Scenario: In iPhoto you have a folder full of photos that you want to turn into a slideshow – only you would want to play the images in random order. But: there is actually no ‘preset‘ for “random order” or “shuffle mode” in the iPhoto preferences panel – and you ask yourself, if it is actually possible, to play an iPhoto slideshow in random order at all?!
This may first occur a bit strange, but it does actually make perfect sense. Let me explain: you probably don’t really want to have your images played in random order all the time. Instead the random play option is available on demand or actually on play – which means you can switch to random order (“shuffle order”) while the slideshow is actually playing. Here is how:
How to play an iPhoto slideshow in random order
I have 2,600+ photos of my nephew in one folder and I am making a collage where those photos will serve as the background image that makes up one large image. The issue I am having is, when I automate the process (contact sheet) in Photoshop, it pulls the photos one at a time in the order that they are in the folder. Lightroom: Ability to shuffle the order of images in a Slideshow Photoshop Family Customer Community. Adobe engineers monitor that forum (doesn’t mean the request will necessarily happen though). This is a mainly user to user forum. Nov 28, 2015 Use the screen saver. If you don’t have iPhoto installed on your Mac, the only way to shuffle the photos in a slideshow is to use the built-in screen saver. It’s not as full-featured as iPhoto as you lose the ability to control the slide time, transitions, titles and so on. Ever since the new Photos.app was released on the Mac, it's had one surprising limitation. There's no way to randomize the order of a slideshow. This simple utility restores that ability. Point it to any Photos.app library on your system, and it will present a list of the slideshows. One click, and they will be randomized! Download it for free. Oct 03, 2012 Select the slideshow in the Source list, click the Settings button in the toolbar, and then click All Slides. While a slideshow is playing, move the pointer to make the slideshow controls appear, and then click the Settings button: To display slides in random order, select “Shuffle slide order.”.
First you obviously have to have a slideshow you want to play in random order. So in the iPhoto sidebar under ‘slideshows’ you either right-click and choose “New Slideshow” or go to “File > New Slideshow” from to menu bar. Add some picture you want to play by draggin and dropping them from any of the image overviews. Then press ‘Play’.
While the slideshow is playing, move the mouse pointer to make the slideshow controls appear. Onedrive mac os x 10.6 os x 10 6. Then click the settings button, that looks like a cog wheel icon, next to the close [X] button:
Clicking the settings button in play mode will then open an extended preferences panel, featuring an additional option “Shuffle slide order” in the lower third of the panel:
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iPhoto’s random order slideshow option “shuffle slide order”
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Ticking (Checking/unchecking) the option “Shuffle slide order” will toggle the shuffle mode.
You can find a detailed description on this page “Change slideshow settings“at support.apple.com – it’s written for iPhoto 9.5 but should also apply for iPhoto 9.6 and other versions as well.
If you instead want to determine the order of the slideshow manually, you can drag and drop the images in the order you prefer at the top image bar.
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Hope this short guide helped a bit. Cheers!