Lightroom-Blog.Com: LRB Exhibition

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

LRB Exhibition

Written from the ground up with new internal code and ideas, LRB Exhibition is a new 'Website in a gallery' plugin for Lightroom's Web module. From the Portfolio family, it allows the user to create home, about, contact and general use pages, along with 6 galleries and 2 external links.

The main image area in the gallery is based around a single image preview in an enclosed space. Using jQuery, each slide can be navigated to either using the navigation arrows, or numbered links to the relevant slide. LRB Exhibition is far more mature that LRB Portfolio was at version 1.0, in fact it's almost par with LRB Portfolio 2.51, and probably equal to 2.4. It does however have features not available to LRB Portfolio, such as per page image and text placement and a floating text box.

Install.

Mac: Double click on LRB_Exhibition.lrwebengine to install.
PC: In Lightroom Preferences (Edit>Preferences), click Presets. Click 'Show Lightroom Presets Folder'. Open the folder. Look for a folder called 'Web Galleries'. If it's not there, create it and drop LRB_Exhibition.lrwebengine inside it. Restart Lightroom

Intro Video.

Here's a quick look at using the gallery. Click through for the full size verion.

There will be more forthcoming.

Basics

A basic look at how this gallery works:
Create a collection of images you want on the website. Decide how many galleries you will have and then sort them into order for each gallery. You might have 35 images for the first gallery, 20 for the next and maybe 26 for the 3rd of the 3 galleries you've decided you'd like.
Next go to Web and select LRB Exhibition from the list. Make sure All Fimstrips Photos is selected in the Filmstrip, or that you've selected all the Photos. Go to the Gallery section and enter those numbers in each gallery section. Give the galleries names for the menu. Now go add details to the Home, About and Contact pages. Same for the Blank page, which can be used for pricing, or services etc. These page have individual text box sizes and locations, along with a choice of locations for the image on the page.

Once you've customised the gallery to your taste, be sure to save your settings as a Template. While Lightroom will remember the settings for the collection, if something bad happens, you're better off with a Template to get those settings back.

A lot of the internal stuff works in a similar way to LRB Portfolio, so you can access that User Guide for more details. Like I say, there will be more video tutorials to add usage.

Features

Home, About, Contact and Blank page
6 Galleries, 2 external links
Google Analytics support
SEO features built in
Custom jQuery Gallery
Multiparagraph, floating text boxes
Clean layout
900X600 images
W3C vaild (base code)

Sample Gallery
Click to view a sample gallery.

Buy
LRB Exhibition is €15 plus VAT.
For the first week of sales, you can get a 20% discount using the sales code LRBEX20. Remember to update the Cart after you enter the code, or it will not be applied. Please note the download allows for 9 updates, after which you require a new purchase.

The Future
Like any software, LRB Exhibition will take on a life of it's own in the wild. Feel free to ask questions or add suggestions in the comments.

Labels: LRB Exhibition, Web Gallery

102 Comments:

Hi Sean, this looks great!

One question, is there an auto play function on the galleries? That is the decision maker for me at the moment!

Thanks
Julian

By Julian Lynch, At 1:29 PM
Not right now Julian, but it is high on my to do list.

By Sean McCormack, At 1:36 PM
Hello Sean

This looks like it will be an excellent Website to use.

Just a quick comment about when I entered the Promo code the "Update Cart" wouldn´t change to include the discount,it doesn´t bother me as I think its reasonably priced anyway,its just incase you have other people mentioning it.

Regards
James

By Jimmy James Bodas - Valencia, At 2:02 PM
Hi Jimmy,
It's working now. I ended up deleting the code and reentering it to get it to work.

By Sean McCormack, At 2:31 PM
Sean, this sounds like what I've been looking for and I plan on downloading it shortly. Two quick questions: do I need to purchase separate downloads for my mac notebook and my pc desktop, and what do I save as a backup (or can I buy a disk)?

Thanks,

--Bob

By Bob, At 2:59 PM
Bob, you can use it on both. The download is a Zip file, so just copy it to an archive location.

