Creating Presentations of Your Work - The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 - page 296

Here's how to create a quick slide show using the built-in slide show templates
that come with Lightroom. You'll probably be surprised at how easy this process
is, but the real power of the Slideshow module doesn't really kick in until you
start customizing and creating your own slide show templates (which we
cover after this, but you have to learn this first, so start here and you'll have
no problems when we get to customizing).

Creating a Quick,
Basic Slide Show

Step One:
Start by jumping over to the Slideshow
module by pressing Command-Option-3
(PC: Ctrl-Alt-3) . There's a Collections
panel in the left side Panels area, just like
there is in the Library module, so you have
direct access to the photos in any collec-
tion. First, click on the collection that has
the photos you want to appear in your
slide show, as shown here. ( Note: If the
photos you want in your slide show aren't
in a collection, it will make your life a
lot easier if they are, so head back to the
Library module [press the letter G ], and
make a new collection with the photos
you want in your slide show, then jump
back over to the Slideshow module, and
click on that collection in the Slideshow's
Collections panel.)

Step Two:
By default, it's going to play the slides in
the order they appear down in the Filmstrip
(the first photo from the left appears first,
the second photo appears next, and so on),
with a brief dissolve transition between
slides. If you only want certain photos in
your collection to appear in your slide show,
then go to the Filmstrip, select just those
photos, and choose Selected Photos from
the Use pop-up menu in the toolbar below
the center Preview area (as shown here).
As you can see, you can also choose to have
just flagged photos in your slide show.