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Musoade
Inspiring
May 29, 2024
Question

Smaller images don't fill the screen in Slideshow

  • May 29, 2024
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Hi all!

For the first time I thought I'd try the Lightroom Slideshow tab to get an important job done quickly... simple yeah?

 

I tested it with full sized images from my library and all looked good - however I needed to use reduced size images sent to me by my fellow club members - and this gave me a big problem.  Despite clicking "Zoom to fill frame"  - it didn't!  All the images were displayed in a reduced frame despite the image appearing perfect when in the editing stage - as soon as I press play the images shrink!  And this isn't cured by saving as a video file - same deal...

 

If I replace the images with originals from my library all looks good - but all the other images were 1600x1200 max.

 

Anyone else have this problem?  In the end I used my video editing software (now Da Vinci - was Premiere pro (sorry)) - and this did the trick, eventually, but I really wanted to use the metadata from the images which a video editor doesn't expect to do.

Thanks!

AC

MacOS M1 Max - Sonoma 14.4.1

LrC  13.3

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Rob_Cullen
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Rob_CullenCommunity Expert
Community Expert
May 29, 2024

TBMK it has always been that way in LrC SS- Small pixel size images do not expand to fill the screen.

One workaround might be to -

1) Select ALL the photos you want in the Slideshow (eg. a Collection).

2) Export them all with a 'Resize' to the pixel dimension you need (eg. 1920x1080px). (Add to Catalog, include metadata)

3) Create your SS from the exported files

You can always delete the exported files at a later date if they now serve no further purpose.

Note: That "Resize" sets the maximum pixel dimensions for the exported files- Small pixel images will be 'upscaled'. Large pixel images will be 'down-scaled' to fit. ie. All the exported images will be consistent in size (ie. Made to fit within the  size specified. eg.1920x1080px)

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.1.1, Photoshop 27.3.1, ACR 18.1.1, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0.2 .
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MusoadeAuthor
Inspiring
June 3, 2024

Great idea! 
what confuses me however, is that when I'm editing the parameters of the slideshow the images look fine - also they fill the screen when using the develop module - so there's clearly enough pixels to do that!  Pretty poor imho.  
thanks for the work around..

ac

 

M
MusoadeAuthor
Inspiring
June 3, 2024

OK - furthermore - for those that are interested... to get the images to fill my screen (MacBook Pro 16" - retina 3456 x 2234)  I had to resize to 3200 x 2134 - seems that LR SS does a 1 for 1 pixel conversion (no conversion) - making things 1920x1080 left them the same size or smaller(!). Clearly when the SS is rendered as a video file this is when they get shrunk to HD dimensions... shame there's no 4K rendering g!

ac

 

 

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