How to batch edit multiple images from Lightroom in Luminar Neo

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Ryan Smith

• July 08, 2022 02:57
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I wanted to share a discovery if it's helpful to anyone else. Hopefully, this is something the team can work on implementing natively without a hack. With my old Luminar AI setup, I could select a lot of images at once in Lightroom, then right click and select "edit in", then Luminar AI. Doing this would open each image individually one by one in Luminar AI for a quick edit, then apply the edits back to Lightroom. Once one image edit was applied, the next image would be opened in sequence. If you try to do this with the recommended method of "file", "plug in extras", "transfer to Luminar AI" it will only open the first selected image and then stop.

I couldn't figure out why this didn't work with Luminar Neo, I contacted support and they said this just wasn't possible. So I actually looked at the External Editor .lrtemplate files in a text editor. I discovered I was actually calling the Plug-In and not the actual application in my external editor settings. So if you want Luminar Neo to work like I described, do this on a Mac at least.

Go to Lightroom preferences, "external editing" tab, then create a preset for Luminar Neo.  Next, go to the "presets" tab, then click "show all Lightroom presets". Go to the "external editor presets" folder and edit the preset file you just created. Change the externalEditorFullPath to the following externalEditorFullPath = "/Library/Application Support/Skylum Software/LuminarNEO/Plug-Ins/LuminarNEO"

Now this preset will call the LuminarNeo plugin instead of the application. This will let you edit, for example, 30 images in a batch instead of having to select each image individually and use the normal method.  I hope this is helpful, let me know if what I stated isn't clear it's hard to explain.

 

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  Helga Rowles

  • July 16, 2022 13:41

  Hi Ryan,

  Thank you so much for sharing this!

  We will be sure to recommend this workaround to the customers who ask us about batch processing in Lightroom. We really appreciate your input!

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  Bob Panick

  • July 29, 2022 02:55

  Unfortunately this doens't work with HDR Merge.  You have to be able to access all of the images at one time, this solution only works one image at a time.

   

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  Ryan Smith

  • July 29, 2022 19:01

  I wish they would make a more official way to batch edit. For example, if you could open a selection of Lightroom images at once in Luminar, batch edit them, and then save them all back to Lightroom.  But my method is better than opening one image at a time for most types of edits.

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