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Automation / Web Photo Gallery
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I have clients all across the United States and it's really easy to use this feature called the Web Photo Gallery to send them artwork that they can see online and they can actually write feedback and send it back to me via e-mail, all in one handy interface. Of course, the Web Photo Gallery also has other options so you can create a Flash page and all kinds of other cool things. The best thing about the Web Photo Gallery is that you don't have to write a single line of code. Photoshop will write the HTML code for you and even open your web browser so you can preview this. Let's go ahead and check it out. We're going to go to file. I'm going to go to the automate menu, then I'm going to choose Web Photo Gallery. The dialog box appears and the first thing you'll see is that you're presented with the styles dropdown and you'll see the preview of the style on this side. So let's go ahead and talk about some of them. First you have the centered frame one basic and this is exactly what it looks like. You have some thumbnails of your artwork here and when a client clicks on it, the larger size of the image appears here. You also have the one with the feedback and the feedback version allows your client to write notes and send them to you via e-mail, like hey, I love this or I don't like this, change this, change that and trust me, the more clients you have, the more you'll hear change this, change that. I hope my clients aren't watching this. Alright, so, as you see here, we also have another version of feedback and we also have some other ones that don't have feedback that just present you with a nice, clean gallery of your artwork, which is also very handy when you want to show people your artwork and they're across the country. We also have some Flash galleries here and these are kind of cool because they require flash, of course, but they will actually give you a nice presentation. Let's try one of these now. I'm going to choose a folder and, uh, I can also use any selected images I have open in the bridge, but I'm going to choose a folder that I have on my desktop called portfolio and I can also include any subfolders within that folder, but I don't have any so I'll leave that selected anyway. And I'm going to leave everything at the default. I'm not going to change anything else. I'm going to click OK and in a moment, after Photoshop does this crazy light thing that makes you dizzy and hypnotizes you, it will open up the web browser and give you a preview of your Flash gallery. Isn't that the coolest thing in the world? You don't have to write a single line of code. It gives you my e-mail address up here. It has the name of the gallery. Of course I could change that later. And I can click on image and the interface will resize itself so that it will scale and show you the next, uh, piece of artwork on the list. Isn't that great? So I'm going to go ahead and go back to Photoshop and I'm going to try that again. I'm going to do the same exact thing. So I'm going to go to automate, Web Photo Gallery, and this time when you go to general, you can change things such as the banner, which, of course, was the Adobe Website Gallery. You don't want that. You want to put your company name there. You can put your name here as photographer. You can put contact information such as the phone number or whatever you'd like here. You could put a date and, of course, you could choose some other options here. So let me choose large images, the options down here change it so you can change the size of the images. You can change the constraints, the file size, the title name. So you can change how the thumbnails work as far as the size of the thumbnails down here. You can choose your own custom colors for certain parts of this, such as the background, the text, the banner. And you can opt to put some security features. So you can choose custom text and you can type things in there and do all kinds of cool things. So once you choose all the options and then you upload this, you can have a photo gallery. I just want to show you one more. I want to show you one of the feedback ones here. I want to choose this first feedback one and I'm going to leave everything as it is. As I said before, I'm going to change the banner so that it says my company name. And I'll make me the photographer. And that's all I'm going to put for now and I'm going to leave everything as it is and click OK and once again, you're going to get the strobe thing, so, you know, you might want to look away from that or not. And then in a moment it's going to open up that website for me and here is the information I entered. And I can click on image and the image appears over here and check this out down here. I can click here to see image information and I can also click here as the client, make believe I'm the client. Like I said, I approve this, I can write a message. And I can e-mail that feedback. So if I click e-mail, it'll open up your e-mail program and you can send the e-mail to the artist. So this is an example of the automation included in Photoshop CS3. It can really make your life a lot easier, especially when it comes to dealing with clients that are nowhere near where you are located.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33782 |
| ISBN: | 1-933736-98-4 |
| Release Date: | 2007-08-02 |
| Duration: | 9 hrs / 161 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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