Creating a Slideshow in PS CC

Create a blank file in Photoshop

1. File > New

• Name: Slideshow
• Width: 800 pixels
• Height: 600 pixels
• OK
• Save... slideshow done.psd
2. On the upper right of PS, change the workspace to Motion.
This will open the Timeline panel for editing video and slideshows.

View the images in Bridge

3. Start Adobe Bridge.

4. Select the folder where the images are.

5. Select all the images that you want to include in the slideshow.
Click the first, and shift+click the last.

Drag the selected images into Photoshop

6. Move Bridge so that Photoshop shows, behind Bridge.

7. Click on the selected images and drag them into Photoshop.

Bridge disappears and you’re now working in Photoshop.

8. Resize the images one after another, to make sure each one fills up the
canvass.
Shift+Alt+click/Shift+Option+click on a corner and drag to size. Then press
Enter/Return.
Alt ensures that the image rescales on the center of the canvas, Shift
ensures that the scaling is proportional.

9. Delete the Background layer.

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Turn the image layers into a video slideshow
10. In the Timeline panel, click the Create Video Timeline button.
A timeline is created for each image.
Drag the timeline zoom left to zoom out and shrink the timelines.

11. Select all the timelines except the first (top most) timeline.

12. Drag the selected timelines and drop them on the right side of the first
timeline.
A video group is created, Video Group 1, with all the individual timelines
nested inside.
This is now practically a slideshow. If you click the Play button, all the
images will appear one after the other.

13. In the Layers panel, rearrange the sequence of the images/timelines

according to your preference. Note - the bottom image is the first in the
timeline.

Notice that the photograph clips in the Timeline are purple, versus blue for
video. You can see the difference when you Right+click on a clip in the Timeline.
There are no speed or audio to adjust. There is only a single menu, Motion
Presets.

Making a clip shorter or longer - Just drag the beginning or end of a clip to
shorten or lengthen the duration.

Add motion effects to the slideshow

14. Select the first graphic clip, and right+click on it.

15. Click the Motion menu to show the five presets available.

16. Select one of the presets, and set any settings available.

17. Make sure to check the Resize to Fill Canvass.

This ensures that Photoshop will scale the image so that no transparent
areas show while the image is in motion.

18. Repeat step 14 for each of the graphic clips.

For this exercise, apply Pan to the “guitar girl” and set the direction to -90,
to slide the image downward.
You can scrub the playhead on a clip to see what the effect is doing.
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Customize a preset
19. Play the “guitar girl” clip. Notice that the pan is not enough to show her
head.
We need to customize the motion effect.

20. Click the on the left of the video group name, Video Group 1.
This opens up the keyframes that you customize.

21. Click the on the “guitar girl” clip. This is on the top middle of the graphic
clip.
This reveals a red strip with red keyframes. Red keyframes means a Motion
Preset is applied to the clip.

22. Click the first red keyframe to select it. This turns it to yellow, now it can be
changed.

23. Move the playhead to the start of the clip, right at the first keyframe.

24. Use the Move tool to move the image up so the guitar and text are clearly
seen.

25. Select the second red keyframe, again turning it yellow.

26. Move the playhead to the end of the clip, on the second keyframe.

27. Again, use the Move tool and move the image downward, so the head of
the girl shows clearly.

28. Click the top middle arrow ﹀ to close it.

Play the clip to see the customized pan.

Create a title slide

29. Open title screen.psd

30. Save as... title screen done.psd

31. Unlock the Background layer.

32. In the Timeline panel, click the Create Video Timeline button.

33. Shorten the duration of each track to 4 seconds.

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Fade in the car image
34. Click the on the left of the car track, GP 2018, in the Timeline panel.

35. Move the playhead to 1 second.

36. Click the Opacity stopwatch to create the end keyframe.

37. Drag the playhead to the start of the timeline.

38. In the Layers panel, change the opacity of the layer to 0.

This will create the Opacity start keyframe in the Timeline panel.
The result is a fade-in effect for the car.

Slide in the text Slideshow Presentation from the left, and the
text portfolio from the right.
39. Click the on the left of the Slideshow Presentation in the Timeline panel.

40. Move the playhead to 1 second.

41. Click the Transform stopwatch to create the end keyframe.

42. Drag the playhead to the start of the timeline.

43. Use the Move tool and shift+drag the Slideshow Presentation text to the
left, out of the screen.
This will create the Transform start keyframe in the Timeline panel.
The result is a slide-in effect for the Slideshow Presentation text.

44. Do the same for the partial Portfolio text, except sliding it in from the right.

Combine the title slide and the slideshow.

45. Open both files, title screen done.psd and slideshow done.psd.

46. Select slideshow done.psd position the playhead at the start of the timeline.
In the Layers panel, click in the empty space to deselect any layer, or Select
> Deselect Layers.

47. Select title screen done.psd.

• In the Layers panel, select all the layers.

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 • Right+click on any of the layers, choose Convert to Smart Object.
This creates a smart object named Slideshow Presentation.

• Shift+click in the center of the screen and drag and drop the smart object
layer into the other open file, slideshow done.psd.

The Slideshow Presentation title track goes on top of the Video Track 1 on
slideshow done.psd.

48. Close the title screen done.psd

49. Drag the title track into the main Video Track 1, before the first graphic clip.
The slideshow now has all the clips in one video track.

Add transition between the clips, and at the start and end of the
slideshow.
50. Set the transition time to 2 seconds.

51. Add Cross Fade in between each clip.

52. Add a Fade With Black to the start and end of the slideshow.

Add music to the slideshow

53. At bottom of the timeline, click the music notes on the Audio Track. Select
the music track you want to add.

54. Adjust the length of the music track to the length of the slideshow.

55. Right+click on the music track and adjust the settings.

• Volume: 20%

• Fade In: 0.00 s

• Fade Out: 2.00 s

The slideshow is done.

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