Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 5 software includes an extensive and powerful array of tools for managing, editing, and showcasing your images. Even better, Lightroom is highly extensible. Its plug-in architecture allows third-party developers to create a huge variety of software plug-ins that let you add new features and capabilities to the already rich Lightroom toolset.
Develop presets let you quickly apply a specific look or editing style to your images, and they can be easily shared. Choose from thousands of different looks created by developers and other Lightroom photographers. See more develop presets.
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Streamline your workflow and easily add creative effects with more than 140 free Lightroom presets created by Photoshop expert Jack Davis.
These plug-ins enable you to use the Lightroom export interface to send images to particular online photo sharing sites, social networking sites like Facebook, or even other applications, letting you instantly create a Gmail e-mail with one of your photos attached, for example. Explore export plug-ins.
Export List [Mac OS, Win]
Easily generate a complete inventory of all uploaded photos when you export or publish from Lightroom. Export List supports multiple output formats, such as plain text, HTML, and CSV. HTML output provides easily customizable grouping by keywords or any metadata field.
Use the export plug-in to email your images via your Gmail account, either as individual attachments or as a single ZIP file.
This add-on for any export or publish service can strip/retain specific image metadata in exported copies. It can be useful to protect privacy (by removing location and camera-serial data), hide the photo's edit history, and reduce bandwidth requirements.
LR/Enfuse provides a convenient interface onto the open source Enfuse application, which provides excellent blending of multiple exposures of the same scene into one final image. Simply select the images that need blending together and choose Blend Exposures Using LR/Enfuse from the File menu.
Costco Photo Center [Mac OS, Win]
Streamline the process of uploading photos from Lightroom to your Costco Photo Center account. Easily manage your albums within Lightroom.
This plug-in allows you to optimize images for display on an iPad or other device with a fixed screen size.
Use this add-on for any export, creating a snapshot of each image's develop settings with each export so you can later revert to exactly the same settings. It's like a develop settings backup.
LR/Mogrify 2 is a post-process plug-in that embellishes your images as they are exported. Add borders, watermarks, and text annotations. It can also produce JPEG images that are compressed to no larger than a required file size.
Publish plug-ins let you upload images to online photo sharing sites such as Flickr® and Facebook directly from within the Lightroom Library. Stay tuned as new publish plug-ins are developed.
NextGEN Gallery [Mac OS, Win]
Publish and export photos from Lightroom to your blog running the NextGEN Gallery for WordPress. Manage albums and easily create blog posts or blog pages for new galleries, all within Lightroom.
LR/Blog is a plug-in that allows you to export your images directly to your blog. Version 1.70 has been tested with WordPress (3.2), NextGEN (1.9.0), and Blogger (hosted blogs only). With LR/Blog you can also create new posts for your images using an advanced templating system.
Export-to-Zenfolio by Jeffrey Friedl is a plug-in for Lightroom that allows to integrate Zenfolio into your digital processing workflow. The plug-in offers direct upload to Zenfolio with a variety of powerful configuration options.
Piwigo [Mac OS, Win]
Easily publish photos from Lightroom directly to your Piwigo hosting account, manage your albums within Lightroom, and download comments and ratings for your photos
Publish and export photos from Lightroom directly to your Snapfish account. Supports all international Snapfish accounts in Europe, North America, and Asia Pacifi
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The SmugMug Publish Plugin lets you sync your photo library with your SmugMug photo sharing site and publish images back to your online galleries.
Many stunning templates and styles are available as plug-ins that expand the number and variety of HTML and Adobe Flash® Player compatible web galleries that you can create in the Lightroom Web Module.
Upload photos and videos from Lightroom directly to your Gallery 3 hosting service. Easily gain control of your existing albums and photos using the advanced import features.
LRB Exhibition is a website creation plug-in for photographers that features up to seven slide show galleries, about and contact pages, custom pages, the capacity for large images up to 1200px, and more.
LRB Portofolio is a website creation plug-in for photographers that features up to seven scrolling galleries, an about page, a contact page, custom pages, and more.
TTG offers a range of plugins for Lightroom's Web module, allowing users to create standalone galleries or complete websites using the largest, most robust and flexible set of Web creation plugins currently available for Lightroom. Creates galleries, pages and even a blog theme using HTML5 and mobile-friendly practices, with features including e-commerce, client proofing, password protected galleries, gallery indexing, and completely customizable design. A dedicated support forum is available.
Impact WSPP can be used to generate an entire website to showcase your work. Instead of a single gallery, you can create a complete web presence that includes a structured hierarchy of galleries.
Make it even easier to get your photography tasks done quickly with plug-ins for many specialized jobs and specific steps in your workflow.
The TPG LR Backup plug-in gives you peace of mind by simplifying backing up your Lightroom environment. It allows you to automatically back up the configuration files of Lightroom, and manage catalog backups, from within Lightroom itself.
Tag images within your Lightroom Library with location information using this plug-in, which supports several methods of adding geoencoding data to photos, including a GPS tracklog, raw/latitude/longitude, and Yahoo/Google map URL.
Bulk Develop allows you to apply develop settings in bulk, tailored to each photo based upon the ISO sensitivity at which it was taken. This is a very useful part of an import workflow for those with high-ISO shots.
This plug-in enables you to quickly and easily set up professional slide shows in Lightroom, and then export them directly to ProShow Gold or Producer for further enhancements and output.
Photosafe allows you to specify, manually or with rule-based descriptions, photos that cannot be deleted from Lightroom, to protect against accidental deletion.
While Lightroom provides extensive and powerful image editing controls, you can use external editing plug-ins to gain access to additional tools and techniques or perform highly specialized editing tasks.
