Suggestions for the Slide Show.

Question

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?
* Related to this, when hitting C to change back to "Caption Compact" the announcement (right in the centre of the screen) is totally unnecessary.
* Can we have the ability to change the background colour and/or add a narrow contrasting border to the image?
* 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?
The addition of these features would turn Bridge into a full-fledged previewing application for professional photographers and studios.
Chris.

Answer 1

> * 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.