iPhoto '11 More Slide Show Tips Use iPhoto to Create Titles Step 5. Choose File > Print. Step 6. In the Print dialog, click the From button and be sure that the page range To earn some extra style points, sprinkle some titles into a slide show. For example, is 1 to 1. (There's no need to create a PDF of the "back" of your postcard, create a set of titles--one for each destination--for your vacation slide show. unless you want to use it in your slide show, too.) Sure, you can use the subtitle feature described on page 85, but you can go Step 7. Click the PDF pop-up menu and further. choose Open PDF in Preview. You already have a great program for Your Mac goes to work, and a few making titles. It comes with pre-designed moments later, a PDF version of your styles that are ready for your own photos postcard opens in Preview. and text. The program is called iPhoto. Step 8. In Preview, choose File > Export. This trick has several steps. Here's the Choose the JPEG option, and save the big picture: you're going to create a post- resulting JPEG someplace convenient, card, turn it into a PDF, convert that PDF such as on your desktop. into a JPEG, and then add the JPEG to iPhoto for use in a slide show. Step 9. Import the JPEG you just saved into iPhoto by dragging it to the iPhoto Here are the details. icon or into the iPhoto window. Step 1. Select the photo or photos that Your library now contains a JPEG of your you want to be part of your title. postcard. To see it, click the Last Import item in the Recent list. (Now that you've Step 2. Click the Create button at the bottom of the iPhoto window, and choose imported the JPEG, you can delete the version you saved on your desktop.) Card from the menu. Step 3. Choose a flat card style, then choose a theme like Plain Bevel. (For details on creating greeting cards, see page 130.) Step 4. Want text? Using the Layout but- ton, click the front of the card and choose a layout that provides text. Type your text and perform any other design tweaks, Your JPEG title is ready for its screen such as modifying the text font or the debut. If you've already created a slide card's background color. show, drag the title to the slide show in your Slideshows list. If you haven't cre- ated the slide show yet, add the title to the album where you've stashed the slide show's images. Variations. To animate your title slides, use the Ken Burns effect. Here's a fun trick: follow your title with the same photo that you used in the title. Apply the Ken Burns effect to the title so that it zooms in slowly, ending at a point where the photo almost fills the viewing area. Use a dissolve effect between the title and the following photo. When you play your slide show, the title will zoom in, then its back- ground and text will fade away, leaving just the photo. You can also save a book or calendar page as a PDF, export it from Preview as a JPEG, and add it to a slide show. Making a slide show of a three-week road trip? Start it with a calendar page whose dates contain photos from the trip. Then, use the Ken Burns effect to pan across the calendar page. Still using Leopard? If you're still using the older Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, this trick a bit easier. In iPhoto's Print dia- log box, simply click the PDF pop-up menu and choose Save PDF to iPhoto. This lets you skip steps 7 and 8 in the process I just described. Oh, and if you'd like to add the Save PDF to iPhoto option to Lion, you can. Go to Google and search for the phrase lion save PDF to iphoto, and you'll find instructions. 88