Community @ The Turning Gate

I set up a fake page, explained in this previous post:

http://community.theturninggate.net/vie … hp?id=7174

Rod, I agree.  Attempting to improve the presentation for smaller screens, I tried some smaller slice size panos.  But they brought on their own problems of shaky presentation and unwanted gaps without improving small screen display.  Here are some examples you can see for yourself.  These are the Columbo panos with slices halved to 480, 240, and 120 pixels, as indicated in the URL:

http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … -pano-480/
http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … -pano-240/
http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … -pano-120/

If there is a solution, I'd like to know, but for now will keep slice size the same as image width.

When you are doing the slicing in Photoshop, you can set the output naming of the slices to avoid the accidental slice selection problem.  When in the "Save for Web" dialog, click on the little menu icon in the upper right and select "Edit Output Settings".  Then select "Slices" and establish the slice naming convention you like.  I found it useful to set the default naming to include at least 2 digits (e.g. 01, 02, 03....10, 11...) in case there are 10 or more slices.  This allows sorting by filename to keep the slices in the correct order.  If you have all the slices selected (shift-click on every slice to make sure) when you set things up, all the slices should be consistently named.  Then the setup can be saved for future use.

FWIW, I set up a panorama display template using Vegas Strip; no special php, css, html or additional coding required.  Here's are a couple of examples:

http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … umbo-pano/

http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.c … balu-pano/

I used Vegas Strip pano settings: Gutters, Border, Slide Padding and Slide Margins to 0.

Then precision sliced the pano in Photoshop -- easier than it sounds and you can set up a user action if you want. I used Photoshop CC on the Mac; your setup could be a little different.  This is the workflow: Open the pano in Photoshop, select the slice tool (c), and double click on the image.  This opens a popup menu, and select "Divide Slice".  In this menu, check "Divide Vertically Into" and set it at the desired slice width (I used 960 pixels; use other value to suit your presentation).  Click OK.  The slice guide lines should be visible at this point.  Select File>Export>Save for Web (Legacy) to open save dialog.  Size "fit in view" on the lower left to make all slices visible in the window, and select them all (shift-click will do) the first time you do this.  Then set up your desired Presets (e.g. jpeg, quality, filenames, etc.) in the upper right of the dialog box.  Once you get it working as you want, you can save this as a preset for future use and you won't have to select all the slices again.

The slices will be where you instructed PS to save them.  Set up an album in LR with the Vegas Strip Pano template, add the slices and publish.

Gave up with using the .htaccess file that I was using on CE4 as an error trap, but still wanted to get a 404 error page that wouldn't scare away viewers who might have mis-typed something.  So, built an ersatz page within Backlight>Settings.  You can see the result here: http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.com/xxxx/.

I picked my normal page as "Page not Found Template", and built the fake page within "Page not Found Message".  Here's the message input:

<h2><center><font color=red>Error 404 - not found.</font>  Oops, you made a wrong turn somewhere</center></h2>
<u>[<center>**Return Home**](/)</u>           <u>[**Complaint Department**</center>](http://www.michaelrichardsphotography.com/contact/)</u>


Seems to have solved the problem for me.

Doh!  Missed the "Album Order" option somehow.  Thanks, and sorry to bother you with this request.

Matt, A small item that may be worth mentioning.  I took a look at Reel: Animate, and found out that if "Display Captions" is checked, the caption of only the first image displays.  Maybe this is intentional...

Daniel, Absolutely brilliant!  Thanks.

Matt, good suggestion.  I joined github and reported the problem.

Matt, The second one doesn't work with or without the escape backslash.  Apparently the Parsedown engine picks up the embedded ")" as a Markdown termination.  I've even tried escape on both parentheses, same problem.  It appears that Parsedown is the problem, since it works with MOU.