Photo Slide Shows Are Cheap. This One Is Priceless
Apple gives our Macs a lot of professional level capability. Just look at what you get in iLife (still free on each new Mac).
For example, iPhoto lets us take our digital pictures and create an attractive photo slide show, complete with background music, with just a few clicks.
How does the end result look? Great, right? Not as good as what you get with this Mac application.
My Mac is loaded with nearly everything from Apple—from iLife to Aperture to Final Cut.... (excerpted).
3 Reader Comments
iggy pence said:
If I’m not mistaken, iPhoto will export slide show movies just fine. They just don’t look as attractive as those done in FotoMagico, which is an excellent tool that can create superbly crafted shows with synchronized music and better control over effects and transitions.
osullis said:
In the article you wrote: The result is an attractive, competent slide show which you can send to friends, burn onto CDs or DVDs, or create a QuickTime movie.”
Can all these be done in iPhoto? You can send a slide show to iDVD, but you can’t burn one to a cd. Nor can you make it into a QT movie. Nor can you save it to the web or export as any other file. To do these, you have to use iMovie or QTPro. Am I wrong?
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willis said:
iPhoto does slide show movies just fine. Create a slide show, adjust the settings, select Export, you’re done. It exports a slide show movie in QuickTime format. They’re not professional quality shows, but good enough for most folks. Hey, you get what you pay for, right? For important projects I use FotoMagico or Photo to Movie because I like the control each gives to photos, transitions, and audio. For everything else, iPhoto is acceptable.