Tutorial: How to change the “Identity plate” in Lightroom 2

Maybe you didn’t know this, but you can customize the Identity plate in Lightroom. This way your software look really professional when you’re in the studio showing your clients the result of the photo session. As default you see the Lightroom logo as the identity plate, but this can easily be changed to either custom text or image. If you chose to use an image, the image format must be jpg, png, gif, bmp or tif. Remember that you also need to have 15px margin on the left of your image and around 10px in the bottom. This margin space is needed for the plate/logo to be positioned correctly (similar to the default plate’s position) and you should keep this space in black colored.

To make it easy for you, I have made a Photoshop template you can use to be sure your logo fits correctly. Download link can be found at the end of this post.

How to change it then?

When you have downloaded the template file and created your own plate, I suggest you have a look at my video tutorial below which will go through the few steps that are needed to customize your identity plate’s look. Tip: Press the “HD is off” button and read instructions or press the link right below the movieclip. Use fullscreen view!

PH Identity Plate (3537 downloads )