Tops of Photos Cut Off in Slideshow

Thank you. I am still having trouble. Following the directions for "Setting Pan and Zoom in Slide Show" still doesn't get me what I want. I am supposed to push Burns effect then Start and place pointer/hand on screen to start shot. It asks me to drag to place I want to begin pan; then press End and drag to spot where I'd like to end. I have cropped photos so I do not use the zoom feature but when following instructions nothing happens or as in one instance I dragged to left edge of screen and wanted it to pan to right and then pressed End and dragged hand to right. The only thing that happened in Preview was a very slight movement up and down (not left to right).In another instance, Preview played two different pans over and over neither of which I had tried to create(!). I have also just tried to place hand on one end (no dragging) then clicked End and placed hand at destination...still no luck Also, when working on each photo a new slide show folder is created. I am unable to drop it into the original folder I am working with...so I am not able to use it. What am I not doing? Thank you

iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

iMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Hi jtk2,

the only thing I can think of trying, is to go to your slide show 'Settings' and make sure 'Scale Photos to fill Screen' is unchecked, this is the only way I know of to get 100% of the image to display... you can also check each individual slide, making sure you haven't selected something by accident...

Rick

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I am trying to do just the standard slide show with K Burns effects and have same issue where most photos get cut off before showing entire photo (currently I seem to have a slide show of all my childrens legs skiing). Have checked Scale Photos to Fit screen. Is this a photo formatting issue?...some photos look fine and were downloaded at same res and size. Thank you

iMac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

jtk2,
With Ken Burns on,it will by default "pan" from the center of the screen to some other area (or vice versa). That will sometimes focus on knees or feet depending on how the picture was shot.

Go to your slideshow and pick the problem picture(s) and manually set the Ken Burns starting and ending point and you can start or end on something more interesting like a face or landscape feature.

Good luck,
Scott

are you making a slide show on imovie?

if you are....

then when you click a picture and it give you the preview of what it is going to do before, you ACTUALLY add it to the slide show....a little black box pops up for me...it has various sliders, i think if we have the same system , it is a rabbit and turtle.

you can play with these to slow the ken burns effect, turn it off, or speed it up...

i am not sure if you are doing ur slide show on imovie, or iphoto...let me know....hope that these directions can help....(for imovie at least)

thanks so much...I have been able to get Burns effect to work-sort of. If I do the inverse of instructions I get what I want: Start is where I want it to end so I click hand there and then End is start point. Does not strike me intuitively correct- is this the correct way to do this?!. Also, just posted that I am unable to set slide duration. Seconds is slightly graded. Have trashed prefs but still no luck. I'm getting ready to export to idvd not movie to add text and tweak music...

..should be 'slightly grayed"

wait, run that by again...
you did get it to work, but you have to do it oppsite of what i suggested, got a little confusing...