Lightroom 3 Quick Slideshow

Smash­ing the new Light­room 3 from Adobe. While many fea­tures use­ful for the pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­pher have been improved, Adobe has also thought of hobby pho­tog­ra­phers and lay­men. The new edi­tion of Light­room makes online pub­lish­ing a Sun­day walk.

Adobe Pho­to­shop Light­room 3

Smash­ing namely the new slide-show func­tion which pro­vides a quick solu­tion for peo­ple who have lit­tle time and great ambitions.

Here is my test run, loaded to YouTube

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epj_xS-aiSI

Light­room 3 lets you export slide-shows in dif­fer­ent for­mats; unfor­tu­nately there is not much flex­i­bil­ity there and the pre­sets are 3:2 for­mated. How­ever you can get 720p and 1080p as well, pro­duc­ing thus a YouTube HD movie as per above.

You can also export your slides in PDF format.

[download_box]Down­load the Test PDF -  8.13 MB[/download_box]

The images used are 4000 x 3000 pix­els. Light­room crops and com­presses and in as much as I am con­cerned, much of the actual qual­ity and detail is lost. here is an excerpt of one of the pic­tures as it came out of the camera:

Orig­i­nal Excerpt

When look­ing through the pdf or the YouTube clip, you will eas­ily notice the dif­fer­ence. The images are not crisp, nor sharp and color gra­di­ents are washed away. The pdf is bet­ter than the YouTube ver­sion which is due to the YouTube compression.

Note also the Copy­right mark in the slide-show frame on YouTube: I should have used a bolder face type.

In spite of the above, I am con­vinced that with Light­room 3 will be a great help in pub­lish­ing for many peo­ple and save a lot of time in the work-flow related to basic web publishing.

We will exper­i­ment with Light­room 3 at the Ycad­emy Online Sem­i­nar which will start in just about 3 hours.

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Tags: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, Lightroom 3 Slideshow, Ycademy, Yorgo Nestoridis

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