Lightroom Version of AMG Contributed to Open Source Project
Today Adobe released the the source code for the swf (designed and developed by Bluefire) that powers the Flash web galleries exported from Photoshop Lightroom 1.0. To download the source code, visit the Adobe Media Gallery on opensource.adobe.com at http://opensource.adobe.com/amg/ and click on the “download” link in the left nav bar. The LR version is AMG 1.0.1
AMG source code was originally open-sourced back on Nov ‘06, but it was the version used in Photoshop Elements 5.0 which shipped several months before Lightroom 1.0. There are a couple of nice changes that were made in the LR version. The biggest feature change was the addition of the “image size rendition auto-swap” behavior. The biggest visual change was in the treatments of scroll bars (which also got their own style customization params). There were several other “under the hood” improvements made to the loading management routines, both in Live Preview mode and when published on the web that make large galleries load more intelligently. Also, LivePreview mode was beefed up considerably to allow for a real-time preview of more customization options.
Here are links to a couple sample AMG 1.0.1 galleries: The first is the sample gallery that is included in the download package. This other one is the “featured projects” page of our website - note that we only used two image size renditions for that. Both of these galleries use the “scrolling left” layout. I’m trying to find good examples of galleries using the “bottom scrolling” layout opttion and the “paged thumbnails” option. If you know of any, please add a comment.
For more info about AMG, check out this article in the Adobe Developer Center, and stay tuned to this Blog for more info coming soon.
June 2nd, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Micah,
Is there an RSS feed for this site?
Sean.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Hi.
Really good and helping stuff. This do make web publishing a lot faster and especially easyer.
This is my first ever attempt of publishing some of my pictures, and it uses “bottom scrolling”. I would be honored if you put it in as an example of your work.
http://www.jani-westman.se/
Best regards Jani Westman.
June 4th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
Hi.
Really good and helping stuff. This do make web publishing a lot faster and especially easyer.
This is my first ever attempt of publishing some of my pictures, and it uses “bottom scrolling”. I would be honored if you put it in as an example of your work.
http://www.jani-westman.se/
Best regards Jani Westman.
June 5th, 2007 at 9:21 am
Sean,
I’m using Word Press for this Blog. What would you suggest for RSS?
June 5th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Jani,
Thanks for the submission - nice photos. FYI, Jani is using Elements.
June 8th, 2007 at 6:08 am
Hey, I was looking at http://www.bluefire.tv/onlinePortfolio.html , can you tell me what style (style.xml) you used for that? I really like the way it looks with the white/blueish layout.
June 8th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
That is a custom style that we created by hand-editing the style xml file. You are welcome to us it if you like. You can download that xml file by right clicking on this link http://www.bluefire.tv/resources/styles/BluefireStyle.xml
and click on the “save link as” menu option to save it to your local machine. Then you’ll need to change the name of it to “style.xml” and copy it into the “resources/styles” folder of a Flash gallery exported from Lightroom (this will “write over” the style.xml file that will already be there). Our style file calls for a graphic to be used in the header bar (the Bluefire logo in our case). If you open that style file in a text editor you’ll see this associated tag: pageTitleImg visible=”true” src=”media\headergraphic\logo_new.jpg”/ . If you wanted your own logo to appear up there, you would need to put it somewhere in the resources folder of the gallery and change the path in this tag appropriately. Or if you don’t then just change “true” to “false”. This will cause whatever text that is in the “siteTitle” tag inside the “group.xml” file found inside the resources\mediaGroupData folder to show up in that space instead. I’ve written a prior blog post about styling text, so refer to that if you want to tweak it. You could print out that XML file and then use the color values within lightroom to make (and save) a template. You’ll probably need to use the advanced mode to enter all those values (again see earlier posts on how to do that).
July 3rd, 2007 at 7:07 am
Web Link in Web or Mail Link in Lightroom not working for me
In a Flash version of the Web Module I have tried , index.html,Gallery Index in the Web or mail Link section and can not get it to work. All I want to do is instead of a Contact Mail Link, I want it to link to an index gallery page. (mail link works) Is there something in the open source code I need to change? or is my syntax wrong? Adobe has no documentation on this. Be kind I am not a coder.
July 4th, 2007 at 5:54 am
I have figured it out. When using a Flash web template, i put in http://www.mywebsite.com/mygalleryindex.html in the Web or Mail Link box and it seems to work. This way I can simply create multiple galleries by copying the folders that Lightroom creates. They can link then back to the mygalleryindex.html