Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers - Martin Evening [260]
Figure 11.61 The Color Palette panel can be used to customize the appearance of the pages. These screen shots show the default Color Palette settings for (from left to right) the Bridge Standard Flash galleries, Lightroom Flash and Lightroom HTML galleries. As you can see, the options are slightly different for each and there are plenty of opportunities to create different design appearances. For example, why not check out some of the Lightroom Flash gallery templates to see what different options are available here.
Figure 11.62 The Appearance panel can be used to adjust the gallery layouts. These screen shots show the default Appearance panel settings for (from left to right) the Lightroom Flash, Lightroom HTML and new Airtight PostcardViewer galleries. So for example, with the Lightroom Flash gallery style you can adjust things like the Gallery image and Thumbnail image size. Obviously, the smaller the thumbnail size, the faster the gallery pages will load. For the Lightroom Flash galleries you can choose from the Scrolling, Left, Paginated and Slideshow Only layout styles. With the Lightroom HTML gallery you can choose to show cell numbers and file names (with or without extensions) and also select the preview size and image quality. When an Airtight gallery style is selected you'll see additional Image Info and Output Settings panels. Here, I had the PostcardViewer style selected and this allowed me to adjust things like the padding space and proportional sizes of the thumbnail and preview image sizes. You can also add metadata to the preview images such as: an IPTC caption, date shot, camera used or exposure.
Figure 11.63 The Create Gallery panel can be used when choosing either ‘Save’, which saves the gallery pages to a folder on the computer, or ‘Upload’, where the gallery pages can be automatically uploaded to a pre-configured server address. Here, you will need to enter the server address, the user name and password, plus a primary folder location. Once you have done this, click on the Upload button to begin uploading directly to the server. You can save server settings by clicking on the Document button (circled) and naming them. These settings will then be available as an Upload menu option (where it currently says ‘Custom’).
Output gallery styles
Figures Figure 11.55, Figure 11.56, Figure 11.57, Figure 11.58 and Figure 11.59 show you a few examples of the different Web Gallery templates that are available in Photoshop CS5, including the three new Airtight styles that are also found in Lightroom. These pages were created using the default Web Gallery settings.
Figure 11.55 The Standard (Medium Thumbnail) gallery style.
Figure 11.56 An example of a custom Lightroom Flash Gallery style.
Figure 11.57 The Airtight PostcardViewer gallery style.
Figure 11.58 The Airtight AutoViewer gallery style.
Figure 11.59 The Airtight SimpleViewer gallery style.
Output gallery settings
As you will read on pages 614–615, there is plenty of scope for you to produce your own customized Web Photo Gallery pages. Here, I have provided a brief run-down of all the Web Gallery output options and included the alternative panel options where these may vary for the different types of gallery styles.
Managing folders on the server
It is great that you can upload galleries direct to a server, but you will still need to use an FTP program to manage the folders once they have been uploaded there. For example, you can only use the Create Gallery panel to add folders to the server. It doesn't let you remove them.
Output preferences
There are just a few final points to take into consideration when generating Web Galleries via Bridge. If you go to the Output preferences (Figure 11.64), you can check the ‘Use Solo mode for Output Panel Behavior’. This allows single-panel clicking to expand the selected panel and close all others at the same time. I would suggest that you keep the ‘Convert to Multi-Byte Filenames to Full ASCII’ option checked, as this