Selecting Transitions and Durations of Photos

Selecting Transitions and Durations of Photos

Although the default settings for slide shows in My Pictures are pretty pleasing, you may want to make some changes to suit your tastes.

Using the My Pictures Settings menu, you can control the transition time between pictures in a slide show. You can also tweak the display order for your pictures.

Selecting Transitions

The default transition setting is Animated, producing the varied transition effects described earlier in this chapter (see "Launching a Slide Show"). You can also choose a simple-yet-elegant Cross Fade effect, or reject any kind of transition effect by choosing None.

Simply choose Settings from the My Pictures menu tabs, and then scroll down to the option you want and click on it or press the OK button on the remote control (see Figure 18.10). When you're satisfied with your choices, select Save to return to the My Pictures main display.

Figure 18.10. This view of the Settings controls for My Pictures shows Cross Fade selected as the preferred slide show transition effect.

Changing Transition Times

The default display period for an image in a My Pictures slide show is 5 seconds, which seems just about right for taking in an image and then moving on to the next. But what if you want to really shake it up, such as by synchronizing your slide show to the staccato beat of a particular up-tempo tune? Or what if you are displaying highly detailed images that you want to savor and explore individually before moving on to the next ?

Simply use the Settings menu to create a custom Transition time for your slide shows. Select the +/- buttons shown on the My Pictures Settings screen (see Figure 18.11) to choose a new value between 2 seconds and 60 seconds.

Figure 18.11. One minute is the maximum length of time a picture can be displayed in a slide show, and 2 seconds is the minimum.