One notable question on the FAQ asks “ Is the software free?” the answer being “ The software is currently free.” From this I would infer that they will start charging for this plugin in the future… so probably worth grabbing it now while it is still doesn’t cost anything. It is also worth reading the FAQ page : to understand more about how it works and what it’s limitations are. The biggest downside to it is that it currently only supports Canon and Nikon camera. At the side of the image is some information about focusing modes and even focusing distance. Show Focus Points Screen – Click image to enlargeĪ window will open showing the image, with an overlay of the focus points indicating which were active. Library | Plug-in Extras | Show Focus Points I strongly recommend that you add your opinion and vote to the existing feature request in the official Adobe feedback forum, as suggested above: Lightroom/Camera Raw: Display camera focus information Photoshop Family Customer Community This forum (and the corresponding Photoshop forum.Click on an image then from the menu select To use the plug-in you need to be in the library module. Navigate to where you expanded to zip file and select the folder “FocusPoints.lrplugin”.You can download the plug in from:, Once you have downloaded it, expand the zip file, go to the Library module and install the plug-in in the usual way: You can’t do it directly in Lightroom, but there is a plugin which will enable you to do it, and it is free. Well now there is a way to find out from within Adobe Lightroom. Have you ever wondered what your camera was focusing on when you took a photograph? If you have multiple or all focus points enabled it might not have locked on to what you thought it had. Introduction to Digital Photography Course.Here are a few screenshots of the plugin in action, showing the focus point used in a couple of Josh’s own underwater images. It takes “a couple of hours” to map your own camera to the plugin, but once you do it should work like a charm.
“When reviewing my photos and editing it helps me to know if the focus point hit where I wanted it to or was I off.” Often times the fish are moving around or I’m getting pushed by the surge, current, or any number of other things,” explains Josh on Reddit. His plugin is called Focus Point Viewer, and it’s available for your downloading pleasure over at GitHub, complete with a README doc that explains how to map your own camera’s focus points and add them to the plugin (the initial download only works with the Nikon D7200, Josh’s camera). Freelance Android developer and underwater photographer Joshua Musselwhite has created a brand new, free, open source plugin for Lightroom that does exactly what Show Focus Points used to do, namely: it shows you the active focus point when you pressed the shutter.
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