By Sean McCormack, At 3:05 PM
Hi Sean,
I live outside of UK, I should subject not to apply for VAT?

Is the LRB Exhibition run on my Mac OSx 10.4.11

Thanks
Paul

By Paul Fan, At 11:52 PM
And I don't live in the UK either, Paul. If you live in Europe, then you are subject to VAT, unless you have a business registered with a VAT number.
I am VAT Registered, therefore I have to charge VAT and quote prices that are VAT exclusive for that reason.

By Sean McCormack, At 12:01 AM
hi Sean

Does LRB Exhibition allow to see caption details for each photo to be seen --- also will their room to have small thunbnails of "upcoming" images (with the single large image on display)?

cheers

Bruce(NZ)

By Brucie!, At 12:35 AM
Hi Bruce,
It may be possible to have a caption appear in a future verison.

The way the numbers work can't currently apply to thumbnails. I intend that design for a future plugin, but no this one.

By Sean McCormack, At 12:50 AM
Hi Sean,

Great job with this gallery. I loved the results of LRB Portfolio with my work, especially it's ease-of-use... and this looks even better. I'll be putting on my site this weekend.

By Andy, At 1:48 AM
Hi Sean,

The navigation numbers are so smaller, is possible to let them bigger?

Another question, there is the possibility of moving the fixed links (contact, about) to the end of the menu?

Regards
Luiz Aguiar

By Luiz Aguiar, At 1:58 PM
Hello Sean
Nice job on the gallery. Just one question. Can you remove the grey bands at the top and at the bottom? That way the Identity Plate and menus would be straight over the photo.
Thanks!

By gonz, At 5:48 PM
Gonz,
Delete the text from the ID Plate BG image and Menu BG field.
The intention here is to make these a dropdown with shades of opacity from 0-100 in 5 steps.

By Sean McCormack, At 5:58 PM
Luiz,
Number Height=done
Swap=on the list.

By Sean McCormack, At 5:59 PM
Sean, is there a way to to not allow a "right click" image save after publishing with the new plug-in. This was possible with the original LRB plug in.

Thanks for your work!
Bob

By Bob Rickert, At 6:20 PM
Bob,
Besides the first and last images of the gallery, right clicking will only download the navigation arrow.
You can download any image that's on the web if you truly want to.

I have to be careful that I don't have the scripts interfere with each other.

By Sean McCormack, At 2:05 AM
Sean, I downloaded it several hours ago and for me - a relative naif when it comes to web stuff - it looks very very promising. One early question: is it possible to shrink the size of the arrows on the gallery photos or, even better, move them outside of the actual photo? Thanks, Bob

By Bob, At 3:04 AM
Bob,
You can open the files control_left.png and control_right.png in the resources folder and edit them in Photoshop. Make sure the files remain 450X600 pixels.

If you open the video in youtube, you can see my video about the resources folder. It's the same method for LRB Exhibition.

You can't move them outside and that is intentional.

By Sean McCormack, At 3:45 AM
Thanks, Sean, I had already seen the video reference to the resources folder and will follow that trail.

I am curious as to why you require the arrows to be superimposed over the photographs. My own preference is to have nothing on top of my photographs and I'd like to know your reasoning.

Regards,

--Bob

By Bob, At 4:29 AM
It's called design choice, Bob. Simple as that.

Putting the arrows outside the layout would really clutter up the design.

You could of course remove the text from the arrows section and have nothing there. Clicking will still go back or forward.

By Sean McCormack, At 4:43 AM
Ah, I see. Far be it from me to argue design choice!

I like the application a lot and am already thinking about various ways to use it.

By Bob, At 4:49 AM
Sean, I am trying to understand some of the comments -
You responded to Luiz with -- Number Height=done
Swap=on the list.
Where are these commands?

You responded to Bob re the arrow commands superimposed over the photos as being part of the design. I am unable to get my images large enough that this happens ( I have the image size set as maximum for both height and width.

Thanks.

