SlideShowPro for Lightroom 1.2.3 released
This release brings the Lightroom version of SlideShowPro up to date with the latest Flash build, plus a new export option: permalinks. This has been available in the Flash version for a while, but wasn’t added to Lightroom because of the technical issues in doing so. But they’re in there now, and make it quite easy to copy a direct URL to a particular piece of slideshow content. You can read more in the updated SlideShowPro for Lightroom User Guide (the new “Extra options” chapter). Update can be downloaded here.
SlideShowPro for Lightroom 1.2.2 released
Small patch to fix a couple of bugs found in the previous build. Click here to read the updated version history.
Adobe Lightroom 2.0 public beta out in the wild
Want to see what’s coming in the next big update to Adobe Lightroom? Well, you’re in luck. Adobe has just released a public beta for Lightroom 2.0 that new or existing Lightroom users can try out. If you don’t own Lightroom 1, it’s a 30 day trial. If you do, you can use it until August 31, 2008.
As for SlideShowPro for Lightroom, we’ve been testing it with earlier (private) 2.0 betas, and everything works as expected. So you can use the extension with it just the same.
SlideShowPro for Lightroom 1.2.1 released
Small update that simply brings the Lightroom version up to date with the just-released 1.8.1 build of SlideShowPro for Flash. Free update for all SlideShowPro for Lightroom users, and can be downloaded here.
SlideShowPro Director Lightroom export plugin available
Now that we have the beta version of SlideShowPro Director 1.2 out, which includes a new API, we’re also making available the new Lightroom export plugin we talked about earlier this week. This plugin is also considered a beta, and we’d love to hear your feedback. Note that this plugin requires the 1.2 beta of SlideShowPro Director in order to work, and does not currently work with the Windows version of Lightroom when exporting to slideshowpro.com hosting accounts (exporting from Windows to an installation of SlideShowPro Director 1.2 on your own server seems to work fine).
So if you’re interested in trying it out, feel free to download here and let us know what you think.
SlideShowPro for Lightroom 1.2.0 released
This release mainly brings the Lightroom version up to date with the 1.8.0 release of SlideShowPro for Flash. This includes modifications to the parameter interface plus the default templates to reflect changes made in 1.8.0.
The 1.2.0 update does include however one new feature, and an important change to how thumbnail previews are displayed. As for the new, a radio button was added named “Expand Browser Window” that will modify your exported HTML document so that it automatically expands the browser window to fill 100% of a user’s monitor. This will come in handy for people who are publishing large slideshows, which require larger than normal browser windows in order to adequately present. The option is turned off by default.
The second change is with thumbnail link previews. Before, you simply modified “Thumb Width/Height” to change both the exported size of your thumbnails, and the size of the pop-up link previews. This turned out however to be a problem with people trying to export large images to use as album previews, so additional parameters were added (“Link Preview Width/Height”) for independent control over the size of the link preview windows.
Update is free for all current SlideShowPro for Lightroom users, and can be downloaded here.
Coming soon: SlideShowPro Director export plugin for Lightroom
By popular request, we’re currently putting the finishing touches on a new SlideShowPro Director export plugin for Adobe Lightroom. What does it do? It allows you export images from the Lightroom Library directly into an installation of SlideShowPro Director on your own web server, or a hosted version of Director on our site. You’ll be able to choose either an existing album to populate with your photos, or create a new album as part of the upload process. The plugin will also (optionally) maintain the titles and captions already assigned to your images in Lightroom.
The plugin is possible because of the new SlideShowPro Director API which is currently in private beta and scheduled to be released as part of the upcoming 1.2 update (which should be out soon). The plugin will be available, free of charge, once 1.2 is out the door.
Here are a couple of screenshots:
Lightroom users, heads up! Did you download the 1.4 update for Lightroom that Adobe pushed out the door on March 14th? Well, a couple of days later Adobe pulled the release, and is now (in the words of Tom Hogarty) recommending that anyone who installed 1.4 should uninstall it and reinstall Lightroom 1.3.1. I’m running 1.4, and haven’t had any issues thus far, but if you’re the paranoid type you might want to consider following their instructions. A 1.4.1 patch release is forthcoming, but no word on when that’ll be available.
SlideShowPro for Lightroom 1.1.4 released
This release keeps the Lightroom version in sync with Flash, plus fixes a vertical alignment problem when not using the wet floor effect.
Registered users can download here if interested.
After far longer than I’d care to admit, we finally have a free, fully functional trial of SlideShowPro for Flash for people to download, test out, and kick around. Containing both the Flash extension and the standalone version (in SWF form), the trial is exactly like the real product except it’s limited in the amount of content it can load (three pieces of content total).
With that, all three of our products now offer free trials for new users to try out. This isn’t exactly useful news for existing users, but hey. Better late than never, as they say.
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