TTG Highslide Gallery
TTG Highslide Gallery represents the next step in the evolution of Lightroom web engines from The Turning Gate. It’s more flexible and more robust than any other TTG offering, incorporates a number of new features requested by TTG users during the past two years, and is powered by Torstein Hønsi’s magnificent Highslide JS, one of the most feature-rich and powerful image presentation engines available.
And rather than trying to teach an old gallery new tricks, TTG Highslide Gallery is comprised of entirely new code, built from the ground up for the sole purpose of being completely awesome. TTG Highslide Gallery’s long list of features include:
- Enable image selection and email submission features for client proofing galleries; includes a counter displaying the number of images selected.
- Geo-tagging images with GPS coordinates, integration with Google Maps.
- Pagination of large galleries.
- Edit Gallery Description text directly in Lightroom’s preview window by clicking on it.
- Highslide JS driven slideshows and viewing of large images.
- Auto Play slideshows.
- Image permalinks, allowing users to load specific images into the slideshow via URL.
- New, super-flexible page header with an all new look!
- A site navigation menu allowing an unlimited number of menu items.
- Search Engine Optimization features.
- Fully customizable colors, layout and behavior.
- Multiple presentation methods; display images in a slideshow, or enable “proofing mode” to allow side-by-side comparison of large rendition images.
- In all modes, image scaling to ensure that over-large images fit to the visitor’s browser window; view scaled images at actual size with the click of a button.
- Automatic color labeling from your Library (optional).
- BoxOver tool tips on thumbnails and other gallery components (optional).
- Form-to-Email powered delivery for proofing feedback; for web servers without PHP support, integration of Form-to-Email Remote.
- Enable or disable any element on the page, including the identity plate, menu, header, gallery description, footer and more.
- Support for TTG Auto Index and TTG Pages.
- Built-in support for Google Analytics.
- Built-in Cooliris support.
- Supports new watermarking options in Lightroom 3.
- Web-standards compliant XHTML and CSS.
- No Flash.
Version 2.0 includes many new features, including variable width spacing between items in the thumbnail grid, improved page footers, positionable dual image info bars, slideshow headings, more flexible control of captions, support for GPS geo-tagging of images and location integration with Google Maps, new safe-guards against simultaneously enabling conflicting options, multipage image galleries, general performance and usage improvements, and more.
Purchase
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro is also available, offering all the features of TTG Highslide Gallery, plus a myriad options for selling images from your galleries.
Download Trial Version * Installation
* The trial version is fully functional, but limits exported galleries to only 10 images.
By installing any purchased or downloaded web engine, plugin or template from The Turning Gate (TTG), You, the user, agree to the End User License Agreement. Make a point to read this document, as it contains important information regarding your purchase and your rights as a user, for which you will be held accountable.
Requirements
TTG Highslide Gallery 2.x requires Lightroom 2.4 or above.
The Form-to-Email script requires a web server running PHP and supporting the PHP mail() function.
Windows users should have installed Internet Explorer 7 or above, regardless of what is used as a primary browser.
HighSlide Licensing
TTG Highslide Gallery relies heavily upon Torstein Hønsi’s HighSlide. HighSlide is not free for commercial use. Please read the HighSlide licensing information before using TTG Highslide Gallery.
Overview of Usage and Setup
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro includes a vast array of options, the use of which should mostly become apparent once your go hands-on with the web engine in Lightroom’s Web module. Tips and instructions appear interspersed with the controls where necessary, and the additional information below should provide you a solid foundation on which to begin experimenting with the engine’s many possibilities. On topics for which expanded documentation or tutorials are available, links are provided to the relevant articles.
Integration with TTG Pages
By default, TTG Highslide Gallery Pro is preconfigured for use with TTG Pages, making it easy to quickly construct complete websites using only TTG web engines. Use TTG Pages to build your website with a Home page, About page, Gallery Index and Contact page. Use TTG Highslide Gallery Pro to create your image galleries. It’s the whole deal. By default, the menus are already setup to work together, so there’s no need to fuss with URLs. Just export your Highslide galleries, drop them into the /galleries/ folder created by TTG Pages and put it all online. It doesn’t get any easier!
