TTG Highslide Gallery Pro
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro succeeds TTG Highslide Gallery, bringing all of its predecessors features back to the table and then some. In addition to the regular feature set, the Pro version offers two options for online shopping — a Paypal shopping cart, and Fotomoto integration.
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro is multi-purpose, and can be used to produce three types of standard image gallery, a client proofing selection gallery with email response options, and three types of shopping cart galleries. It’s the most versatile Lightroom web photo gallery template currently available!
The Pro gallery’s long list of features includes:
- Pro version: Proprietary, transacitonless shopping cart.
- Pro version: Paypal shopping cart.
- Pro version: Fotomoto integration; sell prints and postcards, send e-cards.
- Pro version: FoxyCart integration.
- Edit Gallery Description text directly in Lightroom’s preview window by clicking on it.
- Highslide JS driven viewing of large images.
- New, super-flexible page header with an all new look!
- Unlimited menu items.
- By popular demand, menus can be set to left, right or center alignment.
- Search Engine Optimization features.
- Fully customizable colors and appearance.
- Three gallery modes — Proofing, Slideshow and Inline Slideshow — making TTG Highslide Gallery three galleries in one!
- Enlarge multiple images in Proofing mode for side-by-side comparison.
- In all modes, image scaling to ensure that over-large images fit to the visitor’s browser window.
- Full styling options for the gallery description.
- Automatic color labeling from your Library (optional).
- BoxOver tool tips on thumbnails and other gallery components (optional).
- Selection gallery features for client proofing.
- Form-to-Email powered delivery for proofing feedback.
- A set of “Developer Options” making it easier than ever to integrate TTG Highslide Gallery into existing site designs.
- TTG Auto Index support.
- Web-standards compliant XHTML and CSS.
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro
* The demo version is fully functional, but limits exported galleries to only 10 images.
About Your Purchase
Upon purchasing TTG Highslide Gallery Pro, you will receive a download URL valid for nine uses or 352 days (1 year) — whichever comes first. After nine uses or one year, your URL will expire and a new purchase will be necessary to continue with updates. Gallery updates will always be available from that same URL. Thus, the URL can be used for the initial download, plus eight updates within a year of your purchase. Be sure to save your URL in a safe place, as it cannot be retrieved if lost. If you have trouble receiving your URL after purchase, please ensure 1) that your payment has cleared with PayPal, and 2) that messages from E-Junkie.com are not being caught in your spam filter.
System Requirements
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro requires Lightroom 2.4 or greater.
The Form-to-Email script used by the engine’s selection gallery features additionally requires a web server that supports the PHP mail() function. The proprietary, transactionless shopping cart also requires PHP; PHP 5+ is recommended.
Windows users should have installed Internet Explorer 7 or above, regardless whether IE is their primary browser.
HighSlide Licensing
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro relies heavily upon Torstein Hønsi’s HighSlide. HighSlide is not free for commercial use. Please read the HighSlide licensing information before using TTG Highslide Gallery Pro.
If you have previously purchased a Highslide license for another TTG gallery — TTG Highslide Gallery, TTG Client Response Gallery or TTG iPhone Portfolio — you’re already covered.
TTG Highslide + TTG Pages
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro and TTG Pages make great companions. Use TTG Pages to build your website with a Home page, About page, Gallery Index and Contact page. Use TTG Highslide Gallery Pro to create your image galleries. It’s the whole deal. By default, the menus are already setup to work together, so there’s no need to fuss with URLs. Just export your Highslide galleries, drop them into the /galleries/ folder created by TTG Pages and put it all online. It doesn’t get any easier!
Using the E-Commerce Features
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro supports four types of shopping carts: Fotomoto, PayPal and FoxyCart, and a proprietary shopping carting system without online transactions; setup for each is described below. Be aware, however, that these services cannot coexist in a single gallery. When producing your gallery, you may choose only one of these services. Enabling multiple services will confuse your visitors and break your shopping cart.
Likewise with the Selection Gallery features; the selection gallery should not be combined in a single gallery with the e-commerce features.
Transactionless Shopping Cart
New in version 1.9, the proprietary, transactionless shopping cart allows visitors to submit image purchase orders without making an online transaction. It is therefore up to the photographer when or how to accept payment. For more information on how to setup the shopping cart, please see the TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 1.9 Feature Overview, or test-drive the shopping cart using the demonstration gallery.
