So I've just chucked all these photos into a collection and I've called it slideshow and I'd like to make a slideshow with them. So I just thought I'd fish through and find out a few other images that we haven't, I guess spent a long time looking at yet. And here they all are. So whilst I'm still in the library with my slideshow collection with it's 25 images, I might like to rearrange the images in the order that I'd like them to appear in the slideshow. So common thing I'll often do just to be a little bit obsessive maybe is our arrange them in sort of, you know, landscape portrait landscape portrait, I'll show you what I mean. So I'm going to start with this one and then followed by this one and then this one, and then I'm going to think well, that's too much green in those two.

So let's get something different there. How about that, and then that then the grain can come in and then black and whites nice and then maybe we got too much Blue there. So I'd like to say that one and then that one. So you get the idea. I'm just arranging them semi randomly, semi randomly. I'm certainly paying a little bit of attention to not having too much repetition of image content and making sure I alternate landscape portrait.

And then invariably I end up with more landscapes than portraits for some reason. And so the it's so some of these images, maybe I need a couple more. Maybe I just need to throw in a couple one. What do I need 123 more portrait images. So I'm just going to go back to here and I'm going to find three more portrait images that we haven't spent too much time looking at. Maybe that one, maybe that one, and maybe that one, I'm going to check them into my slideshow collection.

And I'm going to come back and I'm going to put that one there and that one there. And that one there and I need one more part. Maybe can just drop an image out and maybe that one's not so interesting. So you can go and you can go there. And there we go. There's my images all lined up for my slideshow nicely alternating landscape portrait landscape portrait.

So let's jump into the slideshow module. Now all these output modules, slideshow, print and web certainly books a little different. But certainly slideshow, print and web all have a template browser. So up here on the left hand panel, you'll see the template browser and it'll have the Lightroom templates. They are the default templates that shipped with Lightroom. And it'll have the use of templates which is an empty folder initially for you to save your own templates.

So the default template here is the simple template, which is basically just images on a black screen. There's a little bit of metadata up in the top left hand corner there. If I just drag that out, you'll see it says David heterodyne photography, so it's taking that out of my identity pipe. So I might just go and delete that. You might notice also in the top left hand corner, I'll just get a cleaner image. So you can see the writing stars appear as well as part of this slideshow are part of this template, I should say.

And you can certainly remove those by just going over here to the overlays and writing stars and I can make them bigger, or I could say no writing stars, please, and they're gone. But be warned, if you do that. And then you go to a different template, like maybe this one called caption and writing. When you go back to simple, it's all going to come back because it's all hardwired into the template. So if you want to create a nice standard blank template, like we almost did, let me just select that metadata again and delete. Let me turn the writing styles off.

So there's a nice clean template with no interference. So let's just save that in our template present right now and let's just call it claim. Claim black. So we know there's no interference Let's have a look at some of these other templates we've got, as mentioned caption and writing, which, if you had captions applied, they would come up at the bottom of the screen just there, you've got crop to fill, which takes the image all the way up to the total available image area. You've got Exif metadata, which pulls metadata out of the out of your template, puts my name up there, puts the date the photo was shot up there, you can see it's got the date just there. It's got the camera settings down there, and it's even got my location, it's pulled out of the metadata as well.

So all this information just automatically pulls out. And as I cycled through the photos, you can see it's going to update that information accordingly. So you can do that these these are actually quite new, these templates in Lightroom cc in the past, I used to manually create these from scratch, but now they seem to ship as default. But just out of interest. I'll show you how we could sort of go ahead and do that. I'm going to get back to my claim black and I'm going to go back to the screen.

Here, and I'm just kind of you can just grab these borders is a nice way to just sit the amount of spice you want. So I'm going to add some text. So I'm going to leave a little bit of room there for my text above and below. And then here where it says ABC on the toolbar, you can click there and it says custom text. And I'm just going to type Hello. And the words the word rather, hello appears down there, and I can drag that up to the top.

And I can scale it down, make it bigger or smaller, whatever I like. And now that's an example of custom text. So as I cycled through my images, you'll see that custom text will just stay there. And I can click on that and delete again. But Alternatively, if I click on this IVC, again, you'll see there's a little sub menu there that lets me choose a whole range of other things like captions, date and equipment, exposure and so forth. So I'm going to choose date.

I'm going to choose date and it's going to get the date the photo was taken. And I'm going to stick that up at the top and I'm going to go one more time. And this time, I'm going to choose our exposure. And it's going to give you the camera settings. So I'm just going to make that a little bit bigger and I'm going to stick that at the bottom. So now I can cycle through.

And as I go to each image, you'll see the date changes to correspond with when the photo was taken. And the camera settings also change as relevant to the image. So that's an interesting little custom setup you can do and if you wanted to save that as a template as well for future use, you could just click plus here in the template browser, and you could call it date and date and exposure into your templates. Now, when I play when I go ahead and play this slideshow if I was to click play here from there's probably going to be a moment while it saves the slideshow as I go ahead there loads it up and that's pretty quick and it goes into full screen and it's just kind of playing slideshow nicely. With a pre determined transition, I think it's four seconds per slide with a 2.5 second fade from one slide to the next, I'm just going to hit Escape to get out of there.

