LrToolbox Now Supports Lightroom Classic 14.2 (2025)
We’re excited to announce a free update for LrToolbox!
Our latest version is now fully compatible with Adobe Lightroom Classic 14.2 (February 2025). Whether you’re using it for preview extraction, RAW to JPG conversion, or saving ratings to XMP sidecar files — everything works seamlessly with the newest catalogs. It has been a lot of work because the full structure of the catalog has changed, if you run any issue compared to your old catalog, contact us.
Adobe Catalog are now .lrcat but previews and thumbnails are stored in a file lrdata , while the old catalog were also lrdata extension but as a full structure of subfolders. at least it saves probably some space and loading a single file is making the preview reading faster, but it’s just a thought.
Full support for Lightroom 14.2 Fast, reliable, and Windows-friendly Always free updates for our users Save hard drive space by removing the unstarred images.
Download the update today and keep your workflow smooth and future-proof.
If you have any suggestion of a new feature, please be aware Obviousidea is working to integrate AI Image Description within Light Image Editor, but later if there are use requests, we could integrate the feature in LRToolbox to be an alternative to this nice project : https://github.com/bmachek/lrc-ai-assistant
Microsoft finally released a fix for a rotation issue. Indeed, you could have experienced with PhotoLikr and preview window of Light Image Resizer such problem, while the final output is correctly processed. The easiest way to check if you have the orientation problem is to check if a portrait photography has been wrongly rotated. CR2, CR3, RAF, or any raw digital camera format could be impacted.
Canon CR3 Portrait not oriented
After the fix, you still need to run the disk cleanup tool. Use the last option of the files to remove : thumbnails. It will force the thumbnails in windows explorer to be cached again.
You can find information about the fixes in the Microsoft’s Blog
[RAW format images] Fixed: They show in the wrong orientation. [JPG files] Fixed: You cannot use an API to find rotation information.
So maybe the problem wasn’t the update of the RAW Camera update but the operating system files themselves who causes wrong rotation in windows explorer.
Run Windows Update or refer to the documentation. If you are experiencing the problem, it’s important to contact us, as there are so many file format, the sooner we know about it, the sooner Obviousidea software could find a workaround. Please contact Obviousidea support team with screenshot and a description of the problem.
Orientation such portrait and lanscape are available in the exif information provided by digital camera manufacturor. The information could be read by the system such windows extension, or some core files like by the windows operating system directly. Obviousidea can use his own library or 3rd party library, embedded jpeg preview, ImageMagick library. The wrong thumbnail rotation problem in windows explorer is complex as there are so many different Windows builds. Latest main Windows build is 24H2.
PhotoLikr and photo orientation
With all the settings available in Photolikr (re)viewer , you could control the behavior of your photo display.
With Light Image Resizer, you can convert all your photos without losing quality. Instead of using Exif orientation when viewing the picture, you can completely reconvert the pixel using the portrait option . Go to the tab Misc -> Adjust Resolution for portrait
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The unexpected result of this post, is the request about a mac OS version of Light Image Resizer, and no unfortunately we don’t have or plan for the immediate future an apple mac OS version, while ObviousIdea will be active on iPad and iPhone application to enjoy your pictures.
ObviousIdea! is a new internet company created in 2011 to develop and promote several personal computer software, web services and mobile application for end-users.
After months of discussion, ObviousIdea! is happy to announce the sales of his share in VSO-Software , another software publisher based in Toulouse and providing popular software all over the world.
Why this news is important for ObviousIdea! ? The deal completed today is equivalent to a nice fundraising, but it also allowed acquiring a catalog of existing and popular products from VSO-Software. This database of users and products will help to introduce new projects. “That’s definitely the starting date of this new company, and with this deal I am really confident for the future, as the most difficult task actually is to build a brand and a community of users” says Fabrice Meuwissen, the CEO and Founder of ObviousIdea!, previously shareholder and CEO of VSO-Software.
ObviousIdea! will focus on 3 activities in the next few months:
1 – Promote and develop the acquired catalog of products, mainly oriented to consumers products and photo market, with VSO Image Resizer ( estimated to 500k download per month ), PhotoOnWeb an application and web service to share your photos with family, ATOM Gps and GPS Stone for iPhone are products for geo-tagging pictures and share your itinerary details on Google maps.
2 – Develop new products and service , not limited to end-users.
Some project are still under development like Salmon Email Tracking for Outlook a plugin to improve the follow-up of important email exchange, using neuromarketing to improve reply success rate, born during the first Start Up Week end of Toulouse in November 2010.
A cloud product, with a temporary name, www.send-to-my-cloud.com, is actually a personal and private online bookmarking and notes manager, it will be extended in the future version with safe storage getaway to host your files with popular service such Dropbox, Amazon S3, or Google docs.
Easy Photo Uploader For Facebook is a software already public since a few weeks, with more than 3500 fans, which will complete the photo editing and management catalog. Another project codenamed “PhotoLikr” will connect the dots between the different products allowing social rating of pictures whatever the current program you use to manage pictures.
3 – Invest in young startups and new existing companies. “Because I won’t be able to spend all the money available in my only own development, I want to give back to the community and help others, like I would have appreciated to be helped myself”, says Fabrice Meuwissen, “it’s something I am already doing in my town area as a business angel but with the traffic of this new company, I will be able to help both with money and exposure”.
ObviousIdea! promises to be a consumer centric company, it means users will participate actively in the life of products, suggesting new features, deciding where and how to implement the action of the services. “I am sick of all these companies whose support team members don’t even react to suggestions you could make by email, if you are lucky enough to receive a reply …unfortunately.” Says Fabrice. It is something so easy to set up with social networks and specialized tools such as Uservoice. You need to engage the users in all the process of your company if you want to be successful whatever the millions you may have on your bank account. Fabrice Meuwissen is a Usability expert and consultant in Strategic Marketing graduated from the Stanford University in 2010.
But… ObviousIdea! is already facing a challenge, which is to build a larger team of developers ( php, jquery, html5, .net, Delphi ), community manager, and enthousiastic users. New company owner confesses the biggest issue for now will be to recruit to be sure the new projects will be released on time.
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