Resizing photos in slideshow scrapbook theme

Hi - I'm working on a slideshow in iPhoto '11. I imported my photos and set the theme as scrapbook. I realize that it's a template and I have to mess with the order of the photos get the pictures the way I want them to appear. That said, I can only adjust some photos left/right and other up/down. How do I zoom in or zoom out of the photos in order to center them to the picture frame better?
Thanks!
Nate

There are no options to control the layout for individual photos in the newer themes. The only themes that will give you a little bit more control are the older "Classic" and "Ken Burns". But these themes will simply show your photos full frame with little animations. So you will have to present spectacular photos to keep the interest of your audience.

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I'd like to see small photos rather in their exact size during slideshow than resized to fit width or height of the screen. If it is not possible in iPhoto 06, can I manage it in iMovie? I've never used that app but I've heard something about slideshows and iMovie or iDvd..
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hope this one hasn't been answered millions of times already...It has.
I'd like to prevent it altogether. Can this be done?Not really. You need to use the ComponentListener to handle the componenResized events. You can get multiple events by adding the following to you code. The problem is you get lots of flickering when you handle each event and resize the frame.
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I have an iPhoto 09 (8.1.2) album with 284 photos and 8 movies. I want to use the iPhoto scrapbook theme in a slideshow project.
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On initial experimentation it appears that the layout is completely random. In fact, each time the theme is switched from classic then back to scrapbook, the layout seems to change.

No, you can't customize the slideshow. You might try a 3rd party slideshow that has a scrapbook type of theme. PhotoPresenter has over 25 animated themes, some of which are scrapbook like (more like a scrapbook flipping pages) that might let you gain more control. This demo page shows 9 of those themes: PhotoPresenter Themes .

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What do they mean by published albums? I categorize them into photo albums for organizational purposes after I import them from my camera or phone. So why can't I put them into a book now?
I have over 400 photos selected for a photo book for my child's graduation gift so how can I tell which photos I have to do this to?
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Give this a try: apply the two fixes below in order as needed:
Fix #1
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OT

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IMovie still photo slideshow with theme - how?

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Hi,
I need an answer pretty quickly; maybe I can rephrase the question and make it simpler...
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Hi all, was in Sydney and took over 200 pics there 8.0 megapixels each. it takes forever to send them via ichat and would like to downsize them to 5.1 or 5.0. how do i go about getting them all downsized?
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I'm guessing you don't intend to suddenly drop over 200 photos into an iChat session.
I think you might as well scale them down instead of re-compress them. Just decide how you want to use them. For example, if they will be used for your desktop background, then scale them down to the screen resolution. You can find those numbers in System Preferences in Displays. Actually, that's probably a good size overall. Though, keep in mind your screen size is probably widescreen, so you'll want to try it out with an image to decide whether to go with the height or width while keeping the proportion constant.
As for using iPhoto, if you have .Mac then you can share them pretty easily by photocasting them. You wouldn't really have to worry about scaling them down, however, it does offer you option to reduce the size when they are photocasted. I believe this keeps them the same size on your computer, but uploads them at the reduced size, so it'll be quicker to upload them and download by others while you keep the same quality on your computer. Just create an album and put a few photos in there that you want to share. Or select some photos and drag and drop them into the left side of albums until you see an outline around the whole left side, then a new album will be created when you drop them.
I suppose you could share all 200 or so photos, but since you mentioned iChat it sounds like you just want to share one or two at a time and say "Hey, look at this one!". Instead, you can say "Hey, have you seen my Sydney photocast lately? Did you see the last couple of pictures I added?". You can change the photos in the album or just keep adding more and it'll appear to automatically update on everybody else's computers, too. Though, I think it's nicer when they have iPhoto to subscribe to the photocast instead of using an RSS viewer, since they can do anything they want with the photo when they have it in iPhoto, such as making it their desktop background, emailing it, have it as part of a slideshow, send an iCard (with .Mac), order prints or a photo book, etc.
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When you send some photos to iWeb, you can choose to have a single page of photos or to have them added to a blog. You might do the latter with a few of the photos if you'd like to add a special description, since each photo will be given it's own page in the blog.
As Mike said, you can also simply have them scaled down by exporting them from iPhoto, available in the File menu once you've selected the photos. Though, you'd probably interact with them with the Finder at that point, such as drag and drop into a video chat in iChat or adding them to emails. You could re-import them to iPhoto and then decide whether to keep both copies, the higher quality originals or the scaled down versions. I believe iPhoto won't make you decide, so you'll have both in different rolls and can keep them separate or delete one set or the other.

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Made a slideshow using scrapbook theme with songs in iPhoto '09. Clicked on burn disk, after disk was complete tried to play in DVD player on a TV and it won't work.
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I also need to solve this problem. I plan to try to export the slideshow to a Quicktime (.mov) and a MPEG4. I think MPEG4 may be recognized by most DVD players. The Quicktime (.mov) should be able to work with an iDVD project.

