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Q: Slideshow from my libray  with black space

Hi, seddnly the Slideshow from my library  comes with black space between the images.

I checked all the 16,000 images and all of them are normal.

What could be the reason?

iMovie 10, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 10.0.6

Posted on Feb 23, 2016 12:33 PM

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Q: Slideshow from my libray  with black space

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Feb 23, 2016 3:33 PM in response to 9964266
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    Feb 23, 2016 3:33 PM in response to 9964266

    What version of Photos and what theme are you using?  Have you tried creating another slideshow to see if the problem persists?  How many images are in the slideshow? 

     

    Post a screenshot of what you're seeing. Include enough of the screen so we can see it in context to the slideshow.

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  • by 9964266,

    9964266 9964266 Feb 23, 2016 11:10 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Feb 23, 2016 11:10 PM in response to Old Toad

    IMG_4862.JPGHi

    I am using the El capital Slideshow and the images taken from my libray

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Feb 24, 2016 8:01 AM in response to 9964266
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    Feb 24, 2016 8:01 AM in response to 9964266
    El capital Slideshow

    What do you mean by the El Capitan slideshow?  This forum is about Photos.  Are you creating the slideshow inside Photos or some other application?

  • by 9964266,

    9964266 9964266 Feb 24, 2016 10:32 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Feb 24, 2016 10:32 PM in response to Old Toad

    In the mac/ Setting/Desktop & Slideshow / source: Photos

  • by 9964266,

    9964266 9964266 Feb 25, 2016 9:57 PM in response to 9964266
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    Feb 25, 2016 9:57 PM in response to 9964266

    Help please!!!

  • by Camelot,

    Camelot Camelot Feb 25, 2016 10:07 PM in response to 9964266
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    Feb 25, 2016 10:07 PM in response to 9964266

    Are you saying this didn't happen before?

     

    From the looks of it, this is a simple aspect ratio issue - the ratio of width and height of the photos does not match the ratio of your screen, and so the slideshow app fills in the difference with black space. The alternative is to stretch the images to fill the screen (which causes distortion) or to crop the images (which removes parts of the image).

     

    It is possible that something changed between OS versions in how Apple scale images for the slideshow, but I haven't heard of anything.

  • by léonie,

    léonie léonie Feb 26, 2016 12:24 AM in response to 9964266
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    Feb 26, 2016 12:24 AM in response to 9964266

    Are you concerned about the huge back space in the lower right corner of your screenshot or the bars between the images?

    Which Slideshow theme are you using?  Try a different theme, where you are seeing each photo individually, and disable "Shuffle". This way you will be able to tell, if some photos are rendered as black squares, and which of them these are.

     

    One possible reason for black photos in the slideshow could be, that some photos are not available in the media browser, because you are using iCloud Photo Library with the "Optimize" option.  Do you have iCloud Photo Library enabled for your photo library?

     

    What changed, before this problem happened the first time?  Did you upgrade software? Did Photos crash? Did you run any cleaning applications to remove duplicates or save storage  Did you move your Photos Library or restore it from a backup?