Iphoto stretches slideshow pictures

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Iphoto stretches slideshow pictures

My individual pictures in a slideshow are "stretched" to fill the background of the screen. By stretched I mean the last edge pixcels colours appear to be repeated to the side of the picture out to the edge of the screen. This creates a weird striped appearance. Is there any way to make the background black or whatever? Previous posts here refer to being able to choose formats (4:3, 16:9 etc) but I can't find these in my settings- iphoto 09. Setting to "scale photos to screen" picks up only part of each picture. I want the whole picture as in the original.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Sep 6, 2009 9:12 AM

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Old Toad

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Sep 6, 2009 10:12 AM in response to David Sloan1

David:

If you're running iPhoto 09 (you've posted in the iPhoto 09 forum) the slideshow presentation ratio can be set in the Aspect ratio menu (at the bottom of the left pane):

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And be sure you don't have the Scale photos to fill screen selected.

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David Sloan1 Author

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Oct 14, 2009 5:23 AM in response to David Sloan1

Thanks Old Toad. Just found your response by accident. Somehow I did not get advised.

My slideshow setting screen looks much less comprehensive than yours! I have iPhoto 09 although it says version 8.1. No aspect ratio drop down etc.

If I knew how to add a picture to this post I could send you a copy of my screen!

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Old Toad

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Oct 14, 2009 11:20 AM in response to David Sloan1

Are you creating the slideshow by selecting an album of photos and using the Play button? That gives a different setting window than the one that comes up from the slideshow mode. This is the one that comes up when using the album method:

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It's the only way that you can get slides to play randomly (shuffle). Is that the one you're seeing?

Note: This is the forum for iPhoto 08 but we've both been referring to the correct version, V8.1 - iPhoto 09. We didn't get sidetracked there.

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David Sloan1 Author

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Oct 14, 2009 1:28 PM in response to David Sloan1

Thanks very much Old Toad.

You hit the nail on the head. All I was doing was selecting a few individual photos in one "event" and hitting the slideshow button. Now you have explained that there is something more I have found out how to create a slideshow as an album in the list on the left hand side and found the other settings box.

I am sure that will be the problem solved re the "stretching" although I have still to actually go and experiment on my (old) widescreen iMac which is where I had the problem.

Thanks again - your help much appreciated.

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