Today’s Question: During one of your recent presentations you relaunched Lightroom Classic and a screen came up while it was loading that included your logo. Is that a feature available to anyone? If so, how do you make use of it?
Tim’s Quick Answer: Yes, anyone can create a custom splash screen for Lightroom Classic by simply saving an image of up to 900 by 600 pixels in the “Splash Screen” folder.
More Detail: A splash screen is an image that appears while an application is loading, which is relatively common, including with Adobe applications. While it is possible to disable the splash screen with Lightroom Classic (via the “Show splash screen during startup” checkbox on the General tab of the Preferences dialog), it is also possible to create your own custom splash screen.
Besides adding a bit of personalization to Lightroom Classic, a custom splash screen can also provide a bit of branding and promotion such as in situations where your customers might see that splash screen when you’re presenting to them.
To get started, create an image for your splash screen (such as with Photoshop) with pixel dimensions of up to 900 pixels wide by 600 pixels high. Save the image as a JPEG or PNG image. You can then place that splash screen image into the “Splash Screen” folder, the location of which depends on your operating system. Also, note that if you’ve never created a Splash Screen folder, you can create it in the applicable location.
For Macintosh users hold the Option key on the keyboard while choosing Go > Library from the menu (the Library option won’t appear if you’re not holding the Option key). In the Library folder navigate to Application Support > Adobe > Lightroom > Splash Screen.
For Windows users go to the Users folder on your system hard drive (drive C: by default). Then continue navigating to AppData > Roaming > Adobe > Lightroom > Splash Screen.
Again, if the “Splash Screen” folder doesn’t exist you can simply create it. Once your image is in the folder, as long as you’ve not disabled the splash screen in Preferences, you’ll see the splash screen image whenever you launch Lightroom Classic.
