Mac 101: Use Preview to display a slideshow (update)

I've been trying to find a way to do slideshows that I can control the speed of by hitting the arrow key, but having a transition when I switch to the next one. Much like a Keynote or PowerPoint presentation, but there has to be a simpler way than creating a presentation. I just want to select photos and start scrolling through them with transitions.

Apple just randomly adds the slideshow feature to things because there is a public API for it in Cocoa. Third party developers often take advantage of this feature too. Apple has a number of pre-canned things they just throw in there that don't really feel like core features.

You can jump right to a full-screen Quick View slide show by selecting the pictures and then hitting option-command-y.

Odd, I do full screen slide shows in quicklook all the time and to skip to the next slide quickly, just hit the right arrow button!

Too funny. I JUST discovered this Preview slideshow feature today, about 2 hours before you posted this. A client of mine needed a slideshow and didn't have iPhoto -- very similar to your experience! Weird coincidence.

Also, you can select one photo, quicklook to full screen, and then hit command+backwards apostrophe (same key as the tilde) to switch windows.

The issue is that when you go full screen, the window in focus moves from the finder window to the quicklook window, and input from pressing down on the keyboard goes to the quicklook window. When you hit Apple`, you change focus back to the finder window and can then navigate through your photos.

Yeah, just select all the photos using command a and then press space. You can then go into fullscreen and use it as a slideshow.

You can do a slideshow in Quick View, the option just isn't there most of the time. Select your items, then do option-space. This opens it up in a slideshow view that's very close to Preview's.

Yeah - you've always been able to do slideshows in Quicklook.

What about selecting all the files in the folder, then pressing space to start quick look and finally clicking the full screen button? Enjoy a quick full screen slide show!