iPhone 5 For Dummies, 6th Edition

Launching Slideshows

Those of us who store a lot of photographs on computers are familiar with running slideshows of those images. It’s a breeze to replicate the experience on the iPhone:

1. Choose your camera roll or another album from the Photo Albums list.

To do so, tap the Photos icon from the Home screen or tap the camera roll button in the Camera app.

2. Do one of the following:

• In the Photos app, select a picture and then tap the play icon at the bottom of the picture.

• In the Camera app, tap the image in the lower-left corner of the screen to display the most recent image in the camera roll, then tap the play icon at the bottom of the image. If you want to start the slideshow with a different image rather than the picture that is now visible, tap the camera roll button at the upper-left corner of the screen. You now see a thumbnails screen. Tap the play icon.

You are taken to the Slideshow Options screen.

3. Choose transition effects and the music (if any) that you’d like to accompany the slideshow.

You have five transitions choices (cube, dissolve, ripple, wipe across, wipe down). Why not try them all, to see what you like?

4. Tap Start Slideshow.

Unless you’ve set the slideshow to repeat, as explained in the next chapter, the slideshow ends automatically. Tap the screen to end it prematurely.

That’s it! Enjoy the show.

Special slideshow effects

You can alter the length of time each slide is shown, change the transition effects between pictures, and display ...