Bob

By Bob Rickert, At 2:43 PM
The commands are here in my 1.1 working copy.

I have no idea what you are saying about the arrows.

By Sean McCormack, At 2:54 PM
Hi Sean,

You can please add the Flickr site (and icon) (in contact info) too in 1.1 version?

Thanks, great job!

By Luiz Aguiar, At 5:10 PM
Couldn't find an icon so had to make one.. Added to the list Luiz. You can of course use your own with the 'Own Link' and adding an <img src=""> in the text part.

For the people asking for feature requests, these will all go into a 1.1 release to be launched in the future.

Not everything will make it in because somethings are easy and get added quickly, some are much harder and take longer. Finally some simply are not in the design brief for this plugin, but might well appear in another plugin at some stage. I do have a 3rd website plugin in mind.

By Sean McCormack, At 6:54 PM
Sorry, I should have been more clear regarding the arrows comment.
When I look at your You Tube video and the example web site, landscape photo images cover the portfolio completely and the navigation arrows are superimposed over the image. My images leave a margin on each side so the navigation arrows are only superimposed over the portfolio.
Even though I am still working on it, I have uploaded my working copy of www.bobrickertphotography.com so you can more easily see what I mean if you go to my site.
Thanks.
Bob

By Bob Rickert, At 7:00 PM
Hi Bob,
Understood. What you're seeing is a result of the cropping of the shot. To fill the frame, you need to crop the images to 3X2. The current crop looks close to 4X3.

By Sean McCormack, At 7:16 PM
Several more questions for you:

I have set "Labels" to "Captions" assuming it would display the caption in the exif data but it does not. What am I missing? Can I display captions of individual photos in the Galleries? How? Where will they display? Is the position adjustable?

In Galleries, how can I display Image Numbers, or better yet, have the small image number turn a different color so a viewer can describe the image he/she is looking at?

Where can I change the background color behind the Site Title and Home Description to "None"?

Thanks for your help, I'm having fun with this.

By Bob, At 4:46 AM
1) This is the default code for that section, it's not attached to anything yet, because there is simply nowhere useful to put the info. Feel free to suggest somewhere. If it looks ugly, it won't happen.

2) The numbers are highlighted by jQuery, so they are not actual links. I'll see if they'll respond to an onClick colour change, but I think hovering over them might reset that anyway.

3) You mean the back of the text? You can't, it's there to help the text float over the image so your lettering doesn't get lost in the image underneath.

By Sean McCormack, At 5:08 AM
1) I was hoping you had an idea for placement that's not ugly. I'm still puzzling on that myself.

2) Folks looking at my photos - usually lots of dogs (the subjects, not the viewers) - need a way to identify the image they're looking at. This of course relates to 1) above.

3) Well, I did set to "none" the background color behind the identity plate and behind Home Description 2 and it works just fine for me.

By Bob, At 5:21 AM
1) I'm glad you see my problem! I could try some kind of popout, again, it would need to be nice.

2) Like I say, the numbers are not actual links. Literally what happens is the jQuery reads the number and multiplies it by 900px and then jumps that far along the images. I can change the code using a hover, but right now I know of no way of making it stick once clicked.. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying I don't know how.

3) I've already pointed out how to remove the menu and ID Plate backgrounds here. Just empty the BG image boxes. 1.1 now has a popup menu with 6 transparency choices from clear to black for both.
You can of course edit the generated CSS.

By Sean McCormack, At 6:22 AM
It looks nice Sean! I purchased the LRB portfolio only 2 weeks ago. Do you offer the LRB exhibition as an upgrade or a discounted price?

Thanks, dru

By dru, At 5:07 PM
Hi Dru, this is an entirely new product. There is a 20% discount until Sat next, but that's it. Portfolio hasn't become any less useful or less supported with the introduction of this plugin. In fact the last update happened while it was in development.

As website creation goes, it's not exactly expensive. Webdesigners would probably eat through the cost in 15 minutes, and you'd still need to supply the text and images!

