For many photographers, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom has become a standard and critical piece of their daily workflow. Image sorting, editing, and exporting have been tremendously expedited by Lightroom’s powerful processing capabilities.

This is post is geared for photographers and describes Lightroom’s ability to use Timothy Armes‘ web plugin “Elegance” to create Flash-like galleries through HTML slideshows and import them seamlessly into a WordPress.org blog post or page.

The beauty of these “Flash-like” slideshows done in HTML is that it allows incompatible portable devices with Flash (such as a minor tool like an iPhone) to view elegant slideshows. For a more detailed explanation on the reason behind the Lightroom Plugin “Elegance” check out Timothy’s blog.

For a detailed description of how I’ve incorporated these tools into my blog jump down to the rest of the post.

My first desire when I was introduced to the Elegance Web Plugin by Timothy Armes to create stylish sideshows that could fit into my WordPress blog post. The HTML slideshow created by the Elegance plugin was a great foundation but took me a little bit of research to figure out to get from here (full HTML page) to here (integrated WordPress slideshow).

First, download and install Timothy Armes Lightroom Plugin “Elegance”. The download is free and you can create 6-image slideshows  for free, but the plugin is donationware in order to release the full potential of the plugin.

Second, download the WordPress.org plugin called Embed Iframe.  This plugin for WordPress allows you to insert “an HTML tag that allows a webpage to be displayed inline with the current page, in a WordPress post.”

Third, figure out the width and height of your WordPress.org blog post or page that you want to embed the HTML Elegance slideshow.

Fourth, when you write a post you will include this code in your blog post surrouned by square brackets: iframe url width height. So for my post I include “iframe http:/jpreding.com/simmswedding 600 800″ inside of the square brackets.

It may take a little bit of playing around with the image settings and sizes in the Elegance Web plugin for Lightroom and finding the right balance of width and height on the the Embed Iframe plugin for your specific blog post or page. All in all pretty simple tools combine to pull off exactly the feel I was trying to accomplish. The slideshows have the appearance of Flash but are pure HTML. Geeky, cool, and hopefully insightful.

Let me know if this is helpful and if you guys have any tips to make this process even smoother, although 4 steps seems pretty simple to get things going. Grace and peace,

JRed