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I’m interested in writing a plug-in for Lightroom Classic. I would like to make a plug-in similar to the Adobe stock plug-in but for my other stock sites. I’ve found an article that I should be able to follow. The problem is I don’t know anything about designing programs.
So here’s my first question: how do I “contact my system admin”? That’s what I suppose to do so I can download the program from adobe that helps with writing plug-ins. According to the article, downloading the “Admin SDK – Insights API” is the first step.Thank you for any help!
Oh boy, sounds exciting! Hopefully @buddingphotographer, @dfrazer, or @nasa will be able to answer that question for you?
I’d love to help, but I’ve never done any LR plugin coding, so I’m afraid I can’t help much. 🙁
I would recommend not testing your plugin on your good LR installation. You don’t want to corrupt your catalog!Thanks @buddingphotographer!
I’d love to help, but I’ve never done any LR plugin coding, so I’m afraid I can’t help much.
I can use Any help I can get! I’m new at coding anything.
I would recommend not testing your plugin on your good LR installation.
Can you have two copies of LR on one computer? Or is it sufficient to just have a second catalog?
I’m new at coding anything.
In that case, you might want to consider starting with something easier than a LR plugin. 🙂 Seriously though, if you’re dead-set on making a LR plugin, I’d advise that you start out by copying exactly what your tutorial shows, (even if you have no use for the plugin). That will give you a little experience and confidence with making a basic plugin, and you can test it to make sure it actually works. After that, maybe you’ll be better equipped to branch out into unknown territory.
Can you have two copies of LR on one computer?
Probably not, but I don’t know!
Or is it sufficient to just have a second catalog?
Definitely use a “test” catalog, rather than your main one. And make lots of backups.
So here’s my first question: how do I “contact my system admin”? That’s what I suppose to do so I can download the program from adobe that helps with writing plug-ins. According to the article, downloading the “Admin SDK – Insights API” is the first step.
I might be wrong, but I don’t think you need the “Admin SDK – Insights API”. I was able to access the download for The Adobe Lightroom Classic SDK by searching for “lightroom” here, and clicking on download.
Thank you @buddingphotographer! I was able to download the LR SDK, the zip folder is called “LR_10.0_202010011851-ef6045e0.release_SDK”. It comes with a manual which will be very helpful.
That’s a good idea to copy exactly what the tutorial shows for their plug-in. I’ll have to see if I can figure it out.
Perfect! That’s a start! Do keep us posted on your progress if you’d like. I, for one, am intensely interested in the results! I’d love to do some coding like that myself someday, but I have too many other irons in the fire right now. 🙂
Updating myself on this thread. Thank you @buddingphotographer for helping out here. In answer to your question @blessingscaptured, “Can you have two copies of LR on one computer? Or is it sufficient to just have a second catalog?”, I would definitely say stick with one LR subscription, and then create as many catalogs as you please! I do this. I have many catalogs for various reasons (though one main catalog for my main photography). Just be aware that only one of those catalogs can be synced with Lightroom online.
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