2 Replies Latest reply: Mar 13, 2012 11:16 AM by robirdman1 RSS

    Can no longer customize Web galleries

    robirdman1 Community Member

      Just reposted on this new forum, when I discovered after over 2 weeks that the other one was read only.  I hope someone here has a clue.  I didn't know if the question was not understandable or that no one bothers to modify the galleries, which now appear very limited to me.

       

      This is rather complex so I hope I can explain it well.

      In CS3 I created my own gallery styles based on the supplied ones.  Pretty much cusomizations of the white on black.

      When I got CS4, it had a new method of gallery creation, and I wanted to continue to use the types I had already created.  I had talked to tech help and was told how to import the styles I had and use the old method.

      I am currently creating galleries containing various families of insects.  I had previously created a template for bullerflies and moths called Lepidoptera gallery, after the Order to which they belong..  It contains a link to another page which has the families, and the link is called moth families.

       

       

      Now I was working on an entirely different Order, Orthoptera which includes, grasshoppers, crickets etc.  At first I used the Lepidoptera template, but then I had to go into 5 pages that were created and change text and links.

       

      So I created a copy of the Lepidoptera folder, and modified what I needed to change in an HTML editor, which was how I customized the style originally.  When I first tried to use the new Orthoptera template, it wasn't listed in the choices.  I searched the C: drive and found that the one I modified was in a different directory.

      It was in C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4\Presets\Web Photo Gallery

      So I copied it to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)\Presets\Web Photo Gallery.

       

      And now it appeared in the list of templates (Orthoptera).  So I ran the gallery creator, but found that the page created still had "Moth familes", instead of "Orthoptera Families".

      I had modified it already, and did so in both locations just in case.  If I go to windows explorer, and burrow down to the file, click on the template itself, orthoptera/indexpage.htm then this will produce a page with "orhoptera familes"

       

      I am just about tearing my hair out with frustration as this makes no sense to me at all.  I wonder if anyone understands what is going on.  As I continue to make more family galleries, which may have several pages, I don't want to have to keep going into each and doing the same changes all the time.  It should be so unnecessary.

        • 1. Re: Can no longer customize Web galleries
          Curt Y Community Member

          Don't do web galleries so can't help you there.

           

          But curious why you coppied your web gallery from the 32 bit gallary (x86) to the 64 bit gallery.

           

          Bridge is a 32 bit program even though you have the 64 bit Photoshop parent program.  So this may lead to your problem as Bridge will not look there.

          • 2. Re: Can no longer customize Web galleries
            robirdman1 Community Member

            I don't know where it is going to look.  As I did all the Orthoptera, haing to go to the source of every page, andchanging the links to the moths to the Orthoptera, I had to do the same with other Oders.  Now I am on the Diptera, and went to the previously created Orthoptera gallery and changed the text and link from Orthoptera to Diptera.  But it still shows text and link, moth, instead.  So I continue to have to go to each pages source coded and change individually.

             

            Here is what I don't understand.  When I go to the folder that is at  C://program files/adobe/adobe photoshop cs4 (64 bit)/presets/web photo gallery,  the renamed, copied and modified folder, Diptera is there, and come up in the choices of templates.  But the text and link modifications don't occur when the gallery is run.  Where could it be going to get the moth stuff, when it goes to this folder for the template? 

             

            What you said about the 64 bit makes sense, but I don't know where it could be going to create the gallery when the folder named Diptera is ther.