《Bonus Chapter 6 Outputting》.pdf

Bonus Chapter 6: Outputting for the Screen In This Chapter Making a screen show from your images Adding sound and transitions to your presentation Creating your own Web gallery Making animated GIF files If you want to create motion pictures — pictures that move — here are the three basic ways: ✦ Move to Hollywood. ✦ Hold a photo in front of you and move it up and down. ✦ Use the Elements Editor and Creation modules. You can guess the option that I cover in this chapter. Web pages are a snap to build in Elements, and you can create animated slide shows for display on a monitor or TV. Even creating superb animated GIFs is within your reach. And it all starts in Organizer. (You’ll find the basics in Book I, Chapter 1.) For the “Happy Birthday” example in this chapter, you can use my source file at / go/PhotoshopElementsAIOFD1e. Creating a Slide Show The first step to creating an onscreen slide show is to gather your “slides” and other media in a collection from your catalog in Organizer. BC114 Creating a Slide Show Organizer can index all types of digital media: ✦ As long as it’s for private exhibit or it’s your own music, add an MP3 file or two to your collection. ✦ Many digital cameras can shoot short sequences of silent motion pictures, usually saved to the Apple QuickTime format (*.qt). These movies can be a part of your slide show. As shown in Figure BC6-1, I have a new catalog for my home movie. Here’s how to make it: 1. Press Ctrl+Shift+G from the catalog view, hu