Focus Points – V3.2 Prerelease availabe!
A plugin for Lightroom Classic1 on Windows and macOS:
- Show which focus point was active when the picture was taken 2
- Display user-selected autofocus points/area 3,4
- Visualize faces and subjects detected by the camera 3,5
- Display (EXIF) metadata of the selected image
1 LR5.7 and LR6 perpetual licenses and LrC subscriptions.
2 For Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Olympus/OM, Panasonic, Pentax, Ricoh, Apple. See full list of supported cameras.
3 Depending on the presence of metadata.
4 Currently supported for Pentax and OM System.
5 Currently supported for Fuji, OM System (subjects, faces) and Sony, Olympus, Pentax (faces).
To understand the principles of this plugin, how to use it and how to interpret the results, please refer to the User Manual. It is recommended that you read chapters 1, 2 and the part of chapter 3 that applies to your camera.
Download plugin package or see detailed installation instructions.
If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for improving this plugin, please share your feedback in Focus-Points Discusssions.
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Camera support
- Pentax:
- Olympus/OM
- Indicate use of digital zoom factor #253
- OM System:
- Olympus:
- Support entire Olympus E-System #267
- Nikon
- Support Nikon Z5 II #286
- Ricoh:
- Support Ricoh GR III / IIIx / IV models #263
- Sony:
- Visualization of focus points considering
FocusFrameSizetag on newer α bodies part of #176
- Visualization of focus points considering
- Canon
- Improved display of Canon focus information #285
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User interface
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Bugfixes
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Other
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Supported cameras: See here for full list.
Installation steps
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Download the plugin package. A file named
Focus-Points-[plugin_version].zipwill be downloaded to your computer.
MAC users: According to your macOS preferences the zip file will be automatically unzipped. -
Unzip the downloaded file. Inside the extracted content locate the plugin folder
focuspoints.lrplugin -
Move this folder to where you normally keep your Lightroom plugins.
Hint: if you don't know this location, the Plugin Manager will show you (see next step).
MAC users: if you have to navigate into the content of theadobe lightroom classic.app, use the control-click and chooseshow package content. -
Open Lightroom and go to
File → Plug-in Manager.
Windows: Click theAddbutton and select the plugin.
MAC: In case of you'd copied the plugin to the default LR-plugin location, the new plugin is already listed - activate it. Otherwise, click on theAddbutton and select the plugin.
Once the plugin has been installed, choose one or more photos and select:
Library → Plug-in Extras → Show Focus Point, orFile → Plug-in Extras → Show Focus Point
See How to use a keyboard shortcut to run the plugin to learn how to invoke the plugin using a hotkey.
If you have never used Lightroom plugins before and are looking for some basic information, a video tutorial would be a good place to start. For example, Plugin Installation (5:16) or How to Install & Remove Lightroom Plug-ins (11:30).
The plugin uses different colors to visualize AF points, detected faces, subjects and details. Visualization means that the respecive area is highlighted by a rectangular marker. On Windows this is a solid frame. On macOS, the frame is indicated by corner symbols. The reason for this OS-specific difference is explained in User Interface.
| MAC | WIN | Color | Meaning |
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red1 | Active AF point. Focus area, dimensions reported by the camera |
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red1,2 | Active AF point. Focus location3, pixel coordinates reported by the camera |
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white | User-selected AF point |
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gray | Inactive AF point. Part of DSLR AF points but not used for the image3 |
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yellow | Face or subject detected by the camera in this area |
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black | Part of the image that is used by the camera in 'crop mode' |
1 AF point color can be chosen from red, green, blue in Configuration and Settings.
2 'Focus-pixel' shape and size can be chosen from different options (small box or medium/large with center dot) in Configuration and Settings.
3 The meaning may vary depending on the camera manufacturer. See the camera-specific chapters in the User Manual for a detailed explanation.
On macOS, the focus point display of title photo looks like this:
Please note that not all cameras store the necessary information to support these features in the photo's metadata. For example, cameras from Canon and Nikon do not store any information on face or subject recognition (at least as far as is known), so visualization is not possible.
See chapter 3 of the user manual for detailed information on which types of visualization are supported for which cameras.
The plugin also features a metadata viewer with live search:
Library → Plug-in Extras → Show Metadata, orFile → Plug-in Extras → Show Metadata
The Metadata Viewer is useful for viewing information that is neither visible in Lightroom's Metadata panel nor in the Information pane of the focus windows. The information is retrieved directly from the image file on disk, giving a complete picture of the metadata written by the camera. Metadata can be filtered by key or value. The filter accepts pattern matching with common 'magic characters':
| Char | Meaning |
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| . | any character |
| + | one or more repetitions of previous character |
| * | zero or more repetitions of previous character |
| ^ | start of line/string |
| $ | end of line/string |
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Canon
- Mirrorless: entire R-series
- DSLR: all EOS models after 2004 (starting with EOS-1D Mark II)
- Compact: Powershot models after 2004
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Nikon
- Mirrorless: entire Z-series
- DSLR: all D models with 39 or more autofocus points (from D3/D300 in 2007 to D6/D780 in 2020)
- Compact: CoolPix models not supported
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Sony
- Full-frame: α7, α9, α1 bodies beginning 2018 (with α7 III / α7R III)
- APS-C: α6100, α6300, α6400, α6500, α6600, α6700, ..
- Compact: RX series, beginning 2015 (with RX10 II and RX100 IV)
- Face detection
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Fuji
- Mirroless: X-series (from X100 in 2011 up to X-H2S today), GFX-series
- Compact: FinePix models after 2007
- Face and subject detection
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Olympus / OM System
- DSLR: entire E-series
- Mirrorless: entire E-M series, OM-1, OM-3, OM-5
- Olympus: Face detection
- OM System: Face and subject detection
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Panasonic
- Mirrorless: entire LUMIX G and S series
- Compact: FZ, TZ/ZS, LX series - models after 2008
- Face detection
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Pentax
- DSLR: all models with 11 or more autofocus points (from *istD in 2003 to K-3 III Mono in 2023)
- Face detection
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Ricoh
- GR III, GR IIIx, GR IV
- Face detection
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Apple
- iPhone (starting from at least iPhone 5)
- Face/pet detection frames (visualizing "Person & Pets" information from Apple's Photos App)
Please see the Contributing.md file before being any new work.
There's been a lot of man-hours put into this effort so far. All volunteer. So help me in thanking the individuals who have worked hard on this. First off, thanks for Phil Harvey for providing the 3rd party library ExifTool. The following is a list of the individual contributors on this project. These guys have fixed bugs, added camera support, added face detection, added support for your iphone, and many other cool features. (If you are a dev, and I've missed you, please feel free to update this file or add your real name):
rderimay, philmoz, project802, jandhollander, DeziderMesko, StefLedof, roguephysicist, ropma, capricorn8 (Karsten Gieselmann)
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