Some users like to create their own graphics album previews when using the "Fill" Album Preview Style. This style allows you to use an image for the entire area of each album element in the SlideShowPro Player. Director allows you to choose an image to use as your album preview, but what about a custom image that's not part of your slideshow content? Here's how.
If you are using SlideShowPro Player for Flash, temporarily change the PLAYBACK/Startup parameter to "Open Gallery" in the Component Inspector. Set ALBUMS/Preview Style to "Fill" and ALBUMS/Preview Scale to "Crop to Fit." The album previews will display their width and height.
Using the values from Step One above, create an album preview in a photo editing application like Photoshop and save it locally.
Click on the album in Director you want to assign the preview graphic to. On the "Settings" screen is an Album Preview module. Click the "Edit" button in the top-right. A dialogue will appear, with an option to upload an image. Click the upload button. Select the image from your local machine, and click OK. The graphic will be uploaded and used for your album preview.
If you are using SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom, there's unfortunately not a way to "see" what the album width/height is before creating your image (for the live preview in Lightroom is a real, working preview, and not the same as the one shown in the Flash version). With that, we recommend taking a screenshot of your gallery when open, measuring the area in Photoshop, and creating a graphic using those dimensions.