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Lightroom Killer Tips
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A Better Start to
Yo u r S l i d e S h o w
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Detailed Slide Design
Although you can create your slide shows
from scratch in Lightroom, there's nothing
that says that you have to design your
slides in Lightroom. If there are things
you want to do that you can't do in
Lightroom, just build the slides over in
Photoshop, save them as JPEGs, then
re-import the finished slides into Light-
room, and drop those into your slide
show layout, add your background
music, etc.
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Collections Remember Which
Te m p l a te Yo u Us e d L a s t
The Collections panel also appears in
the Slideshow module (which you
learned about in this chapter). If you
click on a collection and select just a
few photos in that collection for your
slide show (and change the Use pop-
up menu to Selected Photos in the
toolbar at the bottom of the Preview
area), and use them to set up a slide
show, you probably want to be able
to save that slide show so you don't
have to go through all that again.
Well, you can. Just Right-click on
One of my biggest slide show com-
plaints about Lightroom 1 was that
when you started your slide show,
the person viewing it always saw the
first slide onscreen before the slide
show even started (so, if you're show-
ing a bride and groom the photos from
their wedding, when they sit down,
they see the first image onscreen, with-
out any music, any drama, etc., which
totally kills any emotional impact). You
saw earlier in this chapter that you can
have opening and closing title slides in
Lightroom now, right? So, go ahead and
set up a title slide (or just leave it black,
but turn on the title slide feature in the
Titles panel). Now, here's the tip: When
you make a slide show presentation for
a client, before the client is in front of
your monitor, start the slide show, and
as soon as it appears onscreen, press
the
Spacebar
to pause it. Now when
your client sits in front of your screen,
they don't see your first photo—they
see a black screen (or your title screen).
When you're ready to begin your
presentation, press the Spacebar
again and your slide show starts.
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Preview How Photos Will
Look in Your Slide Show
On the far-right side of the toolbar that
appears under the center Preview area,
you'll see some text showing how many
photos are in your current collection.
If you move your cursor over that text,
your cursor turns into a scrubby slider,
and you can click-and-drag left or right
to see the other photos in your slide
show appear in your current slide show
layout (it's one of those things you have
to try, and then you'll dig it).
the collection, and choose
Create
Slideshow
from the pop-up menu.
This creates a new collection with
just the photos you used in that
particular slide show, in the right
order, along with the template,
so when you want that exact same
slide show again (same look, same
photos, same order), you're one
click away.
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What Those Rotate
Arrows Are For
If you look down in the toolbar, you'll see
two rotation arrows, but they're always
grayed out. That's because they're not
for rotating photos, they're for rotating
any custom text you create (you add
custom text by clicking on the ABC
button in the toolbar).
