[HM] making a slide show or sreen saver

[janesprando at comcast.net]

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Duane Murphy" <duanemurphy at mac.com>
> --- At Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:05:01 +0000, janesprando at comcast.net wrote:
> 
> >I am trying to create a slide show of my own pictures to use as a screen
> >saver.
> >
> >Tech info: G4 iMac, 10.3.9
> >
> >What I did:
> >1. made a copy of the pictures that I wanted ot be in the slide show;
> rotated and cropped them
> >2. opened System Preferences/Desk & Screen Saver/Screen Saver/Pictures
> Folder and selected  my folder.
> >3. Options: chose them all, including Crop Slides to fit on screen
> >
> >What happens:
> >
> >Some of the pictures are cut off at the top--- partial or no heads! So
> using, PhotoShop Elements, I resized the images. The pictures are still
> decapitated! What am I missing here? How do you get the pictures to fit on the >screen?


> Duane writes:
> Heh, I hit that stupid option also. Turn off "Crop Slides to fit on
> screen". Note that it says crop, not stretch. 
> 
> It's increasing the size of the slide so that it fits both across and up
> and down. That means it'll cut off (crop) on or the other depending on
> the orientation of the slide, unless the dimensions of the slide are an
> exact multiple of the screen.
> 
> Silly option, not useful.
> 
>  ...Duane
> 


Turned off Crop Slides to fit and I can see the whites of their eyes! Thanks, Duane! Gee, if this tripped YOU up, I don' feel so bad! LOLOL

Jane