Lightroom 5 Essential Training: 6 Creating Slideshows & Web Galleries

Show off your hard work; display your photographs with the easy-to-build slideshows and web galleries in Lightroom. They're a straightforward way to display images on the web, on the desktop, or projected onto a screen. In this breezy segment of Lightroom 5 Essentials, Chris Orwig explains how to select your best images and group them into collections, apply a design template, and customize the look and feel of your web gallery or slideshow. Then learn about watermarking photos for copyright protection, uploading HTML and Flash galleries to a website, and adding a soundtrack and titles to a slideshow. Plus, discover how to create video-based slideshows, new to Lightroom 5.

Topics include:

• Getting your slideshow or gallery on the web
• Grouping images in collections
• Renaming and reordering images
• Changing the color and appearance of a web gallery
• Creating a slideshow or web gallery with images and video
• 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