Derrick Story at Macworld: The slideshow function in iPhoto '08
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Derrick Story - iPhoto '08
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So we all know that iPhoto has a great slide show function, and you can build these wonderful slide shows very easily, but what it doesn’t have is a way for you to make your title slides, right, the beginning and the end slides that look like this, where you actually have you take one of your pictures and you have a little background, and you have some text and things like that. It doesn’t have an easy way to do that, so you end up having to go outside of iPhoto to create your title slides. But you actually don’t have to do that, and I’m gonna show you how right now. We’re gonna make one.
So let’s say that I wanna make a title slide with this right here, so I just click on my thumbnail, and I go down to card. This is the greeting card function. Now this was designed for you to be able to make your own greeting cards. You upload them to the greeting card service, and they send you back paper cards, and it’s actually quite nice. But I’m just gonna click on it once right now; we’re gonna do something else with it. It brings up the greeting card interface, and the first thing that I do is I’m gonna change it to postcard ‘cause I don’t want four slides to deal with. All I need is a title slide.
Let’s say that I’m doing a wedding slide show for this couple, and I wanna have an intro slide, so I’ma click postcard, and then I’m gonna find a template that I like here, and you have all sorts of stuff and you have a, we have wedding and love. Let’s see what we have here. Do we have anything we like? Let’s go for the simple linen. We’ll go for simple linen; that looks very nice, and I’m just gonna choose that right now. So the first thing that iPhoto does is that it’s gonna build a simple linen design for me, but I wanna add under this. This is a title slide, so I wanna have some text, so you go here to design, and you have these options. Ooh, I kinda like this. I have a nice option, so now I can put maybe we’ll put “our wedding” ‘cause I mean they’re the ones looking; it’d be their wedding not mine, right, so it’d be “our wedding” right here, and I go, “Okay, that looks nice.” But for a title slide, I’d actually like it to be a little bit bigger, so I can go to settings. That’s a headline. This is considered the headline, and I can change let’s say that I wanna go with a calligraphy. I’d like to know how this is gonna look, and we’ll make it bigger, say 24 point and click OK. Oh, I went too big. I went too big; it dropped down to so that’s okay. Calligraphy’s not the way to go. I’ll go with handwriting. Will it let me do handwriting that big? Let’s see. Maybe and we’ll drop this down a little bit.
All right, we can play with this for quite a while, but we’re not going to because you’ll all get up and leave me, so I’ll just leave it right here. We’ll just say “our wedding”. We’ll assume that you get the type exactly the way that you want and you do that right here in the settings control and play with the headline. That’s how you get there, so we have our design picked up. Now here’s the key. Here’s how you take what we have right here, and instead of going out on the Internet to the postcard making folks, here’s how you end up with a title slide. You go to print right here and it brings up the print dialog box. Now all I want is this first card. We actually have two pieces here, the front and back. I don’t care about the back right now, so I’m gonna go to advanced and just do from one to one. Go to advanced and just one to one, so now the way it’s set up right now, if I were to hit the print button, and I had a printer connected, this front card that I’ve created here would come out of the printer and make my own print. But I don’t want that. I want a title slide for my slide show.
I wanna keep it electronic, and I don’t want a lot o’ hassle, okay, so I’m gonna go over here to PDF and look at this. There’s this magic thing right here: Save PDF to iPhoto. This is way cool. You can use it for other stuff too, but it’s very nice for this. Save PDF to iPhoto, I’m gonna select that, and it actually starts running in Apple-script. It’s gonna ask me, okay, do I wanna create a new album with this? No, I actually have an album where I’m working on all this stuff. We’ll put it, ooh. I have a few albums here. Have you noticed? I like albums, so we’ll put it in my Mac World album. I’ll click continue. It goes back to work, does all sorts of fun things. Now right here in Mac World, here’s my title. I’m gonna give it a new name. It was called “Title”. This is just so I can keep track of it. I’m gonna double-click on it, and now I have a title slide for my slide show. It’s a full, it’s a 1200 by 800. It’s big enough for most uses. It can even scale up a little bit, and it’s been converted to a .jpg, all automatically for me, and you can create as many o’ these as you want. And if you want just a text screen only, then instead of using the front part with the picture, you can use the back of the card with the text and you can create text, and you can style it the way that you want. And you can put these things in the middle of your show. You can put ‘em in the, at the end o’ the show, anywhere you want. It’s an easy way to create titles for your thing.
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