Installation of 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:
- Download installation zip file to Downloads.
- Move this zipped file where you want your Lightroom plug-ins. I used ~/bin.
- Unzip LRMogrify2.lrplugin.5.10.zip. (Now you can delete the original zip file.)
- Right click on LRMogrify2.lrplugin and select “Show package contents”. This lets you see the invisible files in the bundled app.
- These are the two files of interest, exiftool in the exiftool directory and magick in the LRMogrify.extras directory.
- Right click on directory name exiftool and at the bottom select “New terminal at folder”.
- 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 %