Making a better slideshow in Lightroom, part 1: Organization and layout
Knowing the basics of Slideshow in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ and how to use the controls is important when you want to create a slide show of your images. There are many books and classes on dealing with adjusting a photo that apply to Lightroom; after all, the adjustments really are based on Camera Raw and Adobe Photoshop. This is not true for slide shows in the computer. A slide show is a totally different animal than an individual photo or a print. Therefore, you have to treat it completely differently. You must see photos plural and not be stopped by a photo singular. That is a very important distinction. Sometimes a photographer puts together a slide show that is basically a series of single images. While these photos may offer something, such as size or the capability to show images in different locations, they usually don’t work as well as an entity in and of itself. In this tutorial, you earn more about working with slides to make an effective slide show. You learn to use Slideshow controls to make a group of images work as a group, to create something greater than just a simple showing of individual images, and to create a real show.
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Prerequisite knowledge:
None
About the authors
Rob Sheppard is a professional photographer based in Los Angeles, and author of "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Digital Photographers Only," "National Geographic Field Guide to Digital Photography," "The Magic of Digital Nature Photography," and other titles. He is also the editor-at-large for Outdoor Photographer magazine, and regularly conducts workshops around the country to help photographers master digital techniques. His website is at www.robsheppardphoto.com.
Excerpted from "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Digital Photographers Only," by Rob Sheppard. Copyright© 2007 Wiley Publishing, Inc. Used with permission of Wiley Publishing, Inc. To purchase the full retail version of this book, visit www.wiley.com.
