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The controls within the Web tab allow you to customize the Lightroom Flash Gallery templates in a lot of ways. However, you can customize them much further by editing the XML files that are generated when you export a gallery. This requires almost no knowledge of Flash or HTML, and can be done with almost any text editor.

Here are few examples of what you can do:

* Add a background image
* Turn off (hide) the Title Bar and/or Menu Bar
* Change the width, transparency, and color of borders around thumbnails and images
* Turn thumbnail and image drop shadows on/off
* Change transition between images, including “straight cut”
* Change image and transition durations
* Change the color and transparency of all parts of a gallery including image and thumbnail area backgrounds and borders, individual buttons parts, scroll bar parts, etc
* Change the height of the “captions” display area
* Change text fonts and sizes
* And much more…

To start playing with this, simply open the “style.xml” file found within an exported gallery inside the “..resources/styles” folder. You can also preview the gallery by double clicking on the “index.html” file, then make changes to the style.xml file in your text editor, save, and then “refresh” your browser to see the effect. Once you’ve achieved the look you want, you can copy your edited style.xml file into any gallery you export.

Note: any text editor will work, but using an app that has good HTML or XML editing features (Adobe Dreamweaver for example) will make it much easier.

Here is a link to the current “Tips and Tricks” articles. More to come soon.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 at 4:15 pm and is filed under AMG Open Source Project, Adobe Projects, Flash, Lightroom Flash Galleries, Photo Sharing. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.