ExpolumiPhotography workflow tools
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Plugins for Lightroom Classic
More time behind the lens.
Less time between the steps.
Plugins for Lightroom Classic that handle stock photo metadata, agency publishing, and submission tracking.
From your next edit to your next collection.
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From the catalog, with you in control. Review your metadata and choose when to publish.
Mark photos for stock or exclusive art and pick a license type for each agency. They become Candidates.
Draft titles, captions, and keywords with AI, then review every suggestion. The license type picks commercial or editorial wording.
Candidates wait in each agency's publish service, including Lightroom's own Adobe Stock service. You decide when to click Publish.
Published photos are marked Submitted. Record Accepted or Rejected once the agency has reviewed them.
And for your own albums: photos you mark Album can go into personal OneDrive albums.
Pluggable by design. Every plug-in works on its own: use one, some, or all. Together they share your catalog, so a decision you make once carries through to the next step.
Alamy and Dreamstime Publisher 1.0 send the original JPEG unchanged, so save metadata and Develop edits to a finished JPEG before publishing. Version 1.1, coming soon, renders the JPEG from any original with your edits.
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Choose the tools that fit your Lightroom Classic workflow, in the order you use them. Each works on its own and has its own product page and guide.
01 / PLAN & TRACKChannels, license types & status
Decide where every photo goes: stock or exclusive art, plus your personal albums. Track its license type and review status at each agency, right in your catalog.
02 / DESCRIBEAI-assisted metadata
Turn a photo into a starting point for titles, captions, and keywords. Review every suggestion before it reaches your catalog.
03 / PUBLISHStock-agency publishing
Send finished JPEGs from a Lightroom Publish Service to Alamy, keeping the original filenames and file contents intact.
04 / PUBLISHStock-agency publishing
Move your submission-ready JPEGs to Dreamstime without leaving Lightroom. Finish the submission in your contributor account.
05 / PUBLISHStock-agency publishing
Publish your photos into your Dropbox as full-size JPEGs, one dated batch per run, then upload and submit them in Getty Images ESP.
06 / PUBLISHStock-agency publishing
Upload your photos to your Shutterstock contributor account as full-size JPEGs over encrypted SFTP, then finish the submission on Shutterstock.
07 / SHAREFree preview / Personal OneDrive albums
Organize existing personal OneDrive photos into albums from Windows Lightroom Classic. Publish album membership, not new photo files.
No purchase required. Public download and Adobe marketplace availability not confirmed.
Explore the free previewAlamy and Dreamstime Publisher are now on Adobe Exchange; Publishing Workflow, AI Photo Tagging, Getty Publisher, and Shutterstock Publisher are coming soon. OneDrive Album remains a free preview with no confirmed public download. Each product page shows its status.
Read the guidesUse Adobe Lightroom Classic rather than cloud Lightroom or Lightroom mobile. Each plug-in installs independently from Adobe Exchange with the Creative Cloud desktop app and then appears in File > Plug-in Manager. Follow its setup guide and try the workflow with one photo on your Lightroom and operating-system version before processing a larger collection.
AI Photo Tagging uses your own Microsoft Foundry resource and API key, so Microsoft charges you for cloud usage. Lightroom and agency account requirements are separate. Expolumi OneDrive Album (Preview) is free, with no purchase required; Lightroom and OneDrive account and storage requirements remain separate. The preview is distinct from any future commercial listing and promises neither commercial availability nor an upgrade entitlement.
The FTP tools send your JPEGs and embedded metadata directly to the chosen agency. Expolumi Getty Publisher only copies JPEGs to your Dropbox folder; Dropbox syncs them and you upload them in Getty ESP. Expolumi Shutterstock Publisher sends your login and JPEGs directly to Shutterstock over encrypted SFTP. AI Photo Tagging sends a reduced preview, your optional photographer tip, and the capture time if enabled to your configured Foundry resource. Expolumi OneDrive Album (Preview) sends paths, file identifiers, album names, and membership requests to Microsoft over HTTPS, not photo bytes. Expolumi Publishing Workflow sends nothing; its fields stay in your catalog. Read the privacy guide before using personal or client photos.
No. The Alamy and Dreamstime publishing plug-ins use plain FTP. Credentials and photos travel unencrypted, even though credentials are stored locally through Lightroom's encrypted storage. If encrypted transfer is required, use the agency's HTTPS web uploader instead. Expolumi Shutterstock Publisher uses SFTP, which is encrypted.
No. It means a transfer completed. You must check ingestion, complete submission details, and follow quality-control or review status on the agency website. The plug-ins do not synchronize acceptance status; Expolumi Publishing Workflow lets you record it for each agency.
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