Chapter 7. Making Slideshows

Although some people feel that a photo isn’t real unless it appears on a piece of paper (and iPhoto can satisfy those people too), one of iPhoto’s coolest features is its capability to present photos on screen in a wide variety of ways—including slideshows on your Mac; ever-changing Desktop pictures; and slideshows on an iPod, iPhone, or Apple TV.

Gone are the days of the carousel projector and a darkened room; now a slideshow involves high-resolution photographs slipping on and off a computer screen, complete with elegant transitions between pictures. But that’s only the beginning with iPhoto. iPhoto ’09 adds a number of elegant slideshow themes that turn your photos from still images to scenes in a movie.

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