Operation Manual

Note: The controls that appear in the Default Settings pane change depending on the
theme selected for the slideshow.
• Aspect Ratio pop-up menu: Choose an aspect ratio to apply to your slideshow from this
pop-up menu.
• “Repeat slideshow” checkbox: Select this checkbox to loop playback of the slideshow.
• "Loop main audio track” checkbox: Select this checkbox to loop playback of the main
audio track.
• “Show title” checkbox: Select this checkbox to display title text over the first slide in the
slideshow.
• “Show title” Fonts button: Click this button to open the Fonts window and select a font
and size to apply to the title text.
Note: The Fonts button appears dimmed unless the “Show title” checkbox is selected.
• “Show title” color well: Change the color applied to the title text by clicking the color
well and then selecting a new color from the Colors window. You can also click the
disclosure button (to the right of the color well) and select a new color from the pop-up
color palette.
Note: The color well and disclosure button appear dimmed unless the “Show title”
checkbox is selected.
• “Play slide for” value slider: Use this value slider to determine the amount of time each
slide is shown during the slideshow.
• Background color well: Change the background color of your slideshow by clicking the
Background color well and then selecting a new background color from the Colors
window, or click the disclosure button (to the right of the color well) and select a new
background color from the pop-up color palette.
• Border value slider: Use this value slider to determine the width (or stroke) of the image
border in pixels. A value of 0 (zero) applies no border.
• Border color well: Change the border color applied to each slide by clicking the color
well and then selecting a new border color from the Colors window. You can also click
the disclosure button (to the right of the color well) and choose a new border color
from the pop-up color palette.
• Inset value slider: Use this value slider to apply padding between the image and the
image border. A value of 0 (zero) applies no space between the image and the border.
• Crop pop-up menu: Choose to have every image fit within the frame of the slideshow’s
aspect ratio, have every image fill the frame of the slideshow’s aspect ratio, or apply a
Ken Burns effect. A Ken Burns effect zooms in to or out of the image while slowly
panning across it.
• Transition pop-up menu: Choose the type of transition to uniformly apply between each
slide from the list of items in this pop-menu.
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