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.
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.
Hi Karin,
The issues is you’ve not aimed at the right place. Without going into details, it needs to look like this:
http://picasaweb.google.com/k.crona/NewAlbum0512102323?authkey=Gv1sRgCJKzoZizheOarQE&pli=1&gsessionid=C9xoy2J_UV18l130KsE_Jg#
Hope this will do as a link!
Thanks.
Hi Karin,
A screen capture of the arrows section of the UI that you’re using. You can upload it to any picture sharing service, flickr, facebook, picasaweb, your own server as a link even.
That said a look at the folder layout would be good too.
I’m sorry but I don’t understand. What settings? I haven’t changed anything, just replaced the file in the folder. Do you want me to upload a screen capture of the folders or of the lightroom page, and where do I upload it to?
Hello Sean,
I did my first website with LRB Portfolio. It was quite easy with the video tutorial to help me out. Thanks! I’ve been asked a lot about how I did it, and I’ve been happy to pass on that information.
Now I’m trying LRB Exposition, but I have a problem. I can’t manage to change the arrows into my own design. I’m working on Mac, and I have accessed the images folder by controlclicking on the LRB Exposition icon inside the preferences menue. So far so good. But whether I put my own files inside it, or changing your png.files directly, I does not work. It keeps default arrows. Even weirder, when I take them out, erase the path in the LRB Exposition menu, put them back in and rewrite the path, I don’t have any arrows at all.
I have checked the size, and although the number of pixels are the same, the file sise increases to about 60kB.
I’m not really a geek, and maybe this explanation of the problem is not so good, but I hope to manage this small problem, so that my site will look the way I want it too !!!!
I hope for your help
ps in LRB Portfolio I did not have a problem putting stuff in the ressources folder, and make it show up on the site, like pictures for the different parts of the menu, avatar etc
Hi Karin,
It absolutely should work that way. Can you upload a screen capture of the settings in the arrows page?
Sean,
I’ve noticed that some examples I’ve seen have had the gray bar at the top and bottom resized. Is there a way to change it or get rid of it (them)? Is there a way to edit the original file in the resources folder? I can’t find it.
Thanks,
Ryan
The bar resizes with the size of the menu text, or identity plate. In 1.2, there’s an Identity Plate BG Transparency options, and also a Menu BG Transparency control
1.2 from the same link you got on purchase.
PS I’m on 1.1 – is that the latest?
Thanks Sean – resized box and its working!
I’m guessing you’re not on the latest version.
Basically your text area is coming down on front on the menu, rather than behind it. Make it smaller.
There doesn’t appear to be a link I can click to see.
Sean
Just come up against something weird which I can’t understand. The nav bar on the home page seems to be limited the amount of the bar it picks up the links to the other pages, but this doesn’t appear to affect the other pages – I don’t really know html etc but I can’t see anything that’s different in the html (and it all uses the same CSS and java?).
If I add more gallery links, as the links move left along the bar they cannot be clicked.
You can see the effect on my website if you hover over the Tuscany link on the Nav Bar – only the right hand end is clickable, which seems to be the limit of clickable space on the homepage.
Any ideas?
Sean, love exhibition, any heads up when the next update will be?
One future I would love and I wonder if its possible, is sub-galleries. Meaning you have the 6 main ones, and then a drop down menu opens when you click on it. I do sports, so lets say my main gallery labels are football, baseball, basketball, marathon, track, swimming. When you clicked on football, I drop down menu could have the last 5 years labels like 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 etc…
Hi Adam, you can definitely use a blank page for this, but I suspect you can cheat it by using 1 image per gallery, then naming the gallery football instead of football.html. export. Now create a gallery with the 6 football galleries, and put in it a subfolder of the main export called football. There will be a file there called football already, so you’ll need to delete this. Rinse, lather, repeat for other named galleries.
Hi Sean,
Do you have a web host that you recommend to best sync with your program?
Offhand I don’t Rich, I use an Irish host, letshost.ie, and it works fine there. It’s a Unix service that uses CPanel for user admin, which might be something to look out for on another hosting company.
Hi Sean,
Your last message is a reply to my question I suppose?
Does Portfolio support this?
Thanks, Sander
I thought you wanted it for SEO purposes (for which it will work like this.
On the other images, the navigation arrows are blocking the image to prevent it being right clicked and stolen.
Sean,
You’re solution works, great! But now I run into something else:
I want to use the option “picture information”. For this I use the data that I write in ‘Label” in the library. In the webgallery I’ve chosen “Label” as the source of the information to show. In the first picture of a gallery this works fine. But on every following picture the mousepointer seems to change to the “hand” and doesn’t show the information. For example gallery “Landschap”, first picture is ok (herfst) but the 3d picture doesn’t show any information. This not only happens on the web, but also in Lightroom.
Any idea what’s causing this?
Tags didn’t show:
use <br /> for a new line
use <img> tags for an image.
You can by using the HTML P tag or the BR tag
Only by adding using the tag. Even then you need to add the image file you use to the ‘resources’ folder, or it won’t get exported. There’s a YouTube video on this at http://youtube.com/lightroomblog
hi,
first of all, i am very happy with this software. i only have 2 things:
first i would like to know if it is possible to make paragraphs under “about” and i mean more then filling in the 2 descriptions. if i use the spacebar or ctrl-enter it wont work, the text will just continue where the last sentence stoped.
2nd thing, i would like to add a small picture in the “about” text, is this possible?
Grt,
Arnoud
Thanks, I’ll give it a try!