Okay, I’m at a loss here.
I started to put together a slideshow for a relative’s birthday, using the Photos app with the Magazine theme. It takes an album and creates a multi-page slideshow, each page of the slideshow being a collage of two, three or four photos. Some photos in the collage are rectangular, some square, some portrait and some landscape.
At first it looked great. But as I added more and more photos, I found that you have very little control over how the photos are framed. For example, have a full-body, portrait-oriented photo? And the slideshow tries to put it into a square box, cutting off people's heads and legs? Fine, just swap places with a square photo, and put the full-body shot elsewhere.
Except it's not that easy. I have dozens of photos, and moving one affects many of them "down the line", bumping them from frames where they looked good to frames where they have the tops or sides cut off. Keep moving photos around to solve this problem, and you soon realize you're playing Whack-A-Mole.
So my question is...is there a slideshow app that has something like the Magazine theme, but gives you better control over how the pages are constructed?
So far the best I've found is single-page collage apps, but of course that doesn't help with a slideshow which needs to be multiple pages of collages.
I started to put together a slideshow for a relative’s birthday, using the Photos app with the Magazine theme. It takes an album and creates a multi-page slideshow, each page of the slideshow being a collage of two, three or four photos. Some photos in the collage are rectangular, some square, some portrait and some landscape.
At first it looked great. But as I added more and more photos, I found that you have very little control over how the photos are framed. For example, have a full-body, portrait-oriented photo? And the slideshow tries to put it into a square box, cutting off people's heads and legs? Fine, just swap places with a square photo, and put the full-body shot elsewhere.
Except it's not that easy. I have dozens of photos, and moving one affects many of them "down the line", bumping them from frames where they looked good to frames where they have the tops or sides cut off. Keep moving photos around to solve this problem, and you soon realize you're playing Whack-A-Mole.
So my question is...is there a slideshow app that has something like the Magazine theme, but gives you better control over how the pages are constructed?
So far the best I've found is single-page collage apps, but of course that doesn't help with a slideshow which needs to be multiple pages of collages.