By Sean McCormack, At 5:44 PM
Sean - is there a way to control the name of the home page - as in "default.htm" other than opening each HTML file and doing a search/replace? I've got a server out there that is finicky and doesn't like INDEX.HTML. Thanks, and great job on Exhibition.

By Marty, At 7:12 PM
There isn't Marty. There's more to it than just the rename, there's also the fact that the file is generated as index.html and that Lightroom needs the file for preview

Your server sounds rather odd TBH.. Never heard that before.

By Sean McCormack, At 8:28 PM
I may have missed this: Is there a limit on the number of photos that can be placed in each gallery? In that regard, is there a limit on the total number of photos the application can handle overall?

By Bob Baron, At 8:31 PM
5000 overall, but don't expect blistering performance with that number of images when up on the server. Images tend to load in parallel.

By Sean McCormack, At 8:49 PM
Sean,

The site title is not working for me, what can be?
In the HTML files (all files) the tag TITLE is without the information that I have completed in plugin.

Ragards.

By Luiz Aguiar, At 3:31 AM
Site Title is the header text in the home page, Page Header is what appears on the top of the page. Did you change the Page Header?

By Sean McCormack, At 3:41 AM
Hi Sean,
I fixed the Page Header.

My portfolio is now online: http://www.luizaguiar.com/

Thanks, great job!

By Luiz Aguiar, At 4:29 AM
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By Michael, At 1:25 PM
Hi Sean,
Great product, I've really enjoy working with it. I'm sure it's something I'm doing, but as I build my galleries the number of images function disappears. I've started over a number of times, each time it's there when I start but disappears as add/edit the galleries. Anyone else had this problem.
Thanks,
Mike

By Michael, At 1:28 PM
Hi Michael,
The gallery will regenerate when you add images. Are you sure it isn't just going back to the home page, which wouldn't numbers on it.

I've previewed in IE7, FF and Safari on PC, and Safari, Chrome and FF on Mac and not seen this. What browser are you previewing in?

By Sean McCormack, At 9:04 PM
Hey Sean - Great work on this plug-in! Purchased it earlier today and haven't stopped playing with its features and capabilities. My only feature request would be the ability to utilize the "Image Info" in the galleries.

Noting your earlier concern regarding the difficulty of finding an aesthetic placement/treatment might I suggest a hover above the "Menu Bar" at the fixed width of the menu bar and either a controllable or elastic height (determined by content). Transparency and BG color could be controlled with the PNG file in resources I would think and the text color in the color palette just as the other "content" areas are handled. The key would be to appear with mouseover and disappear on mouseout. I have an XML gallery at http://www.silverlumina.com/content/design_print/design_print.shtml that utilizes a similar Flash technique.

Thanks for listening - I can't wait for 1.1

- Larry

By Leadfoot, At 9:25 PM
Hi Sean,
Thanks for getting back to me, as I build the galleries in Lightroom the numbers just go away, I've tried to change the number of pictures in the galleries to see if it changes anything when it regenerates...no luck. I thought perhaps the problem was that I hadn't "selected all" the pictures in the collection, that made no difference either. Nothing changes when I preview in browser still no numbers. The browser I'm using is Shiretoko, FF optimized for an Intel Mac
Thanks,
Michael

By Michael, At 3:35 AM
Out of curiosity, what is your link colour? Is it white?

By Sean McCormack, At 3:52 AM
Problem solved, the link color was set to white. Thanks for your guidance Sean

By Michael, At 2:45 PM
That's incentive enough to add a separate control for the numbers Michael.

By Sean McCormack, At 2:56 PM
Hi Sean, great work with this! Within 30 minutes or so I have a perfectly usable website, and for such a reasonable price!

Is there a way to change the white/black background gradient when the browser window is bigger than the page? I find this particularly distracting. I'd like to fill the background with the Portfolio Color (or the color of my choice) without getting into the code. It would look more appealing also to center the page in the window, rather than having it at the top of the window.