A new tutorial gives detailed instructions for setting up the cart.
Fotomoto Setup
Fotomoto is an e-commerce system specifically designed for photos. If you are a photographer or you operate a website with a big photo inventory, Fotomoto helps you monetize your photos and sell them in a professional way — on your own website. You will sell without any hassle. Fotomoto takes care of everything: processing orders right on your website, processing payments, making print (or other products based on your photo), and shipping it to the customers on your behalf. Our goal is to let photographers and content owners focus on their photography without worrying about the hassles of selling. — Fotomoto.com
Setting up TTG Highslide Gallery Pro for Fotomoto integration is easy. Sign-up for an account with Fotomoto. Login to your account, select “Store” from the main menu, and then “Settings” from the sub-menu. Copy your Store Key from this page and paste it into the appropriate field in TTG Highslide Gallery Pro’s control pane.
Paste your Fotomoto Store Key into the Store Key entry field in TTG Highslide Gallery Pro.
If English is not your primary language, you can also set alternate text for the “Buy Print” and “Send E-card” buttons. Fotomoto accepts international print orders!
Please note that Fotomoto integration is only supported when the gallery is set to Slideshow mode.
For more information on Fotomoto terms and services, please read the Fotomoto FAQ.
Paypal Shopping Cart Setup
Setting up the Paypal shopping cart is fairly straight forward. TTG Highslide Gallery Pro provides entry fields for all the necessary information — your Paypal account email address, shipping costs, item descriptions and sale prices, and preferred currency. Shopping cart arrays for each image are displayed below the thumbnail, with an Add to Cart button. The appearance of the Paypal cart array and buttons is fully customizable, and can be made to seamlessly match your overall site appearance.
The Paypal shopping cart can be used in either Slideshow or Proofing gallery modes.
For additional reading, I have posted a tutorial on configuring different types of PayPal shipping options.
FoxyCart Shopping Cart Setup
Setting up FoxyCart is very similar to setting up a PayPal cart; the two carts share product arrays and many appearance controls. Users are required to setup a FoxyCart account and store via the FoxyCart website.
Shopping Cart Item Pricing: Global Pricing vs. Pricing for Individual Items
New in version 1.9, TTG Highslide Gallery Pro allows you to set prices for your images in one of two ways. Prices may be set globally, such that all images in your gallery are priced in a uniform way. Alternatively, images may be priced individually at different amounts via IPTC metadata. For more information on these features, please see the TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 1.9 Feature Overview.
Form-to-Email Setup
The Selection Gallery features used for client proofing rely on a form-to-email script to send client selections via email. In order for the form submission to reach you, the photographer, the form-to-email script needs to be configured with your email address. Read how to configure the Form-to-Email script.
Isolating Selections in Lightroom
Submitted selections are easy to isolate in Lightroom’s Library module, provided you’ve been savvy in naming your source files.
When Lightroom generates a web gallery, it renames the image files, replacing spaces and special characters with underscores. To get the most out of the selection gallery, Your source files and the web gallery image files should have identical names.
To accomplish this, avoid spaces and special characters when naming your files; use underscores where separation is necessary. Example filenames might look like 20070108Identifier001.jpg or 20070108_Identifier_001.jpg.
If your files are named correctly, the filenames of the exported web gallery images will not be changed. These filenames will then be submitted to your email by the FormToEmail script in a comma separated list.
In the Lightroom Library module, access the Find pane. Set Text to either “Anywhere” or “Filename”. Set Rule to “Contains Any”. Copy and paste the filenames from the email into the search field. The selected images will be isolated in the grid, allowing your to color code them, create a collection, or otherwise separate them for further consideration, processing or output.
The podcast demonstrates this visually.
See also my article on Filenaming Conventions.
Troubleshooting
A minority of LR/Windows users have reported application freezes when using TTG Highslide Gallery. Version 1.3+ includes a Windows Safe-Mode feature. If you are among those experiencing freezes when attempting to load TTG Highslide Gallery or TTG Highslide Gallery Pro, please install the “Safe-Mode” .lrtemplte file included with your download by copying it into the Web Templates folder. Use this template to load the engine from the Template Browser, and DO NOT load it from the Engines list.