Simplify the process of creating blended high dynamic range and tone-mapped images from photographs in your Lightroom Library using the Lightroom Export Plug-in to Photomatix Pro.
Alien Skin Software makes a variety of tools compatible with Lightroom, including Exposure for film looks, Blow Up for resizing, Snap Art for natural media, and Bokeh for creative focus.
Take creative control over your digital images to create stunning memories. The Topaz Lightroom plug-ins feature a set of easy-to-use tools for color and exposure, HDR effects, detail adjustments, noise reduction, digital art, masking and extraction, smoothing and texture control, sharpening, bokeh and much more.
To the fast lane of time-lapse with Photoshop Lightroom
- Rajeev Kumar Tiwari
- 12th Jan 2017
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- Lightroom CC photography time-lapse template time-lapse video tips for time-lapse video creation
Graphics by Kalika Arora
Have you ever seen a time-lapse video and wondered how it is made? Well, if you are a Lightroom user, you can create your own time-lapse video using Lightroom. The advantage of creating a time-lapse video in Lightroom is that you get more flexibility while editing the images, including RAW images.
In a time-lapse video, you speed up contiguous photos (also called ‘frames’) shot over a time period to show the video faster than the normal speed.
So how do I know how many photos do I need to capture? How long will my time-lapse video be when I create one? Well, these are the questions that you should have in mind before you begin your shoot and they are the essential part of planning. We’ll get into further details later.
For now, let’s take an example of a video of clouds floating over mountains. If the video is shot for a duration of 30 minutes at 30 Frames per Second (FPS), it will have a total of 54,000 frames (30 frames x 1800 seconds). At the normal speed, the movement of the clouds will be slow in the video. Now consider making a time-lapse video of the same scene. If you shoot photos at an interval of five seconds for 30 minutes, you will have 360 frames to compile in your video. The final output will be of 12 seconds (360 frames at 30FPS). So with the time-lapse technique, you can show the 30-minute movement of clouds in a 12-second video.
You can use time-lapse to show sunrise/sunset, movement of the clouds, star trails, the transition of the moon, movement of traffic, construction of a building over a period of time, the blooming of a flower, etc.
The workflow of creating a time-lapse video is broken down into the following phases:
This blog post benefits from the insights shared by Adobe Community Professional Sean McCormack here on his blog. We thankfully acknowledge his contribution.
Planning and shooting photos
Plan and shoot the photos for your time-lapse video. If you’ve planned and shot your photos well, you’ve already won half the battle. Always keep the final output in mind when you plan your shoot. Take care of the following things when you plan the shoot:
- Shooting for time-lapse takes a lot of time. Ensure that your camera battery is fully charged for a long shoot. It will be better if you have some spare batteries with you.
- Depending on the file format setting (RAW or JPEG), the memory required for the shoot will vary. Ensure that you have sufficient memory for the shoot.
- You need an intervalometer to shoot photos at a specific time interval. You can use an external intervalometer if your camera does not have an in-built intervalometer.
- You need a good-quality tripod for the shoot. Having a sturdy tripod ensures that you get stable frames for your time-lapse video.
- Always take some test shots and check your composition and setting for the shoot. Once you are sure about the ideal settings, use the same settings for shooting photos in manual mode. This ensures that the camera doesn’t set exposure and metering for each frame automatically. It is advised that you turn off the auto-focus feature, shooting with auto-focus takes additional battery and may create glitches in the video clip.
- You can decide the interval between two shots depending on what you are shooting. For example, if you are shooting fast-moving clouds, you may choose to have an interval of 5-10 seconds between each shot. However, if you are shooting a slow process like a blooming flower, the interval between two shots could be a few
- You need to calculate the total number of frames required for your time-lapse video based on the interval between the two shots. Here’s a blog by Julieanne Kost that can help you calculate the frames for your time-lapse video.
Importing photos to Lightroom
After shooting your photos, import them into Lightroom.
If you need help with the procedure, follow the instructions in these articles:
Note: Select and import only the contiguous photos into Lightroom to ensure that you import photos in the correct sequence for the time-lapse video. You can use the Sort feature to arrange the photo while importing.
Editing photos
If you want to fine-tune the photos (for example, crop, fix exposure and white balance, adjust saturation etc), you can use the Develop module of Lightroom.
Do the following to edit the photos in Lightroom:
- Edit the photos in the Develop module of Lightroom. For more details on editing photos in the Develop Module, see Edit photos in develop module.
- Apply the same editing on all the photos in a collection. Select all the photos and click Sync in the Develop This ensures a smooth transition of the frames in the final video. For more details on Sync, see Synchronize settings across multiple photos.
Note: You can use the Reference view to compare the editing with one image as a reference point. For more details on the Reference view, see Reference View.
Importing time-lapse templates
Before you start creating your time-lapse video, click here to download templates required to create time-lapse video. You can skip this if you already have time-lapse templates in Lightroom. These templates are customized for creating time-lapse videos at 15, 24, and 30 FPS.
Do the following to import the Lightroom templates for time-lapse:
- Go to the Slideshow module in Lightroom.
- Right-click User Templates in the Template Browser panel on the left and click Import.
- Browse to locate the downloaded templates and click Import.
You have successfully imported the time-lapse templates in Lightroom.
Creating a video
Adobe Lightroom Timelapse Plugin
You are now ready to create the time-lapse video. Do the following to create the time-lapse video:
- Select a time-lapse template from UserTemplate under TemplateBrowser in the Slideshow.
Note: Make sure you don’t change anything in the panel on right for setting layout and playback options for the slideshow. - Click ExportVideo to save the video.
- Enter file name, select VideoPreset, and click Save.
You have successfully created your time-lapse video. You can now publish it and wow your friends.
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