Laura

By Laura, At 6:15 AM
Hi Laura,
You can simply remove the reference in the Body Background Image in Font and Body Settings section of the Appearance Panel. AFAIR, I mention this in the video.

In the update I'm working on, I've added a checkbox for this to make it even easier.

By Sean McCormack, At 7:16 AM
Thanks, Sean -- removing the BG image is good enough for now -- that turns it black. In the longer run it would be nice to be able to set that color in the color palette section. (Now that I understand it I know I could set a background image of whatever color I want, but many wouldn't figure that out.)
Here's what I did ... www.laurashoe.com/LRB_Exhibition

By Laura, At 8:30 AM
It's already in the colour palette Laura, top one.

By Sean McCormack, At 8:53 AM
Having a separate control for the numbers would be great for my purposes. Can't wait for 1.1 - no pressure!!! Thanks again for a great product.

By Michael, At 11:23 PM
Where do I go to remove the box around the frame (page)?

And how are you coming on captions or a way to identify each image?

I'm waiting breathlessly for 1.1!

By Bob Baron, At 7:17 PM
Regarding "Where do I go to remove the box around the frame (page)?" I figured it out; I just change the Portfolio Border color to be the same as the Portfolio Color.

But I have acquired two more questions:

1) Under General Settings, what is accomplished when the Use Warnings box is checked/ticked?

2) The Site Title, which is found in General Settings, and the Home Description, which is found in Home Page Settings, have a background color behind them that I would like to either change to the Portfolio Color or do away with altogether. How can I do this?

Thanks again,

--Bob

By Bob Baron, At 11:28 PM
1) Try making a site with not enough images with Add Warnings ticked.

2) Right now, no. It's there to make text readable on pretty much any image.

By Sean McCormack, At 4:12 AM
Hi Sean,

Looks good! But is there any way to make the site adjust to different monitors resolution settings? So the bottom menu is always tied to the bottom of the screen and the top menu tied to the top - stretching the image in between. So the full browser window size is always used. I know it's very "flash-like" - but I need it :-) Possible with this? Or coming up?

Thanks!
/Kasper

By Kasper, At 11:42 AM
1) Try making a site with not enough images with Add Warnings ticked.

Ah, so that's what does that. I've been warned.

2) Right now, no. It's there to make text readable on pretty much any image.

I'd like to request the option to adjust them; as you can see in this Home Page design it would be cleaner if I could do so:

http://www.bobbaron.com/SnowDogs09_10/index.html

(The text 'The Snow Dogs' is from the Site Title; the text 2009-2010 is from Home Description; and, the text Oklahoma City is from Home Description 2.)

Thanks,

--Bob

By Bob Baron, At 11:57 AM
Sorry Kasper, no.

By Sean McCormack, At 4:28 PM
Hi Sean,
How can I find the version number. I don't see the changes you mentioned for 1.1 in the version I have downloaded, since I have only 9 tries I don't want to waste a download.

Love the new design, thanks.

Andreas

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 11:37 PM
Hi Sean,
Never mind my previous comment.
I misread and thought 1.1 was already out.

Do you think it is possible something like Banana Album could be developed for LR? I really like the layout and resizing behavior.

http://www.a-kornfeld.com/
http://www.bananalbum.net/

Best
Andreas

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 11:53 PM
On some pages the image numbers at the bottom are spaced out nicely, but on others they are all jammed together. Not sure how to fix that: http://cornicello.com/gallery5.html is a sample where they are bunched up.

By cornicello, At 2:33 AM
Hi John,
After peeking I see why this is. It's literally that a single space is missing. I've one or 2 more things to do before I push out 1.1.
In the meantime, if you want to fix it yourself in the plugin: Open the LRB_Exhibition package, and open the offending pages (looks like gallery4, gallery5 and gallery6. Go to line 33 in gallery4, and line 36 in gallery5 and gallery6.
Find <%= yikes %></li><% end %> and insert a space to make it look like <%= yikes %></li> <% end %>
i.e. between the </li> and the <% end %>

By Sean McCormack, At 6:02 AM
Andreas,
1.1 will be out soon. Just not yet.

