SLIDESHOW - Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3: Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process - page 346

If you want to make identity plates to show textual titles or credits, consider
setting up the text in a text editor i rst, then copy and paste the text into the
Identity Plate Editor.

8

Design title screens and backgrounds in Photoshop
For the most control over the look of your backgrounds, set them up in
Photoshop and import them to the catalog as jpgs or tifs. Y ou can then insert
them in the slideshow as slides of their own wherever you like, or drag and drop
to apply them as the backgrounds or identity plates for photo slides.

⌘ +6 or Ctrl+6
Open/close the
Playback panel

Playback panel
Here, you set the parameters for the
playback of the slideshow; see Figure
8-13.

To add audio to the playback, tick the box
to enable the Soundtrack. Beginning in
Lightroom 3, it is no longer necessary to
use an iTunes playlist for this. As a matter
of fact, Lightroom no longer supports the
use of a playlist at all; you can only assign
one audio i le to the slideshow. If you
need a long soundtrack using multiple
songs or audio clips, you will need to
edit them all together into one i le i rst.
Lightroom can use MP3 or AAC format
audio i les, but can't work with audio i les that are encrypted by digital rights
management (drm) encoding (as the warning icon on the example shows).

Figure 8-13

Click the button labeled Select Music. h is opens a dialog box from which you
can choose a single audio i le from any connected drive.

To the right is a button labeled “Fit to Music”. h is feature only applies when the
Slide Duration checkbox (below) is ticked. h is allows you to automatically set
the length of the slideshow to match the song duration.

If you want to manually advance the slides during playback, leave the Slide
Duration box unchecked. Otherwise, to have the slides advance automatically,
tick the Slide Duration checkbox. Using the Slides value, you can then manually
set the amount of time that each slide will be displayed, or click the Fit to Music
button above and the timing will be calculated automatically.