User Guide

ACDSee Pro 2.5 - User Guide
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Sharing slide shows and screen savers
With ACDSee, you can create slide shows and screen savers of your favorite photos, and share
them with friends and family, or display them on your Web site. You can even save your slide
show or screen saver project to edit at a later time. The Create Slide Show Wizard guides you
through the process.
To create a slide show:
1. Click Create | Create Slide Show.
2. On 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:
x 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.
x Windows screen saver: creates a standard Windows-system screen saver file (.scr)
that can be stored and used on any Windows-based system.
x Adobe Flash slide show: creates a compact, Adobe 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).
4. Click Next to continue.
5. On 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.
6. On 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.
7. On 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.