While in Safe-Mode, Highslide functionality is disabled. You will be able to configure other elements on the page and see them in the LR preview. To check Highslide functionality, you will need to launch the gallery using Lightroom’s “Preview In Browser” feature, accessible from the Web menu. Exported galleries and galleries being Preview[ed] in Browser will be fully functional.
The freezing problem arises from Internet Explorer’s jerky nature. LR/Mac users should not experience freezing problems.
Changelog
- v1.9.5 ( in development )
- Fixed centering issues in Inline Slideshow modes.
- Lua optimizations.
- v1.9.4 ( 2010-01-31 )
- Fixes critical bug causing unresponsiveness of engine in LR2/Win.
- Added support for sales tax to transactionless cart.
- v1.9.3 ( 2010-01-25 )
- Fixed a Javascript error.
- Added decimal support to two places for transactionless shopping cart.
- Added separate hyperlink color options for captions, located in the Caption Extras controls.
- Added
onDimmerClickoption to Slideshow Mode; controls where or not large images close when the dimmer area is clicked during a slideshow. - Changed handling of Google Analytics. Now requires only your Web Property ID (UA-xxxxxx-x), rather than the entire block of Javascript.
- Because scripts can no longer be cheated into the Google Analytics entry field as before, I’ve added a new Advanced Options control group to the Output Settings control pane. There are three input fields: Add CSS rules in , Add script to and Add script before . CSS rules are visible in preview, while the scripts are only added when the gallery is published (exported, or previewed in browser) to prevent any possible Lightroom tantrums.
- Added a new
#wrapperDIV to the source code that allows for new custom styling possibilities. - Source code for Lightroom’s preview onclick events now prevented from exporting, resulting in cleaner code that IE8 should no longer bitch about.
- Some tweaks under the hood.
- v1.9.2 ( 2010-01-10 )
- Cooliris Title and Description now have dedicated controls in the Image Info pane.
- Cooliris links now take advantage of the new permalink support for images.
- Fixed a bug that slipped into the menu in 1.9.1.
- v1.9.1 ( 2010-01-05 )
- Improvements to the transactionless cart, including new debugging options.
- Added permalink support for accessing specific images via URL, e.g. http://www.domain.com/gallery/?autoload=Image_Filename. When writing URLs, do not include the image file extension; use ‘image’, not ‘image.jpg’.
- New “Caption Extras” control area for adding Download Image and Permalink hyperlinks to image captions. This is a revision and expansion of the “Download Image” control area added in v1.9.
- New option to position the header/identity plate beneath the menu.
- New
border-bottomoptions for the header/identity plate. - New
text-decorationoptions for Hyperlinks and Menu Links. - Increased large image-size range to a maximum 15,000 pixels.
- Fixed bug in Cooliris captions; now takes IPTC data source from
<img alt=in the Image Info control pane. - v1.9 ( 2009-12-11 )
- New proprietary shopping cart system, without online transactions. Requires PHP.
- Added “Download Image” links; not an e-commerce option.
- PayPal language codes now supported.
- Added individual item pricing for PayPal / FoxyCart shopping carts; set item prices for each image in metadata, then access via Image Info pane.
- Added a favicon.
- Slideshow mode dimming slider now has a minimum value of 0 and a maximum of 100, owing to new underlying math that allows these values to work.
- Fixed a newly discovered bug affecting background-color of North/South Inline Slideshow layouts.
- New color controls for shopping cart drop-lists.
- Revised value ranges for thumbnail size and fixed width header sliders.
- v1.8 ( 2009-11-03 )
- Updated to Highslide JS 4.1.8.
- Fixed border for Gallery Description image; was inadvertently broken from 1.6 update.
- Set max-width for shopping cart <select> elements; prevents shopping select lists from overflowing grid.
- More improvements and fixes to Inline Slideshow mode.
- Added an Inline Slideshow, West layout option.
- Added control sliders for Tooltip font-size and width.
- Increased maximum number of images allowed per single gallery; limit now set at 10,000 images (I do not recommend creating galleries so large).
- UI Changes: Swapped location of ID Plate settings with Header/Page Settings; seems to make better sense in regard to workflow.
- Structural optimizations.
