Create Fast and Easy Slide Shows With Lightroom
By Larry Lohrman | February 7, 2008
I’ve talked about About Adobe Lightroom in a previous posts. Lightroom has become the center of my work-flow for photography. It’s everything a camera owner needs. One of of Lightroom’s fantastic features is it’s ability to take a collection of finish photos and FTP them to your website in slide show form. Other photo-editors can do various degrees of this but Lightroom is built so that 3rd parties can build slide show templates. A number of 3rd parties are making really slick slide show templates. My favorite is SlideShowPro. Be sure to checkout the examples.
Last month I went to a home inspection with my wife for one her clients. Part way through the inspection the buyer was lamenting that they wished they had some way to show their beautiful new purchase to their friends and out of town family. So since I was standing around with my hands in my pockets my wife suggested that I make a slide show for the buyers. I had my camera and laptop with me so I did an quick photo shoot of the place (5000+ SF) loaded the photos into Lightroom, selected the best photos, did some adjustments (mostly to make up for the fact I didn’t have lighting gear) and created a SlideShowPro slide show with Lightroom and reviewed it with the buyer. The buyer was delighted. The whole process took just less than an hour. I would have uploaded the slide show to my website right on the spot if it was not for the fact that the home owners (and all the neighbors) wireless networks were secured so I had to wait until later to do the upload.
This is the same slide show format that I use as a home tour for listings. You can easily do either a branded form or an unbranded form. One of the things I love about these tours is if you click on the little square with an arrow in the lower right hand of the navigation bar the slide show will fill your screen.
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February 8th, 2008 at 5:15 am
Lightroom sounds pretty cool, thanks for the post. I also read you “previous post” with the Lightroom review. I’m a Realtor not a professional photog. I can usually get through photoshop-ing a photo but it is difficult.
How can I get better at knowing “how” to fix a photo. Right now it’s mostly trial and error (hue, saturation, contrast, brightness, color, etc)? Does Lightroom have a “auto adjust ” mode that will dependably get me 80% there?
Thanks again.
February 8th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Lightroom doesn’t have auto-adjustments. Mainly because photos are so different. What makes it so much easier to use than Photoshop is that photo adjustments are done with a series of sliders. As you look at the photo you just adjust everything with sliders… very fast and intuitive. You can apply preset adjustments to all photos in a collection.