Client Proofing Galleries
Client proofing galleries require the user to setup Form-to-Email services, using either the included PHP script or Form-to-Email Remote. Once setup, these features will allow you to create galleries from which clients may make image selections, then email a list of selections to an email address of the photographer’s choosing.
The photographer will receive the file names of selected images as a comma-separated list in their email. Photographers using good file name conventions may then easily isolate the selected images in their Lightroom catalogs. In the Library module, access the Library Filter bar. Setup your Text filter for “Text | Filename | Contains”, then copy and paste the list of file names from the email into the text field, as pictured below.
The selected images will be isolated in the grid, allowing you to mark them using ratings, colors or flags, or to save them as a collection for processing.
Optionally, client proofing galleries may include a counter that displays the number of images currently selected, helping clients to keep track of their picks.
Client proofing galleries are incompatible with gallery pagination. Galleries spanning multiple pages will be reduced to a single page containing all images when client proofing features are enabled.
Changelog
- v2.0.5 ( 2010-07-07 )
- Added links to documentation and tutorials within the interface.
- v2.0.4 ( unreleased; rolled into 2.0.5 )
- Fixed bug: Selection Counter now works in IE when using Client Proofing Gallery features.
- Fixed bug: Slideshow thumbnail borders were inheriting grid thumbnail attributes in exported galleries.
- v2.0.3 ( 2010-06-18 )
- Allow image resizing when using Highslide Mode: Proofing.
- v2.0.2 ( unreleased; rolled into 2.0.3 )
- Added option to disable right-click.
- Added Font-style option for Menu Settings.
- Added Text-transform option for slideshow text controls.
- Added new sliders for the Selection Counter when using the Client Proofing Gallery features; sliders allow adjustment of counter position and width.
- Added two new options for slideshow control layout.
- Support for specifying languages other than English in the <html> tag; if your language is not included and you’d like to see it in an update, let me know!
- Duplicate controls for Thumbnail Width, Height and Columns now appear in the Grid Appearance control group, which seems to be the most relevant place for them. The same controls still reside in the traditional place in the Output Settings control pane as well.
- Moved the Grid Measurement check-box to reside in the Grid Appearance control group.
- Footer can now be unstuck from the bottom of the page, allowing it to float just below page content as it used to.
- UI adjustments.
- CSS tweaks for templating purposes.
- Lua tweaks.
- Fixed a margin related CSS error affecting the gallery description.
- Fixed a CSS conflict causing captions to ignore user defined font-families.
- v2.0.1 ( 2010-04-17 )
- Fixes to the footer relating to layout and browser compatibility.
- Additional fool-proofing to prevent simultaneous enabling of conflicting features.
- EULA now linked to from within the web engine control panel.
- v2.0 ( 2010-03-28 )
- Total overhaul; see press release.
- v1.9.5 ( 2010-03-28 )
- Fixed centering issues in Inline Slideshow modes.
- Lua optimizations.
- v1.9.4 ( 2010-01-31 )
- Fixes critical bug causing unresponsiveness of engine in LR2/Win.
- v1.9.3 ( 2010-01-25 )
- Fixed a Javascript error.
- Added separate hyperlink color options for captions, located in the Caption Extras controls.
- Added
onDimmerClickoption to Slideshow Mode; controls where or not large images close when the dimmer area is clicked during a slideshow. - Changed handling of Google Analytics. Now requires only your Web Property ID (UA-xxxxxx-x), rather than the entire block of Javascript.
- Because scripts can no longer be cheated into the Google Analytics entry field as before, I’ve added a new Advanced Options control group to the Output Settings control pane. There are three input fields: Add CSS rules in , Add script to and Add script before . CSS rules are visible in preview, while the scripts are only added when the gallery is published (exported, or previewed in browser) to prevent any possible Lightroom tantrums.
