Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
The built-in templates are okay, but after you create a slide show or two with
them, you're going to be saying stuff like, “I wish I could change the background
color” or “I wish I could add some text at the bottom” or “I wish my slide show
looked better.” Well, this is where you start to create your own custom look for
your slides, so not only does it look just the way you want it, your custom look
is just one click away from now on.
Customizing the Look
of Your Slide Show
Step One:
Although you might not be wild about
Lightroom's predesigned slide show tem-
plates, they make great starting points for
creating your own custom look. Here, we're
going to create a vacation slide show, so
start by going to the Slideshow module's
Collections panel (in the left side Panels
area) and click on the vacation collection
you want to use. Then, go up to the Tem-
plate Browser and click on Exif Metadata to
load that template (seen here, which puts
your photos over a black background with
a thin white border, info about your photo
in the top right, bottom right, and below
your photo, and your Identity Plate in the
upper-left corner).
Step Two:
Now that we've got our template loaded,
we don't need the left-side panels anymore,
so press F7 (or Fn F7 ) on your keyboard to
hide them. The first thing I do is get rid of
all the EXIF info (after all, people viewing
your vacation slide show probably won't
care what your ISO or exposure settings
were), so go to the right side Panels area,
to the Overlays panel, and turn off the
Text Overlays checkbox (a s shown here).
Your Identit y Plate is still visible, but the
info in the upper- and lower-right corners
and below the photo is now hidden.
TIP: Resizing Custom Text
Once you create custom text, you can
change the size by clicking-and-dragging
the corner points outward (to make it
larger), and inward (to make it smaller).
 
 
 
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