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The iPhoto'09 Scrapbook theme is one of my faves. The theme seems to consist of a collection of page-by-page layouts and transition effects, which get chosen randomly when you create the slideshow initially. You get a different set of layouts and transitions when you create each new Scrapbook-style slideshow. I've created a whole bunch and analyzed them, and I've counted about 3 or 4 variations now.
Most of the time I'm happy with the layouts and transitions that were chosen randomly. However, Since the layouts display some photos in Landscape, Portrait or Square shapes, and the sizes can be large or small, I occasionally get a bad match (eg a portrait photo is displayed in a square shape in the page layout). While you can manually adjust the cropping in such cases, I'd prefer to have more control myself over each page's layout and transitions, rather than accepting the random choices built-in to the Scrapbook style.
There are no detailed controls for the Scrapbook style. I am wondering if someone knows a hack or back-door way into controlling the page layouts & transitions for a particular slideshow in the Scrapbook theme.

I did some experimenting with the StyleDescription.plist, and isolated the style calls that go to each type of layout. I ended up removing 3,5,6 because I didn't like how the small pics on the right/left replaced each other or the grid type layout with the centre picture.
You remove the references to the layouts you don't like out, make the slideshow, and then put them back in for future slide shows. This will not allow you to control which layouts go to which slides (or w/e you want to call them), but it will let you determine which layout types appear in your show.
You will see in effectPresets there are numbers 0-9. Each of those numbers has a clickable arrow beside it. When you click it you'll see each number has two fields associated with it; likelhood and presetID.
"likelihood" - chance it will be used for a slide, higher the number the more often it will appear
"presetID" - reference to the slide layout
The preset ID has a number as part of the name that refers to the slide layout number, ie "Scrapbook_Effect1/Default" refers to layout 1. The list below is in reference to this number and NOT the 0-9 number.
AFAIK the number 0-9 itself (with the arrow), does not affect the actual layout, only the presetID does. When removing a layout, look at the presetID number!!! Make sure to delete the layout by clicking on the 0-9 number that has the arrow beside it, and then clicking the Delete button in the window (NOT on the keyboard).
1 = large centre picture
2 = Left Big tall (stacks) + Right 2 small
3 = Left Big wide + Right 2 small (stacks)
4 = Left 1 Small + Right Wide (stacks)
5 = Grid 4 + 1 centre
6 = Left 2 small (top one stacks) + Right Tall
7 = Top Left Mid + Bottom Right Mid
8 = Single middle Mid size (includes the last few slides)
9 = Left Big wide + Right 2 small
10 = Big right + left small stacking
A couple of notes:
1. I take NO responsibility if something screws up and your library gets corrupted. I didn't have any issues, but I'm just sayin ....
2. Back up the plist file (or entire iLifeSlideshow folder) BEFORE editing it!!!! You may need it as reference to restore if you screw up.
3. I've split it into Left (# of pics and comment) + Right (# of pics and comment, I hope this makes sense to people.
4. If you delete one of the layouts, make sure to delete the Dictionary entry where it has a number (ie 0 - 9) with the clickable triangle beside it. This will remove the 2 fields, the "liklehood" and "presetID" fields. I tried removing only the preset ID field and had some iPhoto lockups.
5. You have to save the changes to the plist before they take effect.
6. When modifying the plist make sure iPhoto is NOT RUNNING. It probably loads the plist on start (not 100% sure, just assuming), so I suggest quitting iPhoto BEFORE making a change, then save the plist, then reopen iPhoto.
7. If you are uncomfortable, or don't understand, the instructions above you probably shouldn't be trying this. Instead, ask Apple to put in a feature to have better control over the slide layouts.

Can I back up the organizer, move my photos and still access them in PSE?

I backed up my catalog to an external HD last night and there were about 20 disconnected files. I was not able to locate them so I allowed the back up to continue without them. Do you know what the consequences are for that?
Also, several of my photos are on my C drive and several are on the external HD. My catalog included photos from both places. When I move the rest of my photos from the C drive of my computer to the external HD will the catalog still be able to access them or will I need to back everything up again?
My goal is to free up space on my computer so PSE will stop freezing up. All I'm intersted in doing right now is getting all of my photos into the organizer and tagged. I'll edit them later as I begin to create digital scrapbook pages.
Can someone tell me if the way I'm going about this is correct?
Thank you,

Thank you Ken. I backed up everything to my external HD, but now I think I'd rather just move everything there and recall my photos from the ext HD to free up space on my C drive. Is that possible?
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When you use PSE to back up your catalog, the actual photos as well as the catalog (database) are backed up. When you restore from a backup, you can specify where the incoming photos will be placed. Ken
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How to save resized photo in the event

I am having trouble saving my resized photo in my event. When I open an event, choose the photo I want to resize, and use the export feature, I am unable to choose my event as a place to save to. Any suggestions. What I end up doing is saving it somewhere else I don't want to based on my limited choices in the drop down and moving it to the event. This is a hassle.
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