Plug-ins
Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 3 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
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.
Lightroom Presets from OnOne Software
Streamline your workflow and easily add creative effects with more than 140 free Lightroom presets created by Photoshop expert Jack Davis.
Lightroom Presets by Bryan Wheeler
Create dramatic black-and-white photographs, give your images an autumn look, and much more with a wide range of creative presets developed by Bryan Wheeler.
Export plug-ins
These plug-ins enable you to use the Lightroom export interface to send images to particular online photo sharing sites, to social networking sites like Facebook, or even to other applications, letting you instantly create a Gmail e-mail with one of your photos attached, for example. Explore export plug-ins.
LR2/Gmail
Use the LR2/Gmail export plug-in to email your images via your Gmail acount, either as individual attachments or as a single ZIP file.
Mogrify
This plug-in allows you to perform a range of functions on exported images, including advanced resizing, adding image borders, overlaying graphical watermarks or text annotations, and much more.
Publish plug-ins
New to Lightroom 3, 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.
Web 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.
SlideShowPro
Create web galleries with numerous customization options and a very clean look using this plug-in based on a popular SlideShowPro component.
The Turning Gate
Choose from many different web gallery styles and templates in both HTML and Adobe Flash Player compatible formats.
Workflow plug-ins
Make it even easier to get your photography tasks done quickly with plug-ins for many specialized jobs and specific steps in your workflow.
Geoencoding plug-in
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.
ProShow Plug-in
This plug-in provides instant access to the core functionality of ProShow, so you can quickly and easily set up professional slideshows in Lightroom, then export them directly to ProShow Gold or Producer for further enhancements and output.
External editing plug-ins
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.
PhotoMatix Pro
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.
Nik Software
Nik Software produces award-winning technology and software products for digital photography, including U Point® technology, Dfine®, Viveza®, Color Efex Pro™, Silver Efex Pro™, and Sharpener Pro™ software. All of these software titles are available in versions for Lightroom that allow tight integration with your Lightroom workflow.
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