- Added a new
#wrapperDIV to the source code that allows for new custom styling possibilities. - Source code for Lightroom’s preview onclick events now prevented from exporting, resulting in cleaner code that IE8 should no longer bitch about.
- Some tweaks under the hood.
- v1.9.2 ( 2010-01-10 )
- Cooliris Title and Description now have dedicated controls in the Image Info pane.
- Cooliris links now take advantage of the new permalink support for images.
- Fixed a bug that slipped into the menu in 1.9.1.
- v1.9.1 ( 2010-01-05 )
- Added permalink support for accessing specific images via URL, e.g. http://www.domain.com/gallery/?autoload=Image_Filename. When writing URLs, do not include the image file extension; use ‘image’, not ‘image.jpg’.
- New “Caption Extras” control area for adding Download Image and Permalink hyperlinks to image captions. This is a revision and expansion of the “Download Image” control area added in v1.9.
- New option to position the header/identity plate beneath the menu.
- New
border-bottomoptions for the header/identity plate. - New
text-decorationoptions for Hyperlinks and Menu Links. - Increased large image-size range to a maximum 15,000 pixels.
- Fixed bug in Cooliris captions; now takes IPTC data source from
<img alt=in the Image Info control pane. - UI changes.
- v1.9 ( 2009-12-11 )
- Added “Download Image” links; not an e-commerce option.
- Added a favicon.
- Slideshow mode dimming slider now has a minimum value of 0 and a maximum of 100, owing to new underlying math that allows these values to work.
- Fixed a newly discovered bug affecting background-color of North/South Inline Slideshow layouts.
- Revised value ranges for thumbnail size and fixed width header sliders.
- v1.8 ( 2009-11-03 )
- Updated to Highslide JS 4.1.8.
- Fixed border for Gallery Description image; was inadvertently broken from 1.6 update.
- More improvements and fixes to Inline Slideshow mode.
- Added an Inline Slideshow, West layout option.
- Added control sliders for Tooltip font-size and width.
- Increased maximum number of images allowed per single gallery; limit now set at 10,000 images (I do not recommend creating galleries so large).
- UI Changes: Swapped location of ID Plate settings with Header/Page Settings; seems to make better sense in regard to workflow.
- Structural optimizations.
- Tested various configurations for XHTML validation. All configurations should now validate XHTML/Strict, except PayPal Shopping Carts, which validate XHTML/Transitional.
- v1.7 (2009-10-06)
- Taking a cue from Timothy Armes, font stack presets are now built in, though font stacks remain user editable.
- Reorganized controls to better facilitate top-to-bottom workflow in creating gallery; lots moved, but nothing missing.
- Javascript enhancements.
- Selection counter text can now be customized using three input fields for “image”, “s” and “selected”.
- Updated Highslide JS to version 4.1.7.
- Slideshow buttons can now be styled.
- v1.6 (2009-09-11)
- Menu Items now preset for use with TTG Pages 3.0.
- Updated contact form to be more consistent with features introduced in TTG Pages 3.0.
- Added some new styling options and tweaked some CSS for consistency with TTG Pages 3.0.
- New templates to match those provided in TTG Pages 3.0.
- Fixed CSS bug affecting particular header configurations.
- Fixed IE8 bug in check-box counter.
- Lost the divider line in the gallery description as it just didn’t seem to fit the design, and caused bizarre spacing issues when made “invisible”. I hope no one misses it, but shout at me if you do.
- v1.51 (2009-08-27)
- Form-to-Email Remote support.
- UI changes.
- CSS improvements and fixes.
- v1.5 (2009-08-19)
- Slideshow mode: Actual Size (1:1) button can now be disabled.
- Slideshow mode: Architectural changes made to slideshow buttons to allow Actual Size button removal.
- Slideshow and Proofing modes: Option to set caption alignment justify, left, right or center.
- Fixed some Fotomoto CSS conflicts.
- Round corner options for on-page box elements; only shows in web browsers supporting CSS3 corners.
- Replaced Mootools Javascript library with JQuery.
- New JQuery checkbox replacement for selection galleries.
