IPhoto slideshow 1. random and 2. loop

Hello,
I am organizing a slideshow with iPhoto 6 for my father-in-law's funeral tomorrow and have two questions:
1. Can you play the photos in random order (and how)?
2. Can you make the slideshow play as a continuous loop (and how), rather than repeatedly restarting the slideshow?
Thanks,
Julius

Julius:
You can play a slideshow with the slides in random order but you have to do it from an album and not a slideshow. Select the albums with your photos in it and click on the Play button. In the Setting box that comes up will be the options to shuffle the slides and one to loop. You can select the music to use and then save the settings. When you next select the album and Option-Click on the play button the slideshow will start without the setting window and play with the settings you saved. This is only for playing on your Mac. If you create a slideshow for a DVD the order is what you have when you create it.
I've created a couple for memorial services and built the slideshow entirely in iDVD. There's no Ken Burns effect but the resulting image quality is better and titles/subtitles can be added to selected slides is desired.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've written an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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