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The authors of three excellent Flash-based web photo galleries, Airtight Interactive, have agreed to let us integrate with Lightroom!

Download Adobe Photoshop Lightgroom Web Gallery Templates for SimpleViewer, Postcard Viewer, and AutoViewer:

SimpleViewer : http://adobelightroom.com/galleries/airtight_simpleviewer.zip
PostcardViewer : http://adobelightroom.com/galleries/airtight_postcardviewer.zip
AutoViewer : http://adobelightroom.com/galleries/airtight_autoviewer.zip

Unzip the archives, and save them into the "Web Galleries" directory in your Lightroom settings folder:

• Mac OS X : /Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Web Galleries
• Windows XP : C:\Documents and Settings\[username]]\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Web Galleries
• Windows Vista : C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Web Galleries

Relaunch Lightroom. These should now be visible in the Web module. Enjoy!

Posted by Andrew Rahn at 12:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (39)

Some of you may have seen a post I put on John Nack's blog a couple months ago about how Lightroom uses XML and XSLT to build an HTML template.

A few things changed in Lightroom between when I originally wrote that, and when we shipped 1.0. So it seems worthwhile to revisit that post and correct what's changed. Most notably, we renamed some of the terms.

Also the folder to put new Web Galleries into has changed. On Mac, store them in <your home directory>/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/Web Galleries/. On Windows, put the gallery in C:\Documents and Settings\arahn.MN-IAGO\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\Web Galleries.

In the next couple of posts, I plan to show how to build a simple flash-based gallery using Flash 8 and the ActionScript programming language. So stay tuned!

Posted by Andrew Rahn at 03:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (17)

One of the Lightroom Beta testers asked how to upload a web photo gallery from Lightroom to Apple's dot Mac hosting service. For this question, I assume you're using a Mac -- or else why would you have a dot Mac account? I've had good luck with this technique:

First, make sure you are connected to the internet and mount your iDisk in the Finder by choosing Go -> iDisk -> My iDisk. This will mount the storage space for your dot Mac website on your computer.

Next, switch to Lightroom and prepare your web gallery in the web module. Then choose Export... Click on your computer name and locate the iDisk (it has a globe icon and will be named with your dot mac account username). Then select the "Sites" folder on your iDisk. Type the name for the gallery (I recommend a single word, and no spaces) and click "Save".

Lightroom will generate the web photo gallery and save it to your dot Mac website. When the "Save Web Photo Gallery" task finishes your photo gallery is live on your website. The URL will be "http:" plus "//homepage.mac.com/" plus your dot Mac username plus "/" plus the name for the gallery that you chose.

This is how I usually export web galleries to dot mac. For example, here are some pictures from a trip to see the ice on Lake Superior last month.

http://homepage.mac.com/arahn/duluth

Posted by Andrew Rahn at 02:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (7)