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Chapter 18

Creating Slideshow Presentations

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 “Loop slideshow” checkbox: Select this checkbox to loop, or continuously play, your

slideshow. If you select this option, you must stop your slideshow manually by
pressing Esc.

 Quality buttons: Select a button to specify either Best or Good image quality.

Selecting Best displays full-size images. Select Good for faster display.

 “Play slideshow on main display only” checkbox: If you use a dual-display system and

want your slideshow to play only on your main display, select this checkbox.

 Rows slider: Drag this slider to increase the number of rows of images.
 Columns slider: Drag this slider to increase the number of columns of images.
 Background color well: Change the background color of your slideshow by clicking

the Background color well and then choosing a new background color from the
Colors window.

 Padding slider: Adjust padding, or the space between the top and bottom rows of

images, by dragging the slider to the right to add space, and to the left to
decrease space.

 Fade Time slider: Adjust the fade time between images by dragging this slider to the

right to increase fade time, and to the left to decrease fade time.

 Crossfade checkbox: Select this checkbox to move between images by fading out the

first and fading in the second.

 “Play music during slideshow” checkbox: Select this checkbox to play your slideshow

with an accompanying song or iTunes playlist.

 iTunes library area: Displays your iTunes music library. Navigate through the library to

select a song to accompany your slideshow, or search for a song name, artist, or song
time by entering it in the search field.