The Turning Gate

Thank you for this!

In Vista, the folder is at:
C:\Users\[YourUsername]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Lightroom\Web Templates.

Great galleries! Thanks for posting.

I’m installing these on a Mac, running 10.4.9, and Lightroom v1. I’ve put the Folders inside the Users>Lightroom>WebTemplates folder, but still they don’t show up for me, even after restarting, and relaunching Lightroom. Any suggestions?

Screengrab:

http://www.marktucker.com/temp/lrtemplates.jpg

Got it! Thank you! I’m working with them right now. Will send donation. (You might want to put a note in the Installation section. It’s an easy mistake to make).

Hi, thank you for this service.

I managed to get SV into my Lightroom Web Gallery, but it doesn’t show my pics in the display(it’s just black blank screen), and yet it does generate the SV “Preview in browser”

I’m wondering what I missed? Any tips appreciated. Thanks.

good work.

thanks a lot

nil – can

Sol,
The ID plate appears at the bottom of all TTG galleries. You’re not missing a thing.

If you’d like to move it, you might try opening the gallery.css file and setting the idplate to position: absolute. You can then specify a position anywhere on the page using the “top” and “left” attributes.

Sol,
Open the gallery.css file and find this:

#idplate { clear: both !important; margin: 0 auto !important;
}

Change it to this:

#idplate { position: absolute !important; top: 0px !important; left: 0px !important; clear: both !important; margin: 0 auto !important;
}

That should move the ID plate to the top left corner of the page. Then adjust the top and left values until you have it positioned where you like.

Also, be aware that when viewing the page using IE6, the ID plate is not visible. This is due to IE6’s inability to properly render PNG files. When I asked users for feedback, the consensus was simple to remove it in IE6, so that’s what I did.

Savage,
I’m not sure which gallery you’re attempting to use. This is a generic Installation page for all of my galleries.

SimpleViewer does not allow resizing of thumbnails, but both Slimbox and PostcardViewer do. In the case of SimpleViewer, this is not a limitation of my LR gallery, but of SimpleViewer itself. I hope that answers your question.

I extracted the folder to the folder Web Galleries I created under lightroom. But nothing shows up when I start lightroom. I have a folder named airtight_simpleviewer in the Web Galleries folder. Is that correct?

I am also having the same problem as Paul.
Both for your viewers and the airtite ones.
Has this been tested under LR 1.1 ?

A good idea Ryan. I’ve expanded the explanation in step 3 and added a screenshot. Thanks for the suggestion.

Scott,
Not sure which gallery you’re using.

With TTG SimpleViewer Gallery, you can specify a background image from within LR by entering an image URL relative to the gallery, or by entering an absolute URL.

Using PostcardViewer, I’m not sure you can set a background image, as I don’t know whether you can set the viewer background to transparent.

For TTG Slimbox Gallery and TTG Gallery Index, edit the index.html file and add the following to the STYLE instructions in the page HEAD.

body { background-image: url(pathToImage); }

For TTG FlashNifties Gallery, see Demo 2 as this url.

Scott,

Both my PostcardViewer and SimpleViewer galleries support all configurable options. For specific details, refer to the help pages at Airtight Interactive.

Robbie,

I’ve just this week released new versions of my FlashNifties, SimpleViewer and PostcardViewer galleries, all of which now contain Flash-based versions of the templates that preview properly in both Mac and Windows versions of Lightroom. Check the respective pages for each template for details and downloads.

Cheers,
Matt

The files should be in a folder of their own, inside the Web Galleries folder. Once installed and with LR restarted, you should be able to see the new gallery in the Gallery pane in the upper right of the Web module, as shown in the screen shot.

Holly,

1. Which gallery are you having the problem with?

2. Can you switch to any other galleries (i.e. are your other galleries working properly)?

3. Are you running Lightroom 1.1?

That’s very peculiar. I wonder, can you use templates from LightroomGalleries.com? Can you use the Airtight Galleries developed by Adobe?

And have you tried the TTG Slimbox Gallery? It’s HTML-based, while many of the others are Flash-based. Does neither gallery type work?

Is your Flash-player up-to-date?

Is Lightroom exhibiting any other strange behavior in any of the modules?

You’re the first person I’ve heard of having this problem, and I’m not quite sure how to diagnose things.

Hi Joe,

On the TTG Photo Stack Gallery page, it explains that the gallery requires PHP and will only run from off a web server. It will not preview in LR, nor will it view from your hard drive. It must be online.

From the TTG MonoSlideshow Gallery page:

In order to use TTG MonoSlideshow gallery, users are required to purchase MonoSlideshow from www.monoslideshow.com for $19.95 USD.

