IRich Peterson showed us many, many ways to produce family history slide shows from your photos, especially those in Reunion. These are his notes, that he handed out at the meeting. His original handout is here.
1. Quick View of Photos fromMac Finder
- Open the folder that contains the photos you want
to view
- Click Edit / Select All
- Press
Start Show or advance manually
- Order of photos is alphabetical
2. Slide show in Reunion
It is best to place a copy of all reunion photos
into a dedicated folder Standard location is
Users/ username/ Pictures/ Reunion Pictures/
family_file_subfolder Photos must be identified
within the Reunion Multimedia function to be
included Be sure to reference the photo in the
dedicated folder when seleting in Multimedia
- A simple slide show for multiple pictures of
a single individual can be generated from within
the multimedia file for that person. Go to that
person’s family card and select Multimedia the
icon menu Choose the person or family option to
display the photos in that section. Choose the
“hammer icon” and select Play Slideshow to begin.
Preferences can ;be used to adjust the
timing,background, etc.
- A multiple person
slide show is created by starting with Create/
Slideshow Select the Persons to be included (All,
Marked only, Unmarked only). Check if you want to
include Family pictures. Prune to limit the number
for each person or to use only the preferred
photo. Photos identified as “sensitive” can be
eliminated from the slideshow.
Once you create the
slide show you have lots of options:
- Play the show
as is or “drag and drop” to change the order of
the slides
- Adjust the preferences to change
timing, background, music, text, etc
- The slideshow
can be saved as a movie, using the “hammer” icon.
- Closing the dialog box will give a option to save
the show (in Reports folder)
3. IPhoto Slide Show
Place the photos you want to include into an Album
or use an Event Activate the Slide show with the
Play Slideshow Arrow in the lower left of the
screen Choose the Settings and Music from the
dialog box – then select Play File/ Export to
Quicktime Movie
4. Slide Show in Photoshop Elements or Bridge
It is best to place the photos you would like to
include in a folder on your system To create a PDF
Slide Show, do one of the following:
- Photoshop Elements - File > Automation Tools > PDF Slide
Show.
- Select “Presentation” and browse to the
folder containing your photos.
- Select all or some
of the photos for the show and Open them.
- Change
the timing or transition for the presentation if
desired
- Save to Documents (or Desktop) – Chose to
open after saving
- When the document opens you can
“drag and drop the photos in the sidebar to
reorder them. Be sure to resave after your
changes.
- Choose View> Slideshow to see the
completed slideshow
Bridge - From Photoshop Elements
- - File > Browse
with Adobe Bridge
- Navigate to the folder that
contains your pictures
- Select all the images you
want to use and arrange them in the order you want
to display.
- Choose Tools > Photoshop Elements >
PDF Slide Show. (If you don’t select the images
you want to use, the presentation will contain all
the images currently displayed in Bridge.)
- Note:
Click a file to select it. Shift-click to select a
series of files. Command-click to select
noncontiguous files.
6. Photo to Movie
I like this program for producing a very flexible
video production from a set of images. This could
include saved charts produced in Reunion
incorporated into the Photo to Movie production.
See the Video Tutorials on the web page below.
They also have some interesting examples in their
movie gallery.
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
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