- New JQuery checkbox counter, for tallying and displaying the number of images “checked” in a selection gallery.
- New JQuery elastic textarea for selection gallery comments form.
- Fixed some validation errors that crept in during updates.
- Minor UI adjustments.
- v1.41 (2009-08-09)
- Improved form validation for Selection Gallery.
- Fixed form compatibility for Form-to-Email Pro.
- Improved handling/protection of Highslide license.
- Fixed bug that prevented text customization for ‘Close’ button in Slideshow mode.
- Package includes a modified Form-to-Email script and readme file for use on Yahoo Small Business accounts.
- v1.4 (2009-07-26)
- New Selection gallery form: all new code, additional styling options, Telephone and Website fields (optional), custom field labels; form validation (Name, Email and Telephone are required fields, Website optional).
- Optional Close button corner overlay in Slideshow and Proofing modes.
- Option to make caption background transparent.
- v1.3 (2009-07-23)
- New Outline-Type options.
- Added “Windows Safe-Mode” feature, intended to help the minority of Windows users experiencing lock-ups when using TTG Highslide Gallery.
- New option to select Character Set for the page. Should help with displaying non-English alphabet characters.
- Added ability to change labels for slideshow controls.
- Gallery Description (title, subtitle and paragraphs) and Footer can now be edited by clicking on text in the preview window.
- UI improvements.
- v1.2 (2009-07-16)
- Updated to Highslide 4.1.5.
- XHTML/Strict validation improvements.
- SEO tweaks.
- Select checkboxes can now default to “All Checked”.
- Fixed a Shared Resources issue with inline slideshow mode icons.
- Added option to use an external source for Highslide language strings. Edit hs_lang.html in the template to configure translation strings.
- Inline Slideshow overhaul.
- New layout options for Inline Slideshow mode.
- Gallery Description Image is now specified manually, by path to image file.
- Image ID plate border width in thumbnail grid now controlled by thumbnail frame border slider, so that frames and plates match.
- v1.11 (2009-06-10)
- Fixed bugs affecting galleries with shared resources.
- Default typography string changed: ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Trebuchet MS’, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif.
- Miscellaneous tweaks.
- v1.1 (2009-06-06)
- Cooliris support.
- Google Analytics support.
- Additional tweaks to the Shared Resources option.
- /resources/ folder no longer created on export when “Set Path to Shared Resources” is enabled.
- Javascript tweaks.
- Added option “Fix Header Width”.
- Added options “Menu Padding Left” and “Menu Padding Right”.
- Added Menu option “Text-Decoration”.
- Back-end architectural changes.
- v1.01 (2009-05-24)
- Fixed a small Javascript error that might have affected Windows users.
- v1.0 (2009-05-23)
- Initial release.
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…ok thanks a lot…the button has a bad place to be realize.
….another issue. I can’t find the checkbox dialog for customer proofing in the TTG highslide gallery….
In the Appearance control pane, Selection Gallery features.
Hi!
I bought this one and still use it to build my galleries. I Have a question though.
When hovering over an image a text displays how the controls work (\use arrowkeys etc..\) How to change the language ?
Regards,
Timo
In the .lrwebengine package, there is a file named hs_lang.html. This file contains all of the strings for that text. You will need to edit the file for your language and save it. In Lightroom, located “Highslide Options” in the Color Palette control pane and enable the check-box for Use External Language File.
I cannot figure out how to get the \Download Image\ feature to work. After selecting the \Links in Caption\ feature to \Download Only\ nothing changes in the web page display. I could see the path entered into the \Download Image Location\ within the generated HTML page, but the actual folder was not created (e.g. \photos/highres/\)
I must be missing something. I searched and couldn’t find any instructions. Check out my site to see how I’ve constructed my pages.
How do I get the option for the user to download the high-res file to appear?
You need to create the downloadable images folder yourself. This is stated quite clearly in the control pane, in orange text within the Downloadable Images controls:
Hi-Res images should be exported separately;the web engine will not do this for you. Please
specify the location of your downloadable images:
You need to set the “Links in Caption” option to one of the settings that includes Download Links.
