Lightroom Solutions

Search & Replace 3.3

I’ve just released version 3.3 to fix a harmless bu t very annoying bug that I introduced yesterday – sorry – and I took the opportunity to address what must be one of the most frequent questions about the plugin – why can’t it access the User Comment field? No-one knows why Adobe have never ...read more

jb Video Metadata 3 – beta

Changes to jb Video Metadata 3 are mainly to how you choose fields, and how many fields you can write.

Search & Replace 3

A couple of changes to Search & Replace look small on the surface but are such a significant extension to the plugin's capability to merit a jump to version 3. It now lets you use LR's facial recognition regions, and can confirm reverse-geocoded locations so they are usable by plugins.

AI and presets

For some reason this morning I wondered how far I can control Lightroom with an AI tool like ChatGPT, and one thing I tried was to see if it could create a preset based on my edits. So I uploaded unedited and edited versions to ChatGPT, and told it to generate a preset.

Lr14.4 Last selection

There's a nice little preference that's been added to Lightroom 14.4 which is easy to overlook - a preference to remember the selection in each source.

Bridge filename to metadata script

This is the latest version my old filename to metadata 2020 script for Adobe Bridge. To install it Launch Bridge Open Bridge’s preferences dialog Click the button “Reveal Scripts in Finder/Explorer” Drag & Drop the unzipped jsx file into the Startup Scripts directory Quit and restart Bridge. Please note that it’s unsupported.

ListView 2 – beta

A new version of my ListView plugin is coming, and you can try it now.

Adobe Portfolio and Instagram

Switching your web site to Adobe Portfolio, and including Instagram grids.