Slide show on Elements 15

Report · Mar 14, 2017

Hello,

I am new to Photoshop Elements 15 and am looking to make a slideshow. I understand how to make a basic slideshow with the themes, but I would like to be able to vary how long each slide is shown, and have different transition effects for each slide.

How can I customize this? I see that there were easy way on previous versions of Elements, but I am having difficulty finding the customize tool on 15.

Thank you for your help!

Report · Mar 14, 2017

Hi,

The Slideshow in PSE 15 does not provide the customization options you have mentioned.

Thanks,

Ankit D

Report · Mar 15, 2017

Hi Ankit,

Thank you for your prompt response.

That is very disappointing as I find that the current slideshow can get monotonous without varying the duration and transition rate of the slides.

I see that Elements 12 has these features that I'm looking for. I currently have the trial version of Elements 15. Do you think it would be possible to uninstall it and download a trial version of Elements 12 instead?

Thank you for your help!

Report · Mar 15, 2017

Yes, you can download the trial version of Elements 12 but your current version 15 catalog can not be downgraded back to Elements 12 catalog, so you will have to create a new catalog for using with Elements 12.

Also, only the latest version of elements i.e, Elements 15 is up for sale.

Thanks,

Ankit D

Report · Mar 15, 2017

Thank you.

So if I understand correctly, I can have both versions installed at the same time?

Can you please direct me to the Elements 12 trial download site?

Thank you very much!

Report · Mar 15, 2017

Yes, both versions can be installed simultaneously.

Use the following link to download trial: Download Photoshop Elements | 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10.

Thanks,

Ankit D

Report · May 21, 2017

Well this may be the final straw. While you add features that I almost never use, now you folks are removing the most basic control of slideshows. What justification can you give for REMOVING features? Making slideshows used to be quite simple and the slide show maker in 14, while boring, was adequate. But now? It basically sucks. Now you have to go into Premiere and do the whole thing BY HAND what used to be a somewhat automatic process.

Please bring back what you had - at least, and if PS 16 does not have significant improvements in the slideshow creations, you can say goodbye to me as a customer.

Report · May 21, 2017

As another Elements user just like you, I agree that the slideshow feature since PS13 is extremely basic.

However, thinking about this in terms of adding or removing does not make sense or at least is very simplistic.

Remember that the slideshow in PSE12 was only for Windows and that the output formats were low resolution (which nobody wants today).

PSE13 did bring Elements to 64-bits. That means converting or completely rewriting many plug-ins and modules. Adobe has chosen to create a totally new slideshow module (keeping the old one is out of question technically) to bring high definition and support of Macs.

You could add your vote to this request in the feedback forum:

Elements 13-up: Slideshow missing features, unable to support upgrade from earlier versions | Photos...

Report · May 21, 2017

Simplistic? Look, feature is gone, period. Don't care about bits, macs vs PC or any of that. As a "simple" customer, I just want to be able to make slide shows. The Mac does a way better job, just with its baked in tools. Windows used to have an OK slide show maker, but they removed it for whatever reason. My "simple" brain" doesn't understand (nor care why) - I just want what I already had. I was able to create a pretty decent show with PSE 14. At least I could get it into Premiere and fiddle with what was generated, and without too much effort, tweak a good, interesting show out of it. Frankly, I was shocked when I open slide show maker and found basically NOTHING but their boring show that can't be edited easily.

I just don't get it - don't people want to make slide shows any more? You know, have a bunch of pictures shown in a variety of ways and movements with a music track. Is that to much to ask of a "sophisticated" program like PSE 15?

But, it comes down to this. If I choose to skip upgrades, at some point everything I have done in PSE (eg organization) becomes worthless as OS's advance, making using older software not such a good idea. So, the only choice is to consider moving to another software that does what i need to do, as painful as it might be to leave the PSE ecosystem. Seem each time I upgrade, something bad happens. 12 -> 13 made the disc burning useless (crapped out every time) and I could go on and on about how unreliable the software was at times.

Sorry for the rant, I stupidly loaded PSE 15 over PS14 and have to get a slide show out today. It's proving to be quite a challenge, and that frustrates me since i spent the money on PSE 15.

Report · May 21, 2017

KingEdwardC wrote

Sorry for the rant, I stupidly loaded PSE 15 over PS14 and have to get a slide show out today. It's proving to be quite a challenge, and that frustrates me since i spent the money on PSE 15.

There is absolutely no difference in the slideshow module in PSE15 vs PSE14, only with PSE12 (32-bits version).

Apart from that, I have nothing against your rant. That's what this forum and the feedback forum are for.

I just don't get it - don't people want to make slide shows any more? You know, have a bunch of pictures shown in a variety of ways and movements with a music track. Is that to much to ask of a "sophisticated" program like PSE 15?

What is 'sophisticated' for you is considered by Adobe as a 'consumer' product, something relatevely basic which should not prevent buying Premiere Elements, or Lightroom, or the Photoshop + Lightroom CC plan... So, your solution could be to use external slideshow tools (free or affordable) and/or to add your vote in the feedback forum. Personally, I would never go back to version 12 just to create slideshows. The Premiere Elements solution would be ideal if you really wanted to also work with video.

Report · Sep 19, 2017

Dear antkitd,

Your first response, while admirably clear and apparently correct as far as it goes, is also not helpful. Have you no options to suggest? Are there any other Adobe products that allow control over the basics of slideshow creation? Does Adobe provide other themes (free preferably)? Or, is there a way to create ones own theme?

Report · Jul 10, 2017

This is only somewhat related, yet directly as well. I have a large slideshow that is having some images randomly cropped. In all my searching I have seen earlier versions with dialogue boxes to allow to "fill frame proportionately", but cannot seem to find that option in Elements 13? Is i there and I am missing it? Does 15 allow this option? Cutting the heads off on some images seems to be a big flaw, and there are several posts regarding that.

Report · Dec 29, 2017

There should be a way to make a simple, basic slideshow. No music and slides don't move around on the screen. Slide 1, after a predetermined number of seconds go to slide 2. In Photoshop I can change a frown to a smile. But in Organizer I can't even make a basic slideshow.