I’ve even done this in the past, but something changed in the software and now I’m unable to get this to work.
> stated quite clearly in the control pane
I realize I have to create the images myself. The question is about the location on the web site. Is the path I specify prefixed by the path of the web page containing the gallery, or is the path absolute? In other words, if the gallery is /gallery and I want the downloadable images to be within that directory, do I specify /gallery/here or just /here?
With some testing, I could figure this out but it’s really not made clear by the orange text (and I wish there was a manual).
> You need to set the “Links in Caption” option to one of the settings that includes Download Links.
Yes, that’s what I did (as I had said in my original post). The question I have remains. After setting “Links in Caption” nothing changes on the web page. No links appear to download the images.
Sorry for my confusion. I’ve tried everything I could think of. I’ve searched everywhere for instructions, but I’m still not able to make this work. Please, what – exactly – are the steps necessary to create a gallery that allows the user to download the high-res images?
Hi Jim,
I often use the default values for a field in order to establish precedent for input, and such is the case for the download path. The default value is
photos/, which should imply a relative URL using the gallery as a base. By default, the download link points to the large rendition images used in the gallery.But, if you’d like, you can also use an absolute URL with
http://. I try to keep similar items uniform throughout the gallery, and so you should treat this URL in the same way as the menu URLs.So, if you want the hi-res images in your
galleriesfolder, you could either write and absolute URL, or you could do it relatively../hires_images.I would recommend putting the images into the gallery folder, though.
The options are not available to the Inline Slideshow mode, but should work in either the Slideshow or Proofing modes. Which are you using?
Ah ha! I figured out the problem. I think this is a bug.
My caption background is white. I discovered the Download Link Text was also white, as was the Hover color. This meant I could never see where the link was appearing.
BTW it recall it used to at the bottom left of the thumb, and after searching the HTML text files I found it was moved to inside the rendered image (seen only *after* you click on the thumb).
The confusion seems to be what controls the color of the Download Link Text. It is NOT the Hyperlink Color & Hover settings that appear in the Caption Extras section! BTW I couldn’t determine what these setting actually control. And since the appear immediately below the Links in Caption option, I assumed they actually did control the text.
The Download Link Text is actually being determined in an entirely different section, the Header/Page Settings. In there it is the Hyperlinks & Hover settings that control the Download Link Text colors and decoration.
If you’re using 1.9.4, then the default hyperlink color for captions should be black, and I assure your the hyperlink color controls in the Caption Extras section are the ones to use.
If you’re not using 1.9.4, then you need to update.
> hyperlink color controls in the Caption Extras section are the ones to use
I beg to differ. Steps to reproduce what I’m seeing…
Install 1.9.4
Dismiss Licensing notice
Go to the Captions Extras section
Set Links in Caption to Download Only
Change Hyperlink Color to RED
Click on thumb in gallery to open rendered image
NOTE – text is not RED
While rendered image is open, do the following…
Go to the Header/Page Settings section within the Site Info panel
Change the Hyperlink color to BLUE
NOTE – Download Link Text changes to BLUE
Change the Hyperlink Text-Decoration to Underline in Header/Page Settings
NOTE – Download Link Text changes to Underline
I’m seeing the Header/Page Setting controls the Links in Caption text, but I’m not seeing any change (to anything) when selecting the color within the Captions Extras section.
Seems like something is broken to me. Color options in Captions Extras do not affect the Download Link Text. The only method I find that affect it is within the Site Info panel, Header/Page Settings section for Hyperlinks.
Matt—
in the Client Select gallery, I know the form requires that the name and address fields be filled out, but there doesn’t seem to be anything that requires they actually select any thumbnails. Is there an easy way to add that in?
love your software as I use it on my mac, but occassionally I do have to use PCs (yuk!). I have LR 2.6 installed on XP, and have purchased this past weekend, and downloaded TTG Pages, TTG Auto Index, and TTG Highslide Gallery Pro. As I said they seem to work fine on my Mac, but on XP whenever I click on either the engines or the templates LR freezes and I have to ctrl-alt-delete to shut the program down. In the LR base templates and web engines, this is not a problem……..please help, its driving me crazy!
