May 12
New galleries at minnak.net
I have started to haul over the image galleries on minnak.net from manual html coded pages to automatic flash galleries as kindly provided by Lightroom. Not sure if you’ve noticed, but I haven’t updated any content on minnak.net for quite some while, there’s two major reasons for it: firstly, I publish new images every week on this blog, and secondly, simple as the code is, it’s still a boring chore to manually edit the html to create the image pages in the old galleries.
So far I’ve changed the Finland and Fauna galleries. I’m not 100% happy about the gallery template, but that’s all I can do with the settings available. It’s not even possible to change the font, but I hope there are some additional tweaks in future releases. I would also prefer another kind of layout where the text can be placed separately from the thumbnails, as they are bundled in the current version. My coding skills end with simple html and css, so I won’t even attempt to hack the Simpleviewer template!
Nags aside, the gallery does fulfill the most important function which is to display the images with the least possible effort from me. All I have to do is add an image to a Lightroom collection, make sure the required IPTC information is filled in and then upload the whole thing to my site - Lightroom can even do that! This means more frequent updates to my website so visitors don’t have to wade through my blog entries to find some random pictures.
And last but not least, the pictures will now be presented against a black background, which works much better than white with most images!
Nicely done
Do you have positive experiences regarding LR? I’ve been thinking about moving into it, but I’ll wait for the 2.0 version to come out first. I have done my galleries with Picasa or Irfan View, it surely is quite boring thing to update the galleries 
Oh, btw, the URL’s do not work but galleries are fine.
Thanks!
I love Lightroom, I really do. I have nothing bad to say about it, it’s well worth every penny I paid for it. I’ve had a quick look at the v2 demo to see if it’s worth the upgrade, and I think that I will upgrade - the major new feature is that you can do targeted changes in the RAW. It means that LR will become a 1-stop-shop for all my image processing, the only images I need to edit outside LR will be stitched panoramas and the odd HDR if I feel like it (although there are rumours that even these will be supported in the future). Basically, if I can’t fix an image in LR, then the image is too bad to keep in the first place!
Oh and those URL’s, thanks for the heads up - I changed the filenames but forgot to update the links.