Installation + Usage

• Installation

  To install the downloaded plugin into Lightroom (please note that the plugin is for Lightroom 5 and 6! It will not work in LR 4.):

  1. Unzip the downloaded file. After unzipping, copy the file/directory FocusPoints.lrplugin into any directory of your choice. On Windows systems, there is one exception: do not copy it into any subdirectory of C:\Program Files, because that would lead to problems with the auto-updater later. A good idea is, for example, to copy the FocusPoints.lrplugin directory into C:\Users\yourUserName\Plugins.
  2. Open Lightroom 5 or above, go to Menu „File“, select „Plug-In Manager“
  3. Click „Add" in the Plug-In Manager. In the following dialog, select the FocusPoints.lrplugin directory from the directory where you stored it.

  If everything is working correctly, you should see „This plug-in is enabled“ in the right side of the dialog, and „Show Focus Points - Installed and Running“ on the left hand side of the dialog.
  Click „Done“ to close the dialog. The plugin is now installed.

  • Optional: Note: if you want the plugin to be added automatically to the plugin manager (which means you can skip points 2+3 in the list above), put the FocusPoints.lrplugin directory into the following directory:

    In Mac OS X (for the current user):	/Users/yourUserName/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules (you might have to create the Modules directory)
    In Mac OS X (for all users):	/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Modules (you might have to create the Modules directory)
    In Windows 7/8:	C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Modules

• How to use the plugin

  Now you can use the installed plugin as follows:

  1. Make sure you are in the Library Module of Lightroom. The plugin currently works only in the Library module.
  2. Select any photo from your catalog made with any Canon or Nikon DSLR camera. Make sure you select a photo (RAW, JPG, DNG) which comes directly out of the camera and has not been exported/saved in another format (photo which have changed Develop settings in Lightroom are OK), as that will often destroy the focus information metadata.
  3. Now, start the plugin by going to the „Library“ Menu. Select the last menu entry, „Plug-In Extras“, and there „Show Focus Points“. Important: Note that you need to use the submenu "Plug-In Extras" in the "Library" menu, not the submenu "Plug-In Extras" in the "File" menu.
  4. The plugin dialog opens (as in the screenshots above). When you are finished with looking at the information for a particular image, you can select another photo from the photo strip below, or from another catalog directory. The plugin dialog will load and process the new photo (which takes a moment).

  That’s it!

2 Vegamovies — The Hobbit

What should we take away? First, that titles like this are worth curiosity, not derision. They are evidence of a living readership and viewership, people who keep stories in motion rather than entombing them in museum-quality fidelity. Second, they underscore a modern tension: creativity flourishes in the margins, but the margins are uncertain territory legally and ethically. Third, and most simply, they’re often entertaining. If The Hobbit 2 Vegamovies exists for a laugh, a thought experiment, or a small community’s delight, it continues the oldest practice of storytelling: retelling, reshaping, and making the tale one’s own.

What makes a project like this interesting is how it reveals the afterlife of a classic. Tolkien’s tale has legions of readers who know every turn of the path and every riddle. They can taste Bilbo’s second breakfast, map the very oak-lined hills of the Shire, and argue for hours about the tone of Smaug. When someone assembles, re-scores, or re-edits that material into a new package, they are doing more than tinkering: they are conversing with a text that means something to many. The result can be tender, funny, reverent — or wildly irreverent. Vegamovies suggests a rebrand; perhaps it emphasizes playful recuts, greenscreen bricolage, or an experimental soundtrack that turns pipe-weed whimsy into something uncanny. The Hobbit 2 Vegamovies

At first glance, this feels like the meeting point of two impulses: reverence for Tolkien’s cozy, perilous world, and the internet’s hunger for novelty. The original The Hobbit — a tidy, whimsical quest — has been stretched and refracted through millions of fans, filmmakers, and meme-makers. Attach “Vegamovies” to that title and you get an artifact that reads like a footnote of pop culture, a whisper from the deep web where creativity and copyright collide. What should we take away

Once in a while a title slips into the cultural stream so specific and odd that it demands attention: The Hobbit 2 Vegamovies. It sounds like a misfiled archive, a mash-up that never should have existed — and yet that’s part of its strange charm. Whether it’s a cheeky fan edit, an ultra-niche upload, or a deliberate pastiche, the name alone invites a story about how modern fandom recycles and reimagines beloved worlds. What makes a project like this interesting is

There is also a social tale embedded here. The internet has democratized filmmaking to the point that anyone with a laptop can remix cinematic vocabulary. Where Hollywood sees IP and box-office margins, communities see shared language. Fan edits often surface as responses to the mainstream: a corrective, a celebration, a critique. They let viewers reimagine pacing, relocate emphasis, or restore scenes excised by executive logic. A title like The Hobbit 2 Vegamovies sits at that intersection — part homage, part remix, and inevitably, part artifact of a culture that refuses to let a story be simply finished.

Tonally, the idea of Vegamovies attached to The Hobbit suggests a mixture of mischief and affection. It implies creators who love the source but enjoy experimenting — maybe adding contemporary music, injecting absurdist cuts, or recasting characters with GIF-like rapidity. The result can be revelatory: seeing a familiar scene through a wildly different rhythm can remind us why the original mattered, and how flexible myth can be.