Changing black background on slide show

does anyone know how to change the background on the iWeb slide shows so that the black background is not visible and there is no "picture reflection"? I would prefer the slide show to have the whole picture with no background.

The "Previous to iWeb '08" does not have the option to change the Slideshow background or reflections; it would be necessary to upgrade to iWeb 2.x in iLife'08.

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I want to change the "darkness" of the picture that I use as a backdrop for all my slides. I do not see how this can be done within Keynote. Individual imported pictures, yes, but not ones that I have designated as background pictures in the Slide Inspector > Appearance > Background > Image Fill.
I do this because I can change the background fill for multiple slides by shift clicking on the slides to select them, and then setting the background image all at once. But I often find the image is to dark (because I place text over the top of the background image), and so I want to lighten it up.
Is there any way to do this short of using the image adjustments within a program like iPhoto and saving the modified file? Is there another way to do what I want?
Thanks for the help from the experts.
Also, as a bonus question, it really bothers me that there is no easy way to change the font attributes on multiple slides all at once. Unless someone has a better idea . . .
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There are several threads that deal with this issue, but here is the basic info:
1) You cannot change a "soundtrack" within a slideshow.
2) You can create a series of independent slideshows, each with its own soundtrack. Then you can sequence each to the next via a Hyperlink. However ...
3) Any "synchronization" of the Builds and Transitions you may have Recorded with the soundtrack will NOT work if the slideshow is played as a Hyperlink. The soundtrack will play when the slideshow launches, but you will have to trigger the Builds and Transitions manually.
4) All bets are off if you try to export any of this to another format, such as QuickTime, PowerPoint, iMovie, etc.
good luck

Changing sountrcaks within a slide show?

Can I change the background soundtrack at a point within a slide show? Tried exporting to iMovie a Quicktime movie to add two soundtracks, but iMovie would not inport.

There are several threads that deal with this issue, but here is the basic info:
1) You cannot change a "soundtrack" within a slideshow.
2) You can create a series of independent slideshows, each with its own soundtrack. Then you can sequence each to the next via a Hyperlink. However ...
3) Any "synchronization" of the Builds and Transitions you may have Recorded with the soundtrack will NOT work if the slideshow is played as a Hyperlink. The soundtrack will play when the slideshow launches, but you will have to trigger the Builds and Transitions manually.
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Can I change black background in preview window?

I have Bridge CS3. I have alot of movie files that have black moving objects with transparent background. Since the thumbnail and previoew windows in Bridge degault to black for transparent areas, I cannot view these files in Bridge. Is there any way to change the default black color for transparency?
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Thanks I had tried that but that only changes the background color or color around the images. It doesn't change the actual background color used for the thumbnails or the previoew window. So if you have a video with some transparency, that transparency shows as black. That is the color I was looking to change.

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Does anyone know how to change the background during still photos in iMovie HD? Ideally looking for a complete white matte (rather than generic black), for when some or all photos are not the same size as the QT movie or TV screen. I'm not talking about backgrounds during transitions here. I figured there must be a way to do this because it can be changed in iPhoto, but really need change in iMovie. Any help greatly appreciated. Cheers!

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Unfortunately, you cannot change the background in iMovie.
If you don't mind spending some money, Photo to Movie will allow you to. It can also do multiple key frames and rotations.
I believe there's a free trial version.
http://lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
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Elaine,
The key combination should work unless you have setup a conflicting keyboard shortcut. Try this.
First press and hold down control, then press and hold option, continue and hold down the command (apple key), and then press the number 8 below the function keys. Your screen should invert. Make sure that you don't have num lock on (this will often cause a problem). Also make sure you are using the normal keyboard row 8 (the one above the U and I keys), and not the number pad.
Toggling the setting to white on black is the same as the keyboard combination (it even moves the radio button).
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Black Screen during slide show

Hi,
When I try to watch a slide show I can hear the music, but just see a black screen. Anyone know what the problem might be?
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Are you able to view the photos used for the slideshow in the edit mode? You might fill in some of the personal stuff like I have at the bottom of my post so we have an idea of what type of Mac you're running, what system version, etc. Also include in the post what application version so we can be assured we're all on the same page starting out.
OT

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You might try exporting to Quicktime and then add the resulting QT movie to iDVD and see if the timing remains intact.
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Suggestions for the Slide Show.

I waited until the 1.0.2 release hoping some of these features might have been incorporated.
Just a few small changes would make the Slide Show feature a real "Show Stopper".
* That annoying "PLAY" sign which appears (always over the most important central part of the image) for virtually the full duration of the first slide - can it please be moved to the top, bottom or a corner?
* Similarly, the "Caption Full" feature covers a significant chunk of the image. Why not instead, include the label and rating info in the "Caption Compact" display at the bottom left?
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* Can the images be set to fade from one to another rather than simply jump as they do now?
* When the slide show is instigated for (say) Green Labels only, can changing the label to (say) red eliminate that slide from the sequence?
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Chris.

> * That annoying "PLAY" sign which appears (always over the most important
> central part of the image) for virtually
> the full duration of the first slide - can it please be moved to the top,
> bottom or a corner?
Seconded. I was thinking that a H keyboard shortcut instead of only (H)elp
Text could act as a (H)ide button too. That is: when any info text is
already displayed on top of the image pressing H for the first time would
hide that text, and for the second time, would show Help Text.
Couple of other ideas:
1. A keyboard shortcut to edit (in PS or CameraRAW) current slideshow image.
This is one of the strangest omissions. Maybe Return could act as one
instead of cloning already available Next Image behaviour?
2. Hide mouse pointer when in fullscreen mode.
3. Better mouse navigation: Now Left and Right mouse buttons both act as
Next Image, Middle Button and wheel are unoccupied. How about: Left Button -
Next Image, Right Button - Previous Image, Double-click - Edit Image or
maybe Exit Slideshow, Wheel to navigate through images back and forth
_without_pausing_the_slideshow (as opposed to other < & > shortcuts which
_pauses_ current slideshow - sometimes I want to go back to last image for a
while without pausing the slideshow. Or maybe sacrifice right (and
consequently left) mouse button navigate ability for having proper context
menu with image specific commands?
4. I'm not sure about this one since the slideshow window could act
independent entity but what about synchronizing slideshow with normal view -
the last image of the slideshow would be selected in Bridge after exiting
the slideshow. What do you think?
5. Currently slideshow uses only previews instead of real image data so it
could be fast. But that prevents it from abilities such as viewing images at
100% (and more) magnification and e.g. showing histogram for the image. How
about _an_option_ in slideshow to use real image data (slower but with
benefits of having Zoom Tool from PS with it's respective keyboard shortcuts
and maybe a histogram palette?).
6. 1.02 added _nice_ ability to have fullscreen slideshow on the second
monitor. Thank you. This is controlled by initial placement of Bridge before
entering the slideshow. That is: when you invoke slideshow when Bridge is on
the second monitor - it will play on it. How about: slideshow would fill the
second monitor as well in situation when you pressed W with slideshow
_window_ being on the second monitor?
7. How about remembering and restoring the last size and placement of the
slideshow _window_? When pressing W and when entering new slideshow.
Regards
m.
p.s. Please, please consider fixing text entering bugs:
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[email protected]@.3bbaae70
Thank You.

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If not, then using an Administrator userid may solve your problem.
It has been a relatively common problem in various versions of PSE to have the black screen on the playback within the PSE slide show editor if you run under some type of limited authority Windows userid. Then the problem of no image in the output video also happens.
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