Re: Banana Album? you'd need to ask the developers of the product. It's beyond my basic knowledge of Flash.

By Sean McCormack, At 6:06 AM
Sean, your new permutation is really great. How do I change the grey sweep to black? Can the nameplate be removed from the galleries, about and contact pages?

Exhibition is super, I'm ready to update my site thanks to your great work.

Paul

By Paul, At 1:33 AM
Hi Sean,

Not sure if this is a bug, but just wanted to share this.
Entering a number with a period like 1.00 instead of 1 in the "Image on Homepage (or Contact page)" returns gibberish/code in the LR window, and also exports that image as well. I can send you a jpg if you like.
Haven't tried the other page settings.

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 4:18 AM
Sean,

When previewing a gallery in Safari or Chrome, double-clicking on the right or left control highlights (blue box) the control_left.png + control_right.png file. It doesn't happen in Firefox though.
Any idea why that is and how to get rid of it?
Obviously it has something to do with the browser.

-Andreas

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 4:39 AM
Sean,

I keep bugging you, but I just thought of something else. (feel free to delete my comments)
Would it be possible to include a script that rotates the index page image?

-Andreas

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 5:21 AM
Hi Paul,
I assume you're referring to the background image. It's just there as a sample. Feel free to edit it, or add your own.
Sean

By Sean McCormack, At 9:21 AM
Hi Andreas,
'Bug'ing me is fine. It's impossible to find all issues with plugins that offer this much control. Lua (the underlying coding language) is a strange beast and doesn't follow a lot of normal rules, so sometimes it does unexpected things.

Entering a period changes it from a number to a string, which cause the mess. Johnny V reported this and I fixed it last night believe it or not. For now, don't enter a period. There's no need. In fact in the code there's no period, it's just Lightroom sticking it in on in the UI.

Because the arrows are images, the browser thinks you're trying to select it for dragging. No way around it that I know. This happens on so many sites too.

When you speak of rotation, do you mean a small amount, or 90 degrees? If it's 90 degrees, just use a virtual copy of the image and rotate it in Lightroom.

By Sean McCormack, At 9:29 AM
Hi Paul,
There's no way to decide by page if the ID plate is present. It's global.

You could try making 2 exports, one with and one with. Then copy the .html files from the one that doesn't to the one that does, except the index.html file.
That should work.

By Sean McCormack, At 9:33 AM
Thanks Sean, Exhibition shows up just as I was thinking of a site update. Fine work.

By Paul, At 11:46 AM
Purchased LRB and got LRB version 1.0 downloaded again from email link got 1.0 version again. How do i get LRB 2.51 or latest version?

By mitch, At 1:59 PM
Hi Sean,

By rotating I meant loading different images when the index page reloads, I choose the wrong word.
Something like a randomizer script. Maybe load all the images in the collection and then randomly select an image to display on the landing page.

I have little knowledge of coding and I don't know if it is possible to add such a script to what you are doing.

LUA looks pretty complicated to me, thanks for creating the plug-ins.

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 2:18 PM
Hi Andreas,
A php rotation script would do this, the problem is knowing enough PHP to write one, or finding one that allows commercial use.

By Sean McCormack, At 5:24 PM
Mitch,
There is only 1.0 of this plugin. It's about 2 weeks old. LRB Portfolio is a different plugin, it's up to version 2.51. They're not the same, although they do provide similar functionality for the same price.

By Sean McCormack, At 5:26 PM
Hi Sean,

I have two php scripts, but have no idea how to make them work, I tried but wasn't successful.
If you are interested let me know how I can send them to you.

I'm also wondering if there is a way to add font, weight, size sliders for the contact form. At the moment I just changed it directly in the contact.html and css file.
Excuse my messing with your design.

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 10:14 PM
Hi Andreas,
The issue is with License, not ability. A List Apart have at least 2 tutorials on this, and I've used the script myself on personal sites. It's adding it to a website generator that means it requires a different license. Generally they just point at the images folder.

