Viewing and configuring a slide show
You can view a slide show of images from the Browser, or from the Viewer.
You can also configure your slide show to start automatically whenever
you run it, and set the slide show options to adjust how long each image
is displayed, set the background color, apply transition effects, and
add header or footer text.
To start a slide show from the Browser:
Do one of the
following: In
the File List pane, select a group of images. In
the Folders pane, select a folder or use the Easy-Select bar to select
multiple folders that contain images.
Click Tools | Auto
Slide Show. Click OK.
To start a slide show in the Viewer:
Click View | Auto
Slide Show. In the Slide
Show Properties dialog box, select or change the slide show options as
described below. To save your
settings as the default slide show behavior, select the Save
current settings as default check box. Click OK.
To configure a slide show:
Do one of the
following: In
the File List pane, select a group of images. In
the Folders pane, select a folder or use the Easy-Select bar to select
multiple folders that contain images.
Click Tools | Configure
Auto Slide
Show. In the Slide
Show Properties dialog box, select or change the slide show options as
described below. To save your
settings as the default slide show behavior, select the Save
current settings as default check box. Click OK.
Slide show options
|
File Selection |
Slide show contents |
Specifies the locations and images you want to use
in the slide show. |
|
Always use these contents for this selection type
and start slide show automatically |
Retains the current Slide
show contents setting and starts automatically the next time you
launch the slide show. |
|
Basic |
Select transition effects |
Select or clear the check box next to each transition
effect. The slide show will randomly select transitions from your choices. |
|
Background color |
Specifies the background color. Click the color picker
arrow to select or change the color. |
|
Image delay (in seconds) |
Specifies how long you want the slide show to display
each image. |
|
Advanced |
Transition quality |
Drag the slider to the left to improve slide show speed,
or drag to the right to improve the quality of the transition effects. |
|
General settings |
Select or clear any of the following options:
Play
embedded audio: plays any audio clips embedded in the images. Autohide
control bar: hides the slide show controls whenever the mouse pointer
stops moving for more than a few seconds. Repeat:
repeats the slide show after displaying the last image. Stretch
images to fit screen: enlarges small images to fill the entire
screen. Stretch
video to fit screen: enlarge video files to fill the entire screen. |
|
Slide order |
Select one of the following options to specify the
order to display your images:
|
|
Text |
Display header text |
Displays a text caption at the top of each image. Set
the options to specify the text you want to display. |
|
Display footer text |
Displays a text caption at the bottom of each image.
Set the options to specify the text you want to display. |
|
Save current settings as default |
Retains the current settings on all of the tabbed pages
and applies them the next time you view a slide show. |
Slide show text options
|
Alignment |
Specifies the alignment of the text captions. |
|
Background color |
Specifies a background color for the caption text. |
|
Text |
Specifies the text to display as a caption. |
|
Font |
Opens the Font dialog box where you can select or change
the font options for your text. |
|
Insert Metadata Tag |
Inserts file-specific information called metadata into
the caption.
Click to open the Choose Property dialog box and select
the metadata you want to insert. |
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