Step 1: Installing ImageMagick (Windows users only)

To use this plugin, PC users must install ImageMagick. As of version 3.50, Mac users no longer need to do this since the plugin includes it's own version.

Step 2: Installing the stand-alone LR/Mogrify plugin

Download and unzip LR/Mogrify. You should now have a plugin called 'LRMogrify.lrplugin' containing the plugin files, and another called 'Piglet'.

Lightroom 2

If you have Lightroom 2 then you can add the plugin to Lightroom using the Plugin Manager.

1. Move LRMogrify.lrplugin to a convenient location of your own choosing.
2. Open Lightroom's plugin manager from the File menu.
3. Click the "Add" button.
4. Browse to the plugin and click "OK" on a Mac or "Add plugin" on a PC.

Lightroom 1

LRMogrify.lrplugin is the stand-alone plugin, and you need to copy it to the appropriate location. You may need to create the "Modules" directory.

You should now restart Lightroom

Step 3: Unlock the trial version

If you have donated towards the project you should unlock the trial version using the registration code that you should have received.

1. Go to the Library mode, select an image and then press the Export button.
2. Choose LR/Mogrify from the top of the dialog box (by default Export Files to Disk is selected)
   
3. Enter your registration code into the box provided under the LR/Mogrify Configuration section.

Step 4: Set up (Windows users only)

Windows users now need to tell the plugin where to find ImageMagick's mogrify application.

1. Go to the Library mode, select an image and then press the Export button.
2. Choose LR/Mogrify from the top of the dialog box (by default Export Files to Disk is selected)
3. In the Mogrify Configuration panel press 'Choose', browse to the ImageMagick installation (e.g. C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.4.1-Q16 - this will vary with the version of ImageMagick) and choose mogrify.exe
   

Installing the LR/Mogrify Piglet

LR/Mogrify also comes as a Piglet which allows it to be used with plugins that integrate Jeffrey Friedl's Piglet manager. This allows you to use LR/Mogrify within another plugin. Note this this type of integration is now handled natively by Lightroom 2, and you can use LR2/Mogrify to this effect.

To install the LR/Mogrify Piglet, copy the contents of the Piglet directory into the plugin directory of the plugin in question.

Please read Jeffrey's Piglet page for more information.

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