Designing albums, got photoshop, but maybe you don’t have any type of interesting web slideshow or web preview program? Well, have you considered creating a web gallery in Adobe Photoshop CS3?
Here’s what you do:
Once you’ve got all of your full sized spreads or image files saved as JPEGs, store them in one location (in a file maybe on your desktop) named in the order you’d like that retains the album spread sequence for example….1,2,3.
Once the folder is all set with your full resolution images, open photoshop.
Go to File–Automate–Web Photo Gallery
Then it will ask you to choose a layout to use to preview your images (templates can be seen on the right)
Once you choose a template, then choose the source folder, which will be the folder with all of your full res jpegs.
Then choose a destination folder, which will be where you’ll locate your new web gallery-for example, I create a new folder on my desktop with the couples first two initials plus the letters wa-so for Lianne & Patrick, it would be lpwa as the file name.
Once you’ve selected location and destination, you can also determine the size of the images and the quality of the photos as well as titles and copyright.
After you’ve selected all of these factors, you are ready to click OK
Once you’ve clicked OK, Photoshop will fill the new folder on your desktop with the files that are ready for web upload.
Once the file has completed processing, photoshop will provide you with a preview of what the gallery will look like once posted on the web. If you’re ok with it, then go to your FTP of your website and upload the file. Once uploaded it will have a name and look like this:
Your domain name/the name of the folder from your desktop.
The images aren’t huge on this one because it’s just a quick example, but it’s an inexpensive way to preview your images on the web.
