Lightroom Classic In-Depth - Slideshows and Web Galleries
Matt Kloskowski gives a wonderfully comprehensive tutorial on how to use Lightroom to create a beautiful photo gallery or slideshow, so that you can show off your artwork to your friends or for professional work.
Release Date: 2012-03-06
Lessons
Introduction
<p>Join Matt for a quick introduction to the material that will be covered in this class.</p>
Duration: 1 mins 10 seconds
Slideshows – Creating a Quick Slideshow
<p>Starting with a collection of photos is a great way to get started with creating a slideshow. The pre-packaged templates in the Template Browser provide a really fast way to create a slideshow with a single click.</p>
Duration: 2 mins 13 seconds
Slideshows – Customizing your slideshow
<p>The templates also make for a convenient starting point for customizing your slideshow the way you want it to look.</p>
Duration: 6 mins 15 seconds
Slideshows – Adding opening and closing slides
<p>The Titles panel is where you'll find the tools to add a starting and ending slide to your slideshow. Learn how to add text or a graphic to your title slides.</p>
Duration: 4 mins 31 seconds
Slideshows – Adding Music
<p>Music can add real emotional impact to your slideshow. Matt shows you how to synchronize a song file to your slideshow and tweak the transition times of your slides to make it all flow together.</p>
Duration: 3 mins 39 seconds
Slideshows – Saving Your Slideshow as a Video
<p>While you can play a slideshow from within Lightroom that may not always be practical for your needs. Exporting your slideshow as a video saves the entire show, music, transitions and all, in a convenient MP4 file format.</p>
Duration: 1 mins 51 seconds
Slideshows – Emailing a Slideshow as a PDF
<p>Exporting a slideshow as a PDF is another option that can come in handy when you don't need to include music or transitions, but want to deliver your slideshow in a compact package.</p>
Duration: 2 mins 2 seconds
Slideshows – Showing Slideshows with Dual Monitors
<p>If you are using a computer with 2 monitors, you can configure Lightroom to run the slideshow on the second monitor.</p>
Duration: 1 mins 29 seconds
Web – Creating a Basic Web Gallery
<p>Similar to the slideshow, you can enter the Web module with a collection of photos, choose a template from the Template Browser, and have a web gallery ready to go to the Web.</p>
Duration: 3 mins 17 seconds
Web – Customizing your Web Galleries
<p>The templates also make for a convenient starting point for customizing your web gallery the way you want it to look.</p>
Duration: 5 mins 14 seconds
Web – Add some spice with Flash Galleries
<p>There are 2 basic types of web galleries in Lightroom, one is HTML and the other is Flash. Flash galleries are more fun and interactive, but require the Flash plugin to be viewed, and are not supported on all devices. HTML galleries are simple, but work in any web browser.</p>
Duration: 2 mins 5 seconds
Watermarking
<p>The Output Settings panel is where you can access the Watermark Editor, which will allow you to add a watermark to all the photos heading to your website.</p>
Duration: 2 mins 32 seconds
Web – Getting your Galleries Online
<p>Once you've finalized the layout of your gallery it is time to upload it to the web. You can upload directly from Lightroom if you know the username/password information for your web server, or you can export the gallery to a folder on your desktop and hand off all the files to the person in charge of your website.</p>
Duration: 1 mins 59 seconds