slidemaker

slidemaker makes an html slideshow from pictures. It is written in shell (bash) script and is usable on OS X and most other Unix type operating systems.

Important: slidemaker searches for pairs of folders; one which contains your pictures and a second which contains small format pictures. Suppose you have pictures from Paris and London and you want a separate slideshow for each. Create a folder titled 'Pictures' (in Desktop for example, you can use a different name than 'Pictures' if you need/want to) and in this folder create subfolders, titled something like 'Paris', 'Parissmall', 'London' and 'Londonsmall'. The folder tree should then be

Pictures/Paris

Pictures/Parissmall

Pictures/London

Pictures/Londonsmall

The word 'small' may have capital letters, but it is essential that the first part of the name, e.g. 'Paris', be the same for that pair. Also, don't use names like 'Paris' and 'Parissands' in order to avoid confusing the lexigraphical order.

Finally, export your pictures (.jpg, .tiff, .png files etc) into the "nonsmall" folders. Export small versions of these pictures (100 px in width is preferable) into the "small" folders. The names of the contents of pairs of folder must be identical! For example,

Pictures/Paris/ contains

DSCF1314.jpg

DSCF105.tiff

Pictures/Parissmall/ contains

DSCF1314.jpg

DSCF105.tiff

Directions: Once you have created a directory tree and exported your pictures as described above, do the following steps.

download slidemaker.sh into the 'Pictures' folder
open Applications > Utilities > Terminal
in Terminal, type

cd Desktop/Pictures

sh slidemake

wait a few moments
slidemake creates a file 'index.html' in 'Pictures' which you can link to.
Copy the directory 'Pictures' into your home page directory and link to 'Pictures/index.html'.