04 — LIGHTROOM

Plug-ins

Two plug-ins for Lightroom Classic on macOS. Everything runs on your Mac — no account, no upload, no API key. Free and open source.

iCloud Photos

A Publish Service that sends photos into albums in Photos, and from there into iCloud.

Each published collection maps to an album; republishing updates it in place.
Exports JPEG, JPEG XL or AVIF, with the usual export controls.
Flags and star ratings carry over as favorites in Photos.
Publishes in batches of 32; one bad file doesn't stop the run.

FIRST RUN

Add the service under Publish Services, then click Request Photos Access in Publishing Manager.

Vision Keywords

Keywords photos with Apple's on-device Vision classifier — the one behind search in Photos.

Reads Lightroom's embedded previews, so nothing needs exporting first. RAW included.
A few hundred photos a minute across roughly 1,300 labels.
Nests everything under an AI keyword that's excluded from export.
Tune confidence, cap keywords per photo, deny labels. One menu item undoes it all.

FIRST RUN

Select photos in Library, then Plug-in Extras → Classify Photos with AI Keywords.

INSTALLING

01 Unzip the download.

02 In Lightroom Classic: File → Plug-in Manager → Add, then select the .lrplugin folder.

The helpers are signed with a Developer ID certificate and notarized by Apple, with the ticket stapled to the bundle — no terminal step, no Gatekeeper warning, and it works the first time even if you are offline.