Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-03 Thread David J Brooks
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:35 PM, jn289 wrote: Larry, you can make a slide show with acrobat...Joe I don't want a slideshow file. I just want to point the image viewer at a directory of photos, or select a bunch of photos and

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-03 Thread John Sessoms
From: David Mann On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:00 AM, John Sessoms wrote: If you've got one of those Macs that will allow you to also boot into Windoze, you could copy all the photos you want for your slide show into My Pictures and set your screensaver to a slide show. Add a password to the screen

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-03 Thread Bruce Walker
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:04 AM, John Sessoms jsessoms...@nc.rr.com wrote: From: David Mann On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:00 AM, John Sessoms wrote: If you've got one of those Macs that will allow you to also boot into Windoze, you could copy all the photos you want for your slide show into My

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-03 Thread steve harley
on 2012-08-02 13:46 steve harley wrote if all you need is to change the speed of Preview's slideshow, run this Applescript in the background (with the slideshow paused) i realized that Preview's regular slideshows (and thus the script i sent) will stop at the end and not cycle around; there's

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-02 Thread Peter Jordan
There may be other reasons not to like iPhoto, but it can be configured not to import all photos into the iPhoto folder and play them from their existing location. The option is in the advanced tab of preferences. Peter On 2 Aug 2012, at 06:20, Larry Colen l...@red4est.com wrote: On Aug

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-02 Thread Paul Stenquist
IPhoto will do all of that, and it's easy to work with. On Aug 2, 2012, at 12:05 AM, Larry Colen wrote: On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: LR? But lightroom would mean reading in a bunch of jpegs into a special catalog in lightroom. Preview almost does what I want,

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-02 Thread Bruce Walker
How about just using a custom screen-saver? In Preferences Desktop Screensaver, click + and choose Add folder of pictures. You can't configure the transition rate, but other options are under Options... . If you set a Hot Corner, you can start the screen saver immediately by sweeping the mouse

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-02 Thread John Sessoms
If you've got one of those Macs that will allow you to also boot into Windoze, you could copy all the photos you want for your slide show into My Pictures and set your screensaver to a slide show. Add a password to the screen saver your guests won't easily disrupt it. From: Larry Colen On

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-02 Thread Godfrey DiGiorgi
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi gdigio...@gmail.com wrote: If you have your photos in LR already, - create a collection of the ones you want to show - in the collection, select all and generate 100% previews - export the collection with previews, without negatives Now you

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-02 Thread Paul Sorenson
If you can live without it being configurable, try this... In LR and, if you want to just show all the pix in one folder, bring up that folder in the library and hit Ctrl-Enter (or whatever that combo is on a Mac. LR will generate previews, then start a slideshow that will loop until you

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-02 Thread steve harley
on 2012-08-01 21:16 Larry Colen wrote There's going to be a party at my house this weekend, and I'd like to run a slideshow of some of my better photos on my macbook pro. I'm not particularly enamored of preview, though it sort of works, and I despise iPhoto. if all you need is to change the

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-02 Thread Tim Bray
Damn, who new... Thanks! -T On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Paul Sorenson pentax1...@gmail.com wrote: If you can live without it being configurable, try this... In LR and, if you want to just show all the pix in one folder, bring up that folder in the library and hit Ctrl-Enter (or

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-02 Thread David Mann
On Aug 3, 2012, at 5:00 AM, John Sessoms wrote: If you've got one of those Macs that will allow you to also boot into Windoze, you could copy all the photos you want for your slide show into My Pictures and set your screensaver to a slide show. Add a password to the screen saver your

mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-01 Thread Larry Colen
There's going to be a party at my house this weekend, and I'd like to run a slideshow of some of my better photos on my macbook pro. I'm not particularly enamored of preview, though it sort of works, and I despise iPhoto. What I want is program that I can print to a directory, or directory

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-01 Thread jn289
Larry, you can make a slide show with acrobat...Joe There's going to be a party at my house this weekend, and I'd like to run a slideshow of some of my better photos on my macbook pro. I'm not particularly enamored of preview, though it sort of works, and I despise iPhoto. What I want is

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-01 Thread Larry Colen
On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:35 PM, jn289 wrote: Larry, you can make a slide show with acrobat...Joe I don't want a slideshow file. I just want to point the image viewer at a directory of photos, or select a bunch of photos and have it show them in a slideshow. There's going to be a party at

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-01 Thread Stan Halpin
LR? stan On Aug 1, 2012, at 10:50 PM, Larry Colen wrote: On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:35 PM, jn289 wrote: Larry, you can make a slide show with acrobat...Joe I don't want a slideshow file. I just want to point the image viewer at a directory of photos, or select a bunch of photos and have

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-01 Thread Larry Colen
On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: LR? But lightroom would mean reading in a bunch of jpegs into a special catalog in lightroom. Preview almost does what I want, apart from being able to use the second screen for something else, being able to set up the period each picture is

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-01 Thread jn289
How about I photo On Aug 1, 2012, at 8:35 PM, jn289 wrote: Larry, you can make a slide show with acrobat...Joe I don't want a slideshow file. I just want to point the image viewer at a directory of photos, or select a bunch of photos and have it show them in a slideshow. There's

Re: mac slideshow software recommendations?

2012-08-01 Thread Larry Colen
On Aug 1, 2012, at 9:41 PM, jn289 wrote: How about I photo as I said in the original message I despise iPhoto. Seriously. When I first tried it, my impression was that it was the one of the worst pieces of software that I had ever used. Plus, it has the disadvantage, that I've mentioned I