User Guide

Chapter 11 Sharing
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To create a slide show:
1Click Create | Create Slide Show.
2On the Welcome page, to create a new slide show, select the Create a new slide show radio
button. To specify what type of slide show you want to create, select one of the following
options:
• Standalone slide show: creates a single executable file (.exe) containing all of your images
and everything needed to view them. You can share this type of file with anyone who has a
computer, even if they don't own ACDSee.
• Windows screen saver: creates a standard Windows-system screen saver file (.scr) that can
be stored and used on any Windows-based system.
• Macromedia Flash slide show: creates a compact, Macromedia Flash file (.swf) that you can
display on a Web site.
3 To edit an existing slide show or screen saver project, select the Load an existing slide show
project radio button, and then click Browse to locate your project (.asw file).
4Click Next to continue.
5On the Choose your images page, you can view the images included in your slide show, in the
default order they will be displayed. Click Add or Remove to change the images, and use the
arrow buttons to reorder them. Click Next when you are ready to continue.
6On the Set file specific options page, click the underlined words beside each thumbnail to set the
individual options for each image. These include transitions between photos, the duration of the
transition and slide, text captions, and audio files to play when the image is displayed. Note that
the options available depend on your choice of output file format, and not all formats support all
options. Click Next when you are ready to continue.
7On the Set slide show options page, set the timing for each slide to automatic or manual, the order
to display slides, and whether or not to hide the controls. You can also add audio files to play in
the background, and adjust the quality, or speed, of the transitions. Click Next when you are
ready to continue.
8 On the following pages, set the options for image size, location of your slide show file and the
project file. For assistance with any of the options, click the What's This Help button at the top
right corner of the wizard, and then click on an option.
9 Finally, click Next, and wait a few moments while ACDSee generates your slide show. When
complete, you can launch your slide show, exit the wizard, or start the Create Disc Wizard to burn
your slide show onto a CD or DVD.
If you assign an audio file to an individual image, as well as to the whole slide show
on the Set slide show options page, then both audio files will play simultaneously
when that slide displays.