iPhoto 5: The Missing Manual, Fourth Edition

The Post-Dump Slideshow

Once you’ve imported a batch of pictures into iPhoto, what’s the first thing you want to do? If you’re like most people, this is the first opportunity you have to see, at full-screen size, the masterpieces you and your camera created. That’s the beauty of iPhoto’s slideshow feature, which comes complete with the tools you need to perform an initial screen of the new pictures—like deleting the baddies, rotating the sideways ones, and identifying the best ones with star ratings.

To begin the slideshow, click the Last Roll icon in the Source list at the left side of the screen to identify which pictures you want to review.

Note

On a freshly installed copy of iPhoto, this icon is labeled Last Roll. If you’ve fiddled with the iPhoto preference settings, it may say, for example, “Last 2 Rolls” or “Last 3 Rolls,” and your slideshow will include more than the most recent batch of photos. If that’s not what you want to see, just click the actual photo that you want to begin the slideshow (in the main viewing area).

Now Option-click the Play triangle underneath the Source list. iPhoto fades out of view, and a big, brilliant, full-screen slideshow of the new photos begins, accompanied by music.

Tip

If you just click the Play triangle (instead of adding the Option key), you summon the Slideshow dialog box instead of starting the show. This dialog box has lots of useful options; for instance, you can choose the music for your slideshow, for example. If you merely want a quick ...