And I'll just show you what we can customize some of that, I'm going to go to the playback tab in the right hand panel, and four seconds and 2.5. I'm going to pull that down to two seconds per slide SCA 2.5. And I'll just make the trip it's gone to three I can always type in there if I wanted as well. If I'm struggling with those little tabs and let's go 1.5 for the fight. Now you can also add music. You can also add music, which I normally do in my demonstration but I just just for the purposes of these videos and copyright issues.

I better not go and add music that I don't have the copyright to but you can very easily just click music plus and navigate to music folder and just drop in an mp3 or a WAV file. whatever it might be. So there's the playback section. So now, I'm going to go over now that I've changed the spate of this slideshow, I'm going to go to diamond exposure, I'm just going to right click, and I'm going to say update with current settings. So now that's going to apply that new timing that I've created. And now when I go ahead and click play, you'll see my slideshow picks up where it left off, and we should see that a shorter duration that we said slide two seconds rather than four and I much quicker transition also, as we move on to the next image.

And I'll just hit escape again to get out of there. So that's the slideshow module looked at and you know, there's endless kind of possibilities, you know, that you can change the colors of the background, obviously, the font, size and color and shape. This is a kind of nice feature. You've got the backdrop image, you can stick an image in the backdrop so I'm just going to look for I think this one might be fun in the backdrop I'm going to grab this image of the kids at the front of the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, then I'm going to drop it onto that there and you can see This now will be the background image for my slideshow. So if I go ahead and play now, you can see all my images coming up on top of that image in the back that's just playing.

So those two are taken in the same place. It's quite ironic. And you'll see that the background image is slightly faded down just to take a little bit of attention away from it. So the top images kind of feature out a little more prominently. So I'm just going to hit escape again there. So if we just have a look at that background, you can see the Opacity is 50%.

So I could bring it up. Sorry, that's the opacity of the color wash I should say. So it's going to tell a wash across the top of that a black wash. And if I type that right up, you'll see it's actually a gradient going from black to Transparent right to left and you can find that up and down accordingly. You can also find down the opacity of the image to make it a little faded out man, you know, pretty standard, obvious kind of PowerPoint presentation type controls, I'm sure I don't need to explain too much detail they you can just kind of play around with With that, and do what you like. So yes slideshow module now, I think the real highlight of the slideshow module and I'm just going to turn that background image off because I really don't like that. And I'm just going to make my images a little bit bigger than, and I'm just going to make my text a little bit smaller, they're going to make sure I center it just by anchoring with that little, kind of nice day and just make that a little bit smaller.

Sent to that with the night there. So there's a few more updates. Let's just go right click update with current settings, just to update my templates some more to make sure that all stays nicely like that. So so the options you can put a stroke around your image if you want, what's this right now it's got a strike, but it's a black strike on a black background, so that doesn't make much sense. So I could do a click on that little color swatch, then I've got a watch strike, I can make the strike big and thick if I want, or I can make it thin, whatever you like. So let's then we got the strike there and again, if we will if we like the strike, and we want to update that Let's just right click on date and exposure and say update with current settings.

And we can add that to the, to the template, the guide, you can move the guides manually just by dragging these sliders here, or, as I showed you, we can move them just by dragging them here as well. They're all locked by default. If you wanted to say offset the image over to the left, we could click link or we can unlink them. And if we could move the left guide in that'll move the image over to the right. Or conversely, if we move the right card in, it'll move the image over to the left and so forth. And can I reset nice so and if I just click link all then it goes back to center.

So it lets you control there, you've got your preview choice here, you've got by default, whatever your screen is, it shows you you can go to 69 which is what my screen is anyway. 69 like the widescreen format, or you can say four three which is like the old sort of television screen format, the Less wide screen, if you want to preview your slideshow there, then it will go ahead and do that for you as well. But I'll just stick to screen make sense, because that's the same as the screen that you're looking at overlays, you can have your identity plate that you can turn on, which is that little bit of metadata that we saw up in the top left hand corner before. Not gonna do that, your watermarking you can add your watermarking. And remember, I've created my watermark, I made the logo earlier on.

So there's my graphic logo, so that these watermarks can pop up all manner of places once you've saved them and created them. So there's my graphic logo there or there's my David heterodyne photography one there alternatively or no watermarking as is my preference, music and so forth we've looked at so yeah, lots of options. So all that remains with this slideshow is to export it so sure you can just play it in Lightroom. But the beauty of it is you can also you can export it to PDF, which makes sense single document that people can playback in Acrobat, or you can export to video, which is probably going to be your preferred option. So we click Export to video, and we've got the option to export four different sizes, you can get a small, medium, large or full HD slideshow, that will just create a single mp4 file that will playback beautifully on a wide range of sort of formats, you know, and you three sort of Telly through on any computer embedded in a, you know, in a website on an iPad on any way you can think of watching video and mp4 will play.

So they're all your options there, you just go ahead and click it I want to export it right now because I want you it's actually a very slow process exporting video because all the videos got to be rendered at 25 frames a second and so forth. So it takes quite a bit of time to render out a video so make sure you're not in a rush when you do that. Give it some time to export. And that's the slideshow module. So it's a it's a lovely little intuitive interface. Is that I think you'll enjoy.

Don't forget to create some lots of templates and save them up there.