Subtitles of the Movie

Now, as you've seen in this chapter, we've dealt with lots of different ways to deal with images or graphics in our slideshows and if we want to just build a slideshow mainly for the purposes of presenting pictures, one thing that we can do besides build separate slides and then drag and drop images, is that there's even a quicker way to do that and that's to build one slide, so for this I'll get out a new slide and I'll change it to a blank slide or a blank with a caption would work just as well, so pics from baseball, something like that. Now you have this kind of blank canvas, which you can insert picture using a SmartBuild. So you may have seen this SmartBuild button here, this option here on the standard toolbar. You click it and then you get several options which will determine what the effect is between pictures. So for this one, I'll choose flip. It will add a picture area right in the middle and unlike our placeholders, we don't drag and drop media here, but we rather drag it into this SmartBuild rectangle, this little grayed-out or shaded rectangle. It just says drop an image here, so that's exactly what I'm going to do. Let's get out the media inspector here and we'll just grab an image and we'll drop it there. We will grab an image and drop it there, we'll grab an image, drop it there and so on. So when we're done we put the media browser away and now you see I have four images here. They're all in the same slide. If I want to reorder them, it's just a simple matter of dragging and dropping to reorder the media and then when I'm done, I can go ahead and close that, I can click here to get a little preview of what the build will look like. So there's the SmartBuild and that's what the entire thing will look like. Now, you can of course make changes to that. You can set the duration a little slower if you'd like to. A three-second duration for the flip for example and let's test it out. That didn't seem to have taken it just yet, but let me close it. It should. Let's go back to the inspector here, try this out one more time. There we go. There's the slower flip. So again, you can see what happens with that SmartBuild. So if I want to quickly deal with pictures in a slide, that is one good way to do it. If I change my mind about the pictures that are in that slide, I can just give the object a click, so notice that it was selected before, so I'll have to reselect it and I get that SmartBuild rectangle once again. So that let's me once again reorder or, if I don't want the image to be there and just click and drag it and poof, it goes away and so now I have a SmartBuild with three images rather than four as before. Images will be the same size if that remains selected, which is the default. As a last note here, you can click and drag and change the scaling fairly easily. Use your alignment guides to center things back up once you have made your adjustments. This little button right here, that red button, that is the visual indicator that there is a SmartBuild here in effect and that there was more than one picture that's going to be a part of this slide.