Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

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Chapter 18

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Photo Galleries,

Slideshows, and

Flipbooks

Last chapter, you learned how to email your photos. But what if you’ve got legions

of friends? Do you have to email your pictures to everyone? Not with Elements,

which lets you create Photo Galleries, collections of ready-made photo Web pages.

You can make galleries with all kinds of special effects, like having your photos on

a revolving carousel, or on book pages that you can “turn” with a mouse. You can

even upload your gallery to the Web and share it with the world (or just a few

friends).

Elements can also help you put together elaborate standalone slideshows, com-

plete with fancy between-photo transitions, clip art, and even audio. And for the

perfect combination of high-tech wizardry and old-school charm, you can make

flipbooks, simple slideshows that are easy to share with friends. Like the flipbooks

of yore, these little shows can make a series of still photos appear to move, like an

animated cartoon. In this chapter, you’ll learn the ins and outs of all these ways of

sharing your photos.

Photo Galleries

Elements’ Web page presentation kit uses Flash, an Adobe program that creates

nifty little animations that are small enough to easily share over the Web. When

you create a Photo Gallery, Elements whips up a folder containing your images

and everything needed to view them on the Internet (like navigation buttons).

Once you