Cheers, Terry
Hi Terry,
You should be able to launch TTG Highslide Gallery using one of the included “safe-mode” templates from the Template Browser. Safe-mode templates have never been needed by TTG Pages or TTG Auto Index, though. Are these also causing LR to become nonresponsive?
same problem….cant even select the safe mode template browser w/o it freezing LR.
please confirm that I can use the same download URL that I received upon my purchases for both mac and PC? If that is not possible (which I would like to hope that it is) then could this be the issue that the original download of the TTG products was for my mac and now I want to use the same URLs for PC XP?
Mac or PC, doesn’t matter.
What versions of Lightroom and Internet Explorer are you running?
I am using LR 2.6 build 632038, with Firefox 3.5.7
LR 2.6 is fine, but I asked about IE for a reason. Firefox is irrelevant.
Is there any way to modify the size and transparency of the copyright?
Just bought the product last night
Great job!
Thanks
Mathias
I take it you are referring to the watermark on the image. It cannot be modified; this is a limitation of LR2. The LR3 Beta features a new watermark controller that allows for more customization.
Hi,
Two short questions:
a) How it is possible to make the initial setup of TTG Slideshow for LR2.5 and use all the setting in the next galleries. I want to set-up header, menu items, …, only to the first gallery created with your add-on.
b) as a licensed user how can I upgrade to the last version of TTG Slideshow?
Thank you for your kind support
BR, Andrei
TTG Slideshow does not exist; I assume you are talking about TTG Highslide Gallery.
You can save settings using the Template Browser, just as with any other web engine in Lightroom. Updates can be downloaded using the URL provided at time of download; see the terms of use for details.
hi, using TTG highslide.
1. is there any possibility that customer can enter any text in each picture? like in TTG customer response gallery?
what I need from customer, besides which are the pics they want is the size they want them to be printed.
sorry, had to enter question twice since had wrong emial in the first one
You can setup size options using the PHP shopping cart and use that to accept orders. Otherwise, no; visitors cannot enter text for each image.
Sorry, I have spent a while and I don’t see PHP shopping cart anywhere, I bought the TTG highslide NOT the TTH highslide PRO.
Well, never mind then. The answer to your original question is just “no” in that case.
also, how can I see the name in the picture (IMG_001…) in each picture?
Use the Image Info Bars.
ok, I used info bars and flagged ‘’show cell numbers in alpha” that is the only way I see something in there… but are numbers like 1, 2, 3….. not the actual name of the picture
Go to the Image Info control pane and set the Alpha bar content as your file name.
I bought the highslide gallery (not the pro) and TTG pages…
since I have to show proofs to customers, they don’t want other people to see their pictures until they make the selections or want to keep privacy.
how can I do to make a gallery just accessible to certain people?
There are articles here on the site about password protecting galleries. You can find them by searching the site for the terms “password protection”.
Hi Matt,
A small ‘feature’ in TTG highslide is driving me crazy… I am setting up a gallery with mainly panoramic pics. I am setting the thumbnail width quite wide, say 400, but the height only say 100. Unfortunately, it seems to ignore the ‘height’ setting and still have large vertical spacing between the thumbs (Across rows). Making the thumb WIDTH smaller also makes the vertical spacing/gaps smaller – its as though there is a hard-coded aspect ratio for the thumb frame (not the thumb itself).
Hopefully that makes sense!
Can this be fixed, or is there a change to the css I can make?
Thanks greatly for your excellent galleries,
Mike
There is no way to change this without breaking other aspects of the page design.
Hi Mike
2 short questions:
1) Is there a way to inhibit the Right-Click over an image “Save image as” ?
2) Is there a way to “import” a user template based on 1.9.4 to 2.0?
