Setting Titles & Captions in LR Web Galleries

A Podcast Tutorial

I get a lot of questions from users of my web galleries about how to customize the text used for photo titles, captions and other items in Lightroom’s web module. In the interest of public education, I’ve put together two brief video tutorials demonstrating how to use the Web module’s Image Info pane to set this information in a gallery.


Download Podcasts

Image Info Basics (MOV, 9.1mb)
Image Info Advanced (MOV, 5.8mb)

Watch’em on YouTube

The video and audio aren’t synced properly on YouTube – something to do with the way YouTube processes the videos, I guess. Better to use the MOV files above if you have a speedy Internet connection.

Image Info Basics
Image Info Advanced

Related Reading

Lightroom Community Help – Adding text to web galleries

Sean McCormack’s article on formatting

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Jason
6 January 08 / permalink

Outstanding information! Thanks and Happy New Year!

Scott Smith
7 January 08 / permalink

I watched your 2 videos re: Setting Titles & Captions in LR Web Galleries. I have version 1.3.1, when I open the Image Info Pane I see Title and Caption but not Annotations or Rating / Color. How do I find these?

Matthew
7 January 08 / permalink

Scott,

The options available in the Image Info pane will vary from gallery to gallery. Most galleries (but not all) will support Title and Caption. Annotations and Ratings are features only available in my TTG Slimbox Gallery.

Rich
7 January 08 / permalink

Do you forsee Adobe improving the slide show capabilities in Lightroom? A slide show without music is not very interesting to watch, no matter how good.
Tks
Rich

Matthew
7 January 08 / permalink

I foresee Adobe working to improve just about everything. It’s just a matter of what features take precedence at any given time in a release schedule. As for the slideshow module, I’ve never touched it – have never had a reason to – and wouldn’t know where to begin telling what’s right, wrong or in need of improvement. ;)

Scott Smith
9 January 08 / permalink

Thanks for the reply, I was using the Slimbox Gallery but it was an older version. Downloaded the latest version and bingo all is as described in your tutorial.
Thanks for your help.

Alexander
31 January 08 / permalink

Hi
Thank you for sharing this information. I hope you may know how to change font size and family for MENU items in Flash Slideshow template.

I was able to change manually in group.xml all fonts but a menu. It is possible to change font color yet.

menuText tag just does not reach on fontfamily and size attributes

I would appreciate if you know the answer and can help. My email justsasha@mail.ru

Thank you

<menuBar>
<menuBorder alpha=“100.00” color=“FFFFFF”/>
<menuBarEnabled enabled=“true”/>
<menuHover alpha=“10.00” color=“000000”/>
<menuText color=“000000” alpha=“100.00” />
<menuBgColor alpha=“100.00” color=“C3BB7C”/>
</menuBar>

Matthew
31 January 08 / permalink

For possible modifications to the LR Flash gallery, visit the Bluefire blog.

Brian
30 April 08 / permalink

Matt,

I forgot to ask/mention this in my earlier enquiry.

On my copy of Lightroom (ver 1.4.1) the on-screen width of all your module panels exceeds that of the space Lightroom allocates. I can’t find any way to either shrink yours or enlarge LR’s so as to get the RH side fully on screen. Any clues?

Thanks again

Brian

Matthew
1 May 08 / permalink

You can grab the edit of the panel and drag it to widen it. Widen the panel to full girth, then restart Lightroom.

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