Remember that episode of Mad Men where, in a fit of brilliance, Don wows Kodak with: “This is not a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards and it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called ‘The Wheel’; it’s called ‘The Carousel’ because it lets us travel round and round and then back home again.” We tend to think Don would be just as effusive about the new slideshow feature on Photobird.com. And now that we’ve introduced slideshows to every photo album on Photobird, you can finally retire that antique slide carousel once and for all.
Check out an example of the slideshow feature for yourself, along with some photos of cool hang gliders, by clicking on the “View Slideshow” button in Ed Krimen’s “Fort Funston” photo album at http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/fortfunston/ . You can also send people directly to your slideshows by simply adding “slideshow” to the end of the web address of your album, such as: http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/fortfunston/slideshow .
With Photobird slideshows, you determine how long each photo in the slideshow appears, or you can keep it on manual and click the “Next” and “Previous” buttons to move through your photos. Titles and descriptions will appear in the slideshow in a transparent overlay at the bottom of each photo, as shown in the photo below. You can customize which albums have slideshows by clicking the “Edit Album Options” button and editing the slideshow settings for each photo album.
The slideshow feature also supports Piclens, which is described on the Piclens.com website as “an immersive full-screen experience for viewing photos on the Web.” To use Piclens, you must download and install free software, but it provides some additional features, such as viewing photos in full screen on your computer. On Windows computers, Piclens requires the Firefox web browser. If you’re on a Mac, you’ll need to use the Safari web browser. Visit the Piclens website to install the Piclens software and for more information.
We hope you enjoy your new slideshows! We already have a lot of enhancement ideas for slideshows, but please let us know if there’s anything specific you’d like to see in the slideshows or anywhere else on Photobird.com.
