Using the Slideshow Module in Lightroom

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to be showing how to use Adobe's Lightroom software. All right, the next thing we're going to discuss is the slide show module. So you'll see on the left hand side, oops, we have some templates here we can go through. We have our--these are your built-in lightroom templates to show how your slide show is going to look. Pull that, some user-defined templates, which I don't have in these. We're going to go with this first one here--actually, no, let's go to the second one, the crop to fill. So it's going to show you that each image is going to be filled up on the screen. These little buttons here on the bottom of the control bar, how you cycle through it on right and left arrows. You also see custom text box here. You can click on this. Then, you can type something here. I'll just type "Chango chewing on a toy." And then, hit enter. So there we go. And that stays there. And of course, that's not part of the photo. It's laying on top of it like a layer. We're on the right hand side; you'll see some of our view options. We'll see border options. We'll see our shadow options. You can adjust the opacity, the offset, the angle, all that stuff for the shadows. Those are for the text shadows, by the way, and for the image shadows. We can close that up. We'll see our layout options for our guides. We can make them certain sizes, if we see below that. Let's close this real quick. And below that, we're going to see our identity plate options. This allows you to use your identity plate to kinda watermark the photo. Mine is just my name. You can do a couple of different things with this. It's a good idea to do this, too, on a website. That way people can't steal your photos and say they're theirs because in the website, if they right click and they're going to get this. You can make it a little lighter. You can change the opacity. You can change the scale like I can make this huge if I wanted. And so, you see it takes a lot of space and that can make it really tiny, if I want. This is something I can't recommend enough if you're going to post your photos in a public form like on the internet. Well, this is your backdrop. You can change the color wash of your backdrop. You can actually add a background image. I'll make this one red here. There we go, [INAUDIBLE] image. You just drag and draw them in this little box. And you can change your background. I'm going to make my background color. I'll make it red also. I like red. There's that and that's everything. It's got back options below. And then, basically, this is all you really need to see for the slideshow modules so."