Comments on: Friday Video Tip

By: anthony

anthony — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:13:58 +0000

Hopefully adobe watches these tips and will see how utterly ridiculous the process is to create slideshows with music for the client…

I recently created a real nice set from our disneyland trip and wanted to send a nice slideshow for my sister. What other tools do you guys use for nice slideshows?

Please adobe, add some meat to the slideshow export function!

By: Pam

Pam — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:52:00 +0000

Thank you! I was able to do this w/ Acrobat Pro! So am I correct in assuming the email recipient DOESN’T have to have Pro … but can view this slideshow with music in (regular) Acrobat 6 or later?

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:24:30 +0000

I do this a lot and it works well. Adding the music in Acrobat can be tricky the first time but is very easy after tthat.. I am a PC person ( please do not hate me:)
I do two other things to the pdf files from Acrobat..Password them to access security settings and select the optiona to prevent printing and not allow editing… if you are sending pdf slide shows to client you may want to consider both of these security features. sweet!
thanks!!

By: ElliR

ElliR — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:08:16 +0000

I don’t wish to sound negative here but surely for the price of Acrobat Pro it would be a lot easier (and a darn site cheaper) just to export one’s images to a desktop folder and create a slideshow using a 3rd party product costing a fraction of the Acrobat Pro price. Maybe the afore mentioned application is sold at a give away price in the States but for us Europeans it means taking out a mortgage and in this day and age…………..well forget it.

By: Glyn Dewis

Glyn Dewis — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 08:54:22 +0000

Hey Matt,

Great tip, thanks for that. I guess the export slideshow with music is a popular request for the addition to LR 2.0 so fingers crossed Adobe get the time to add it in, or at least in the not too distant future.

Just watched last weeks PSUser TV again; the bit at the end when Scott says the answer to your question has me in stitches … the expression on your face is priceless :o)

All the best to you and yours,
Glyn

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:59:46 +0000

Have fun with the crown molding. Remember, upside down and backwords. That’s how you make your cuts for the corners. Don’t 45 them.

By: William Chinn

William Chinn — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:44:08 +0000

If you don’t follow the Adobe blog Lightroom 1.4.1 was released as well as a corrected Camera Raw.

By: Jason Miller

Jason Miller — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:08:22 +0000

Great Tutorial Matt! Thanks a bunch! I read in Scott’s Lightroom book that you could combine music with the slide show, but he didn’t go into detail. I purchased Acrobat a week or so ago and have spent the the majority of it trying to get the gist of Acrobat Pro. Thank you so much for putting this up. By the way, I would’ve went with the Imperial March just for S & G’s. Enjoy your weekend.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:44:02 +0000

This doesn’t really have anything to do with the above tip…But I wanted to point out that the new retouching tool in LR 2.0 is a great way to smooth the skin without needing Photoshop. Just set the clarity to some negative number like -100 on the retouch brush and paint away. It does a great job smoothing the skin in a realistic way and minimizes wrinkles to boot! Woot! I love LR