The Vegas Slideshow presentation type can be used to create an inline slideshow, or a full-screen slideshow in the page background.

The slideshow supports auto-play, next/previous image navigation, and a variety of other options, and makes for an excellent splash screen for visitors to your website.

To create a full-screen slideshow, you should first create a full-screen page template.

Then, edit an existing album template, or create a new one using the Theater Add-on. In the designer, under Album Setup:

• Inline Slideshow
  • Set Presentation : Vegas Slideshow
  • Set Type : Inline

• Full-screen Slideshow
  • Set Page Template : select your full-screen page template
  • Set Presentation : Vegas Slideshow
  • Set Type : Full-screen

At this point, you should probably publish a few images so that you have something to look at, then return to Backlight to set your preferences as you like.

To use the Vegas Slideshow presentation as a splash page to greet your visitors, you will need to have the Pages Add-on¹⁾.

After creating a Vegas Slideshow gallery, as above, return to Lightroom's Publish Services and edit the album's settings thus:

• Under the Features tab:
  • Enable “Hide from Album Set”.
  • Enable “Hide from Search”.

Return to Backlight. In Backlight's menu, go Designer ⇒ Pages.

• Click “Design” for your Home page.
• For full-screen, set Page Template : select your full-screen page template
• Under Insert Album, set Insert Album: On.
• Select your Vegas Slideshow album as the album to insert.
• Save.

Your Vegas Slideshow is now your Home page!