Lightroom 4 Essential Training: 4 Creating Slideshows & Web Galleries

This installment of the Photoshop Lightroom 4 Essentials series focuses on the Lightroom 4 slideshow and web gallery modules, which provide a straightforward way to display images on the web, on the desktop, or projected onto a screen. Photographer, author, and teacher Chris Orwig explains how to select and group images into collections, how to apply a design template, and how to change the look and feel of a web gallery or slideshow. The course also covers special features such as watermarking photos for copyright protection, uploading HTML and Flash galleries to a web site, and adding a soundtrack and titles to a slideshow.

Topics include:

• Getting your slideshow or gallery on the web
• Grouping images in collections
• Renaming and re-ordering images
• Changing the color and appearance of a web gallery
• Adding captions and titles to photos
• Saving custom templates
• Uploading HTML and Flash galleries to a web server
• Creating an impromptu slideshow
• Customizing a slideshow layout
• Adjusting slideshow playback options
• Exporting a slideshow as a JPEG, a PDF, or a video