While I have not used the Web Galleries much at this point, it does appear to be rather slick. The gallery is a web site feature that allows you to build thumbnail views that are tied to larger views. From here you can choose to output to standard HTML or save it for viewing in a browser using the Adobe Flash Player. Once created, they can be uploaded to a web server using the built-in FTP capabilities in Lightroom.
From a "first product" point of view, Adobe Lightroom is a home run for Adobe. It fills in a missing piece of the Adobe landscape; digital asset management. Sure, there is Bridge, but Bridge does not have the capabilities that Adobe Lightroom gives you for cataloging, sorting, filtering and, in general, managing images. Do you need Adobe Lightroom? The simple answer is that we got along without it until now. The not so obvious answer is that, at least for me, once I owned it and started working with it regularly, it has become like the Internet itself; how could I get anything done without it!
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Article comments
1 - Howard Dratch
Total agreement. It works well even though I am still using all my film-based Nikons and import digital files from flat-bed and film scanners or have the local (non-professional) lab make a CD.
The web galleries are slick and easy to create. Now I just have to finish making my own web page(s) and pay for a host -- partly because Blogger does a lot of things really well but showing pictures is not one of them.
It is good to have more well-written photography-related articles here on Blogcritics. Thanks.
2 - T. Michael Testi
Thanks Howard for the kind words. When I first heard about it, it sparked my interest but I really did not think that I needed it. Once I started working with it, I was amazed that made my life so much easier.
It is good to have more well-written photography-related articles here on Blogcritics.
That is my hope to generate more articles with a photography slant within "The Enlightened Image"
T.
3 - Jay
I've been playing with Lightroom for a few days now and I watched Chris Orwig's Lynda tutorials and liked them a lot for a quick startup with Lightroom. I understand that the exported pdf does not save the music you've selected when you create a slideshow but can anyone tell me if you can save to the Web with music? Can't find an easy way to do it.
Lightroom itself doesn't seem to allow this, just wondering if that's correct and if anyone knows an easy way to make a music file play when my slideshow starts on the Web.
Thanks,
Jay Levan
4 - Mahesh Shantaram
All those who claim that Adobe created a superior product forget to mention a little-known fact that they actually bought Raw Shooter Premium and only built the bells and whistles around it. Seriously, RSP was so much slicker, but hey, now Lightroom lets me create web albums to share pics with family and friends :-|
5 - clvrmnky
Lightroom was a complete design-and-build from the ground up. Stealing good ideas from RSP was probably a good idea, but Lightroom is a completely different code-base and shares no code with RSP.