Filed under: iLife, OS, Tips and tricks
Tiger Tip: Create a slideshow without using iPhoto
The other day I had some pictures that I wanted to look at full screen in a slideshow, but that I didn't want to put into iPhoto for a variety of reasons (no comment on the nature of these pictures, thank you). I got frustrated by trying to figure out how to start a slideshow in the Finder, so much so that I resorted to doing a Spotlight search that I knew would result in those pictures. Once I got the result set I simply clicked the Slideshow button and I was done.How silly, I thought, that Tiger doesn't have an easier way to do this. Heck, Windows XP has an easy way to do this!
Today I found out that the answer I sought was lurking in a contextual menu (pictured to the above). Simply select the photos you want to view in a slide show, right click (or command click), select 'Slideshow' and that's it.
This may be old news to some, but it was a pleasant surprise for me.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Peter Koritschan said 3:51PM on 7-28-2005
Thanks for the tip scott! as a recent switcher (4 months) from XP I have always wondered how to get that slideshow running from finder... as you said, even XP has it.
Further, what I wonder is: in Mail you can click in slideshow mode on a pic's toolbar to add it to iphoto. but i haven't found a way to batch-add all photos from a mail message with one click to iPhoto. Is there a way for this?
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ben said 3:49PM on 7-28-2005
You can also open the images in Preview.app (all at once). The slideshow function can then be found in the View menu (Shift-Cmd-F). This can be useful for quick slideshows of multiple photos from different system locations, as images can be added to Preview.app's drawer by drag and drop.
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lol said 3:59PM on 7-28-2005
This feature was in Panther was it not???
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michael said 4:45PM on 7-28-2005
Does anyone else find this feature to be spotty? When I first right-click on a set of pictures, very often either
1. The Slideshow option doesn't appear. I just right-click on the set again and it appears.
2. The Slideshow that I run includes only the image my right-click was on, and not the full set of images that were selected. ESCing out and rightclicking to the slideshow again properly selects all the images.
Really really great feature, but I swear at this at least once a day.
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Marc Jones said 6:41PM on 7-28-2005
If only you could order them - ie "random/date/size/name" etc. Come Apple! Tweak that feature and make it KILLER!
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DF said 7:11PM on 7-28-2005
The slideshow also provides my favorite "shift-key-slow-motion" effect in Tiger: When you're viewing a slideshow (via the Finder, Preview, or Mail) using this feature, clicking the Index button in the floating toolbar creates an "index page" that allows you to view all the images (or at least one page full, if you've got more than that) at once. But if you hold the shift key down when you click the Index button, you can see the index page being arranged in all its glory :)
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