Best Solution for Aerial Photographer...

First I apologize to those who have seen a similar post in GoLive and Photoshop Forums. I'm still trying to find just the right solution for my client, and because we have new tools I want to make sure I cover all bases.



I have designed a website for an Aerial Photographer Client. He shoots for local clients and also sells stock locally (client contacts him and he provides images... he's not wanting an online store at this point). He wants to be able to manage his own photo galleries on a regular basis. I'm trying to give him the most user friendly and elegant solution that will tie in to his web site.



Client is on a Mac and does use Photoshop as well as Flexcolor, which came with his Hasselblad HD1.



I understand that Lightroom creates galleries easily and can upload them to a server. Does Lightroom also have the capability of adding one photo at a time to an ongoing gallery?



If anyone has suggestions that will provide a smooth, professional workflow for my client, I would appreciate feedback. Once I have the best solution I will be setting him up and training him to use it.



Thank you!

Linda
Best Solution for Aerial Photographer...
%26gt; I understand that Lightroom creates galleries easily and can upload them to a server. Does Lightroom also have the capability of adding one photo at a time to an ongoing gallery?



Not currently. It gets rebuilt everytime.
Best Solution for Aerial Photographer...
Thank you Sean. That's what I thought.

If you want to make small modes to an already-created web gallery,

you can just export jpgs from LR, and then use photoshop to make your web galleries. If you then need to add/remove an image the photoshop web-gallery maker will do it almost instantly. If you have to alter one of the images, you use LR to make the change, re-export the jpg, and again use PS to update the gallery... again, PS will do it almost instantly.



Do any of the LR insiders have any idea if this will be improved in LR 1.1? I'm trying to decide whether to use LR or PS for web-galleries, and having a 20-minute delay for altering one image is a big deal in LR.

Thank you for the feedback Foster. Your solution might work for the work I do but not sure about my client.



Since posting earlier today, I'm beginning to think Lightroom may not be the best way to direct him. He uses ColorFlex with his 3F files, and when needed uses PS. I was hoping LR might simplify things for him but now I think it might complicate them.

Unfortunately, we're not allowed say either way.



Personally I have requested this be changed back in the public Beta period and would prefer to see galleries updated rather than recreated each time.

Sean, I'm glad to hear that you have been requesting this. It would be good.

Can you say whether or not other internal people seem interested in the problem?



This isn't just idle curiosity. If it's not going to be improved, then I (and I suspect others as well) will need to export libraries to jpg and then build sites w/ other software (kind of silly). I'm not saying it's trivial for the LR-team to fix this, I just am trying to figure out if it's gaining any traction in there.



thanks,

foster

Foster



Depends what sort of timescale you're talking about. I'd be surprised to see much change in this area - not for a while anyway.



John

Hi John,



Well, even that sort of timescale from adobe would be pretty helpful. If it is something that's likely to happen within a couple of months, then it's better to wait for the improvement to LR than it is to do big batches of exports from LR to make web-galleries in PS. The timescale does matter.



So, I assume that ''not for a while'' in your post means I certainly shouldn't expect anything until maybe at least Fall.



Also, pardon me, but I can't recall what your connection is to Adobe.

If an insider says they'd be ''surprised,'' that's a lot different than someone (even experienced) who is estimating from the outside.



Where are you :)?



thanks,

foster

I believe John is in the U.K.



And we testers are advocating for a variety of improvements in the Web Module. Also, some of this need not come only from Adobe. I expect to see third party Templates offered for LR just like they are for PSCS and Dreamweaver. With LR so new, these take time to be developed and presented to users, too.



Don



Don Ricklin, MacBook 1.83Ghz Duo 2 Core running 10.4.9 %26amp; Win XP, Pentax *ist D

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Foster



I am under an NDA and chose those words carefully. You're right that it wouldn't be trivial to make the changes you describe - you're not asking for new templates but for dynamic content management. For some time yet, I think you'd be best advised to bite the bullet and generate entire galleries from Lightroom, try other approaches, or
be patient.



John

OK, thank you. I'll have to think about it. I like trying to keep as much as possible in LR. However, I'm no fan of waiting an hour to regenerate everytime I decide that one image is a little too dark. I'll look into the most efficient way to swap images. If I get ambitious and write a script to do it, I'll post it for others to use.



foster.

Wait.... is there a simple solution to this problem????



Suppose that all the photos you want to make a web-gallery out of are in

a single folder. If CS3 can see changes made by LR, then could one just open that folder in the new cs3-bridge and make the web gallery from that without having to do a separate exporting step?



I'm still using PS/CS, but am planning to upgrade to CS3. Does the above seem like a workable solution?

Hi Foster, Let's see if this works with CS3 Bridge. Thanks!