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Lightroom plugin

Quick start

Want to jump right in and publish a slideshow? You're in the right place.

Step One: Install

If you haven't already, follow the Installation instructions to get SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom installed.

Step Two: Select content

Launch Lightroom, and in the Library area either manually select a group of images, or select one of your predefined Collections or Folders of content. The Filmstrip at the bottom of Lightroom should update with your chosen content.

Step Three: Select SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom

Click on the "Web" link at the top-right of Lightroom's navigation, and then select SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom from the "Galleries" drop down. The Web interface should update with a live preview of SlideShowPro in the center work area.

Step Four: Select a template

Open the "Templates" panel in the far left column if not already open, and choose one of the default templates SlideShowPro Player for Lightroom comes with (if you don't see any, refer to the Installation instructions).

Step Five: Export/Preview

Click the "Preview in Browser" button at the bottom of the center work area, or click "Export" at the bottom of the right column to publish out your content.

Step Six: Upload your slideshow

We recommend using an FTP program to upload your slideshow your web host. We'll leave this step up to you as there are many options. Here's one suggestion: Create a directory on your web server that will hold all of your slideshows. Then, upload each slideshow into a subfolder. E.g.: /galleries/2009_10_joneshollywedding, /galleries/2009_11_smithjohnsonfamily, etc.

Note:There are many good and free FTP programs available. E.g. FileZilla

Step Seven: Test your uploaded slideshow

You want to make sure that you've uploaded everything correctly. To do that, you want to view the slideshow on your web host in your browser. Let's say your domain is www.domain.com and you've uploaded a slideshow to /galleries/2009_10_joneshollywedding'. You'd navigate to http://www.domain.com/galleries/2009_10_joneshollywedding/index.html to view the slideshow you just uploaded.

Step Eight: Embed your uploaded slideshow

This step is completely optional. You can simply direct people to the index.html file in the subdirectory you just uploaded. However, this will not have any navigation back to your site. You may want to make the slideshow look like it's part of your site (navigation, format, graphics, etc). To that end, you'll need to use your favorite HTML editor (like DreamWeaver) to embed the slideshow into one of your pages.

For tips on how to embed an exported slideshow in a separate HTML document, see these instructions.

Page last modified by tdominey on March 08, 2011, at 03:22 PM
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