Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Want to put up a quick online photo gallery of your vacation photos, or want to
put proofs up online for a client's approval? It's easier than you'd think: you start
with a built-in template and then add your little tweaks to customize it your way.
The nice thing is you do most of your editing right on the page itself, so all your
changes happen live, in real time. It's this live onscreen editing that makes the
process so easy, and even if you have no Web design experience whatsoever,
you'll be able to create a great-looking gallery in about five minutes. Here goes:
Step One:
Start by going to the Web module, and in
the Collections panel in the left side Panels
area, click on the collection of photos you
want to put in your online gallery. Light-
room instantly puts them into a Web
gallery (seen here in the center Preview
area). The default Web Gallery template
is a gray HTML webpage with thumbnails
(seen here), and when you click on a thumb-
nail, it displays a larger version of the photo.
The photos appear in your gallery in the
same order they appear in the Filmstrip
below, so to change their order, just drag-
and-drop them into the order you want
in the Filmstrip.
Step Two:
By default, this template displays your
thumbnails in three columns and three
rows (as seen in Step One), but you can
change this really easily. Just go to the
Appearance panel (in the right side Panels
area) and in the Grid Pages section, there's
a mini-preview of your thumbnail grid
that's more than a preview—it's live!
Just move your cursor out over the grid
and click-and-drag out how many rows
and columns you want (I dragged over
so there would be four columns, and the
Web gallery instantly adjusted, as seen here).
This is such an intuitive way to choose your
columns and rows, and the fact that it up-
dates live really makes it fun.
