Creating Projects with Adobe's Photoshop Elements 4

You can create greeting cards, calenders, photo album pages, slide shows and even burn a slide show onto a CD for showing on a DVD player and TV. With Photoshop Elements 4.0, you have many options for presenting your edited and finished photos and pictures.

First you must have edited and decent pictures before you start in on this part of Adobe's Photoshop Elements. There's no sense in burning a CD or creating a slide show with your family photos or favorite pictures unless they look good. Use the editor or quick editor features to edit and put those finishing touches on whatever group of pictures you want to create into one of these many great photo projects.

I'll explain how to set up a slide show, many of the things you do in one of these types of project creations works almost the same for the rest. This part of Photoshop Elements has been made for an easy to use way to create these different types of projects.

Using the project creation page double click on slide show, a page will pop up with some settings of the slide show. The setup menu has several different settings that are shown on the small picture in the corner of the menu. The first is for the Static Duration, it is how long your picture will stay on the screen during the slide show. This does not include the time between the pictures when it is in transition.

Next is the type of transition or how it will go from one picture to the next. This transition type is shown when you click on each one in the small picture of the menu. The type of transition will be the same for each transition of your slide show.

The next will be the transition duration, how long it takes to switch from one picture to the next. This would normally be shorter than the static time. You can play around with these settings to see what looks the best for your slide show. There are some settings that you can include with each photo of your slide show or for some of them if you want.