December 8, 2024
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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.

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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
  • Compatible with Lightroom 2 and 3
  • 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.

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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.

231 thoughts on “LRB Exhibition

    1. Hi Tim, There are details stored with the image via Image Info, but it’s not visible. Currently working on 1.3, hoping to figure an elegant way of doing this.

  1. I’ll add it as a feature request, but I think I’ll look into an auto scroll rather than a manual scroll.

  2. Hi,

    thank you for your really quick answer :-).

    It functions with the charset change.

    Concerning the fact of englarging the image, it is a solution but the problem, according to me, is that if the image is too high (I hope I understood well your proposal), then it might appear not totally on the screen of each viewer (depending on which screen the viewer has) and the viewer would have to scroll down to see the whole image – which is not comfortable. I would like to avoid that.
    Is there a possibility to have a scrollbar in the text box ? (I hope the name is correct, I am french so please excuse me for my mistakes in english)

    Thanks

    Caroline

  3. Hi,

    I have the following problem : whatever the police in LRB is used, the french caracters (such as “accents”) do not appear and are replaced with symbols. Thus it is not readable…
    What is wrong ?
    I hope we can fix that otherwise LRB will be of no use for me 🙁

    Moreover, Is it possible to make a page longer ? I wanted to add a “testimonial” page, but the testimonial texts of the persons are quite long and they do not appear totally on the page (and we can not scroll down through the text – unless I have missed something ?)
    Is there a solution other than making the text shorter ?

    Thank you in advance for your help

    Caroline

    1. You can make the page bigger by enlarging the images.

      You can try changing the Charset to UTF-8 in Appearance for accents.

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