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.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=047NxVFRBqI]
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
Luiz,
Number Height=done
Swap=on the list.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
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
Bob, you can use it on both. The download is a Zip file, so just copy it to an archive location.
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
Hi Jimmy,
It's working now. I ended up deleting the code and reentering it to get it to work.
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
Not right now Julian, but it is high on my to do list.
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