Viewing pictures by yourself can be fun, but it may be more enjoyable to show your pictures to others. With your iPad, you can create a slideshow to display pictures, one at a time, with various transitions between each picture or even background music.
You can create a slideshow in two ways. First, you can create a slideshow within the Photos app. This can be handy for showing off your latest vacation pictures or pictures of your child's birthday party.
A second way to create a slideshow is to turn your iPad into an electronic picture frame, which can display pictures when you're not using your iPad, such as when you've put your iPad in an optional recharging dock.
Creating a slideshow within the Photo app can be handy for impromptu presentations. To create a slideshow, follow these steps:
From the Home screen, tap Photos. The Photos screen appears.
Tap a tab at the top of the screen such as Photos or Albums. If you choose the Photos tab, thumbnail images of all your pictures appears (see Figure 27-1). Otherwise, different groups of your pictures appear, which you'll need to tap to display all the pictures stored inside.
Tap Slideshow in the upper-right corner of the screen. A Slideshow Options window appears, as shown in Figure 27-5.
(Optional) Tap the Play Music on/off switch. If you turned the switch to read ON, tap the Music button, and a list of songs, stored in the iPod app, appears that you can choose.
Tap a transition in the Transition category, such as Cube or Ripple.
Tap Start Slideshow. Your slideshow starts playing using all the pictures stored in the group you selected earlier. The slideshow automatically ends after it has displayed all of your pictures.
Apple sells an optional recharging dock where you can prop up your iPad in a base that holds it upright. If you have this optional dock or if you just like the idea of propping your iPad up while it's plugged in, you can turn your iPad into an electronic picture frame and display pictures stored in the Photos app.
To turn your iPad into an electronic picture frame, follow these steps:
From the Home screen, tap Settings. The Settings screen appears.
Tap Picture Frame. The Picture Frame screen appears, as shown in Figure 27-6.
Tap a transition in the Transition category such as Dissolve or Origami.
Tap the Zoom in on Faces on/off switch.
Tap All Photos, Albums, Faces, or Events. If you choose Albums, Faces, or Events, an additional list of items appears at the bottom of the screen, as shown in Figure 27-7. (You may need to scroll down to see all the listed items.)
If you chose Albums, Faces, or Events in the previous step, tap one or more listed items to check (or uncheck) which groups of photos you want to display as part of your electronic picture frame.
Press the Sleep/Wake button at the top of your iPad to put it to sleep.
Press the Sleep/Wake button at the top of your iPad to wake it up. The Picture Frame icon appears at the bottom-right corner of the screen, as shown in Figure 27-8.
Tap the Picture Frame icon. Your picture frame settings now display a slideshow of your chosen pictures.
Tap the screen to pause your picture frame slideshow. The slider and Picture Frame icon appears again.
Tap the Picture Frame icon again to turn off the picture frame slideshow.
