Adobe lightroom plug-ins

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is the new professional tool for photographers, which is geared towards organizing the large amounts of image data in any resolution or size, any RAW or common format, with editing and post production features. The first version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was released in January 2007, after a yearlong public beta testing period. The improved second version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom became available in summer of 2008, with multiple additions to the already popular tool, like multiple monitor support and more flexible printing options. The response to the new edition was just as favorable as when it initially was released, the improvements were made with vocal input by the users and professionals alike.

Adobe was always famous for providing expanding capabilities for all of their major software platforms, and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is not different. There are several plug-ins which are already available for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and are meant to help the photography professional with creating the final result they have envisioned. While effects and presets for color correction can be imported as well, plug-ins provide additional features which were not intended to be a part of the basic software solution.

For instance, there is a plug-in, which creates slide shows directly out of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, but in flash format, where also audio can be included; no flash programming capabilities are required. The DIMIN Slideshow plug-in for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 was created by Dmitry Fedorov and is available as a free download on Adobe's web site and DIMIN software website as well.

According to the developer center of Adobe, only few things can be manipulated by an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom plug-in, and that would be the Export Functionality, Metadata and Web Engine Functionality. There is a downloadable Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 SDK - software developer kit - which is loaded with Lua-language files, the computer language which was used to write the source code for Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

The limitations to the extent of plug-in customization is deliberate, because Adobe is not willing to allow Adobe Photoshop Lightroom to expand into a behemoth like Photoshop, which is cluttered with additional functions, interfaces, filters and what not. The whole reason why Adobe Photoshop Lightroom was created was to simplify the workflow of professional photographers and allow them to export all the pictures they shoot and publish or sell them as fast as possible, in order to not spend too much time in front of the monitor screen. If a photographer likes to work in complicated environments, then there is Camera RAW, Adobe Bridge and Photoshop to keep them busy.
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