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PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition and Lightroom 2

October 20, 2008 by Mike Wong • Comments Off

If you are one of the hundreds of users who have downloaded or received PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition in the past couple of days, I'd like to first say THANK YOU for your continued support in purchasing an onOne product.

Second, I know that many of you are wondering how to get PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition working with Lightroom 2 so you can add a frame from within this application. First, let me tell you (or show you with a graphic) where Lightroom compatible plug-ins (also referred to as modules) go.

Generally speaking, plug-ins will be recognized by Lightroom 2 when placed in these locations, but they won't necessarily be enabled the first time Lightroom 2 sees them. You may have to explicitly go to the Plug-in Manager in Lightroom 2 (File > Plug-In Manager...) and enable PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition. I'm not 100 percent certiain, but I suspect that Adobe did things this way as a security precaution. Wouldn't want a rogue plug-in or module automatically loading and doing crazy things now would we?

So, if you've got Lightroom 2 and PhotoFrame 4 Professional Edition and you're not seeing the PhotoFrame plug-in from the File > Plug-In Extras menu, try adding it manually. You should be good to go from there.