I’ve made a little tutorial on how to install, use my collage and album templates for Lightroom 3 and also how to save them on your hard drive:
To install templates:
1. Select the Print panel in Lightroom-3:
2. In the left panel point the mouse to the “User Templates”
right-click and select “Import”:
3. In the pop-up window select all the templates you want to install ( they all have .lrtemplate ending on the files). Click OK.
4. Templates should appear in the left side panel under “User Templates”
To place pictures to the template, just drag and drop photo to the place.
To export and save a template in Lightroom 3:
1. In the right-side panel open up Print Job and make sure that Print to is selected with JPEG File:
Then press “Print to File” button and Save a collage:
That’s it! You are done!
Now if you want you can open a JPEG file in Photoshop (or Lightroom) and resize it, or if you want to print it, just load it to your photo-lab account.
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Thank you so much for these! I have been looking and looking for something like this and happened on your site in a search. Light bulb!!
:))) I’m glad you find them useful! :)
THere are more templates on my website here – http://www.LightroomTemplates.com
thank you, superb!
Hello Im trying to use these templates you have here for free download ut I am not able to get them to work. I downloaded the lightropom 3 adobe photoshop free trial to test out. When I try to use your tutorial instructions it doesnt even see the files. The kids contact template file ending is a .psd
Can someone please help me? Shouldnt I be able to use these templates? Also once I am able how do I get a picture in the template?
Thank you,
CAH
Hello,
it looks like you downloaded a trial of Photoshop, and not Lightroom. Find a link and install Lightroom 3 – then follow tutorials here – http://halinav.com/lightroom/tutorials/
Hi- thanks for sharing :) . I’ve been playing with these. Can you move the photo within the cell?
Mindy, select a cell, then hold [ Ctrl ] button and drag photo with the mouse
Thank you so much for sharing your templates. I’ve been using LR3 since July 11 and still learning. These are wonderful to have. Thanks again.
Great Totorial easy and handy. Well done.
Hi Halina,
These are fantastic! I was hoping I’d be able to make collages in LR. So great!
One question – do you have any idea how to resize the collages? I think they’re a bit big for my blog. I’m limited to 900 px W.
Thanks again!
Very cool idea – thanks for sharing :)
I’ll have to share the link with a bunch of other photographers!
Halina, how do I save collage as a file that can be posted online instead of printing? Thank you.
Albina – when you press “print to File” Lightroom will save a collage as a JPG file.
Then locate saved JPG file on your hard drive and show it online. If you don’t have a hosting, you can always save and share images through Flickr, Picassa, Photobucket or other websites.
Wow!!! I can’t begin to thank you for these!! That is so kind of you to create and share these!!! Holy cow!!! These were SO easy to upload and use!! I’m amazed!! Thank you for taking the time to do that for others!!!
WOW thanks so much i am a newbie and this is the biggest help for me. saved me hours of wondering what the heck im doing. loves and hugs thanks!
You are AWESOME!! Thanks so much for the templates!! I am new to LR and can use all the help I can get ..so thankful to have found this site!
Thank You Mary!
I’m glad I can help! :)