Please add Plugin support for Lightroom CC! Ability to seamlessly use plugins like Topaz Denoise or Aurora HDR are the only thing missing for me in lightroom CC. Exporting, editing in other app, exporting again and importing back to lightroom is a huge pain.
Definitely would love to see this with a proper SDK. Though it does feel like we'll forever be split with LR Classic and LR? Or is this a limitation because the codebase is tied to mobile as well in some way?
Totally agree. Lightroom CC with cloud storage in principle is a killer app for (semi-)professional photopraphers because you can immediately process your photos on the go, but if things like plugins are not supported then it ruins the workflow.
Technically you can of course device-dependently show/allow a plugin feature based on the device the app is running on and I agree that this really would not ruin the user experience to have some differences in the same app depending on which device it is run from.
Also, if Adobe absolutely wanted to make "Plugins" consistently available in LR CC on all device platforms, then a modern version of a "Plugin" could be a published web service API that would allow other third party providers to connect LR CC with their own "Plugin" web services. That way everything (also the Plugin) would be a service / cloud. Even if such service offerings don't exist today, they will never if Adobe doesn't start to offer a corresponding API.
Lightroom CC focuses on consistency across devices and doesn't support plugins, unlike Lightroom Classic, which allows for additional functionality through plugins.
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