Adobe Lightroom plug-in

Overview

Oloneo PhotoEngine includes a plug-in for Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom®. The plug-in allows you to select images in Lightroom and send them to PhotoEngine for editing. The images can be pre-processed by Lightroom.

The plug-in runs with:

Lightroom 2.7 and higher
Lightroom 3.4 and higher

Enabling the plug-in

Before using the plug-in, you have to enable it in Lightroom. The Lightroom plug-in is installed in the Oloneo PhotoEngine folder located in “My Documents”.

Enabling the plug-in:

Start Lightroom
Select Plug-In Manager... in the File menu
Click the Add button
Navigate to My Documents/Oloneo PhotoEngine/LRPhotoEngine.lrplugin
Click OK

Locating PhotoEngine.exe:

Start Lightroom
Select Plug-In Manager... in the File menu
Click on LR/PhotoEngine in the list located at the left of the Manager dialog
Click on the Choose... button located in the Configuration panel
Navigate to C:\Program Files\Oloneo PhotoEngine\PhotoEngine.exe
Click Select button
Click Done

The Lightroom plug-in is now ready to use.

Using the plug-in

In order to use the plug-in you have first to add photos to the Lightroom Library. Please refer to the Lightroom manual to learn how to add photos to the Library. When done, select in the Library the photos or the Stack you want to send to PhotoEngine.

Starting the plug-in:

Select Plug-in Extras in the File menu
Select Send Exposures to Oloneo PhotoEngine...
The plug-in dialog is shown

Selecting the Project type and options:

Click the Project Type menu, select HDR ToneMap, HDR ReLight or HDR DeNoise
Select the project options such as Autoalign and Ghost Removal

Read the previous chapters to learn more about HDR ToneMap, HDR ReLight and HDR DeNoise.

Selecting the files to send

Click the Image Files To Send menu
Select Original Files or Images with Lightroom Adjustments

The Original Files option sends the files to PhotoEngine without any modification. The Images with Lightroom Adjustments option applies Lightroom pre-processing (such as: Raw processing, noise reduction, lens corrections) and then sends the images to PhotoEngine.

Set the stack option

Check or uncheck the Send Entire Stack

Lightroom sends to PhotoEngine all the images contained in a selected Stack when this option is checked.

Sending the images

Click the Send Images button
PhotoEngine starts and loads the images

Plug-in Export Presets

To accelerate you work, you can create export presets in the Lightroom plug-in.

Managing Export Presets

Select Plug-in Extras in the File menu
Select Send Exposures to Oloneo PhotoEngine...
Click in the menu located at the top of the plug-in dialog
Select Save Current Settings to create a new preset
Select a previously saved preset to use default export settings
Select Delete to delete a preset

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