Looking for a beautiful, fast, free Mac slide show
May 23, 2017 9:33 AM Subscribe
I just want to look at pretty pictures when I take a break. Does this exist?
The Mac Screen Saver (in System Preferences) is very close to what I want, except it takes 30 seconds for the screen saver to load photos, even when I'm using an album with about 10 images, and the ability to set up sets of photos is pretty limited.
The Photos app slide show is okay, but
* there's no way to show photos in random order
* there's no way to turn off the music
My favorite transition is the Floating option in the System Preferences Screen Saver; I'd love to be able to use that.
My ideal slideshow would
* load photos FAST
* let me use the Floating transition effect
* let me have no music or sound
* be easily launchable so I can start a slide show whenever I need a break
Bonus features:
* let me set up smart selectors for my photos (or even just use folder aliases and subfolders) - something like "photos from June of last year" would be very cool
* let me include videos
Does anything like this exist?
Thanks!
The Mac Screen Saver (in System Preferences) is very close to what I want, except it takes 30 seconds for the screen saver to load photos, even when I'm using an album with about 10 images, and the ability to set up sets of photos is pretty limited.
The Photos app slide show is okay, but
* there's no way to show photos in random order
* there's no way to turn off the music
My favorite transition is the Floating option in the System Preferences Screen Saver; I'd love to be able to use that.
My ideal slideshow would
* load photos FAST
* let me use the Floating transition effect
* let me have no music or sound
* be easily launchable so I can start a slide show whenever I need a break
Bonus features:
* let me set up smart selectors for my photos (or even just use folder aliases and subfolders) - something like "photos from June of last year" would be very cool
* let me include videos
Does anything like this exist?
Thanks!
Make the folders, then use Cover Flow in Finder to move through them?
posted by Wild_Eep at 7:33 PM on May 23, 2017
posted by Wild_Eep at 7:33 PM on May 23, 2017
Response by poster: Phoenix Slides looks like a pretty decent fit. (Wish it had transitions, but otherwise it does just what I want.)
Thanks to both of you!
posted by kristi at 10:20 AM on May 26, 2017
Thanks to both of you!
posted by kristi at 10:20 AM on May 26, 2017
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Photostickies
Both free.
posted by bongo_x at 4:03 PM on May 23, 2017