Once purchased, copy the monoslideshow.swf into the TTGMonoSlideshowGallery folder. Overwrite the existing swf file, which is a fake. You may now continue installation according to the Installation instructions.

Honestly, Mark, I don’t know where LR saves its User Templates. This might be a good question for the Adobe Lightroom forum.

Hi Matthew and thanks for all your work so far, I wonder if you can help me with something silly. On your sample gallery of FlashNifties you have a site menu with title and links, but when I download – install and upload the gallery created I get no such menu. Am I doing something very wrong somewhere? -Thomas

Well just browsing and came to your site via Craigslist.org.

I am using Lightroom 1.0 for Mac.
Anyway, I like some of the templates, I was able to get the template simple viewer working but where do I put another extracted template files within “Web Galleries” without overwriting the first template installed, etc.

I guess I can temporarily move the files out and then put the new template files within “web galleries” as a short term solution.

I figured it out. /Web Galleries/Folder A
for Set A Template
/Web Galleries/Folder B for Set B Template, etc.
Now working on the Selection Gallery,PostCard

Figured out the Stack Gallery:

Sharon,
You can do it by editing the transformer.xslt file. Just find the code for the checkbox and change it. There’s only one instance, so it should be easy to find.

Which gallery are you trying to use? I’ll email you.

Neil, They belong in the Web Galleries folder as said above. If you follow the instructions, it should work.

Hi Matthew,

me Idiot! I am not getting it to work at all! I created the Web Galleries Folder, then I copied the complete Folder you provide to this folder. I open LR, take the complete library I want to use, select the TTG SimpleViwer Gallery 1.7 FLASH, LR starts to convert them, then Firefox starts (I selected Preview) and then there is a blue screen that says “Simpleviewer Gallerie not found”

I did the same and selected generate gallerie and selcted a folder to save all. But this also doesn`t work. The libraries are created, images and thumbnails are there, there is a index file, and some others, but the gallerie.xml is missing!

Also I cannot see any images when I select the TTG Simple… in LR. When I use a standard Gallerie from LR I can see a preview!

There must be something major wrong on my machine.

Andreas

I have installed the SimpleViewer Gallery and it works wonderfully. I would also like to install the Postcard Viewer Gallery but it keeps asking me to overwrite the existing files. Is there a way to install these and other galleries side by side?

Thanks,
Nate

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I’m trying to install to Lightroom 1.2, on a machine running Windows XP.
I can’t find any folder named “Application Data” anywhere on my C drive.
There is a folder in the Documents & Settings folder named “Hargis” — is this the “username” folder? If so, there’s no “application data” folder in there, nor anything resembling that. Any ideas?

Hi there, nice work! but almost all the galleries produce an image that is not very clear, as opposed to the stock ones that come with LR 1.2. I have quality set to 100 and image size @ 900 px. Any ideas why? I am on a mac.

Hi all,
I am using Postcardviewer (from Photoshop) and inserted the flash in a html page (so I would still have my navigation/menu)
On my 19inch screen I am OK, but on my laptop (or other smaller screens) the images disappear ‘under’ the menubar.
Please! Is there anyone who knows how to adjust this???

example: www.designersgilde.com/fractals%20album/fractalalbum.html

Thanks a million!
Astrid

Thanks you for the tip and the compliment, I will definitely try out the adjustments.
BTW the ‘disappearing’ rollovers are my bad; I have them on the other pages in black and the page I referred you to has a black background, so it looks like they disappear :-)

If I have time some day I will try and figure out how to make the gallery work with sub-pages, but for now I am happy with the fact that (most of) it works, I am just an amateur in html / css and just busy with too many things..

I’m not sure, Sammy. Could be a PHP problem on your server, a problem with your security settings, etc. Can you provide me a URL to your gallery so I can try it?

Jens,

What gallery are you using? Some galleries don’t support that data, notably the PostcardViewer gallery and a few of the other Flash galleries.

Daniel,

Please ensure that you are running the latest version of Lightroom, as some galleries take advantage of added features not present in 1.0, such as the ability to generate XML configuration files.

Matthew

hi,

your galleries are great. i’m not sure how to edit the “template archives” so that all my web galleries are exported with the correct email info – do you mind helping me with this or pointing me in the right direction?

thanks

Installed as directed. Files copied to Web Galleries dir. Brought up LR 1.3.1 in library mode showing six(6).tif photos. Clicked on Web. Selected your ver 1.2 TTG HTML Gallery, all of the right pane functions are present BUT, the view screen in the center is just white. You briefly see a “loading” statement in the center of it but then nothing else.

Windows XP pro.

