Random Display of Photo's in a Slide Show

Does anyone know of a way to make iPhoto display photographs randomly in a slide show? I have been looking for a "shuffle" feature similar to iTunes but can't seem to find one.

peter, your wisdom is limitless! where would i be without you? i shall now proceed to the Feedback page, but first, some apologies are at hand:
everyone, forgive me for my attempt to open Lori's mind into thinking that although unneeded, it would be nice to have this feature. my comment was unwarranted, superfluous, and distracting. next time, i'll be sure to check my arrogant ignorance at the door.
furthermore, i apologize for my initial stupidity in regards to requesting a feature. i should have known from both Apple Discussion Board etiquette and the actual rules & regulations that requesting a feature is greatly frowned upon and, to be honest, tasteless.
peace in the middle east,
rick

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I hope I am posting in the right place.
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And the top of the day to you,
Is there a way to add different text to each photo before making a slide show? I know you can do this in PS4 but it is not very easy. Any ideas?
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Maybe it's me, but... scoobie... i don't think your reply has anything to do with her question lol. I believe she's saying she is having trouble figuring out how to do something, not that the program is crashing.
Anyway, I'm starting a similar slideshow project. I think it's easiest to simply edit the photos in iPhoto. Photoshop is on a different level from iPhoto and obviously has capabilities iPhoto lacks, but I think it should be fine for just editing digital photos.
One of the things you said was "how do you format... resolution"
I don't think iPhoto can change the resolution of a photo like photoshop can, but since you want to make the FINEST quality slide show I assume you'd want to scale the resolution up... and although photoshop can do that, I don't think you'll see a significant increase in quality. It won't look anything like if you had actually taken the photo at a higher resolution.
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I'm using Elements and Photoshop Elements 10 on Vista.
What I'm trying to do is import a slide show I made in Photoshop in to a movie I'm making so that the slide show appears as a menu item and I don't have to include a separate disk for the pictures. I've sucessfully imported it, added the menu marker and the disc works, but the photo quality is really crappy. When I play the slide show on its own, the pictures are fine. What am I missing?
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Welcome to the forum.
They work on several levels:
A subscriber comes with a problem/question, and then, hopefully, someone will have an answer
A subscriber comes with a problem/question in mind, and then finds other threads, very similar, and hopefully gets the answer
A subscriber comes to read, to pick up ideas, etc.
In your case, it appears that # 2 worked, just as it should.
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