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Excerpted from Digital Photography Just The Steps For Dummies*

Photoshop Album is a popular, inexpensive software package that amateur photographers use to manage, print, and share their digital photos. The program provides one-stop shopping for the most popular photo management functions – everything from storing photos to emailing them. Photoshop Album even links to a selection of editing software packages, such as Adobe Photoshop, that you might have installed on your computer, and then allows you to click once on a picture and launch the editing package with the picture preloaded.

The Slideshow Creation Wizard in Photoshop Album enables you to easily create a digital slideshow of your photos. Follow these steps to make your own digital photo slideshow:

1. Choose Slideshow --> Creations --> Album to display the Slideshow Creation Wizard.

The slideshow menu button is located on the tool menu below the menu bar at the top of the screen.

You can include video clips in a slideshow. The video prints the first frame of the video if you choose to print the slideshow on paper.

2. Select the slideshow style you want to create and click Next.

Photoshop Album comes with a number of attractive slideshow types. Click each style to view the example on the right-hand side to make your decision.

3. Choose the layout of your slideshow in Step 3 of the wizard and then click Next.

Enter the following information, as shown in Figure 1:

• Type the information you want to appear on the title and subsequent pages of your slideshow.
• Select the number of slides to show per page and whether you want captions to show.
• Select any music and transition options you desire.

The Transition options are the type of dissolve, fade, or other effect you want to use to move from one slide to the next. You can attach any music file on your computer (for example, a track downloaded as an MP3 file or taken from your favorite CD).


Figure 1: Set up your slideshow.
4. Select the photos you want to include in your slideshow and arrange them in the proper order, and click Next.
5. Preview your slideshow; keep clicking Next until you reach the end of the preview.
6. Choose the format in which you want to publish your slideshow.

The Output Options are:

• Save as PDF: Creates an Adobe Acrobat Reader eBook or PDF file.
• Print: Prints a hardcopy of your slideshow.
• Email: Creates a PDF file and sends your slideshow to someone by email.
• Burn: Burns a CD-ROM or DVD of your slideshow that plays on a DVD player attached to a TV.

Both DVD and video CDs are viewable on a standard DVD player hooked up to a TV set. In most cases, a standard video CD is just as good as a DVD (although with less space) and you can make one on a CD burner even it you don't have DVD burning capability.

• Order Online: Orders a printed version from an online printing service.
7. After you publish your slideshow, click Done.

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