So some hidden traits for you in Lightroom are found under the plugins folder, plug in extras. And you can see we've got a few little plugins here that ship with Lightroom. They're kind of Apple centric, I guess these ones here in that import from an aperture library or import from an iPhoto library. So if you've been using either of those discontinued Apple photo applications, then you can just import the whole catalog directly into Lightroom. And that works pretty well right there. So you can also find other plugins online that you can some are free some you have to pay for some you get a little limited trial version if you use it for free.

And then if you donate some money, they unlock them, which is exactly what I'm going to demonstrate. So to install a plug in, I've got this plugin sitting on my desktop here called storyboard that I just downloaded. And I'm just going to go ahead and go File and I'm going to go into my plugins manager. So here in your plugins manager It talks about the various plugins that Lightroom is running. You'll notice by default, it runs some tethering plugins as well for connecting nikana Leica or Canon cameras. You've got Adobe Stock photos, you've got Flickr and Facebook, which we'll look at later when we look at the export services.

But now what I'm going to do is just add my little storyboard plugin. So I'm going to click Add down here. And I'm going to go to my storyboard a plugin and click Add plug in. And that's it good to go. So if I had paid for this plugin, then I'd have a registration code that I could enter there which would unlock the the the limitations of it, which we'll see shortly, says Do you want to check for updates on a regular basis, it says shows you where it is sitting on the desktop right now, and it talks about and we can see here, it's actually from Jeffrey Fridley. Sorry Jeffrey, have you Watching.

If are a Fred Fridley, I guess we pronounced that. So that's he's created these plugins, and we're good to go. So I clicked on and I've got my storyboard, plugin up and running. And what this storyboard plugin does is it basically lets you select a bunch of images. So I'm just going to select these five images here. And I'm going to go File and I'm going to go plug in extras.

And you can see now my create a storyboard option appears. So firstly, it wants to know where do I output this resulting file to, and I'm going to say, just go to the desktop. So I click this top and select and I filename format, we'll just go for a JPEG for now. 95% quality is fine. The sRGB color space will be fine. And it's going to open in Finder when it's done.

So in terms of the design and layout, I've got these templates here. Using, using a fixed number of columns, fixed number of rows to make a squarish layout with identical width columns. So that's I'll just take the default option right there for what it is, I can choose a background color. So I mean, I'm not I don't really want to get too deep into how this particular plugin works. The real purpose of this video is to demonstrate how easy it is to install plugins through the plugin manager. So if I go ahead now and click Create storyboard, you'll see Lightroom is going to go ahead and it's going to process these five RAW files.

So I guess there's probably going to be a little bit of time and effort involved in that process as it processes the rule files, and it's going to create the resulting storyboard image. So some of the other plugins you might find, if you just Google Lightroom plugins, you'll find some kind of HDR merge plugins that are kind of cool, but I mean, prior to Lightroom, supporting HDR itself, they were invaluable but now that you can do HDR in Lightroom, which I'll demonstrate in session four, they're probably not so necessary. There was another nice suite of plugins on the Nick, the Nick software that but I think they've been discontinued. Now this silver effects pro was a good one people always on the lookout for nice ways to convert to black and white. So if an automated plugin that does that, I think you'll still find quite a number of plugins, they're doing these various services.

So two operations in progress there I guess where there's they're decent sized files there that Lightroom is gonna export and process via this little plugin, but looks like we're just about ready. And here we are. So this is what it's produced here. It's produced this little storyboard here, it's only produced a very small image, because I haven't donated the money to unlock those limitations. So I think the limitations were the images can only be 100 pixels wide. Yeah, but that's that's a nice little plugin.

I mean, Because you could do a similar thing yourself manually in the print module, but you've just got this little plugin, for example as well that you can go ahead and use. So that's working with Lightroom plugins. You've got your plugin manager and then you've got your plug in extras where you can access all the various plugins within