Installation + Usage

• Installation

  To install the downloaded plugin into Lightroom (please note that the plugin is for Lightroom 5 and 6! It will not work in LR 4.):

  1. Unzip the downloaded file. After unzipping, copy the file/directory FocusPoints.lrplugin into any directory of your choice. On Windows systems, there is one exception: do not copy it into any subdirectory of C:\Program Files, because that would lead to problems with the auto-updater later. A good idea is, for example, to copy the FocusPoints.lrplugin directory into C:\Users\yourUserName\Plugins.
  2. Open Lightroom 5 or above, go to Menu „File“, select „Plug-In Manager“
  3. Click „Add" in the Plug-In Manager. In the following dialog, select the FocusPoints.lrplugin directory from the directory where you stored it.

  If everything is working correctly, you should see „This plug-in is enabled“ in the right side of the dialog, and „Show Focus Points - Installed and Running“ on the left hand side of the dialog.
  Click „Done“ to close the dialog. The plugin is now installed.

  • Optional: Note: if you want the plugin to be added automatically to the plugin manager (which means you can skip points 2+3 in the list above), put the FocusPoints.lrplugin directory into the following directory:

    In Mac OS X (for the current user):	/Users/yourUserName/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules (you might have to create the Modules directory)
    In Mac OS X (for all users):	/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules (you might have to create the Modules directory)
    In Windows 7/8:	C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Modules

• How to use the plugin

  Now you can use the installed plugin as follows:

  1. Make sure you are in the Library Module of Lightroom. The plugin currently works only in the Library module.
  2. Select any photo from your catalog made with any Canon or Nikon DSLR camera. Make sure you select a photo (RAW, JPG, DNG) which comes directly out of the camera and has not been exported/saved in another format (photo which have changed Develop settings in Lightroom are OK), as that will often destroy the focus information metadata.
  3. Now, start the plugin by going to the „Library“ Menu. Select the last menu entry, „Plug-In Extras“, and there „Show Focus Points“. Important: Note that you need to use the submenu "Plug-In Extras" in the "Library" menu, not the submenu "Plug-In Extras" in the "File" menu.
  4. The plugin dialog opens (as in the screenshots above). When you are finished with looking at the information for a particular image, you can select another photo from the photo strip below, or from another catalog directory. The plugin dialog will load and process the new photo (which takes a moment).

  That’s it!

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