LRB Portfolio: Website in a Gallery for Lightroom 2 & 3

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Since I introduced the plugin HSWeb, I've been thinking about a far more customisable and cleaner version of a 'Website in a Gallery' Web plugin. I've literally spent almost all my spare time rewriting this from the ground up since then. In fact all the code has been completely replaced the with new Lightroom 2.' SDK code and so is brand new. Even the Contact Form has been updated to give much prettier returns.

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LRB Porfolio features.

  • [li]A true Website in a Gallery[/li]
    [li]Lightroom 2 compatible-Not for Lightroom 1[/li]
    [li]Wesbite featuring a Home, About and Contact pages, along with up to 6 galleries or external links.[/li]
    [li]A PHP contact form to make you contactable, but keeping your email address hidden.[/li]
    [li]For those without PHP, a series of contact details that you can pick and choose between, including Contact Name, Email, email link, phone number, address etc.[/li]
    [li]Choose the images for the Home, About and Contact page yourself.[/li]
    [li]Colour controls for each section of the page.[/li]
    [li]Simple clean look, with scrolling galleries, a popular look currently.[/li]
    [li]All HTML and CSS, so compatible for a wide range of users.[/li]
    [li]Full User Guide (that took a bit of time!)[/li]
    [li]Controls for menu and Identity Plate placement (left, centre, right)[/li]
    [li]Full Lightroom 2 SDK code, including new Output Sharpening code.[/li]
    [li]Requires only minor HTML for line breaks, otherwise code free for the User[/li]
    [li]Requires no HTML editor[/li]
    [li]Optional Right Click and Drag Disable[/li]
There's a wealth of stuff changed from the original proof of concept code I had with HS Web. Again, as with LRB Graduated Filters, I've put a lot of work into this and approached it as a commercial venture. I am aware though that the appeal of such a gallery is relatively limited. Most people already have a website, so something that creates an entire site is less of an appeal that a simple gallery to show off. However for those looking for something quick and easy, this gallery allows you create a whole website with a little advance preparation and some text entry. To add your email address, you edit one file in an text editor once, and then export and upload.

The cost of the plugin? €1' (about $15). VAT chargable in the EU. Updates will be free to current users. (please note this is the old introductory price from 2''8-price is now €15)

To see a sample gallery, download the User Guide to review the controls, or make a purchase, please go to http://lrbportfolio.com
Support questions can be added to this thread.
 
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LRB Portfolio: Website in a Gallery for Lightroom 2

Thanks to Colin. That was my problem. I unzipped with PKZip and all worked fine.

Bob
 
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contact page

Hello,

I searched but couldn't find an answer. It is probably because my question is an easy fix and I'm a rookie. I tried following the instructions in the guide about changing the mail.html file. When I open it on my Mac it will not allow me to change anything. Sorry if this has been covered. Love LRB Portfolio!

Andrew
 
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I tried the text editor but the it would not allow me to save it as a html. I'm using a Mac, not sure if that matters.
 
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You just need to save as plain text, with a .html extension Gotmoose.
 
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Embed Sound Slides?

Hi Sean,

I don't know much about html but would I be able to embed Sound Slides using the code below? How would I do this?

Thanks!

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-44455354''''" width="8''" height="566" id="soundslider"><param name="movie" value="http://media.soundslides.com/examples/fullscreen/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="menu" value="false" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#''''''" /><embed src="http://media.soundslides.com/examples/fullscreen/soundslider.swf?size=2&format=xml" quality="high" bgcolor="#''''''" width="8''" height="566" menu="false" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>



Sean McCormack;2668' said:
Re SSP: it can be done, but only manually, and in a convoluted way.
Export a gallery from both plugins. using one of the gallery pages from LRB Portfolio, remove image references. Copy the code from the SSP gallery into where these references were. Make sure all the SSP components are in the root folder of the exported LRB portfolio gallery.

Could I put an SSP component in LRB Portfolio? Sure, but it's not my flash component and it's not free. And even at that it wouldn't preview correctly on Windows, due to the way IE handles plugins with Lua galleries.

As to the scroll bar colour: There is a way to do it for IE, but it's rough at best and only IE users will see it.
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I was going to say just edit it like any other page using their instructions. I've been away the past few days, so sorry about the delay in replying.
 
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Variable Heights Question / Suggestion

Hi Sean,

I've purchased and setup a website using your plugin. I've been having a lot of fun working and posting images.

There is a feature that would be great to add (unless it's there and I'm missing it). I'd like to setup a gallery page of my panoramas, but because of the way the max size works, I have to enter a height and a width. It would be great if one could enter only the height, and let LRB float the length. What happens right now is that the heights all fluctuate, because most exceed the limitation of the width.

Thanks. Great software. It's really great to just update images within LR and uploaded it directly.

Andrew
 
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LRB Portfolio: Website in a Gallery for Lightroom 2

It would be wonderful if the SDK allowed this Andrew, but it doesn't. Each image has to have a height and width.

While there is independence to an extent, once you reach the limit of one, the other won't go any higher, so as a workaround, decide on the height and set it. Then make the width as large as you can. Currently the max width is 25'' and max height is 15''. This means you could have a 2:1 pano at 25''X125', which is huge for web size previews.
 
