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Adobe Lightroom - Slideshow Module
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The
Slideshow Module is fairly
easy to understand and a lot of fun, you can select any number
of slides and open them in the Slideshow Module. To make it
easier and more organized for myself I selected a group of
slides from my Library first and made a Quick Selection, I
then made a new category in my Browse Selections panel named
Maine Slideshow and dragged my Quick Selections group to the
Maine Slideshow Selection. It sounds confusing but it is really
easy once you have gone through the process a few times.
I
then selected the Maine Slideshow Selection and opened the
Slideshow Module. The first thing I did once I was in the
Slideshow Module was to organize the slides (which you can
not do in the Library Window) in the Maine Slideshow Selection
and throw out unwanted slides. I could not find any delete
slide command in the menus so I just hit delete on my keyboard
and it did the trick.
The
image you see above is the result of this reorganization and
image deleting. What is nice is that the slide strip is still
in the original order and the deleted slides are still there
but darker than the selected slides. I guess you could call
this, non-destructive slide show editing.
By
now you already know the basic layout of the Adobe Lightroom
window so I don't really have to explain about the left and
right hand panels and main viewing area in the middle of the
Adobe Lightroom window but I should explain that there are
two main viewing area settings, the
Grid setting
which is used for organizing your slides into a viewable show
and the
Slide setting
which is used to determine the look of individual slides when
presented.
Sometimes
a picture really is worth a thousand words, as you can see
from the second image, Adobe Lightroom allows you to be very
precise in setting up individual slides in a slide presentation.
The
left hand tablet is reserved for the Template
Browser,
templates available in Adobe lightroom Beta 2 are Crop
to Fill, Ratings, Default, Exif Metadata,
and Widescreen,
plus there is a lot of room for custom templates to be added
(another third party opportunity).
The
right hand tablet is where most of the work is done, the current
tools are Image
Settings, Slide Layout Tools, Overlay Options, Backdrop Settings,
and Playback
Settings.
Image
Settings
- The settings are Zoom
and Crop
photos to fill grid cells, Stroke
photo borders, and cast a Shadow
behind images (with a full panel of settings).
Slide
Layout Tools
- The Slide Layout Tools allow you to set the Left, Right,
Top, and Bottom Margins, either linked or individually.
Overlay
Options
- The Overlay Options allow you to show an Identity
Plate, Ratings
and other Custom
Objects.
The Identity Plate is basically a signature that you can overlay
on the image in any position or font, custom graphics and
sponsor's logos can also be added or deleted from a slide
at any time from this panel. Ratings can be displayed for
in-house presentations of unedited slide shows or other purposes
where a rating system is of use.
Backdrop
Settings
- You can set Backdrop
Color, Color Wash
and apply Images
to the Backdrop. kind of self-explanatory, there is a color
selector and an Opacity and Angle adjuster for the Color Wash.
Playback
Settings
- Duration settings for Each Slide and Transitions. Slides
can also be set to display in Random order and Music can be
played from an iTunes playlist.
The
last three buttons Preview,
Play
and Export
are somewhat self explanatory, with Preview being in the application
window, Play being full screen and Export being to HTML, PDF
or Flash and the ability to ftp directly to an internet server
or save to an external hard disk drive.
P.S.
Please do not get upset if your personal experience and views
are different from my own. These opinions are mine exclusively
and do not reflect the views or policies of any of the manufacturers
mentioned in this article...... George
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