I give a lot of photo slideshows, and I know how boring it can be to talk to multiple audiences about each slide. The first slide, as seen in the screenshot above, is a placeholder title slide. We’ll take care of that in the next step. You’ll probably notice that if you chose a template with text on it, the text is behind your photos. Once the photos have been dragged and dropped to the sidebar on the left side of the Keynote window, they appear on separate slides. Drop the photos, and they are imported into Keynote with one photo per slide. Make sure that you can see both the contents of your slide folder and Keynote, then select the photos and drag them to the left sidebar where the app usually displays thumbnails of the slides. Your Keynote “deck” currently has just one slide - a title slide. Once the export was completed, I quit Photos so I could better focus on my Keynote slideshow. Once I picked the photos, I selected File > Export > Export Unmodified Original to move the images to my folder. Going through the pictures, I just used a Command (⌘) – click to select multiple images. Since I like taking pictures of flowers, I decided to search for flowers, then find my best photos to export to the folder. As an example, I made a new folder on my Mac desktop named “Slideshow”. In the Finder, create a New Folder by either right-clicking and selecting New Folder, or by using File > New Folder in the menu bar. In order to get the best possible resolution for your photos, it’s a good idea to export them from the Photos app into a folder on your Mac. You can also select any one of the templates, but I found the Photo Essay template to be one of the best for slideshows.īefore we start playing with our images, let’s import them into Keynote. If you plan on using AirPlay to show your slides on a standard flat-screen TV, then the 16:9 aspect ratio is probably your best bet. Digital cameras have changed that, and our Keynote slide templates come in either 4:3 or 16:9 aspect ratios. Back in the days of photo film, just about every photo had either a 1:1 (square) or 4:3 aspect ratio. You’ll also have a choice of aspect ratio - the ratio of image width to height. On the Mac, launch Keynote and select a template from the choices available. Create A New Documentįirst, we need to create a new Keynote document.
Let’s get started by creating a quick slideshow. You can export your slideshow as a video for sharing.You have a choice of music and voice narrations that can be added to the slideshow.More text annotations, slide transitions, and effects are available in Keynote than in Photos.Each photo slide can be edited for scale and adjusted for color.You can quickly import a lot of photos to make individual slides.
Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.You’re probably asking yourself, “Wait, why not just use the Photos app to create a slideshow?” There are some good reasons to use Keynote for your slideshows instead of Photos: Repeat steps 1 through 5 to add other songs.įor example, if you add a new song to slide 5, and want it to play across slides 5, 6, and 7 and then stop, you would set the Play Across Slides option, open the Custom Animation dialog box, and under Media Options, change theĪfter box to 3 because you want the music to play for 3 slides. In the After box, change the number from 999 to the number of slides you want the song to play.įor example, if you want the song to start on slide 1 and play through slide 4 and then start a new song on slide 5, you would enter 4 in the box because you want the music to play for 4 slides and then stop. In the Custom Animation dialog box, select the song, and then toward the bottom of the Custom Animation dialog box, open the Media Options panel. With the audio icon still selected, click the Animations tab, and then, under Animation Options, click the Reorder button. Make sure that the audio icon on the slide is selected, and then on the Format Audio tab, under Audio Options, on the Start pop-up
On the slide that you want the first song to start - slide 1, for example - insert the first audio file.
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