More Ways to Share Photos

Now it’s time to talk about some of the more obscure sharing options in iPhoto. Most people who use iPhoto share photos using the avenues I’ve already described: email for zapping some shots to a few friends; Flickr and Facebook for putting photos on the Web; slide shows and iDVD for presenting photos with glitz and glamour; and print products for creating keepsakes.

But there’s more. You can also export photos in a kind of bare-bones slide show format: a simple cross dissolve between each shot, some background music, but no glitzy themes, no title slide, and no Ken Burns. Why would you want to? You can have a background color or image appear behind photos, and you can type specific pixel dimensions for the resulting ...

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