How do you quickly move photos in an Aperture slide show timeline?

One way to shorten long draggings is to use flagged images as sentinels at either end of the filmstrip.

Flag the first and the last image of your image your slideshow (Metadata > Flag; look for the keyboard shortcut there). Whenever you want to move an image to either end of the slideshow, flag it, then set the filter over the filmstrip to only show the flagged images. Now only three images should show and you can simply drag your image to the beginning of your slideshow by moving it before the first image in this short sequence.

Then clear the filter to show all images again, position the image correctly in the timeline and remove the flag.

Regards

Léonie

Then you may want to switch to the browser for rearranging the slides in the timeline.

Click the little "slide" icon to show the viewer for this browser; then go to "Grid" view and shift the size slider to make the thumbnails small. When you are done, click the slide again and you are back in slideshow view.

In Grid view:

The slider should be in the lower right corner of the browser window.

You are welcome, Ron.

Enjoy your slideshow!

Léonie