How to Add a Label – Install LRMogrify2

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Installation of the Lightroom plug-in LR/Mogrify2 can be a bear on the Mac. Many thanks to my computer scientist.

For basic installation instructions see:

https://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrmogrify2.php?sec=install . See also https://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrmogrify2.php?sec=quickguide for how to use.

Oh, the horror of it! Note: On a Mac, since you are downloading from the internet and not from the Apple App Store, you will get a dire fatal error. You have to change the permission on the executable. Ask a computer scientist to do this for you. It involves running commands on a Terminal window (find it in Launchpad or your Applications directory). 

Here are the directions to help your computer scientist:

  1. Download installation zip file to Downloads.

  2. Move this zipped file where you want your Lightroom plug-ins. I used ~/bin.

  3. Unzip LRMogrify2.lrplugin.5.10.zip. (Now you can delete the original zip file.)

  4. Right click on LRMogrify2.lrplugin and select “Show package contents”. This lets you see the invisible files in the bundled app.

  5. These are the two files of interest, exiftool in the exiftool directory and magick in the LRMogrify.extras directory.

  6. Right click on directory name exiftool and at the bottom select “New terminal at folder”.

  7. A terminal window will pop up. Enter the text after the % sign:

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tanya@Tanyas-iMac exiftool % xattr exiftool com.apple.quarantine
tanya@Tanyas-iMac exiftool % xattr -d com.apple.quarantine exiftool
tanya@Tanyas-iMac exiftool % xattr exiftool                        
tanya@Tanyas-iMac exiftool % 
tanya@Tanyas-iMac exiftool % cd ../LRMogrify.extras 
tanya@Tanyas-iMac LRMogrify.extras % xattr -d com.apple.quarantine magick

Lightroom’s plug-in LR/Mogrify2 uses these two programs. By the xattr-ing above commands, Apple will not make a dire fatal error. The plug-in will now work, once you add the plug-in to Lightroom (see the original directions https://www.photographers-toolbox.com/products/lrmogrify2.php?sec=install ). Also, now exiftool and ImageMagick will work on their own!

tanya@Tanyas-iMac LRMogrify.extras % mkdir ~/bin
tanya@Tanyas-iMac LRMogrify.extras % cp magick ~/bin
tanya@Tanyas-iMac LRMogrify.extras % cd ../exiftool               
tanya@Tanyas-iMac exiftool % cp exiftool ~/bin
tanya@Tanyas-iMac exiftool %