- Tested various configurations for XHTML validation. All configurations should now validate XHTML/Strict, except PayPal Shopping Carts, which validate XHTML/Transitional.
- v1.7 (2009-10-06)
- Taking a cue from Timothy Armes, font stack presets are now built in, though font stacks remain user editable.
- Reorganized controls to better facilitate top-to-bottom workflow in creating gallery; lots moved, but nothing missing.
- Javascript enhancements.
- Selection counter text can now be customized using three input fields for “image”, “s” and “selected”.
- Updated Highslide JS to version 4.1.7.
- Slideshow buttons can now be styled.
- v1.6 (2009-09-11)
- Menu Items now preset for use with TTG Pages 3.0.
- Updated contact form to be more consistent with features introduced in TTG Pages 3.0.
- Added some new styling options and tweaked some CSS for consistency with TTG Pages 3.0.
- New templates to match those provided in TTG Pages 3.0.
- Fixed CSS bug affecting particular header configurations.
- Fixed IE8 bug in check-box counter.
- Lost the divider line in the gallery description as it just didn’t seem to fit the design, and caused bizarre spacing issues when made “invisible”. I hope no one misses it, but shout at me if you do.
- v1.51 (2009-08-27)
- Form-to-Email Remote support.
- UI changes.
- CSS improvements and fixes.
- v1.5 (2009-08-19)
- FoxyCart shopping cart integration.
- Slideshow mode: Actual Size (1:1) button can now be disabled.
- Slideshow mode: Architectural changes made to slideshow buttons to allow Actual Size button removal.
- Slideshow and Proofing modes: Option to set caption alignment justify, left, right or center.
- Fixed some Fotomoto CSS conflicts.
- Round corner options for on-page box elements; only shows in web browsers supporting CSS3 corners.
- Replaced Mootools Javascript library with JQuery.
- New JQuery checkbox replacement for selection galleries.
- New JQuery checkbox counter, for tallying and displaying the number of images “checked” in a selection gallery.
- New JQuery elastic textarea for selection gallery comments form.
- Fixed some validation errors that crept in during updates.
- Minor UI adjustments.
- v1.41 (2009-08-09)
- Support for Fotomoto’s new card products — sell greeting cards, flat cards and postcards through Fotomoto!.
- Improved form validation for Selection Gallery.
- Fixed form compatibility for Form-to-Email Pro.
- Improved handling/protection of Highslide license.
- Fixed bug that prevented text customization for ‘Close’ button in Slideshow mode.
- Added capability to enable/disable individually Fotomoto “Buy Print” and “Send E-card” buttons.
- Fixed IE bug for View Cart button width.
- Package includes a modified Form-to-Email script and readme file for use on Yahoo Small Business accounts.
- v1.4 (2009-07-26)
- Paypal Shopping Cart: Maximum number of options raised from five to ten.
- Paypal Shopping Cart: Added a second array for products, wherein modifications and price adjustments can be specified for services such as finishing, framing, etc.
- Paypal Shopping Cart: Second array price adjustments can be added to the total price at a fixed rate, or as a percentage increase.
- Paypal Shopping Cart: Fixed shopping cart scripting bug related to enabling/disabling options from the product array.
- New Selection gallery form: all new code, additional styling options, Telephone and Website fields (optional), custom field labels; form validation (Name, Email and Telephone are required fields, Website optional).
- Optional Close button corner overlay in Slideshow and Proofing modes.
- Option to make caption background transparent.
- v1.3 (2009-07-23)
- First release of TTG Highslide Gallery Pro.
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I’ve used the Highslide Pro gallery and TTG pages since late last year as a paying customer and have tried to create a new gallery using the proofing feature along with a slideshow today.
1) Firstly it takes an awful long time to set up a gallery as LR has to export photos everytime you change a paragraph or a tick box. Is this a LR problem or TTG?
2) Worse though is that I’ve tried uploading this new gallery to a new part of my domain, i.e. outside the TTG pages area, to provide images for proofing.
It takes a very long time and at the end of it I get an error saying either “Unknown error” or “access denied”, usually when LR is just passed 50% of the process. I’ve come across this frequently before, but then it’s been solved by restarting LR and/or switching to Library module and back. I’ve tried all day, at least 10 times and created new FTP accounts with new passwords, in case it’s a host problem, but it just doesn’t work. Used passive, enhanced passive and “not passive mode”. Nothing seems to work. Any ideas?
