As I wrote in my last post, you can add beginning and ending title slides to your Lightroom slideshows by using the Intro Screen and Ending Screens in the Titles panel. But what if your slideshow has different sections, and you want a title slide introducing each section? It’s not as straightforward as perhaps it [...]
By default your Lightroom slideshow doesn’t have title slides — it starts with your first picture and ends with your last. However, you can use the Titles Panel on the right side of the Slide Show module to add beginning and ending text slides. Here are examples of beginning and ending slides (black borders not included): [...]
Anytime you create a JPEG file using Lightroom’s Export dialog (or any other method), the file is compressed — information is thrown away in order to make the file smaller. How much is determined by the Quality setting or, in Lightroom 3 or later, if you choose instead, the Limit File Size setting. The big benefit [...]
Anywhere you see a color selection square in Lightroom, such as for page background color in the Print module, you can choose a color not only from the color picker that comes up when you click on it, but also a color from one of your photos. How? Simply click in the main color selection area [...]
Do you like Lightroom’s print layout capabilities, but don’t have a printer to print to, or want to just share your design electronically? No problem — design your layout in the Print module, and print to a jpeg instead of to a printer. Send the jpeg out for someone else to print, or email it [...]
If you watched my video tutorial on the Custom Print Package in Lightroom, you know how to make a collage of photographs. Here’s an example I put together quickly, leaving the background color white, and adding a grey stroke border to the images (the black frame is not part of the result): You could make your [...]
Last week Lightroom guru Sean McCormack released a new web engine plug-in, LRB Exhibition. I have to say, I am impressed — in less than an hour I was able to use Lightroom to create a complete website that I would not hesitate to show someone who might judge my work. The plug-in accomodates a home [...]
Hint: click on the title of this post above to see the post larger! You can export images directly to CD or DVD using Lightroom. The feature is a little bit hidden: In the Library module, select your images to export. Click on the Export button At the top, you see the following: Click [...]
Two factors determine how big your image will be when displayed -- the size of your image in pixels, and how many pixels are displayed per inch, which is referred to as resolution. Both of the example images below have 6 pixels (3x2): the first is displayed at 1 pixel per inch, and the second is [...]
You are designing a slideshow, and you want the background color to be a particular color from one of your images. Or, you are designing a web gallery, and you want the background color to be the color on your website, or some other cool color you have found. The question is, how do you find [...]
Need to produce a print of a specific size, like 5"x7"? These are most likely not the proportions of your original image, so somewhere in your workflow you will need to crop the image to these proportions. You could use the crop overlay tool in the Develop module to get the proportions and then go to [...]
Check out my post over on O'Reilly Digital Media's Inside Lightroom blog on the miracle of two button printing in Lightroom. If you have been printing in Photoshop, you will be amazed at how you can streamline your printing process.