Lightroom 4 web templates

Choose colors for gallery elements. In the Color Palette panel, click the color box beside an element. Choose from the color pop-up window. In the Appearance panel, do any of the following:. To specify the size of large-image pages, drag the Size slider or enter a pixel value.

Display a copyright watermark in web photo galleries. In the Output Settings panel, select Watermarking and choose an option from the pop-up menu: Choose a text or graphical watermark that you have created in the Watermark Editor. Choose Edit Watermarks to open the Watermark Editor. Add titles, description, and contact information to web photo galleries.

In the Site Info panel or in the work area, do either of the following:. Add your identity plate to web photo galleries. You can use your identity plate as your website or gallery title. In the Site Info panel, select Identity Plate. Optional To use a different identity plate, click the triangle in the lower-right corner of the identity plate preview area and choose from the menu.

Choosing Edit opens the Identity Plate Editor. Display photo titles and captions in web photo galleries. In the Image Info panel, do any of the following:. Sign in to your account. You can also choose from a number of standard paper sizes for printing purposes.

Alternatively, you can combine both methods and add cells to a stock template from the template browser. Now for the fun part. To do this, simply choose an image from the film strip below the template and drag it into the desired cell. Here are a couples tips for doing that. You can use the sliders to make adjustments when available or click and drag the guides on the actual template and adjust accordingly. The sliders definitely make it easy to make adjustments when using the Contact Sheet Layout Style.

You might consider resizing the file before attempting to post it on social media. Do you love the template you created? The types of templates I am talking about appear all over, and some in more than one place. Specifically I am referring to filename templates, metadata templates, and import templates, which I like to think of as workflow templates, and all can be accessed from both the import screen and the Library module.

I want to focus on helping you understand the ins and outs of creating and managing these workflow type templates. Starting with the first place in your workflow: the Import dialog. You can then save all those settings in an Import preset to reconfigure the settings in the future with a click. One of the most commonly used templates are filename templates. The filename templates you create can be accessed and utilized no matter when you are doing the renaming.

On the Import dialog you can find them in the aptly named File Renaming panel. Check the Rename Files checkbox, then click the Template drop-down menu and choose Edit. This opens the editor with the tokens used in active template being displayed. Clear the existing tokens from the entry field to start fresh, and then create your own template using any combination of tokens that suit your needs. Note, you can also type text right into that field, which is handy for separating tokens with hyphens or underscores.

You might have different file naming requirements for different jobs, so you can take the time to create as many filename templates as you wish. To delete a filename template, click the Preset drop-down menu in the Editor and choose the one you want to delete.

Note, there is also the option to rename the template too. Another template you should be taking advantage of right from the start is the metadata template. At the most basic level the metadata template allows you to apply important copyright and contact information into the metadata of every photo as part of the import process. At a bare minimum I recommend filling out the IPTC Copyright section and as much of the IPTC Creator field as you feel comfortable with to assist people with contacting you should they find one of your images in the wild.