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USING PHOTOSHOP LIGHTROOM 2
Creating and viewing slide shows
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Click the color box on the right and choose the color you want for the stars from the pop-up window.
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Change the size of the stars by doing one of the following:
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Adjust the Scale slider or enter a Scale percentage value.
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Click the rating stars in the Slide Editor view and drag one of the bounding box handles.
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Click the rating stars in the Slide Editor view, and then do any of the following to position them in the slide layout:
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Drag from within the bounding box.
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Click the Rotate Left or Rotate Right in the toolbar.
As you move the rating stars, the bounding box tethers itself to points on the image border. This behavior allows the
stars to float next to or within an image at a consistent distance from the image border, regardless of the size or
orientation of the image.
More Help topics
“
Filtering and rating photos
” on page 75
Add text and metadata to slides
You can add text that appears on every slide, or information that is specific to a slide. For example, you can display the
stars rating that you applied to an image, or the caption that is recorded in an image’s metadata.
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In the toolbar on the Slideshow module, click ABC.
The Custom Text pop-up menu and text box appear in the toolbar.
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Do any of the following in the toolbar:
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To create text that displays over all the slides, type the text in the Custom Text box and press Enter (Windows) or
Return (Mac
OS).
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To display specific metadata for each slide, click the Custom Text pop-up menu and choose a metadata option.
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To use the Text Template Editor to specify the text that appears under each slide, click the Custom Text pop-up
menu and choose Edit. Then, select tokens to create a custom text string. See “
The Filename Template Editor and
Text Template Editor
” on page 35.
Text Overlays is automatically selected in the Overlays panel, and the text and bounding box appear in the Slide Editor view.
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Format the text by doing any of the following in the Text Overlays section of the Overlays panel:
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To choose a text color, click the color box to the right of Text Overlays and choose a color from the pop-up window.
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To adjust the text opacity, drag the Opacity slider or enter a percentage value.
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To choose a font, click the triangle next to the font name and choose from the pop-up menu.
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To choose a font face, click the triangle next to the face name and choose from the pop-up menu.
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Do any of the following to position or scale the text or object in the Slide Editor view:
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To adjust the size of the text, drag one of the bounding box handles.
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To move the text to a specific location, drag from within the box.
As you move the text, the bounding box tethers itself to points on the image border. This behavior allows the text to
float next to an image or within an image at a consistent distance from the border, regardless of the size or orientation
of the images.
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(Optional) If you want to add another text box, click ABC in the toolbar and specify the text options.
Updated 03 September 2009
