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Make the iPhoto manual slideshow controls invisible Apps
Despite the slideshow preference setting in iPhoto to show (or hide) the controller, manually controlling slideshows with the keyboard (pause, forward, back) still fades a controller in and out. To make these controls always invisible, one can open the iPhoto application package (control-click on iPhoto and choose Show Package Contents), and navigate into the Contents -> Resources folder. In there, you'll find these images:
  • bezel-next.tiff
  • bezel-pause.tiff
  • bezel-play_next.tiff
  • bezel-play_prev.tiff
  • bezel-play.tiff
  • bezel-prev.tiff
Using an image editor to set the transparency of each of these to 100% will make them invisible. I first made a zip archive of iPhoto, and also kept unaltered copies of the TIFFs elsewhere to fall back to. I used Imaginator to set the transparency on the tiffs. Yesterday's iPhoto update worked fine on my altered copy of iphoto.

It might be interesting to set the transparency to some other value so the controller is very faint, but I did not try that.

[robg adds: I tried a less-elegant solution, and it also seemed to work. I just appended _NO to the end of each of the above file's names, after the .tiff extension. Slideshow mode still worked fine, as did manual control of the slideshow. To get the controls back, just remove the _NO from the end of each filename.]
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Make the iPhoto manual slideshow controls invisible
Authored by: acidrich on Mar 07, '06 10:09:13AM

Sorry to stray from your tip...

I miss the ability that existed in iphoto previous to the current version.

It gave the ability to play an album or smart album as a slideshow simple by choosing an album and clicking the now missing play button.



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Make the iPhoto manual slideshow controls invisible
Authored by: Lori on Mar 07, '06 10:21:23AM

The play button is still there in the toolbar. Depending on what version of iPhoto you are using it is on the bottom left i the tool bar or on the right in the tool bar.
if you can't see it, make your window bigger.



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Make the iPhoto manual slideshow controls invisible
Authored by: acidrich on Mar 07, '06 10:37:16AM

Many thanks Lori,

I had scoured iphoto looking for the play button.. I missed it due it not showing as an option in the customise toolbar menu..

btw I miss my big ole monitor (1600x1200) as I now just have my ibooks 1024x768 :(



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Make the iPhoto manual slideshow controls invisible
Authored by: joelt999 on Mar 07, '06 01:16:31PM

Not sure what version you are using, but in the current version 6.0.2 the Play button is right there at the bottom of the screen.

In the previous version, iPhoto 5, it was on the lower-left below the info box.

The button might move around but it's always been there...



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Make the iPhoto manual slideshow controls invisible
Authored by: ventifact on Mar 07, '06 01:47:12PM
My iPhoto 6.0.2 package contents came with a folder labeled Resources Disabled, I'm putting the bezel. . .tiffs in there.

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Make the iPhoto manual slideshow controls invisible
Authored by: PopMcGee on Mar 07, '06 03:11:18PM

By the way: the Preview.app fullscreen controls can be made "invisble" by dragging them off-screen (just leave them a pixel there and remember where you put them).



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Make the iPhoto manual slideshow controls invisible
Authored by: jmallen on Mar 09, '06 12:14:17PM

This is what iphoto and Preview slideshows need to make them useable and professional:
1. Minimal, or optionally no, forward, back on-screen controls
2. In slideshow option, unlimited slide view time
2. Ability to move forward with a mouse click
4. Exit the slideshow using escape key

In other words, like Keynote and Powerpoint



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Make the iPhoto manual slideshow controls invisible
Authored by: cailliau on May 28, '07 08:04:46AM

I used an even less elegant solution: I created a folder "BezelSlideShowControls" inside the Resources folder of iPhoto.app and I moved all the "bezel-..." tiff files in there. They then don't show up at all.
If I want them back, I simply take them out of the folder again.

I hope Apple will fix this problem in the next version.
It would be good if one could just darg that control panel somewhere, e.g. in a corner.

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Robert Cailliau



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