Create a Slide Show Using Your Digital Camera
Some cameras actually have a built-in slide-show feature. This is a simplified way of viewing your images in sequence, slide-show style. To use this feature, follow these steps: - To display a slide show on your camera's LCD screen, set the control dial (or menu setting) on your camera to the "Review" mode (figure A). On some cameras, this mode is called "Play."
- Use the camera's slide-show menu to select the slide-show intervals (figure B). This will determine the length of time that each image is displayed, before the program advances to the next image (figure C).
- In review mode, your images will now advance automatically.
- For a more dramatic presentation, you can connect your camera directly to a television, and display your slide-show images on your TV's screen. To do this, you'll use the video cable that came with your digital camera. Insert the small plug on your video cable into the "Digital Out" port on your camera (figure D).
- Plug the other end of the cable (the video RCA plug) into the video-in port on your television set (figure E).
- Turn on your television set. You'll need to set your TV to the correct "Line" input to view your slides. (The line-input selector is accessible through the on-screen menus on most newer televisions. Check your TV manual if you're not sure how to do this.) With the proper input selected, the images will appear on your TV screen (figure F) as the slide-show function on your camera advances.
Create a Slide Show on Your Home Computer
Once you've transferred your digital photos to your computer -- and you have a number of them that you're proud of -- you may want to consider creative ways of showing them off. Rather than simply clicking and opening photos to view them one at a time, you may want to create a digital slide show, thereby turning a collection of individual images into a dynamic viewing experience.
Once you've created a slide show, you can keep it on your hard drive, archive it to a CD, or even e-mail it to friends.
There are a number of slide-show programs that make it easy to create a playable slide show from a collection of photographs. Host Rick Sammon goes through the process of using one of these programs known as PowerPoint (TM). Here are the basic steps: - Begin by saving all of the images you want to include in your slide show into a single folder on your computer (figure G). Make certain that the images you've selected are of relatively small file-size. (For information on adjusting image file-size, see the segment titled "Transferring Digital Images to Your Computer" in episode 101 of DIY's Digital Photography workshop.) Name each image with a number -- numbering the images in the sequence in which you want them to appear.
- Once you've selected and numbered your images and saved them into a single folder, open the PowerPoint program.
- From the opening screen, select the menu-command to open a new, blank slide-show presentation. Click "OK" to continue.
- Under the "Format" menu item, select "Background" to open an interface that will allow you to select the background color for your slide show (figure H). In our example, we chose a simple black background to draw more focus to the images themselves.
- Under the "Slide Show" menu item, select "Slide Transition" to open an interface that will allow you to select the style of transition between images (figure I). This will create the transition effect that will lead from one picture to the next. Transition effects include a number of choices, among them such things as "wipe left," "wipe right," "checkerboard," "box in," "box out," etc. In our example, we chose "box out." The speed of the transition -- slow, medium or fast -- is selected here also.
- If you wish, create a title slide with text of your choosing to introduce the slide show. Click on the "title slide" icon, and type in the text for your title slide (figure J). In our demonstration, a black title slide with white type was chosen. The menu allows you to select a font, as well.
- Once you've selected background and transition and created a title file, you're ready to start importing your images into your slide show. Under the "Insert" menu item, select the commands "Picture" and "From File..." (figure K). This will bring up a screen that will allow you to browse and locate your images. They should be easy to find since you saved all of them into a single folder.
- Once you've located the folder with your images (figure L), select your first image.
- As you select and insert each image into the slide show, it will appear in preview (figure M). Simply go through your list of images and add them one by one. In our demonstration, we also included a white frame around each image at this point in the process.
Tip: For dramatic impact in assembling a slide show, save your best images for last.
- To get a quick overview of your slide-show sequence, under the "View" menu item, select "Slide Sorter." This will allow you to see thumbnails of all of your slides -- as they will appear with your selected background -- in the sequence you've specified (figure N).
- Your slide show is now complete. To view it in its finished form, choose the menu item "View Show." You can set your slide show up to play automatically, with intervals you specify, or you can set it up so that you control the intervals and advance with a click of your mouse.
If you wish to send your slide show to friends, simply save it, give it a name and send it as an attachment just as you would other types of files.
RESOURCES :
Rick Sammon, professional photographer
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