Product Integration / Making a Web Photo Gallery in Photoshop
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Ok this final feature I'm going to show you here in Photoshop - I'm not really sure if it fits in perfectly with this integration chapter but it's a way that we can create web pages automatically with the click of a button inside of Photoshop especially with blogging and online photography services and online photo hosting becoming really popular. This is an absolutely amazing tool. So maybe GoLive was a little bit over your head and you want to be able to share a bunch of images. You don't have to go through the hassle of just assembling them all and bringing them together and what not. Photoshop has a way to do that automatically. And you know what I don't even need anything opened to do this. I'm going to go to the file menu. And I'm going to go under the very powerful automate submenu. And I'm going to select web photo gallery. And what the web photo gallery will do is it will allow you to go through and just navigate to a folder of images somewhere on your hard drive. It will automatically generate thumbnails. It will automatically generate HTML which is the web programming to put it all together. It can create a slide show for you. It is just absolutely amazing. A few of these - there's some presets here under they styles area here. A few of these you'll notice even say flash. This is actually a flash gallery that will be made. And if you have a flash web photo gallery it tells you here how to even add music to it. So you could have a flash based slideshow with music of your choosing on a website with you doing no work what so ever. You could put your email address here. It will make an email link for you automatically in the photo gallery. And these are really the only two buttons that you need to be aware of; browser to select a folder of images to use and select destination to select where the folders and files should be output. This isn't going to just create one image. This is going to create a web page and a folder and depending on what style that you use, maybe a few other folders as well, maybe a JavaScript fold and that type of thing. So you want to make sure and set up ahead of time which folder you want this package to be created in, this photo gallery. Under options we could select several options under general. Under banner we could put our name here and the date. We could put - to select whether or not the thumbnails are big or small, or any one of a number of things. Our colors we can customize. If you look down here or look at the top here under styles, there are so many to choose from. You just scroll through these. I'm just going to use my mouse wheel here and scroll through all the different styles, layouts, colors and different templates that are available to you here in the web photo gallery. And these just function so well. Let me tell you about one other little secret trick about this. Some of these have feedback in the title. And what these special templates do is generate a little area - a little text area, you can see here previewed, that allows users to comment on each photo. They can then from this web photo gallery email their comments about your photos back to you. So not only is this great for hosting your Italy travel photos or whatever but this is also a great tool for client review. You could just zip up the HTML file and the files that come with it, and just send that to your client and have them use that as a stepping stone to give you back your feedback. So that's it for product integration. I realize that this really doesn't integrate with any other product but in a sense it can save you from having to go back to GoLive or even ImageReady and the results are much quicker and much more professional at that.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe CS2 Power Projects |
| Author: | Chad Perkins |
| SKU: | 33760 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-82-8 |
| Release Date: | 2007-05-17 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 111 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | For Online University members only |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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