Anyway, when I go to the screensaver section in Prefs under Choose Folder I do NOT see “Photo Library”. Although I did have to get some Applecare support to help me with how it was set up after moving to Photos from iPhoto (I had my photos so I could share the drive to enable me to back it up/move the library onto another macbook). Does this mean it IS my system photo library? It should be. However, still not working under Photos/Prefs/General my photo library shows up (Photo’s Master Library) but the “Use As System Photo Library” button is greyed out already. If you have any other tips and tricks, let us know in the comments.įirstly, thanks. Nor can you fit the slideshow to the length of a song or playlist.įor quickly creating a random slideshow, though, this is the easiest (and cheapest) option available. You can’t change slide duration and transition types. This method isn’t perfect––the screen saver doesn’t give you much control. Before starting the screen saver, launch iTunes and start playing one of your playlists. The screen saver slideshow doesn’t have any options to play music, but you can make up for that by with iTunes. To start the slideshow right away, click the preview image. The last step is to check the “Shuffle slide order” box.
Select a collection and click the Choose button. Now you will see all the collections from your Photos library.
At the bottom of the menu you should see the “Photo Library…” item. Go back to the Screen Saver preferences and click on the Source menu. Afterwards, the button should become greyed out. Make sure that you’re in the General tab, and click the “Use as System Photo Library” button. Then go to the Photos menu and select Preferences. If you don’t see “Photo Library…” at the bottom of the Source menu, you need change your Photos preferences to use the Photos library as the system photo library. Use the Source menu to choose a set of images in Photos (e.g. Select the Screen Saver tab and then choose from one of the photo-related screen savers like “Ken Burns” or “Classic.” However, if you need that kind of control in creating your slideshow, you can use iMovie instead.Ĭlick the System Preferences icon on your dock,Ĭlick on the Desktop & Screen Saver preferences. It’s not as full-featured as iPhoto as you lose the ability to control the slide time, transitions, titles and so on. If you don’t have iPhoto installed on your Mac, the only way to shuffle the photos in a slideshow is to use the built-in screen saver. Until then, here’s a quick way to randomly play back a collection of photos in your Photos library. Hopefully Apple will reintroduce that feature back into the Photos app sometime soon. By shuffling the order of the photos, you can make the slideshow more interesting without spending time sifting through the whole album to find the best ones. If you play back the photos in the order they were shot, parts of the slideshow seem repetitive. Often we’ll have several photos of the same subject taken about the same time. This was a big loss for those of us who have to quickly create slideshows from a large number of photos for a party or school event. When Apple replaced iPhoto with the new Photos app in OS X Yosemite, we lost the ability to shuffle (randomize) the slide order.
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