Claude / AI + Ligthroom Classic, PS

[LongLensPhotography]

The changes we have in the market are crazy and fast. I wonder is anyone working on software connectors with Adobe Photography desktop apps and had any success yet?

I am spending hours adding various kind of manual adjustments, most of which follow clear, well defined logic. I can write it down as an SOP. My goal is to have AI draft these adjustments into my LRC library so I can pick up from there, review and tweak as necessary. I.e. Not pixel to pixel manipulations but creating metadata.

 

[f/1.2]

There has been cull and edit options to use with Lightroom for a few years now.

Personally I use Aftershoot but there is quite a few of them.

 

[LongLensPhotography]

There has been cull and edit options to use with Lightroom for a few years now.

Personally I use Aftershoot but there is quite a few of them.

not really interested in culling.

I am aware of evoto (nothing worked!), I tried imagen and it was beyond awful. Shadows +100, darks +100, highlights -100% is all it knows. It can sort of select windows but it is pay per play, the result can't be synced. Basically useless and very expensive. I could do with developing something that works and ideally I can sell.

 

[TimHughes]

AFAIK the Adobe products all expose slightly different automation routes, and Photoshop is probably the strongest in that respect. Lightroom Classic seems more limited, with a plug-in / XMP / catalogue workflow, than a clean “control the Develop module by API” setup.

I experimented with something similar in Premiere Pro, trying to automate tedious multicam editing using a defined SOP. It was partially successful, extracting the audio, making a transcript and defining the markers for the cuts, but it was frustrating because, although Premiere has scripting options, programmatically setting the active camera angle in a multicam sequence is not exposed through the supported API.

So my guess is that the AI/SOP logic may be the easier part. The hard bit is getting reliable, supported write-back into LR that preserves editable, non-destructive adjustments and doesn’t make a mess of the catalogue. And it will very likely be a different implementation depending on which LR product you're using.

That said, I’d be interested in this and would be happy to team up / compare notes if you want to explore it further.