Presentation possibilities in the Slideshow module, part 1: Preparing and selecting your photos
Rob Sheppard
www.wiley.com
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The Slideshow module layout
- Slideshow workflow
- Selecting and grouping photos for a slideshow
- Organizing and editing your images
Slideshows are a strong tradition in photography. Yet, in recent years, the true slideshow has greatly declined. Kodak even quit making the classic Carousel projector. Few people still set up a slide projector and screen to show off their latest trip to Europe. Luckily, the computer can now fill this function. Anyone can project images as a "slideshow" (even though there are no true slides in digital photography) that look better than ever. It used to be a major effort to do a slideshow with music and dissolves as transitions between pictures—you needed special equipment, including a minimum of two slide projectors, a tape deck, and a control unit. Now you can do music, slides, transitions, all from the camera, and never have a single image jam, the music get out of sync, run out of slide tray space, or have the two slide trays lose their sync.
The Slideshow module in Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom™ offers a simple, yet quite elegant, way to assemble your images for a slideshow presentation. You get to it by clicking Slideshow. In this tutorial, I give you the basics of using Lightroom tools to create a slideshow.
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.
