In my previous web galleries, I wanted to do things a tiny bit different than than the tools I used supported. This added more steps to the flow of getting images out of the library and on to the web page. Not much work for each individual image, but still enough to make it a hassle. And it didn’t really matter. Take for instance the frame I used around my published photos. I had to record an action in Photoshop to create it, so that in itself became a just a matter of running that action, but I also had to export the photo to pdf first, convert to jpg afterwards and move the jpg to the right location. Now I just drag the image into the right LightRoom collection and push publish. The watermark looks perfectly fine.

So, I have completed the first step in my new gallery publishing flow, and I’m quite happy. I had to do some work on the Lightroom template I used to make it more consistent with the rest of my web page, but that was mostly a matter of copying various parts of the RapidWeaver template into the LightRoom template. I had to break the menu system in the gallery section. It requires a lot more work than I am willing to do before LR and RW starts to talk. 

Still have a some work to do on the look of the main gallery page, but that will probably fall into place during the holiday. 

So, now I have more or less achieved my goal of being able to publish images directly from LR. It took me 5-6 hours of template fiddling, but will probably pay of in the long run. In the process, I found a gallery viewing scripts that works a bit better than the one I used, and I increased the size of my gallery photos to fit within 1000px*800px. 

So, here you can see how the galleries looks. Not that much different but much easier for me.