There's more than one set of text in Contact. There's the titles for the form, the describing text, and the information text. Not all can be accessed via CSS, so which are you referring to?

By Sean McCormack, At 10:36 PM
Hi Sean,

I was referring to the titles in the contact form.

Thanks for explaining the license issue. I thought if it is distributed under a public license you could just add it.
A List Apart is where I found the one I mentioned btw.
I guess if I can figure it out how to get it to work myself I am in the clear.

-Andreas

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 11:42 PM
Grand. That's a doable request. Might not be 1.1, but it'll happen at some stage.

I think if you drop the rotator.php file into the 'large' directory and change the image to 'large/rotator.php' it should work. That's from memory though, but the instructions should be clear.

By Sean McCormack, At 11:49 PM
Sean,

I just re-read the instructions, that's exactly it. I always overlook something that simple.
I'll give it a try in a few minutes.

-Andreas

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 12:21 AM
Sean,

It's perfect.

Thanks,

Andreas

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 12:29 AM
Sean, I want to use a black background and I don't know what to place in the field to indicate that. I'm sure once you tell me I'll say "oh, I knew that".

Also the menu places the external links before the galleries. LBR Portfolio puts the links on the end of the menu. Perhaps I missed something or is there a way to re-order the menu?

Great stuff, I'm jazzed that you're already seeing such great usability improvements in future iterations.

Paul

By Paul, At 4:45 AM
Hi Paul,
Background: This is actually in the comments already. Simply delete the text from the background image field and the colour from the color palette will be active. There'll be a tickbox in the next version.

Menu: The gallery position can be swapped in the version that's with testers, but that's about the height of the customisation of the menu. It's actually hard to incorporate major positional changes in the menu.

By Sean McCormack, At 10:04 AM
I'm looking forward to v1.1, since I'm already almost completely happy with v1.0. However, as we discussed early on, I do really want a way to identify what photo in a gallery one is looking at, ideally with a caption but at least by illuminating or otherwise emphasizing the image number.

When you say you have already incorporated in v1.1 "Added Numbers checkbox" is this what you mean?

Are you any closer to a captioning scheme that is acceptable to your design sensitivity, whether via an actual caption, a tooltip rollover-type, or otherwise?

Thanks,

--Bob

By Bob Baron, At 8:00 PM
Some people don't want to see the numbers. That's what the checkbox is for.
Tool tip can't happen, because the navigation arrows hide the image, so a tool tip simply wouldn't appear.

Writing plugins is only a tiny portion of what I do, and I've already put a lot of my time into the 1.1 update, so there won't be any caption related stuff going into it. Don't get me wrong, a caption method might lead to a way to add Buy buttons for images, but that's a ways off yet.

If it's any consolation Canon's DPP just got the ability to provide arbitrary rotation, for fixing horizons, and it's at version 3.8.

By Sean McCormack, At 3:39 AM
Thanks for your reply. And don't get me wrong, I really appreciate all you've done to make the best web gallery plugin I've seen so far, by far.

I'm not a seller, I'm just looking for a way to identify an image. There is a lot to be said for not writing captions because a good image should stand alone without the need for a caption. Most captions, IMO, detract from images. I'm just faced with, insofar as my dog shots are concerned, differentiating between Rover and Spot.

By Bob Baron, At 3:57 AM
Hi Bob,
I'm just saying that I'm keen to have a nice way of having captions, so it leads to other options as well.

I've had very few comments back from testers, so I'm not quite ready to release 1.1 yet. Anything that comes back will be bug fixes, so it's as feature complete as it's going to get for now. Obviously there will be further updates. The very first request was for a slideshow option, so I'll be looking into that next, then captions.

By Sean McCormack, At 4:12 AM
Sean,
I was just thinking about the possibility to incorporate slideshows/stopmotion vids from LR3 or something similar to your cool timelapse video.