Great work with this gallery. Congratulation
Andrei
Hi, I’m exporting galleries from Highslide to be auto indexed in Pages, all using the same user template (just changing the album title), on the gallery index page all the album boxes appear but 50% are missing thumbnails. This is in iconic mode. Any ideas? Many thanks Simon
Gallery folder names cannot contain spaces.
I already used the trail version of TTG HIghslide plugin for Lightroom 3 beta. Today I purchased a $ 29,- commercial-use license of Highslide JS. I did not change anything to my settings. I did not receive a link by e-mail. But I still can only upload 10 photo’s to a gallery. What should I do to get the full version working? Did I, by mistake, purchase the wrong software?
You’ve purchased a license that enables you to use the Highslide JS for commercial purposes on your website. You have not yet, however, purchased the TTG Highslide Gallery or TTG Highslide Gallery Pro engine. The Pro version allows e-commerce options for selling images online. Please see the product page for details and purchase link.
I cannot seem to get more than 50 photos to display SimpleViewer, is this a LR limitation and is there a work around?
It’s neither a limitation of TTG nor of Lightroom, but of Simpleviewer. The free version of Simpleviewer-2 tops out at 50 images. To go over that, you should purchase Simpleviewer-2 Pro, which tops out at 500 and offers many additional features. See http://www.simpleviewer.net for details.
Yo, I am using Highslide Gallery 2.0.1 to create a web gallery in Lightroom and everything is working exactly how it should except for one thing. When click on an image to get a larger view of it, the caption below the image is not the correct font. This only happens when the gallery is exported, not in the preview window within Lightroom.
Any help would be great.
Looks like a CSS conflict that went overlooked. Thanks for spotting it. I will have it fixed in the next update.
I’ve just upgraded to v2 and I can’t for the life of me work out how to put the cell numbers in the thumbnail border like I used to (I don’t want them in the alpha bar which is disabled). Is this still possible?
Hi James, it’s not possible. You can enable the alpha info bar, position it at bottom, then set borders and margins to zero. That will cause the info bar to appear as a part of the frame and put you in the relative ballpark of what you want to do.
Hi Matt,
I’ve messed with the settings and while I can’t get it to appear “part of the frame” I can get it looking good enough. Is it possible to put the Permalink icon in the alpha frame? That way I’ve got my thumbnails as you’d expect and then all the extra info about the photo (ie number, name, link) underneath. (Logically you could do the same with the download icon).
Cheers,
James
Hi James,
That is not possible at the present time. Sorry.
Hello Matt, I wanted to know how can I update a gallery without uploading an entire folder? For example if I want to add a portrait I’ve just made into the portraits gallery, how can I do so? Thanks
Update your gallery in Lightroom, export the new gallery, upload to server to replace existing gallery. This is par for Lightroom.
Hi,
How can i change the opacity of the background when i’m seeing a photo ? I have the option in Lightroom but i would like to change it directly in the file (wich) ?
Thank you
It’s in the CSS.
Thank you, but there are lot of css. can you tell me the file name plz ?
Probably style.css.
Adobe’s Terry White gives you a nice plug:
http://lightroomkillertips.com/2010/lightroom-pro-qa-with-terry-white/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AdobeLightroomKillerTips+%28Adobe+Lightroom+Killer+Tips%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo
Thanks for the heads-up! I hadn’t seen that.
Did you remove the inline slideshow from version 2? I see a comment about a fix for it in the 1.9.5 release notes but don’t find a setting for it in 2.01 and no comments about it’s removal.
Thanks,
Scott
REMOVED!! You can catch up on the changes and additions with the TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 2.0 overview. As of 2.0.3, I am no longer distributing version 1.9.5 — the last update in the 1.x series — as part of the downloadable package. If you need to keep using the Inline Slideshow for your website, though, shoot me an email and we’ll talk.
Cheers,
Matt
Can the filenames be automatically altered, when I upload the gallery? I don’t want people to see my filenames to prevent them from knowing when I took which picture and in which sequence.
Bye,
André
You can rename your files in Lightroom’s Library module in any way you like.
