Tiger Tip: Create a slideshow without using iPhoto

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 :)

If only you could order them - ie "random/date/size/name" etc. Come Apple! Tweak that feature and make it KILLER!

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.

This feature was in Panther was it not???

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.

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?