I’m using LR 2.6 on Vista Ultimate SP2 and HS Pro 1.92.
Hi Donald,
Every time the structure of the page changes — enabling or disabling options causes this to occur, as does changing some page content — the preview must reload. This is the same as refreshing your web browser to load changes made to a page when creating a website. The way that Lightroom handles previews and when it decides to regenerate them is a Lightroom issue. This is why I recommend working with only a small selection of images when setting up your gallery, and loading the larger collection only when the gallery is finished having been configured. If you really want to speed things up, for that small collection of images, use JPGs; LR will process them much faster.
Regarding the upload problem, LR has pretty crummy FTP support. Better to export galleries to your desktop, then transfer them manually to your web host.
Hi Matt,
I have been using and loving your web galleries, they are the best thing to happen to lightroom.
I have just upgraded to Highslide Pro Gallery v1.9.3, and i have encountered a problem when using it with LR3b
There appears to be a problem with the thumbnail generation. You can see an example of what I am experiencing via a screen grab at http://picasaweb.google.com/Pete.Cobbe/DropBox?authkey=Gv1sRgCOCM65_jt5-13gE#5431167405000249634
The gallery works fine in LR2, and the previous version of Highslide Pro, that i downloaded towards the end of last year worked fine in LR3b
I can workaround the bug by using LR2, but i thought i should let you know about it!
Kindest regards
Pete
Regarding me previous email, ment to say i had upgraded to V1.9.2
Sorry to cause confusion
Petesh
Have you tried the 1.9.3 update? Any better?
there is no difference with 1.9.3, the same problems is still evident
I just downloaded the most recent version (v 1.9.3) and am also getting the same error in LR3. Any idea when this will be fixed or is there a workaround I can try other than LR2?
Tracy
LR2 is it for now. As I’ve said before, LR3 Beta is extremely unstable and should not be used in a production environment. That’s Adobe’s own warning to users. I am presently working on TTG Highslide Gallery Pro 2.0, which will be aimed at LR3. But again, I can’t vouch for the Beta with it either. That’s why it’s beta.
Hi Matt,
I just tried today the Highslide Pro gallery 1.9.4 with LR3 (on MAC) and I am getting exactly the same problem as Pete : impossible to generate thumbnails …
Is there a favicon setting that I’m not seeing? It’s late…
To change the favicon, you’ll need to replace the file in the
resources/imagesfolder. No settings within LR.I’m getting ready to do my first upgrade since my original purchase. Other than moving the web engine into the appropriate folder path, is there anything else I should be concerned about? I want to make sure my template that I labored over does get hosed (a technical term).
Thanks in advance for the guidance…
The template should be fine. You should backup the older version of the engine before putting the new version into the folder, just in case you have some reason to rollback.
Hi Matt:
Pulling out all my remaining hair. I have built a website with TTG Pages and uploaded it. Home, Contact and About all work. I created a Gallery with TTG Highslide Pro, exported it from Lightroom 2 and uploaded all created files and folders to the gallery subfolder on the server. All I get is a 500 Internal Server Error when I click the Gallery Index button. I have tried putting the gallery files and folders in a gallery subdiectory with the same name as the album and a number of other things that I probably cant replicate but no joy. Nothing but 500 errors. I’m sure that it is probably one small tweak to fix but not being a php programmer, just a photographer using your template I dont even know where to start. Is there something obvious that I should check or do I need the yellow pages for a freelance web designer?
Any help appreciated.
Matt:
Changed permissions on all files from 777 to 755 and have stopped getting 500 error but still am only getting an empty page page where the gallery should be. All exported Lightroom gallery files and folders are in the gallery subfolder on the server.
You should verify that your host is actually running PHP, and when posting here for support you should also include a URL so that I can see the problem first-hand, rather than relying on a written description to troubleshoot.
Sorry Matt. http://www.artshot.ca
Your files should not be loose in the
galleriesfolder. They should be inside a folder of their own, and that folder placed intogalleries.Thannks Matt but I am not sure if there is a naming requirement for the folder placed in the galleries subfolder. Is there a relationship between the Album name and the name of the folder in which the files are stored? Do these in turn need to match the name that Lightroom asks for in the Export dialogue?
