New LRG Complete User's Guide - Smaller Download Size

I have update the User's Guide to LRG Complete by Lightroom Galleries and reduced the filesize by 40% to make download times less.

You can download the Updated User's Guide Here from my ftp site. Keep watching Lightroom Galleries as the Release Candidates are still coming with great improvements. The forum for LRG Complete is found here.

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Lightroom Tip#15 - Web Gallery Templates No Longer Work

Isn't it great that many developers on the web are constantly refining their web galleries and releasing new versions? One of the problems that creates is Web Templates for the Web Galleries that no longer work. If you try and load a template and get the following error, then follow these easy steps to re-connect your saved template to the new Web Gallery.


The solution involves two steps:

1. editing the new web gallery to see what the name of the new version is
2. editing your template to put that new name in.

Do the following:

1) Find the new web gallery, located where you installed it. Open the galleryMaker.xml file in a text editor and look for the following line near the top:

'com.adobe.wpg.Developer.WebGalleryVersion2.1'

The name of the Web Gallery is contained between the 'identifier' tages.

If your Web Gallery does not have this file, look for the galleryInfo.lrweb file and open it with a text editor looking for the following line near the top:

'id = "com.adobe.wpg.Developer.WebGalleryVersion2.1",'

The name of the Web Gallery is contained between the quotes.

Copy the name of the Web Gallery.

2) Go to the same root directory that your Web Galleries directory is located, find the Web Templates directory and the subdirectory your templates are stored in. This subdirectory is the same as your groups within Lightroom. The file might be something like this:

myWebPage.lrtemplate

Open the file in a text editor and find the following line near the top:

templateId = "com.adobe.wpg.Developer.WebGalleryVersion1.0",

This Web Gallery name should be the same as the one listed in the error dialog above.

Replace the name of the Web Gallery contained between the quotes with the new Web Gallery name you copied in step 1.

Save the file and restart Lightroom.

That's it! Your template should now load using the new Web Gallery. If the new Web Gallery has so many changes that your old templates cause it to fail loading (I have never had this happen), then it is probably easier to start over anyway. You can still open your template file and copy down any of the colors you used so that you can choose them again.
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Lightroom Tip#14 - Really Quick Pick and Reject

How many times have you finished a shoot, uploaded your many images and then sighed because you knew it was time to go through and pick the images to keep and the ones to reject. Let's get on with it already! I want to start using my images, fix them up and get them published in a gallery!

Michael Clark posted this tip a few days ago and it is steller in the arena of picking and rejecting your images.

Using the CAPS LOCK key in conjunction with the P and X keys to pick and reject photos will automatically take you to the next image in the group. This can be accomplished by holding the SHIFT key, but that requires two hands to operate. Using the CAPS LOCK key brings us back to using one hand.

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LRG Complete RC2.5 User's Guide

The user's guide for Lightroom Galleries newest E-Commerce web templates is available for download. Download the template package from the site as well. See the Lightroom Galleries web site for more information on this spectacular and professionally featured Lightoom template.

The full article for the user's guide can be viewed here.

Some people have told me that they are having trouble with the link above, which connects directly to the file. If you are having trouble, then try this link from my ftp site or see this article on Lightroom Galleries blog. You can download the documentation from that post as well. ... Read More!

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Lightroom Galleries Continues with RC2.5

Joe has been hard at work and burning the midnight oil to provide yet another great release of LRG Complete. As of this morning the template was updated for a few bugs so see the LRG Complete RC2.5 Download on his site.

The functionality is superb and the look and feel can be customized so that not all sites look the same, but unique. Joe says another round or so for release candidates before the final version, but this RC2.5 is very stable and you should be able to begin building a site.

Please be sure to support Joe's work with a donation if you use the LRG Complete templates - it will continue to help in development! ... Read More!

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Lightroom Tip#13 - Backing Up Lightroom Templates

I wrote a workflow article on backing up Lightroom templates and I felt it was so important, I wanted to create a tip here as well. Do not forget to make this most important backup. See the full article here: Backing Up Lightroom. ... Read More!

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Backing Up Your Lightroom Templates

Adobe has created such wonderful efficiencies in templates that it is almost a crime not to use them. Considering the amount of time in creating and perfecting them, especially when it comes to Printing templates, backing up the templates is not only a MUST, it is the top item on your regular daily routine before morning coffee and breakfast. Failing to backup your Lightroom templates will only cause enormous pain one day when they are corrupt or deleted. The only item more important would be backing up images and catalogs.

To backup your Lightroom templates, find your template directory and copy the contents to another hard drive or a usb drive. Using the same location you backup your catalog and images is a good idea as well.

The template directories are typically found as listed below:

Windows XP
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Adobe\Lightroom\

Windows Vista
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\

Macintosh
Users/username/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom/

NOTE: In Windows XP, the Application Data directory is usually hidden. You must enable “show hidden folders” in the folder options of the windows explorer before you can browse to that directory.

Backing up this entire base directory will get all of your Develop templates, Custom Text templates, Printing templates and all the other templates you have created. It will also backup your Web Galleries that you have downloaded and installed and the Web Gallery templates you have created to give your web site it's look and feel.

This is extremely important, do not forget to do it regularly! ... Read More!

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