Section IV: Presenting Your Work

Step One.

Open the photos you want in your slide showand only those photos.

Step Two.

Press-and-hold the Shift key and click on the third screen mode icon at the bottom of the Toolbox (shown here). This will change all the images into Full Screen mode.

Step Three.

Press Tab to hide all floating palettes, then Control-Tab (both platforms) to change between images. You may have to use the Zoom In shortcut to make each image largerCommand+ (PC: Control+).

To return to normal view, press Tab to show the palettes, and Shift-click on the Standard Screen mode icon (the far-left icon at the bottom of the Toolbox).

Step One.

Combine all the images for your slide show into one document by clicking-and-dragging them in one at a time with the Move tool (V), while holding down the Shift key so that all the layers are pin-registered (they line up perfectly on top of each other).

Step Two.

In the Layer Comps palette (found nested in the Palette Well by default), click on the Create New Layer Comp icon and give the layer comp a name .

Step Three.

From the Edit menu, choose Keyboard Shortcuts, or press Command-Option-Shift-K (PC: Control-Alt-Shift-K). Choose Palette Menus from the Shortcuts For pop-up menu, scroll down to Layer Comps, and click on the rightfacing triangle to see the commands. Click beside Next Layer Comp and enter the shortcut you'd like to use. Chances are, just about every shortcut you'll think of is taken, so you may have to override an existing shortcut as I've done here by choosing a shortcut used by the Actions palette for the Flip Horizontal action. If you choose a shortcut that is already taken, a warning will appear near the bottom of the dialog, as you can see here.

Step Four.

To run your slide show, press Tab to hide your palettes, and press F twice to change to Full Screen mode. If necessary, use Command+ (PC: Control+) to Zoom In, then press your shortcut for Next Layer Comp to run your slide show.

Note

If you used a shortcut that was used by the Actions palette, you may have to find that action, double-click on it to open the Action Options dialog, and remove the shortcut from the action by choosing None in the Function Key pop-up menu.