Category: Slideshow

26/11/2022 0 Comments

Why purchased & downloaded music won't play in Photos slideshow

I recently prepared a Photos slideshow on my Mac for a family occasion, and purchased a track ('What a wonderful world' by Lois Armstrong) to play with this slideshow.

Past experience has taught me that purchasing and downloading the track is the only way you can use it in your slideshow - that a subscription to Apple Music does not allow you to use that music.

But after purchasing and downloading the track, I could not get the music to play with the slideshow. I tried on my iPad, but again found that the music would not play there either. Frustrating! I wondered if it was a glitch with the recent iOS/iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura upgrades.

It was when I did get it to work in Photos on my iOS 16 iPhone that I realised what was causing the issue.

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25/11/2022 0 Comments

Here's how I scanned boxes of old slides into my Photos library in no time flat

I recently had to prepare a slideshow for our family, and had been sent a big box of old slides taken in the 60s and 70s - with the plan being to include these slides in the slideshow.

I don't have a scanner that caters for slides (they are quite expensive to buy) - so I used an amazing app to achieve wonderful results in very little time. In fact, it took far less time than if I had purchased a device to do the scanning.

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18/8/2022 5 Comments

If I use Apple Music, how can I add music to a Photos slideshow. None of my music appears!

(This article was initially published in April 2017 and has been updated in August 2022 with further information about adding music to a slideshow when you are on an iPad or iPhone.)

When preparing a slideshow of photos last week, using the Photos app on the Mac, we were wanting to play a particular music track with that slideshow. This slideshow was just going to be shown to family as part of the celebration of the life of a loved one.

It seemed that this should be an easy thing to do. We had completed the selection of photos for the slideshow and it was time to add the finishing touch - the music, a beautiful song by Ed Sheeran.

Frustratingly, we found that when we tried choosing the iTunes track that we wanted to use, it was 'greyed' and not able to be selected

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7/4/2016 0 Comments

Learning how to use the new Photos app on Mac

This weekend, my second daughter will be celebrating her 21st birthday.

As the 'tech-wizz' of the household, it falls to me to prepare the slideshow of photos of her life to date, for presenting on the TV screen during the party.

This is something that is SO easy to do in the Photos app on the Mac.

Included below is a brief snippet of the start of this slideshow, which took no time to create - so that you can see the sort of slideshow that can be prepared with virtually no effort. (PS. I did not choose the first photo - my daughter did!)

The most time-consuming part was scanning in old photos (which I did really quickly using the Scannable app on my iPhone), then selecting which digital photos to include from the thousands that have been accumulated over the years.

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