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Sean McCormack;21''8 said:
It's been back and forth with testers over the last month, some of whom frequent here, so it should be in great shape. Right Click disable, PHP replyto, and the addition of the Subject box in the Contact form are all requests from testers. I also welcome feature requests from current users. If it's possible I'll attempt to get it in.
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Sean,

I recently downloaded the LRB Portfolio and it is fantastic. However, I've run into an issue I can't figure out. After I have customized the template for my current web site with colors etc. I can't get the design I've made to keep all the changes. If I move to another "Engine" the option in the upper right corner of Lightroom program, all the changes I've made disappear when I move back to LRB Portfolio 1.1. How do I make sure all the changes I've made stay in the new LRB Portfolio template that I redesigned?
 
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Just bought a copy so I'll be back to ask some dumb questions later. :) Thanks Sean, this is a great looking piece fo work.

Rob/RGB
 
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Color of Logo Background Not Matching LRB custom Colors

First of all let me apologize if this question has come through on this forum already. I find this forum very difficult to navigate. Have tried posting this question twice already and somehow it doesn't show up as far as I can tell.

Anyway, here's my problem. I want to include my custom logo within a LRB portfolio gallery. I've loaded the logo properly and have tried to match the colors of the logo background with the LRB background colors that I've selected in the customization process. When I post the web page and review it in IE and Fire Fox, the logo background color is slightly different than the LRB background color, even though in the LRB module within LR the colors match perfectly. When I say perfectly I'm judging them by sight as well as by the DigitalColor Meter reading via MAC OSX. The Digitalcolor Meter gives me and RGB reading of R96.5-G91-B79.6 when I'm in LR. When I create the web page and review it in Fire Fox and IE those RGB numbers change to R96.9-G89-B74.9. Interestingly when I view the same page in Safari the numbers are the same as I get within the LRB mudule before I create the web page. Does anyone know what might be causing this and how I can fix it?

The problem with this color difference is that you can see the outline of the logo and it looks sloppy and unprofessional. Any help is greatly appreciated. For anyone interested in seeing what I'm talking about; try viewing the following page at the address in the three different browsers.

Sample page at www.naturalexposures.com/private/lrbtest
 
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LRB Portfolio: Website in a Gallery for Lightroom 2

Jim, you might have been held back by moderation.

The answer is don't use a background colour. Until all browsers are colour managed, it'll be different everywhere. So, use a transparent background and save for web as a PNG-24 file.
 
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That's a simple and effective answer. Thank you for your help. Will do!
 
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Special Options?

Sean,

In the PDF user manual you send out with the purchase of LRB you have several sample sights showing LRB in use. One of the most interesting is Stefan Soell's site for reasons other than the beautiful women. He has added some very interesting options such as Buy Options in the prints and calendars. Did he customize his LRB template to do this or are these options already abvaiblable in the standard LRB Template? Maybe they are there and I've just not found them yet? Thanks for your help.
 
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LRB Portfolio: Website in a Gallery for Lightroom 2

Actually Jim, those are example scrolling sites, to show the effect of that site style in general use on the web.
I'm already considering adding one or two 'blank' pages, similar to the About page to allow people to add a Pricelist page, or whatever they need.

The problem is that the Site Info section is already too full really. I've asked for custom Panels in the Web SDK and hopefully it'll happen (but not before version 3 I suspect). In the meantime, you could add it to the about page.
 
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LRB Portfolio: Website in a Gallery for Lightroom 2

Sean:

Thanks for the great plugin. I'm pleased to say that http://www.woodstonephotography.com is up and running!!

Couple of questions:

1) Can you add my request to the list for the ability to change text size in the body of the Home, About and Contact pages?

2) I followed the discussion about the mail.html -> mail.php, but using version 1.1 can't seem to find those files on my drive or in the Lightroom package contents (though the form seems to be working fine). I'm on OS X.

3) Can you tell me how to set the image that comes up once someone sends an email through the form? Also, any way to make the "back" button not go back to the form but back to the home screen?

Thanks again and look forward to future updates.
 
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LRB Portfolio: Website in a Gallery for Lightroom 2

Sean:

One other thing I forgot to mention... any chance to get a favicon?

Thanks.

Bob
 
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Wood Stone (hey did your parents really call... kidding)

1) Hmm I actually did add this at one stage.. maybe it was an interim test version that went AWOL (happens when you compile and forget to keep the text version-Doh!)

2)Right click on LRB Portfolio.lrwebengine (or Control click on a one button machine) and choose Show Package Contents. Open the Contents folder that appears and you should see mail.html. If not we have a problem. The form will still appear to work, but it's emailing noone.

3) Not implemented yet, see 1)

4)Consider the favicon requested.

I don't have an update timescale, because in truth these are the first requests I've seen since 1.1 came out.
 
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Thanks Sean:

I managed to I think kluge a fix for #1 by adding <font size=2> in front of my text. This basically works and I also added a bullet list by using <ul> and [*] tags. Check it out and let me know if this won't work for some reason.

I also got #2 working - thanks.

As far as emoticon, as long as the template doesn't overwrite the file, I think I'm good with my current favicon.ico just sitting in the home directory.

So, #3 is still on the list as well as a cleaner way to implement fonts (especially on the contact page where the headers are tiny!).

Thanks again.

Bob
 
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