Making slide shows

Hi all,
For my next exhibition of ‘real black and white photography’, I’ve assembled 45 colour images using the iMac to run a slide show as an additional attraction. I put them into iPhoto and used the ‘make slide show’ command.
I’ve given each image a fictional date by which it should be possible to show the images in the order I want to see them - but iPhoto just plays them as ‘it’ wants…
I’ve tried rebuilding it as a movie in Quick Time - no deal: I also tried Apple Keynote, but it thinks that everyone uses horizontal images; I can’t change its mind - not an ideal program for people with their own ideas on how things should look:-)
In the end, I settled for Preview, which works fine. It adjusts the various format images and plays them in the proper sequence. The only thing I cannot adjust, in Preview, is the time interval between each picture...
Can anyone help?
PS. On the other hand, I hope the above might be of help to others...
iMac 17 inch flat screen Mac OS X (10.4.5) also PowerBook G4 400.

gete:
Did those portrait photos come from a digital camera
with auto-rotate capability? If so that's probably
the reason for some applications displaying them in
the default landscape orientation. To get them
permanently in the portrait mode try exporting then
to the desktop and check them by dragging into an
open Safari window. Safari does not read the rotate
tag that get embedded in those files so it will
display them in their true orientation.
A suggestion regarding the slideshow: have you
considered iDVD? You can set the order in an iPhoto
album and then from iDVD select that album and import
into a slideshow. With iDVD 6 you can add titles
and/or comments to each slide and the entire slide
will display on the TV screen (if you play it thru a
TV) unlike a QT video slideshow in iDVD which is
subject to the over scan you get with any video. You
can set the slideshow to play immediately when the
disk is inserted into the player and have it repeat
continuously.
Do you
Twango?
Hi to the Old Toad - a friend of Wind in the Willows I guess:-)
None of these images are digital, apart from the fact they (6 x 7 cm color transparencies exposed in 1993 in Newfoundland) were scanned, tuned
and/or cropped according to how I re-visualized them.
So this 'Great Plan' of mine - as usual - doesn't fit the run of the mill stuff.
Actually, I ran it through several times last night in Preview and I'm satisfied with the result in the iMac - which I will take into the gallery to use as the display; I could use the PowerBook, but see no point buying a TFT monitor just for a 4 week-long show!
Your tip re making the show in iDVD looks interesting, and I'll give it a try later today - thanks for idea; I'll come back to you to say how it goes.
BTW, the main exhibition showcases my black and white images made in a Hasselblad 6 x 6 cm camera during the same 1993 journey, plus my latest limited (3 sets) edition of black and white prints in Ansel Adams quality.
You see, I'm one of the still surviving photo-dinosaurs:-)
Thanks again,
George
iMac 17 inch flat screen Mac OS X (10.4.5) also PowerBook G4 400.

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I'd be happy to answer some questions. I changed my Adobe forum profile so that you can see my e-mail address. I'll leave it on there for a day or so.
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