A photographer with a tripod on a mountain ridge above a sea of clouds at dawn

LIGHTROOM TOOLS · NATIVE PLUGINS FOR LIGHTROOM CLASSIC

Publish, tag, search, share.
Without leaving Lightroom.

Lightroom Classic perfects the photo. These plugins finish the job - publish, tag, search, plan, grade, and share, straight from your catalog.

See the plugins FROM $19 · PAY ONCE · 30-DAY MONEY-BACK

Graded in one scroll. Your workflow deserves the same care.

CONTACT SHEET · NEW HERE? START WITH 01

Pick a frame.
Each installs in minutes.

FRAME 01 / 07 - PUBLISH · MOST POPULAR

Google Photos

Edit a photo in Lightroom, hit re-publish, and the album updates - one clean version per photo, without leaving your catalog. Nothing to tidy up afterwards.

One-click publish from Collections
Google OAuth verified - the real API, not a hack
Mac and Windows

Buy - ~~Price from Nov 1: $39~~ $19 Learn more

Two kids running hand-in-hand through golden grass at sunset — LIGHTROOM - COLLECTION

FRAME 02 / 07 - TAG

Face Tagger

Train it on a handful of reference photos and it names every other shot of that person - as real Lightroom keywords. The AI runs on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, ever.

Finds people even when the face is half-turned
Tags land as keywords - Smart Collections just work
100% local - your photos never leave the machine

Buy - ~~Price from Nov 1: $69~~ $39 Learn more

Five friends laughing at a garden reception at dusk — HOVER - 0/5 FACES RECOGNIZED

FRAME 03 / 07 - SEARCH

Smart Search

Type what you remember - “sunset over water”, “red umbrella” - and it finds the photo. Index once; search your whole catalog in seconds, forever.

Natural-language search over your own photos
Results land as keywords and a collection
100% local - CLIP runs on your Mac

Buy - ~~Price from Nov 1: $49~~ $39 Learn more

TRY IT

FRAME 04 / 07 - PLAN

Instagram Grid Planner

Pick the nine photos that belong together from a whole shoot, then sequence them by color flow, right inside Lightroom. Three sort modes, seamless carousels designed in one click, your own framing of every 3:4 tile, and an export cropped and numbered in upload order.

Smart Pick chooses a cohesive set from hundreds of photos
Color-flow sorting - then drag any tile to taste
Frame each crop, or spread one photo across 3, 6 or 9 tiles
Design seamless carousels - photos that run across slides

Buy - $29 Learn more

UNSORTED - AS SHOT

FRAME 05 / 07 - MIRROR

Google Drive

Every Published Collection becomes its own Drive folder. Edit and re-publish - the file updates in place. Client delivery without the export-rename-upload dance.

Files update in place - no “final_v3(2).jpg”
Big files upload in resumable chunks
Only ever touches the files it creates

Buy - ~~Price from Nov 1: $29~~ $19 Learn more

LIGHTROOM - “ANNA & TOM”

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DRIVE - /CLIENTS/ANNA-TOM

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FRAME 06 / 07 - EXHIBIT

Keptfolio

Publish your Lightroom galleries to a hosted, designed portfolio site. Pick a style, publish, you’re live - in minutes. Re-publish and it updates in seconds.

Your galleries stay in Lightroom; the site follows
A library of art-directed styles, light to dark - switch anytime
Hosted for you - no site builder, no exports
Also included: private client proofing and full-res delivery

Get Keptfolio - $69/yr Learn more

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Anna Leigh

STYLE

FRAME 07 / 07 - GRADE

Look Slots

Nine develop clipboards instead of Lightroom's one. Hold a portrait recipe, a landscape recipe, and a B&W at the same time - paste any of them onto any selection, all day, without recopying.

Copy with Lightroom's own checkbox dialog - down to individual masks
AI masks re-segment on the photos you paste onto
Optional hotkeys: a key for every slot (free helper, macOS)

Get Look Slots - $29 Learn more

Nine numbered slots, each holding a different look copied from your own photos, wired across to a Lightroom filmstrip where each look is pasted onto a different photo — 9 CLIPBOARDS - COPY ONCE, PASTE ANY OF THEM

FRAME 08 / 08 - CULL

Thumbs

Culling is the job that keeps you at the desk. Send a shoot from Lightroom Classic to your phone, swipe it on the couch or at 30,000 feet, and every keep, reject and star lands back on the right photo in the catalog.

No account and no password - Lightroom shows a six-character code, typed once
Originals never leave your computer; only reduced previews travel
Download a shoot over wifi and cull it in airplane mode - decisions sync back later

Download the plugin (.zip) Learn more

The Thumbs app mid-cull: one photo filling the screen with a KEEP stamp, a star row, and reject, back, skip and keep buttons underneath — ONE CARD AT A TIME - SWIPE RIGHT TO KEEP

FRAME 09 / 09 - COMPOSE · NEW

Collage Studio

Select the photos, and the collage is already laid out - single pages, album spreads or a blog board, framed so nobody's face gets cut. Pick a size, save, and the finished pages land back in your catalog, rendered from your edited full-resolution files.

Print-ready at the exact size, with bleed, in sRGB, Adobe RGB or Display P3
Layouts that keep every photo whole, or crops framed around the people
Reopen any saved collage and keep editing - add, swap, rearrange

Get Collage Studio - ~~Price from Nov 1: $49~~ $25 Learn more

LAUNCH PRICE UNTIL OCT 31 - $49 FROM NOV 1

The Collage Studio designer: a finished collage page on the stage, with layout choices and page sizes beside it — SELECT IN LIGHTROOM - THE PAGES ARE ALREADY LAID OUT

THE REEL - EVERY FRAME AT SPEED

The plugins,
55 seconds.

Lightroom Tools - the plugins in one reel

CLICK TO PLAY - 55 SECONDS, MUSIC ONLY

UNDER THE SAFELIGHT - HOW THESE ARE BUILT

Nothing leaves.

The AI plugins run entirely on your machine. No upload pipelines, no cloud inference, no risk to a catalog you spent ten years building.
Pay once.

Most plugins are a one-time purchase - yours as long as Lightroom runs. Keptfolio ($69/yr or $7/mo) and Thumbs ($29/yr or $5/mo) run on servers, so they are subscriptions; cancel anytime and your work stays with you.
One developer answers.

Bug reports and feature requests come straight to the person who wrote the code. No ticket queue, no tier-1 script. A real reply.

I build these because I like the hard parts - the plugin SDK nobody reads, the edge cases nobody ships, the publish that has to survive a dropped connection. That is why there are several of them and not one.

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CONTACT

Questions?
A person answers.

Bug reports, Windows timelines, anything else - send a note and I’ll reply personally. Got a plugin or feature idea? There is a page for that.

Prefer email? Write to [email protected] - it reaches the same person, usually answered within a day.

Publish, tag, search, share.
Without leaving Lightroom.

Pick a frame.
Each installs in minutes.

Frame 09 - compose

Frame 08 - cull

Frames 01-03 - publish, tag, search

Frames 04-05 - plan, mirror