Holy cow! I posted this video in multiple Facebook groups and was blown away with how many of you thought this video was helpful.

Seriously, over 300 likes and comments across all different editing and photography Facebook groups! 

When editing weddings and portraits we all know that consistency is key for our wedding photographers.

BUT I always had a hard time checking for editing consistency in Lightroom. Sure you can use the survey mode or the library module. However, for me, when the images are not right up next to each other those small details can be so easy to miss!   

What I really needed was something similar to Pass or Pixieset to get a good bird’s eye view of everything. Apparently you guys needed this too!

This Lightroom hack is seriously A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

I’ll show you how I simulate a Pass or Pixieset gallery in Lightroom.* Watch the video below and see me set it up and use it. Don’t want to set it up yourself? I created a preset just for you, which you can download below!

*This hack is only available in Lightroom 6 and Lightroom Creative Cloud

Step 1:

Whenever you are ready to check a series of images or the full gallery, you’ll start by clicking on the “Web” Module in Lightroom.

Step 2

After you are in the Web module you will probably land on their default template which has the very fancy title of “HTML gallery (default)”. Couldn’t they come up with anything better?

Now we will change the settings to where it will simulate the Pass or Pixieset gallery.

Step 3:

The first thing we are going to do is change the base template to the “Light” under the “Track Gallery Templates”. It’s just the starting point as we will change some of the appearance settings after.

Step 4:

On the right hand side you will see a bunch of customization options. The first thing we are going to change is in the “Appearance” settings. The “Row Height” is automatically set to 200, but I personally like my images bigger. So, I push the slider all the way to 400. Then change the “Row Spacing” to “none”. This will makes sure all the images are touching together. You don’t have to do this but I like to uncheck the “Header” option as well. This will remove the “Lightroom Gallery” heading distraction. 

Step 5:

This step you can skip if you aren’t working with watermarked images. But if you are, you can remove the watermark in the “Output Settings”. Just uncheck where it says “Watermarking”. 

Step 6:

The final step is where you can decide if you want Lightroom to load all the images in the film strip or just a select few images. You can change that setting in the toolbar. I like to keep mine on “Selected Photos” just so I can have more control.

Don’t see the toolbar? Just hit “T” in Lightroom and it will pop up just above the film strip!

I hope you found this helpful! This was seriously such a game changer for me when it came to editing and feeling confident!