All working now. Thank you
Matt,
have got website ver 3 up with one gallery operating. proprietary cart working. Have adjusted currency and Form to email. All working as required. PROBLEM: On the gallery page itself the menu items lead to Not Found error message because they point to Pricing About Contact existing at a lower level than the Root level which is where they are found. I can go in and adjust http://www.liveartsphotography.com.au/galleries/anti_polio/index.html to pint menu items back up to Root level but is there any way I can change the template so that the menu for each gallery I add will have the correct path rather than having to do multiple changes. E.g. the last show I shot has 17 separate galleries. Thanks for your help so far.
regards
Damian
Your menu item URLs are set incorrectly. You should have left them at their default settings.
You have “about.html” as your About link, for example, which should be “../../about.html”.
Hello Matt,
I have been using you Highside gallery pro v1.4 and loving it.
I do have a question about Photomoto. Because there are only two drop down menus associated with the Paypal option and the buy print button is below sideshow it gets confusing for customers. I use the two drop down menus to sell stock photography, one for print and one for electronic, can there be a 3rd drop down that would link to Photomoto to sell prints in the gallery page?
thanks
Barry
PayPal and Fotomoto are not meant to be used together in a single gallery, as stated in the product description under “Using the E-Commerce Features”. One or the other, not both; eliminates confusion, and ensures that things don’t conflict and break.
how do you prevent right click copying of images when posted online ?
Hi Lawrence,
Please read the FAQ.
Matt,
I’ve volunteered to help an events photographer setup a website to sell her photos. She is a LightRoom fan, so I have suggested to her that we get 4 copies of Highslide Gallery Pro, TTG Pages and the unlimited HighSlide license so that several of us can be involved in the process. Please answer the following questions and keep in mind that I’m a network admin and only do website work on the side.
1. Can large galleries be spread accross multiple pages? She sometimes has thousands of pics from the events that she shoots.
2. We will be using PayPal in Proofing mode (I think). The question is – do I have to use PHP? Our Unix shared hosting server at Verio has the NMS FormMail.pl cgi script, which is a more secure version of Matt’s Formmail script and suits our needs well. I’ve never used PHP, MySql, etc. and I really don’t want to have to learn it now.
3. Are there any other TTG products that we should get? Auto Index, Stage, etc.
4. If we have a merchant account at our bank that allows VISA, MasterCard and Discover and supports PayPal, do users purchasing pics from our galleries need their own PayPal account?
5. Can I create additional pages for our site with TTG Pages, other than just the Home, About and Contact pages?
Thanks much and regards,
Randy
Hi Randy,
1.
In the current release, no. I am considering building this feature into an upcoming release, though. An alternative is to split large collections into smaller groups, building separate galleries and using a gallery index to tie them together. TTG Auto Index is perfect for this.
2.
There is no PHP involved in the PayPal shopping cart. PHP is only used when using the selection gallery features, or the proprietary, transactionless shopping cart. None of my galleries use MySQL, as Lightroom’s Web module is incapable of creating or tying into databases.
3.
If you want to create multiple gallery indices on your site, then I would recommend TTG Auto Index. Otherwise, it’s really up to you. Please note that the gallery index in TTG Pages and TTG Auto Index do require PHP support.
4.
Users do not need a PayPal account to make purchases; PayPal accepts credit card payments from unregistered visitors.
5.
You can create as many menu items linking to other pages as you want. To create additional pages, however, you would need to export multiple instances of TTG Pages with different content, then take the home.html and about.html files and rename them to be the other pages you want, moving them into your main TTG Pages exported folder.
Hi Matt.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give…
I really like the flexibility of both TTG Pages and the Highslide Gallery Pro. They are the first templates that did not need a ton of tweaking to get the look I want. But, I also like the flexibility to tweak away, should I desire to do so in the future.
I am brand new to all of this, and cannot seem to load the galleries to the correct path to get them to show up on my Gallery Index Page. I have posted galleries at../../photos, at ../../galleries, ../../galleries/zion/photos, etc. They all show up if I access them directly but not through the gallery index page.
1. Could you show me the whole path (eg: http://www.georgelafountaine.com/public.html/XXXX/XXX/XXX) so I can get it right.
