Lightroom Desktop Plugin

Adobe Lightroom Desktop Stream Deck plugin (with profiles included!) puts culling, editing, and masking on real keys and dials, for Adobe's cloud-based Lightroom desktop app.

Nudging sliders with a mouse and remembering shortcuts is fiddly work. This plugin moves them onto your Stream Deck and talks to Lightroom both ways, so the numbers on your deck match the panel ⚡

WHICH LIGHTROOM? This is for Lightroom, the cloud-based desktop app (once called Lightroom CC). It does not work with Lightroom Classic (I have a separate plugin for that).

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✅ Make edits intuitive with dials and keys for Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, or Shadows, with the live value on screen.

✅ Speed cull a shoot from the deck: Pick, Reject, rate, and label, with optional auto-advance.

✅ Apply AI masks in one press, then adjust it on the dials (or keys).

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⚡ Live Data, Direct from Lightroom

Turn a dial and the screen shows the number as Lightroom writes it. Move a slider with the mouse and the deck follows. Flags and star ratings show up too. White balance reads in Kelvin on RAW files and as a plus or minus number on JPEGs, the same as the panel.

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🎚️ Sliders on Dials and Keys

Turn a dial to adjust, push to change between fine, medium, and coarse steps, and tap the screen to reset. On decks without dials, two keys work as one slider, with the value on the keys.

Assign sliders from Light, Color, Effects, Detail, Optics, and Lens Blur.

Two sliders can share one dial, like Highlights with Shadows. Push to swap.

Mask dials drive the selected mask's Exposure, Contrast, Clarity, and more.

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🎨 Color

Color Mixer: pick a color on a key, then turn Hue, Saturation, or Luminance. Stream Deck + XL gets three dials; Stream Deck + and Galleon get one that cycles.

Color Grading dials for Shadows, Midtones, and Highlights.

Auto white balance, As Shot, and Black & White keys, plus presets for RAW files.

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🌟 Cull Without the Keyboard

Pick, Reject, and Unflag, with optional auto-advance.

Star ratings and color labels, on keys or a dial.

Loupe, Grid, Compare, and Survey views.

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🎭 AI Masking in One Press

Subject, Sky, Background, Object, People, and Landscape, each on its own key.

Brush, Linear, Radial, and Color, Luminance, and Depth ranges.

Add to or subtract from a mask, then Invert, Hide, or Delete it.

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🪄 More on Keys and Dials

Crop ratios on keys, or a dial: rotate to cue, push to apply, tap to turn it between portrait and landscape.

Upright: Auto, Level, Vertical, and Full.

AI Denoise, Super Resolution, and Remove Blemishes, Reflections, and Dust.

Presets, Auto Tone, copy and paste edits, and Export.

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🖥️ Works on Every Stream Deck

Profiles ship inside the plugin for Stream Deck Mini, Neo, MK.2, XL, Stream Deck +, Stream Deck + XL, and Corsair Galleon 100 SD, in English, Spanish, German, and Japanese.

Smaller decks carry fewer keys, and the Mini has no Color page.

Dial features need a deck with dials.

You change pages from the deck's own keys. It won't follow Lightroom by itself.

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🚀 Quick Install

Install the plugin. There's nothing to install inside Lightroom.

In Lightroom's Preferences, under Interface, turn on Enable External Controllers, then restart Lightroom.

Click Pair when Lightroom asks.

Pick Lightroom Desktop from your deck's profile list.

On a Mac, turn on Stream Deck in System Settings, under Privacy & Security, Accessibility, then quit and reopen it. The keys that press Lightroom's shortcuts need this.

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Disclaimer

An independent FlowKits product, not affiliated with or endorsed by Adobe Inc. Adobe and Lightroom are trademarks of Adobe Inc., used solely to identify compatibility. Needs Stream Deck 7.1 or newer. Tested on Lightroom 9.6. Photography by Saorsa Studio (saorsastudio.co.uk), with permission.

First release. Cull, edit and mask in Lightroom from your Stream Deck, with a profile for each of the seven decks, on Windows and Mac. The profiles come in English, Spanish, German and Japanese. This is for Lightroom, the cloud-based desktop app.

On a Mac, the keys that press Lightroom's shortcuts need Stream Deck turned on in System Settings, under Privacy & Security, Accessibility. Quit and reopen Stream Deck after you turn it on.