How To Share Slideshows Created In Photos For Mac
This article explains five ways to create and display slideshows — sequences of images — on a Mac ( personal computer) using the software that comes with the Mac. These ways are:. Using Option Spacebar to play selected images in the.
Opening and Playing selected image files with Preview in Finder. Creating Slideshows with Apple Photos. Creating Slideshows with Apple iMovie. Playing the Slideshow Images in Random Order (Shuffle) using the Desktop & Screen Saver control in System Preferences This article also discusses how to avoid interruption of the slideshow by either the Mac Screen Saver or Energy Saver/Sleep when using an external display and security and privacy issues for slideshows. These ways of creating and displaying slideshows were tested in detail on a MacBook Air running Mac OS X version 10.12.6 (macOS Sierra), Apple Photos 2.0 (3161.4.140), Preview Version 9.0 (909.18), iMovie version 10.1.7, and System Preferences Version 14.0 (the Desktop & Screen Saver control is part of System Preferences). Using Option Spacebar to play selected images in the Finder Select Image Files in Finder Then, simply press the Option and Spacebar keys on the keyboard.
This will play the selected images as a slideshow in full screen mode. Creating Slideshows with Apple iMovie Apple iMovie can create slideshows including a soundtrack with detailed control over the duration of each individual slide, individual transitions between slides, and many other fancy Hollywood style effects. This is probably more than most users need to do.
Scenic Walk Slideshow Project in iMovie Playing the Slideshow Images in Random Order (Shuffle) using the Desktop & Screen Saver control in System Preferences Remarkably the Mac does not provide an easy way to play the slides in random (or randomized) order, often referred to as Shuffle, in contrast to Windows and other competitors. The predecessor program to Apple Photos, iPhoto, used to provide a shuffle option, but “it just works” appears to have been deprecated at Apple. However, in the spirit of the new improved and even more expensive than before Apple, there is an awkward way to play slides in random order (randomized or shuffle) on the Mac using the Mac screen saver. Screen Saver with Shuffle Slide Order Checked Choosing Folder with Slides Show Images in Screen Saver Choosing Slideshow Images from Folder in Screen Saver Choose Slides from Apple Photos in Screen Saver Choose Photos Album as Slideshow in Screen Saver One needs to enable the Hot Corners in the Screen Saver to enable the user to immediately launch the randomized slide show by placing the mouse cursor at one of the Hot Corners. Doesn’t that “just work?” 🙂 Note that one can quickly launch the Desktop & Screen Saver control by using on the Mac. Press Command Spacebar to open spotlight.
Then enter “Desktop & Screen Saver” and just hit return if the utility comes up as the Top Hit (it usually does). Launching Desktop and Screen Saver with Spotlight Security and Privacy Slideshows, slideshow images, slideshow image file names, slideshow folder and album names can all be serious security and privacy concerns. Apple Photos has a built in feature to hide sensitive images from casual view. Right Click on Selected Photos to Hide in Apple Photos 2.0 Apple Photos puts all hidden photos in a special Hidden album. Hidden images are not displayed in Photos, Memories, and several other standard locations.
How To Share Slideshow Created In Photos For Mac
They are visible in All Photos. As noted above, if a slideshow project starts with a hidden image, the thumbnail for the slideshow project will be a dummy graphic rather than a thumbnail derived from the hidden image. By default, the Hidden Album is displayed in the Albums list. However, it is possible to hide the Hidden Album as well.
Photos Showing Hidden Album Menu Item to Hide the Hidden Photo Album Select the Hide Hidden Photo Album menu item from the pulldown View menu to hide the Hidden Photo Album in Apple Photos. Photos with Hidden Album Hidden One might wonder about an interface where a hidden album is not hidden by default. 🙂 As mentioned previously, it is probably prudent to choose an innocuous slide for the first slide in a slideshow wherever possible since the first slide is often either directly displayed or used for the thumbnail in some views. Folder names and album names tend to hang around in various open dialogs and other GUI components on the Mac, so it is best to select secure privacy-protecting names for folders and albums with slide show images.
Generally avoid, confidential or proprietary information and other sensitive names. Interruptions on External Displays In principle, the various applications that display slideshows on the Mac are supposed to block the screen saver and energy saver features while the slideshow is active. This usually works, but I have experienced a number of cases with an external display where it unpredictably failed. Either the screen saver or the display blanking happened in the middle of the slide show after the timeout was reached. For important slideshow presentations or similar situations it is prudent to disable the usual screen saver and energy saver timeouts or to use a third-party program that simulates activity during the slideshow to prevent the screen saver from activating or the mac going to sleep. These controls (located in System Preferences on the Mac) can be launched directly by typing “Desktop & Screen Saver” or “Energy Saver” in (type Command Key Spacebar to launch spotlight).
Desktop and Screen Saver in Mac System Preferences can Interrupt Some Slideshows Power Adapter Turn Display Off Timeout can Interrupt Some Slideshows on Mac Energy Saver Battery Turn Display Off Timeout can Interrupt Some Slideshows on Mac Third party applications such as can emulate activity on the Mac to prevent the timeouts from the Screen Saver and Energy Saver features. Note that AntiSleep is just one of many such third-party applications. Launching AntiSleep from Spotlight on Mac OS X 10.12.6 Conclusion Slideshow support is a weak area on the Mac, especially compared to the built-in slideshow features in Windows Explorer. Apple has actually downgraded its slideshow support from iPhoto to Photos by removing the built-in shuffle/randomized playback feature.
These five methods to create and display slideshows will be more than adequate for the vast majority of users, although more awkward than possible. It would be better if one could select a group of images in Finder and then directly set playback speed, transition type, shuffle versus ordered playback, and other options from the right click menu or some other accessible method without going through Apple Photos or the Screen Saver. (C) 2017 by John F.
McGowan, Ph.D. McGowan, Ph.D. Solves problems using mathematics and mathematical software, including developing gesture recognition for touch devices, video compression and speech recognition technologies. He has extensive experience developing software in C, C, MATLAB, Python, Visual Basic and many other programming languages. He has been a Visiting Scholar at developing computer vision algorithms and software for mobile devices. He has worked as a contractor at involved in the research and development of image and video processing algorithms and technology. He has published articles on the origin and evolution of life, the exploration of Mars (anticipating the discovery of methane on Mars), and cheap access to space.
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