2. In the Caption Extras section of the Color Pallete panel there is an orange note about downloading hi-res images separately. Does Highslide Pro limit the size of the file, or is that done through the Output Quality slider?
3. Can I upload lower-res images (because I am just paranoid that folks will take hi-res copies for printing) by selecting a lower quality setting in the Image Settings section of the Output panel?
4. I have pretty large files(35MB .dng shot in RAW), any idea how low quality I can set before you start to see a degradation in viewing quality?
Thanks a Ton! Great Product!
Hi George,
1. Gallery folders should be installed to the location
http://www.georgelafountaine.com/galleries/.2. The Highslide gallery will generate thumbnails and large-size images for online viewing. If you wish to provide a larger, third rendition for download, then you need to export those images separately from your Library. The settings in the gallery are for telling the gallery where to link to those images. So, you might copy your hi-res images into a
hiresfolder, which should be copied into the gallery folder. You then need to tell the gallery where those images are located by filling in the name of the folder as specified.3. You can adjust the quality of the images using the slider in the Output Settings control pane.
4. Nope. You’ll just have to experiment.
Thanks Matt. Now the galleries are working well, with the exception of one self-inflicted wound… At one point I loaded the wrong set of images into my gallery /zionwinter/. I quickly corrected the problem, and the gallery page is fine, but now the thumbnails that come up occationally in the gallery index are photos that don’t belong.
Is there a way to purge those old thumbnails from the gallery index?
Did you delete the gallery entirely before loading the new one? If not, then it’s possible some of the previous thumbnails still exist in your thumbnails folder and need to be deleted.
Otherwise, it could be a problem with your browser cache, which should be cleared.
I deleted my temp internet files. The problem persists. I wrote the new gallery to the same old address and did not delete first. Could you please tell me how to delete the gallery entirely, or the thumbnails folder?
Sorry I am so clueless…
Thanks Matt, your help has been extremely valuable.
G
Use an FTP client. You will be able to navigate folders on your server and delete them same as you would on your local machine. There’s a full tutorial on FTP basics here on the site, if you need it. See the Essential Reading page in the About & Help menu.
I’m really liking this gallery option for lightroom on the web. The problem i am having is with the “larger downloadable image” link not showing up when i export or preview?
i filled in that option on the right to point to “photos/large/”
and i exported larger images on my own of the same photos in the gallery.
why do i not see a link to view the downloadable image?
is there another check box i’m missing?
thanks
The link should appear in the caption of your large rendition images in either Slideshow or Proofing Highslide modes. If that statement doesn’t solve your problem, then I will need a URL to see the gallery in question.
ok it looks like what is happening is a difference in file names. when i export using the web gallery and highslide gallery my file names are like this – “DSC01821_Edit.jpg” but then when i export my large images and use the regular file export command, my file name is like this “DSC01821-Edit.jpg”. the difference of course being the underscore vs the dash. why is the web gallery changing them to an underscore? anyway to control this on either end?
thanks
Please read my article on File Name Conventions.
Having an issue with images in the gallery being distorted. The problem is in the Portraits and Weddings gallery. Some few images are either stretched or compressed horizontally. Number 7 and 33 typically, but not always. The weird thing is the distortion is different when I view the gallery on my hard drive than on my website. Same problems, but different images. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I’m not seeing any issue with the images on your site. What browser are you using?
Internet Explorer 8 on three different machines.
Can you screen capture a distorted image so that I can see what you’re talking about?
Matt -
I’m almost there. I have TTG Pages up and a folder named patch, which I placed into the galleries folder.
The purpose of the patch folder is to host other (sub) galleries. I thought I could just drop another folder, titos, into the patch folder – and that it would be picked up properly and autoindexed.
I was mistaken, but I think I am close.
What am I missing? What do I have to modify/add and where?
Thanks,
Mark
If you want to create sub-index folders, then you need to use TTG Auto Index. Also, be sure to modify the gallery menu items so that the URLs account for the extra level of hierarchy (“../../” for each menu item URL should become “../../../”).
Matt,
Since you are working on v. 2.0, I request a max thumbnail of 1024×768, and an option (a checkbox) to not generate larger renderings. After playing with my iPhone and initially trying to make an iPhone friendly HS gallery, I realized that a 1024×768 website displays just fine on the iPhone.