Can't wait to see what you have in 1.1

-Andreas

By Andreas Kornfeld, At 7:31 AM
Hi Andreas, as Lightroom doesn't incorporate video import, that's not going to happen. Even if it did, I images that rendering down from 1080 would be time consuming everytime you wanted a change something. And that's not to mention that the SDK would have to support it too.

You'd honestly be better off just pasting the code in from youtube in the blank page for example. Just be warned that Lightroom opens external links in a browser every time you refresh something.
I've already posted most of the current fixes in another post.

By Sean McCormack, At 12:53 PM
Sean, I'm not happy. I just spent 3 hours designing my LRB website and accidentally clicked one of the other web plugins, when I got it to return to the LRB layout everything I had done was gone. Now I start over. What the heck? This sucks.

By Stan Richard, At 4:29 PM
Hi Sam,
If you haven't restarted, your entries should still be stored by clicking on the arrows on the right of each field header.

What you describe is true of all Lightroom Galleries. If you select another one, Lightroom resets the previous one. That's just how Lightroom does it. This has nothing to do with the plugin, or any plugin for that matter.

I've stated the need to save Templates as you go and to update them as needed. There is no other saving mechanism in Lightroom for Web.

There's isn't much that can be done about this, I'm afraid.

By Sean McCormack, At 4:44 PM
Seam,

How do I add line break in text?
In about or blank page.

Thanks!

By Luiz Aguiar, At 3:39 PM
Sean, as has been my experience with LBR Portfolio; a bit of great support from you, with some valuable lessons learned the hard way about LR I now have a new website ready for launch http://photomara.com/exihibition .

Your advice about the banner was great and learning that gif is not supported in LR are things that I now have in my collective knowledge of LBR and LR. Thanks

By Paul, At 12:48 PM
No worries Paul.

Luiz, use <br /> to create a space in the text.

By Sean McCormack, At 6:12 PM
Sean, the cursor hover color do not appear active on my site. I have it set to another color but once I have visited a gallery, there is no color change when I hover. Thanks

By Paul, At 12:56 PM
Hi Paul,
I'm not sure what you mean, as there's more than on hover colour.
Do you mean the one on the gallery numbers?
Can you post a link?

By Sean McCormack, At 3:34 PM
I'm sorry, it's the hover over the menu. http://photomara.com/exihibition
I am assuming that once a menu link has been clicked, that the hover color will be the same even after it becomes a visited color.My menu colors are set to: Link is white, Hover is red, Visited is blue and Active is green.

When I refresh my browser the visited link color remains in Firefox so it is difficult to assess whether they are set up correctly.

Thanks for looking into this.

By Paul, At 7:03 PM
Hi Paul,
Visited colours take preference over hover colours in CSS, Paul. That's standard CSS. Changing that would require another colour tile for a:visited:hover.

By Sean McCormack, At 8:12 PM
Is there a way to adjust the overall aspect ratio of the template? I shoot 6x7 and would like my images to properly fill the template without cropping the images.

Also, I only want one gallery, and I'd like it to load as the first page. In other words, when people go to my site, they would see the ID plate, the first image in the gallery, "About" and "Contact" at the bottom, and the right arrow key to advance to the next image. Is there anyway to make that happen with simple clicks or will I have to get inside and rewrite the HTML code?

Thanks,

Gary

By Gary Breece, At 9:28 AM
Hi Gary,
Having the first page as a gallery is on the list for 1.2. 1.1 is ready to go right now. (waiting on testers final reports)
Having a different aspect ratio choices would actually require a lot of rewriting internally (i.e. to make it a choice), because the image sizes constrain each other. Even if you do go for it yourself you'll be limited to 700px wide with the 600px max height.
In the CSS and the jQuery, change all 900's to 700's in the exported files and it should work. In this case it's probably easier to work on the exported files (because Lua is so easy to break).
Rename the exported gallery1.html to index.html and then remove the a href for gallery1 on the 3 pages (index.html, about.html and contact.html).

I'll look at ratios again, because 4:3 is also a popular ratio.

By Sean McCormack, At 2:33 PM

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