I know, but that doesen’t solve my problem. The filenames on my harddrive contain (besides other info) the date and the original number. I don’t want to change the name of the files on my harddrive, but the files in my online-gallery musn’t contain these information.
There is no solution to your problem, then. Lightroom’s Web module exports images using their original file names. You would need to rename the files first in the Library to have the names change in the web gallery.
Maybe you should export your images first as JPGs, renaming them on export, then bring them back into the catalog to produce web galleries.
Andre, you’re making your workflow too complicated. The file name shouldn’t matter.
File names are not the place to store metadata. That’s what the metadata is for.
File names should be something like “emily_123″ or “spain_church_456″. I don’t even change mine from the number assigned to them from my camera.
Instead of coming up with some clever yet difficult work-around, use the tools and the data structures as they were intended. Life is much easier that way.
Ok, I’ll think about that, maybe that’s an option. Unfortunately, that makes the workflow much more complicated and less \straight-foreward\.
I think that’s overstating the task. Just export the images and tick the option to add exported images to catalog. It ends up being one extra step and a few minutes of waiting.
I hope this is not going too far in regard to the commenting festure of your website, as this is no discussion forum. However, since the question has been brought up, I want to explain myself, since I put a lot of thought into my filesystem:
I agree with you, that filenames are not the place to store metadata, that’s what the catalog is for. I think (IMHO) these rules make sense to apply:
1. In order to identify the file without any ambiguity, the filename must be unique throughout your entire life. There must be no chance of a diffenernt file ever getting the same filename again.
2. The filename must contain only information, which can be automatically derived from the file. This is important to prevent user interaction during the process of importing files, especially if you want to import from different directories on different drives in one single batch run.
3. If you see the filename of one single file, you should have the ability to know (or derive) without any doubt the exact location of this file inside your folder structure. This helps a lot if you come across a file which isn’t where you expect it. You can immediately see if it’s a duplicate of the original file or if you accidently moved the original file.
4. The process of importing should be (as everything else) non-destructive. This means that the original filename (at least the number) should be reconstructable. This helps a lot, if you discover some files on old memory cards or in old backups. Then you can decide very fast if you have these files in your catalog, without even looking at their content. Or you might have made some comments on a paper for some special filenumbers during the shoot and you find that paper only after you imported the files.
The filename scheme I’m using satisfies all these rules. My filenames are like this:
(Initials of photographer)_(Date)_(Camera)_(original filenumber).cr2
AG_20100620_5DII_04855.cr2
All files are stored in a folder structure like this: Directory for photos/2010/20100620/AG_20100620_5DII_04855.cr2
My initials are in the filename, because sometimes I share my files with other photograpers and when we copy our files back and forth on our laptops, it must be immediately clear, which picture comes from whom.
Please don’t take this personally, but I’d like to point out, why the filename scheme you suggested is not a good idea (at least not for me, maybe it works good for you). You are suggesting: spain_church_456
At the same time you say, there should be no metadata in the filename. But spain_church is exactly that, metadata! And there are other drawbacks: Lets say you come home with 10 memorycards of 10 shootings on 10 different dates ond locations in spain. During the import process you would have to come up with 10 different names to describe these files. But this is work which should be done after the import when you start to categorize your files!
Maybe in 2 years you get back to the same location again and shoot some more photos. If you choose the same filenames again, the files are not unique anymore. You might not even notice that if you keep the files in different directories, but there’s still an ambiquity.
Of course I realize that this is a little over the top for most users, but just imagine that in the future you will produce a massive load of photos. Then you would have to come up with a system like that sooner or later. And instead of changing all you filenames at some point in the future, why not make it right from the start?
Hello,
I have purchase the v2.0.5 of Highslide Gallery and I found a bug that I didn’t have in earlier versions. The number of the photo is not correct. It is written “1″ for each pictures.
Could you please have a look ?
Thanks,
Regards.
Jerome.
The bug is in LR3. If you load the gallery using LR2, you will see that the sequencing is correct; it’s only in LR3 that the problem exists. The problem also affects the LR web galleries.
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