Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube
	Thursday, May 14 2009 Contributed by: chrisb Easy ways to share your slideshows. iPhoto easily creates slideshows but they are limited to running in iPhoto. This tip shows how to prepare your iPhoto Slideshow to be shared with others. Start by creating a slideshow in iPhoto. Select the photos you want to include in the slideshow and click the + button on the bottom left of the iPhoto window. Choose Slideshow. Reorder the images as desired. Select a Theme for your slideshow. Select the music to accompany your slide show. You can choose any of the music from your iTunes library. How to have more than one song in your slideshow Test your slide show. Make sure the music you have chosen fits your images. Check the Ken Burns effect to make sure that it isn't cutting off the important part of any of your images. If it is, check out How to set the Ken Burns effect for individual images in your slide show. [iPhoto '09] [For iPhoto '08] Once you are satisfied with your slide show, you are ready to do the steps to convert it to a movie which can be shared in several ways. In iPhoto, select the slide show and go to File / Export on the Menu Bar. For iPhoto '09: Choose the Slideshow tab. For Sizes check Large and uncheck Automatically send slideshows to iTunes. Click Export. For iPhoto '08: Leave the size as Large, and click Export. You will get a progress bar and the conversion is very slooooow. Now that you have the slideshow movie prepared, you can share it in any of the following ways: Create a DVD Publish to MobileMe Publish to YouTube Related Items: iPhoto | Slideshow | Was this tip helpful to you? Consider a small donation as a token of your appreciation. Donate $1

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	Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube | 3 comments | Create New Account The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say. Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, December 30 2009 I got that part down, but how do you export a slideshow into a movie using a theme such as "shatter?" Reply to This Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube Authored by: chrisb on Wednesday, December 30 2009 To use themes in iDVD you need to drag the movies into the move drop zones. Reply to This Publishing your iPhoto Slideshow to DVD, MobileMe or YouTube Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 31 2009 Awesome! You were a huge help. thanks loads Reply to This