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LIGHTROOM TOOLS · SEVEN NATIVE PLUGINS FOR LIGHTROOM CLASSIC

Develop
everything else.

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

See the plugins FROM $9.99 · PAY ONCE

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

CONTACT SHEET - 7 FRAMES

Pick a frame.
Each installs in minutes.

  1. 01Google Photos Edit. Re-publish. The album just updates. $9.99
  2. 02Face Tagger Every face in your catalog, named. Locally. $19.99
  3. 03Smart Search Find any photo by describing it. $19.99
  4. 04Grid Planner Nine posts, sequenced by color flow. $9.99
  5. 05Google Drive Collections mirrored to folders, updated in place. $9.99
  6. 06Keptfolio Your galleries become your website. $49/yr
  7. 07Look Slots Nine develop clipboards. Paste any look, any time. $14.99

FRAME 01 / 07 - PUBLISH

Google Photos

Edit a photo in Lightroom, hit re-publish, and the album updates. No duplicates, no manual cleanup, no leaving your catalog.

  • One-click publish from Collections
  • Google OAuth verified - the real API, not a hack
  • Mac and Windows
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LIGHTROOM - COLLECTION
Traveler above a Mediterranean cliffside village
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GOOGLE PHOTOS - ALBUM
Amalfi ’26 · 128 itemsUPDATED - NO DUPLICATES

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

FRAME 04 / 07 - PLAN

Instagram Grid Planner

Sequence your next nine posts by color flow, right inside Lightroom. Three sort modes, carousel grouping, and an export numbered in upload order.

  • Color-flow sorting - then drag any tile to taste
  • Group photos into carousels in the grid
  • Previews Instagram’s 3:4 crop before you post
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Marigold field
Bicycle against an orange wall
Terracotta rooftops
Flamingo in rose water
Lavender rows at dusk
Blue-hour lane
Turquoise iceberg
Teal wave barrel
Palm leaves
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
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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.

  • A library of art-directed styles, light to dark - switch anytime
  • Your galleries stay in Lightroom; the site follows
  • Clients pick keepers by review link - stars land back in Lightroom
  • Hosted for you - no site builder, no exports
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Bridal portrait by a window
Dancer in amber fabric Minimal seascape
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)
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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
NINE CLIPBOARDS - COPY ONCE, PASTE ANY OF THEM

THE REEL - EVERY FRAME AT SPEED

Seven plugins,
45 seconds.

Lightroom Tools - all seven plugins in one reel

CLICK TO PLAY - 45 SECONDS, MUSIC ONLY

UNDER THE SAFELIGHT - HOW THESE ARE BUILT

  1. 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.

  2. Pay once.

    Six of seven plugins are a one-time purchase - yours as long as Lightroom runs. Keptfolio is $49/yr because hosting is ongoing; cancel anytime and your work exports with you.

  3. 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.

FROM THE JOURNAL

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CONTACT

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