Jennifer Grigg
May 26 2008, 08:24 AM
...I always export to psd or jpg.
I am apparently missing out on 60% of what LR does.
Is anyone really using these modules?
I need to make a web gallery and upload it to my dotMac account, with a domain pointed at it.
Is the web module pretty easy to use?
Can I make a slideshow similar to Showit with the Slideshow module? I love Showit, but I want to learn more about LR.
What is the print module all about?
I usually use Kevin Kubota's 'filename add' script in PS after LR, but it looks like I could do it all in LR.
Happy Memorial Day OSP!
Dave T.
May 26 2008, 10:22 AM
I use it pretty much the same way.
I heve little use for the web page & slideshow features as of yet.
My site host is pretty limited at using pages outside of it's own box. Besides, If I want to show a slideshow, i'll use showit as this ports easier for me.
They are great features, but I just have not needed them much yet myself.
littler chicken
May 26 2008, 11:30 AM
I use the web module to create slideshows for clients. Haven't had a compelling reason to get ShowIt. I also dabble some in web design work and the web galleries have come in handy for that.
I bought SlideShowPro for LR and have been really happy with the features it brings into LR, but there are some creative people cranking out free web templates, too.
I gave up on printing from LR--I am one of the people who just hasn't figured out how to satisfactorily arm wrestle its color management into giving good prints, although I do just fine in Photoshop. At least I have a lot of company. The up side to that is that if I really wanted high quality prints, I wouldn't do them myself anyway.
I do also give clients who buy a CD a pdf slideshow, and I would use that module more if I brought more clients into my "office" (living room).
My favorite module is the Develop module. I love LR, too.
Dave T.
May 26 2008, 08:36 PM
QUOTE(littler chicken @ May 26 2008, 12:30 PM)

I gave up on printing from LR--I am one of the people who just hasn't figured out how to satisfactorily arm wrestle its color management into giving good prints, although I do just fine in Photoshop. At least I have a lot of company. The up side to that is that if I really wanted high quality prints, I wouldn't do them myself anyway.
The print module is my least fave feature.
Until this can match what Q-image does, I don't give a dang about the print module at all.
Jennifer Grigg
May 26 2008, 09:22 PM
Great input. That is exactly what I want to hear. This is what I hear so far...
The slideshow module is quite handy and useful.
The print module is not.
Web module seems interlocked to slideshow module. Why create a slideshow if you don't intend to upload it to the web
Web design experience is helpful.
Web sites with limited hosting options, like templates, can't take web pages from LR
Thanks for the input so far. Anyone else?
J Scott
May 27 2008, 09:24 AM
I use the slideshow module to create slideshows for .mac and it works great if you know where to place the slideshow when it's ready. Print module..eh, don't really use it, likewise with the web module. Slideshow is simple and easy but you can't really customize it to a degree in which I'd like...yet. Still mulling over Showit-web for that.
Michelle Ross
May 27 2008, 09:32 AM
Library Module - A+++
Print Module - A+++++
Print Module- D
Web Module- A++++Slideshow Module- A++++
turtle nate
May 27 2008, 10:22 AM
QUOTE(Jennifer Grigg @ May 27 2008, 01:22 AM)

Why create a slideshow if you don't intend to upload it to the web
I created a user template in the slideshow module. At the wedding reception I am two clicks from have a perfectly useable slideshow rolling (once my quick edit are done).
Jennifer Grigg
May 27 2008, 11:58 AM
Thanks friends! Excellent tip Nate. I will explore that module and figure out a wedding workflow the gives me time to have it ready for the reception.
Let me guess
1.upload, minimal thumbnails.
2.quick edit, quick presets, including vignettes, b&w, some lomoish, some straight color, etc.
3. click slideshow module, and after I have experimented and designed a user template, two clicks and plug my laptop into the larger screen and woot, I am done and off shooting cake, kids and cousins.
How does that sound?
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