Using Slide.com to Make a Slideshow You can make a slideshow from your photos on Flickr, Facebook, MySpace, and other sites using slide.com (see Figure 12.5). You can also make a slideshow from new images that you have on your computer. The first thing you do is go to slide.com and select Make a Slideshow. Then click on the place where you want the images to come from. You have a choice of My Files, Search, Friendster, Bebo, MySpace, Slide, Facebook, Photobucket, Flickr, or Image URL. Say, for example, you click on Flickr. You’ll be prompted to sign in using your screen name. Then you’ll be asked to select a folder to import. If you want all the pictures in all the folders, click each folder once. In the Edit Photos window, click Next for each image you want in the slideshow. After you’ve selected the images, click Done. You can customize the design by clicking on one of the style choices in the left part of the window. Each time you click one, a preview of your show will come up. You can also add skins, themes, music/video/background, and effects to your show or change the size. 186 ■ Working with Slidehows Figure 12.5 Revolver slideshow made with slide.com. NOTE Select a folder only once, or else you’ll get duplicates of the images in your slideshow. To add music to your show, click on Music/Video. Then click on View More Music/Videos for the maximum number of choices and categories. When you’re finished, click Save. A new window will come up, asking you for slideshow details and credits. Finally, click Save Slideshow. You can automatically add the show to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and other social networking sites. You’ll be given a URL for your show. When you go to it, you’ll find links on the left side of the window to link to the show, embed the show, and e-mail the show. If you click on Embed, you’ll get code to put the show on your blog or website. Making and Sharing Your Slideshow at Slideroll.com Slideroll.com is another online platform where you can make and share photography slideshows. The first thing you have to do is register to join. It’s free. After that, you can upload photos by clicking on Upload Photos and then, in the next window, Select Photos to Upload. Navigate to the appropriate location on your computer and pick the file(s) you want. After the uploading is finished, a new window will come up with the photos you’ve uploaded. You can rotate photos there if you want to. Be cautioned that this is the only place you can do that, so make it a point to rotate your photos in this step. When you’re finished, click Done. Working with Slideshows ■ 187 NOTE To delete the music selection, click Remove beneath the song’s name. NOTE To edit a show you’ve already made, go to slide.com, click on your username, then scroll over to Options and navigate to Edit. NOTE You’re only allowed to upload 100 photos and only those in JPG format. You’ll then get a prompt asking whether you want to upload the photos right now. Click No, and you’ll be taken back to the My Photos page. When you click on a photo on that page, a window will come up with the option to delete it. To make a slideshow, click Make a Slideshow on the My Photos page. You’re given three options: Upload Photos, Load a Saved Slideshow, Import Flickr Photos. Choose Start a New Slideshow, and your photos will come up. You can select more than one photo by holding down the Apple key on a Mac or the Ctrl key on a PC. To select all of them, hold down the Shift key and select the first and last photo. Next, click OK. The slideshow creator will come up. Figure 12.6 shows how it looks. 188 ■ Working with Slidehows NOTE If you choose Import Flickr Photos, you’ll be taken to a new window or tab where you’ll have to sign into your Yahoo! account, confirm that you’ve come from slideroll.com, and authorize it. When you’re finished, go back to the slideroll.com window/tab and click OK to be taken to the slideshow maker to make a slideshow with your Flickr photos.These photos will not be put in your Slideroll gallery. Figure 12.6 Slideshow creator in slideroll.com. There are five button icons in the slideshow creator. To learn what they will do, move your cursor over each button and then read the bottom of the window. First add your titles, navigating to Slide > Create Text Slide. Click and drag that slide into the timeline. Next, add music by clicking on Add Music. Music will be automatically added with fade ins and fade outs. Finally, click Publish. Showing Your Slideshows on TV You can hook up your computer to a television set to show your slideshows on TV. In the Chapter 3 sidebar, “Connecting Your Computer to Your TV,” there are directions for hooking up your computer to your TV. Another way to get your slideshows on your TV is to use TiVo DVR or Apple TV. ❈ Apple TV. While Apple isn’t pushing this appliance, it’s still available. When you use this box that attaches to your TV, you can watch videos you’ve made on YouTube as well as show the images you have on Flickr, Shutterfly, and other photo-hosting sites—provided you have Wi-Fi. You can also stream photos wirelessly from your computer to Apple TV so that they show up on your TV screen. ❈ TiVo. Just like Apple TV, TiVo lets you view YouTube videos via a wireless Internet connection. You can also view images on your computer by first publishing them so they can be picked up by TiVo. So what’s the basic difference between TiVo and Apple TV? TiVo connects not only to the Internet via Wi-Fi; it also connects to your cable TV. Also, Apple TV can’t access photos on a PC, and TiVo can be used with both PCs and Macs. Working with Slideshows ■ 189 NOTE What’s cool about this platform is you can link a slide to a webpage using one of the buttons. NOTE Adjust the title slide and the first slide so they both fit into the timeline equally. . 3 sidebar, “Connecting Your Computer to Your TV,” there are directions for hooking up your computer to your TV. Another way to get your slideshows on your TV is to use TiVo DVR or Apple TV. ❈ Apple. ins and fade outs. Finally, click Publish. Showing Your Slideshows on TV You can hook up your computer to a television set to show your slideshows on TV. In the Chapter 3 sidebar, “Connecting Your. get code to put the show on your blog or website. Making and Sharing Your Slideshow at Slideroll.com Slideroll.com is another online platform where you can make and share photography slideshows.