I’m stuck???????

Matt

Matt

Is there any chance you can resize caption text or have caption text printed below the photo in the flash galley? That would be really awesome.

Matthew:

I am attempting to make the PhotoFlow template work without much success. I am using an Intel Mac with Leopard.

1. I purchased the PhotoFlow AS2/AS3 components from Flashloaded and installed both into Flash CS3.

2. I brought the AS2 component into Flash added in the path to the images and the name of the XML file as instructed by Flashloaded.

3. Published the component.

4. Replaced the dummy components (photoflow.swf, index.html, photoflow.html, and index.html) you placed into the template directory.

5. Upload to my website using Lightroom’s Upload function.

When I load the web page, I get nothing. Do you have any suggestions regarding what I may have done wrong?

Thanks for providing all of your great slide show templates.

I Cant get it to work. I using lightroom 1.1 and vista. I tried making a new folder in the lightroom presets folder and tried making a folder in the templates folder but it didnt work. Please help…

Using Mono Slide show with TTGMonoSlideShowGallery I get
Attribute “thumbnailWindowTrack” in [GLOBAL] is undefined.
Attribute “thumbnailWindowAlwaysOn” in [GLOBAL] is undefined.
Attribute “viewport” in [GLOBAL] is undefined.

I am using lightroom 1.3.1

I followed your directions multiple times and get the same results, obviously I am missing something. If I can get this working I will definitely be donating as you will have saved me loads of time learning flash, xml, etc.

thanks in advance.

Should work fine if you have it installed in the correct location. Send me a screen shot of your installation folder if you can’t get it going. matthew [at] theturninggate [dot] net.

Miyu,

Some extraction programs create an extra folder when you unzip a file, and then put the folders or files from the zip package into that folder. In such a case, you might end up with something like:

TTGShadowBoxGallery/TTGShadowBoxGallery/files

If you install the gallery this way, it’s not going to work. Please ensure your folder structure is thus:

Web Galleries/TTGShadowBoxGallery/files

Chris,

You’ve posted to my generic installation instructions. I don’t know which gallery you’re having problems with, so can’t begin to help you. Could you please clarify your problem, or post your issue to the appropriate information page for the gallery you’re having problems with? Also, if it's the FormToEmail script you’re having problems with, you might try contacting the folks at www.formtoemail.com. They'd probably be of more help to you regarding the script than I could be; if it's the gallery you’re having problems with, then you'll want to be asking me.

Great resources. I’m new to web building, i’m trying to learn on the fly, your pages make it possible! Thanks.
I have a couple questions, when I create LR Page, the one that has two photos, and two pages, where is the link that brings you back from, the 2nd page back to the first? When I click on “about” the page opens with a picture of me, but then how do I get back to the opening page?

The second question, is how do I build a link between the “menu” item links, and an actual web gallery? I guess I create a gallery, put it on the server and direct the menu link to that folder containing the gallery images?

Thanks for your help. . .

Tony

Hello: I’m stumped, Must be the only one around that can’t figure how to get started. I actually got my desktop computer working with the ttg mono plugin for Lightroom just before taking off for this trip. Now I can’t get it up and running from my laptop. I copyed the zipped folder from both Monoslide show and ttgmono and have tried to get them placed into the web gallery folder, but all I get when running lighroom is the purchace screen for ttg. I’m using Vista and need to know which files from the zipped folders go where? I’m not sure if just taking the orginal zipped file folder and placing it on my laptop was the best solution. There has been some mention of using fresh files, but of course I didn’t want to download a second copy of Monoslideshow if not needed at additional cost. Any help would be appreciated. Just need to understand where all the files go from the unzipped folders on my laptop. Thanks for any help. Bob

Hi,
I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. I have dumped the Folders with their files (extracted) into a newly created Web Galleries section in the Lightroom folder, yet nothing shows up in Lightroom. Now, while I copied the files Lightroom WAS running, but then I restarted it and still nothing. I’ve put three different files in the Web Galleries folder now, and I’m running version 1.4

Hi there. I have downloaded a template but when I extract it the only thing in the folder is“TTGHTMLGallery.lrwebengine” Where are the css files and html files? Thanks, ~ JD

Thanks for the info Mathew. I am using a Mac and the “Show Package Contents” worked just fine.

What I am working on now is getting myself familiar with the .css files and the tags that are being used. But when I look in the head tag to see which .css file is being used it calls for two .css files:

<link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” media=“screen” href=“resources/css/gallery.css” /> <link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” media=“screen” href=“resources/css/ratings.css” />

I don’t find the “gallery.css” file in the resources directory. Any thoughts on that? Thanks ~ JD