Lightroom: These are the best plugins

Adobe Lightroom offers you a diverse selection of plugins with which you can upgrade the software with even more functions. We present plugins with which you can, for example, send pictures directly from Lightroom via e-mail or use specifications to edit your photo with one click.

Lightroom presets plugin expands your portfolio

Using presets, you can quickly apply a specific look or editing style to your photos. With over 120 free presets, you can expand Lightroom with creative effects.

• Choose the best for your project from portrait, landscape, or lifestyle presets. There is guaranteed to be something for everyone here.
• The plugins work with Lightroom 4, 5, CC and CC 2015.
• You can get the free specifications from ON1.

Find duplicates via plugin in Lightroom

The larger your picture collection becomes, the more likely you are to have duplicate photos. To quickly find these duplicates in Lightroom, use the free Teakettle plugin.

• Teekesselchen uses the EXIF ​​metadata for the search and is an open source software.
• The extension works with Lightroom 3, 4, 5 and CC 2015. It runs on both Windows and Mac.
• You can get this helpful plugin here.

Send images to blog platforms via Lightroom

LR / Blog is an export plugin that allows you to upload your images directly to a number of different blog platforms. An extended template system is available for creating new entries.

• Wordpress, NextGEN Gallery for Wordpress, Blogger and TypePad are supported.
• The free version limits the uploadable image size to 300px.
• You can currently get the full version of this plugin for EUR 10.00.

Lightroom Donationware plugins

The following plugins are donationware. To receive the respective full version, you have to pay at least 3.50 euros. The free versions are limited in application. You need Lightroom 2.0 or higher for these extensions.

• With LR2 / Gmail you can send pictures directly from Lightroom via your Gmail account. The free version allows you to send one picture per email.
• With LR / Transporter you can edit metadata, as well as import or export. You can choose which information the file should contain. In the free version, processing is limited to 10 images per processing step.
• LRB Showcase is a web gallery plugin for Lightroom 2, 3, 4 and 5. It is responsive and automatically adjusts images to the screen size.
• The LR / Mogrify2 extension helps you with image processing. With this helpful plugin you can, for example, add text or frames to an image and insert watermarks. The free version limits the number of images you can edit at once. Mogrify uses ImageMagick to process the images. Therefore, you need this free tool to use Mogrify.

Adobe Lightroom is now also available for Android. You can download it here.