Choosing a web gallery type in Lightroom
When creating a web gallery with Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™, the first step you will always do is to choose the web gallery style, which will be either HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that looks like what is shown in figure 1 and figure 2, or Adobe Flash® as shown in figure 3. Notice that in the Flash example, you can see small images and a larger image at the same time. In HTML, you see an index view first (figure 1), then click on an image to get a large image (figure 2). In the HTML gallery, you move from image to image using the Previous and Next buttons (Index takes you back to the index view). In Flash, you always have a larger image that is a slide show. In that area you have playback-style buttons to play a slide show or move from image to image. Note that in the large photo view seen in figure 3, you see a lot of metadata. This comes in as a default in all HTML galleries, but can be turned off entirely or in part in the Caption setting of Image Settings.
Figures 1 and 2: HTML web gallery style.
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Figure 3: Adobe Flash web gallery style.
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Prerequisite knowledge:
Basic knowledge of Photoshop Lightroom
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.
