Using the Web Module in Lightroom

Video Transcript

"BRANDON SARKIS: My name is Brandon Sarkis on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to be showing you how to use Adobe's Lightroom Software. Now, you can see we're going to do some work with the web module. So it's over here at the top of the left hand cor--right hand corner. We're going to click on that and you'll see I've got a slide show already opened up here. But we're going to go on the right--on the left hand side here. You can see our little preview window. We can go through our template browser. Let's go through our templates here. I want to pick the blue sky template. So it's going to take a second for it to load up. Now, what's going to happen here is it's--I don't have a preview set up for it, well, let's try the classic one. So I'm gonna--I mean, I can pick a picture but you're not going to see anything until you actually update it. So let's go back to--we'll go back to blue sky and we've updated it. It's taking just a second. And we can see on our web page here, or it's actually a local web page, it's hosted from inside the browser. This isn't actually posted to website yet. You can see it what our slide show looks like after I posted it, pretty nifty. Let's go back to lightroom real quick though. You can see on the right hand side, we can make either a flash gallery, or html gallery, and go to our site info and put our title and collection title, and the description, and contact info, whatever e-mail links. Pull that. We can go through our color palette, and we can change all the colors in the actual page like the header bar, the title bar, the side bars. Next to that, you're going to have your appearance. It's going to show them that you want your identity plate on there. You're also going to have image size, thumbnail image sizes, image info. You can go to custom settings here, like to show your titles and captions. You can have it--you can go by date, or by equipment, or lens, or camera, or ISO, whatever. Your output settings here, you can change your quality. And you can also--make sure you add your watermark, which is very, very important. Here, you'll see--oh, actually, these are your upload settings. This is uploading to an FTP server. You'll see all your stuff right there. I don't want to show you my website. So I won't actually put the information in. But it's really nice to be able to just click on export or upload here. It's really nice to be able to do this from inside an application, as opposed to using a separate application. It keeps everything nice and contained. So all in all, it's a very nice feature to have. So you should be posting your photos online."