Comments on: Custom Text Templates

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 22:28:13 +0000

I found the answer to my issue. You have to go to Book, Book Preferences, Fill Text Boxes With (and change it to whatever item you want). It looks like it defaulted to Filler Text.

By: Rob Sylvan

Rob Sylvan — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 23:33:16 +0000

In reply to Victor. While looking at all pages (after auto layout), go to Edit > Select All Text Cells, then choose what text template you want to use in the Text panel. Should auto-populate the photo text field with the caption for each photo (assuming you've applied captions in the metadata to all photos already).

By: Victor

Victor — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 18:07:11 +0000

In the Book module, I can see where you can use, for example, the Caption metadata to populate the caption text for an image. I can do this for a single image. What I can’t figure out is how to get this to work automatically when auto-populating a layout. First, there’s an efficiency issue. I would have to do this same mundane task for each image. Worse, if I regenerate the layout, all my captions are lost. Surely there’s a way to get it to read the captions from metadata when doing auto-layout.

By: Don Dement

Don Dement — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:09:51 +0000

I’ve been teaching Lightroom for 6 years and using it on tens of thousand photos, and never knew this existed. As you’ve shown it, it reveals the answer to the frustrations I had when starting my first slideshow. Everyone asks how to caption a slide, and I said “you can only caption them all the same” with an apology.

Now, I’m going to pay more attention to entering a title in Metadata because I know it can have multiple uses. Nothing like telling people where/what you’re showing. Thanks much.