
You can set the duration for how long all the slides or specific slides will stay on the screen. Other settings let you add a transition to the entire slideshow or just to specific photos. Using the Settings button, you can choose to use photo titles, description, Places, or dates as captions. To play more than one song, check the Custom Playlist for Slideshow box and drag songs into the area below it. Before you select a song, be sure you check the Play music during slideshow box. iPhoto provides 14 selections, or you can choose a song from iTunes or GarageBand. To its left is a Text Slide button that lets you add a caption to a slide, and to its right is a Music button that lets you add a song or songs to the slideshow. IPhoto provides 12 themes for your slideshow, which you can access from the Themes button in the toolbar. From that strip of thumbnails, you can also drag photos around to change the order.

To remove a photo from a slideshow, open the slideshow and highlight the photo from the strip of thumbnails at the top of the page and hit the Delete key. To add more photos to the slideshow, highlight the photos you'd like to include, click the Add To button in the toolbar, select Slideshow, and from there you'll be able to add the photo or photos to any of the slideshows you've created. You can type in a title, and you can also name the slideshow in iPhoto's source list in the left-hand column. The photos will get dumped into a slideshow, complete with a title page. To create a slideshow, highlight a group of photos (using the Shift key if they are in consecutive order or the Command key if they are not) and click the Create button in the toolbar in the lower-right corner of iPhoto and select Slideshow. Creating a slideshow is quick and easy in iPhoto '11. To add music, engaging transitions, and panning-and-zooming Ken Burns effects to your photo presentation, try out iPhoto's slideshow feature. A special occasion-wedding, anniversary, graduation, milestone birthday-however, may require extra treatment.

Sure, you can create an album in iPhoto and flip through the photos, showing those seated next to you in front of your Mac the highlights from your vacation or the latest snaps of the grandkids. With their templates, transition, and musical accompaniment, iPhoto slideshows provide a richer experience than a simply scanning a photo album.
