for you!

Compatible with Lightroom 4 and later

Author: Matt Dawson

The TPG LR Backup plugin simplifies backing up your Lightroom environment. It does this by adding the ability to backup Lightroom's configuration files, and compress Lightroom's catalog backups, from within Lightroom itself. These tasks can occur automatically as the program starts or manually as required.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Timothy Armes

Keyboard Tamer allows you to redefine most of Lightroom's keyboard shortcuts and assign shortcuts to functions that don't yet have them.

Ideal for those who wish to streamline their workflow and for those who use Lightroom in a language that's "incompatible" with their keyboard.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Lightroom Statistics

With the Relative Adjustments plugin you can apply develop settings relative to the photo's current settings (that is, instead of overwriting the current value of a setting, it adds or subtracts to that value). Based on the preset, you can change one or more settings in one step, optionally applying a strength factor to your preset. The plugin will also give you the option of creating a virtual copy before making the changes.

Compatible with Lightroom 5 and later

Author: Matt Dawson

The Elemental plugin integrates Photoshop Elements (PSE) with Lightroom, enabling external editing of images using a workflow similar to Lightroom's native integration with Photoshop. It allows images to be PhotoMerged, Opened as Layers or Smart Objects, and more in the Photoshop Elements Editor directly from Lightroom.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Lightroom Statistics

Create a GPS tracklog based on the GPS info of your photos. Missing GPS info is a common problem of camera with built-in GPS. With “Tracklog Creator” you can use Lightrooms "Auto-Tag" to fix this problem.

Compatible with Lightroom 4 and later

Author: Lightroom Statistics

Export the develop adjustments made to one or more images into a readable report.

Author: Lightroom Statistics

How do you know what's inside in a develop preset? This plug-in creates an easy to read report of all the settings inside a preset. This is useful because preset settings overwrite develop settings, so you might lose previous develop work by applying them.

Author: John Beardsworth

For marking your locked files with a red label.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Matt Dawson

TPG Snapshotter creates snapshots of the current develop settings for all selected photos in a single step. Snapshots capture a permanent record of an image's current develop settings and can be accessed from the Snapshots panel on the left hand side of the Develop module.

Compatible with Lightroom 3 and later

Author: Matt Dawson

TPG Metadata Panels extends the Metadata section within Lightroom's Library module. It adds a number of pre-defined metadata layouts (tagsets) that configure how much of an image or video's metadata is visible at a time. These new layouts have been designed to help focus on the important metadata when photographers are performing key tasks such as managing copyright and model releases for their digital assets.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC.

Author: Lightroom Statistics

Edit Check allows you to check which photos still have their default (unedited) settings. EditCheck is recommended for photographers who wish to ensure that their photos have been processed before delivering them to a client, uploading them to a website, sending them off to be printed, etc.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC.

Author: Lightroom Statistics

Do you get lists of selected photos from clients? The challenge is how to transform that list into a selection of photos in Lightroom, without manually copy and pasting them. This plug-in reads a list of photo file names from a text file or from the clipboard and collects them into a collection called "LRS_Photo_List" for further processing.

Compatible with Lightroom 4 and later

Exporting Images

Author: Timothy Armes

Export your image to an FTP server. Users of Lightroom 3 and later can make use of Publish Services to maintain collections that synchronized with the server.

Compatible with Lightroom 3 to Lightroom Classic CC
Some functionality with Lightroom 2

Author: Timothy Armes

Export images from Lightroom while preserving your folder hierarchy.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Timothy Armes

Export images from Lightroom directly to your Wordpress or Blogger blog.

This plug may also work with other blogs supporting the Metaweblog protocol.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Timothy Armes

Create a Zip file of images and videos via Lightroom's Export feature. The Zip file can be password protected for extra security.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

The Web Site Publishing Pro Series

The Web Site Publisher Pro series of plugins by Timothy Armes offer a revolutionary new way of creating an entire web presence — not just a gallery — directly from within Lightroom 3 and later.

No other web site creation tools for Lightroom offer the same incredible simplicity or flexibility in creating web sites. These plugins are also unique in their ability to incrementally update your site by only updating the images that have been added or modified.

Author: Timothy Armes

Create a full width image showcase to maximise your visitors' emotional response.

Impact WSPP provides a dynamic user experience to present your work using pure HTML/Javascript (no Flash)..

Compatible with Lightroom 3.2 and later

Author: Timothy Armes

Create a horizontal scrolling "filmstrip" showcase to maximise your visitors' emotional response.

Filmstrip WSPP provides a dynamic user experience to present your work using pure HTML/Javascript (no Flash)..

Compatible with Lightroom 3.2 and later

Standard Web Galleries

Author: Timothy Armes

Create a full width image showcase to maximise your visitors' emotional response.

Impact provides a dynamic user experience to present your work using pure HTML/Javascript (no Flash)..

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Timothy Armes

A fantastic gallery for displaying a large number of images on the same page. Jigasawrus provides a dynamic user experience to present your work using pure HTML/Javascript (no Flash).

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Sean McCormack

LRB Showcase is a web gallery plugin designed for showing a small number of images in a scrolling gallery. It displays large images which automatically resize to fit the screen size.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Timothy Armes

Create a beautiful showcase for a small(ish) collection of images. Elegance provides a dynamic user experience to present your work using pure HTML/Javascript (no Flash).

The elegant design may fit easily into the look and feel of an existing site.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

LRB Website galleries

These gallery plugins from Sean McCormack allow you to create an entire web site via the Lightroom web module.

Author: Sean McCormack

LRB Portfolio is a complete portfolio website for the photographer. Using the currently popular scrolling gallery design, this makes getting a website ready and online a breeze for the code shy.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC

Author: Sean McCormack

From the Portfolio family, LRB Exhibition allows the user to create home, about, contact and general use pages, along with 7 galleries and 2 external links.

Compatible with Lightroom 2 to Lightroom Classic CC