This morning I decided to look around for things to help me make borders in Lightroom 2 without having to export the images to Photoshop and add them there. I happened back upon a program called Mogrify. I’d seen it before, but that was back during the LR2 beta stuff and it wasn’t worth it for me to download and install it then. I added it this morning and whewwwwweeeee…..what a plugin.
It took me a bit to get ImageMagick and the Mogrify stuff downloaded and unzipped, but everything comes in as advertised. Everything was looking good until I went to the LR2 page. The Mogrify files are unzipped as folders and, even though the folder has the lrplugin file name, the add plugin app doesn’t seem to like this…not one little bit. I figured that I’d just experiment with where to put it since the install directions didn’t work. After moving the mogrify folder into the LR2 Module folder, all seemed fine and the Mogrify additions came up in the export GUI.
Then I did a few test runs only to find that my ImageMagick configuration wasn’t set up right in the LR2 export GUI page. The box didn’t seem to come up with the -use LR2/Mogrify’s built in version- check box on the config portion of the export GUI, so I went to the
ImageMagick install folder and found the Mogrify app there and pointed
LR2 at this file.
After this was set up, this thing started cookin’. Within three test attempts, I had borders like I wanted and my name added to the photographs. If I can do it in 3 attempts, most people can. I’ll be chippin’ in some Francs to purchase the unrestricted version soon since the free download restricts you to 10 files at a time.
Just-get-it.