So, thumbnails, with no enlargements would be great. I could make separate galleries with either vertical or horizontal images and could just swipe my finger though them to scroll.
Also, I thought it may be useful to post a checklist of things to check when a gallery is updated and installed, like email address in the Contact page, the favicon, and anything else I should remember.
Thanks for your consideration.
Reid
Have you looked at TTG iPhone Portfolio?
TTG Highslide Gallery Pro can be viewed on an iPhone, but really isn’t built for it. And there is no way to prevent the export the larger images. The code is either in the engine, or it’s not. It cannot be turned off.
i’ve looked at the iphone Portfolio, but isn’t all the different from HS as it still enlarges small thumbnails.
If you could allow 1024×768 thumbs, I could work with that.
Thanks,
Reid
I love the highslide gallery pro. I also low the client feedback gallery. I’d love it even more if the highslide gallery had the ability to add the hi-res download link that is available in the client feedback. Sometimes when I host images for friends I want the merging of both worlds. The slideshow and look of highslide with the high res downloads of the client feedback. I’m not about to sell my photos to my buddies. Maybe it’s there and I’m missing it.
You are indeed missing it, Justin. Look under the Color Palette control pane, Caption Extras. Options there will allow you to setup the download links. You then need to export the hi-res images separately from the Library, but this gives you greater flexibility and control over the specs of the downloadable images and also doesn’t slow down the web engine.
Thank you very much. I will check this out promptly. Great option to export them separately.
Hi Matt
I am wondering if TTG HGP could be used on my site and intregrate my own cart? I have ecart from webassist and would like to use it. I also hve dreamweaver so I could edit the pages within that. Would all the code need to change for every picture?
All the code! Every picture! And probably more; Javascript, interface and all that … I’ve built in several online shopping options, but I do not consider the engine to be openly compatible with any shopping cart system for which it is not built.
Hi Matt,
If you get a chance, could you take a look at the ‘Published in Patch’ tab on my site (http://pix-by-mark.com)? Auto index should have created 2 galleries — if I’ve configured the thing right.
And I’m having a problem with Simpleviewer Pro on the home page (nothing’s showing up).
much thanks,
Mark
Looks to me as if you’ve setup your Home page for Simpleviewer-1 and then tried to load in a Simpleviewer-2 gallery. And, as you can see, that doesn’t work.
As for your Published in Patch page, I need more information. I’m assuming this was made with TTG Auto Index. I need you to give me URLs to the galleries you want indexed.
Matt,
I have a client gallery that has multiple images posted to it with corresponding thumbnails. Currently, the gallery index page shows a random thumbnail taken from the thumbnail folder in the clients gallery. Is there any way to set a default thumbnail so that every time the index is loaded, the same thumbnail loads all the time? I’ve tried deleting all the thumbnails except the one I want to load, but then when the gallery is loaded, there are broken links for all the image thumbnails.
Is there a way to generate an RSS feed at publish time? I would like to be able to have a fixed size (example 500×550px boundary) image, along with a link to take to my Fotomoto shopping cart for that particular image. The Cool IRIS feed. I use RSS feeds as the data source for my iPhone app (MorperPix in App Store) and would love to integrate shopping directly within the app.
Many thanks for the suggestions/feedback.
I’ve purchased Highslide 4.1.8 / ttg_highslidepro_194 and ttg_pages..I tried to install highslide pro by extracting the files from the zip and directed them to Lightroom (2.6) but nothing shows up there on the web section..(not even after a restart) so I guess I need some direction in order to get these items installed so I can be moving forward with these softwares….
Follow the installation instructions for web engines and web templates.
Matt,
I figured out how to get the thumbnail to default to a specific image. I found the answer in the autoindex information. I was looking in the highslide gallery pro info.
Hey Matt,
1) I’ve read that Highslide Pro cannot support multiple pages of images, but haven’t been able to find just how many images can be placed on a single page. Also, do you know when/if you will be updating the program to support the multi-page feature? I, and most wedding photographers, need to post about 800-1000 images for every event.
2) Is there a way to password protect galleries?
Hi Matt,
Do you have an eta on the new release of Highslide Pro?
Thanks,
Mark
LR3 Beta is beta and not officially supported. Please use LR2 to produce galleries until LR3 goes to retail.
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