Lightroom plugin

Loading SlideShowPro Director content

SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom allows you to use content from both your Lightroom Library and from our content management system SlideShowPro Director when exporting slideshows. The Director support allows you to build highly customized Flash slideshows that leverage SlideShowPro Director's dynamic content publishing system, as well as provide the HTML5 mobile player as a fallback for users of Apple iOS and Android devices.

How to load Director content

Loading content is easy. Simply sign-in to your SlideShowPro Director installation, then click the "Publish" button next to the album / gallery you want to load (from either the "Albums" or "Galleries" pages). Click the "Copy" button in the "Copy XML File Path" option. Return to Lightroom, scroll down to the bottom of SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom's options, and paste your clipboard into the field labeled XML File Path. Below that, set XML File Type to "Director". Your Director content should now be loading in the work area.

You may now click "Export" to export your slideshow to your desktop. Upload that folder to your web site, load the "index.html" document in your web browser, and you should see the Flash slideshow on the desktop. Navigate to the same document using your iPhone, iPad or Android device, and you should see a poster replacement that (when clicked) takes you to the mobile player.

Reverting to Lightroom Library content

To revert back to your Lightroom Library instead of SlideShowPro Director, change XML File Path back to "images.xml" (without quotes) and XML File Type to "Default". Your Lightroom Library content will then load.

Embedding slideshow in separate HTML document

If you have a separate HTML document you want to display your exported slideshow in, see these instructions.

Workflow tips

Adobe Lightroom doesn't provide a way to shut off Lightroom Library content export when publishing slideshows, even though the slideshow content is coming from elsewhere (Director). So when exporting a slideshow the content currently selected in the Filmstrip will be exported as well. To save time, we recommend selecting a single image in the Filmstrip before exporting slideshows. That way, only a single image is generated. In the resulting file folder that's created, feel free to delete the "album1" folder and the "images.xml" file. You won't need either one of them.

Here's an example workflow for producing a customized slideshow using SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom and SlideShowPro Director:

1. Export your images to Director using our "Lightroom-to-Director" export plug-in
2. Create the album/gallery in Director
3. Create the "look and feel" of your slideshow in SSP/LR
4. Enter the XML feed from Director into SSP/LR
5. Make sure you only have a single image selected in the filmstrip
6. Export the slideshow to your Desktop
7. Remove the "album1" directory from the slideshow directory on your Desktop
8. Upload the entire slideshow folder to your personal server (anywhere is fine; you cannot use SlideShowPro.com)
9. Figure out which page you want to present the slideshow
10. Copy the "Publish" code from Director and paste it into the source code of that page
11. Add the "src" parameter to the embed code to load your SSP/LR slideshow
    http://wiki.slideshowpro.net/SSPdir/Tips-ReplaceSlideshow
12. Save the new page (you probably need to upload that page to your personal website)