Text without an image

In the “Toolbox” under “SlideShow objects” there is the “Colored background”. With this you can fade in text independently of images. The “Colored background” can even be faded in animated.

To insert it, double-click the “Colored background” or drag the object into the “Image List” or onto the “Timeline” with the mouse button pressed down.

When inserting it with the mouse button pressed down, you can also determine the desired position on the “Timeline” and in the “Image List”. Should you wish to add the “Colored background” between two images, drag the object to the desired place with the mouse.

The “Colored background” is shown on the “Timeline” as a white image. In the “Image List” it is listed as “white1x1.png”.

On the “Timeline”, click the object with the right mouse button and select “Select text animation”.

Now the “Edit text animation” window opens. There you can enter the desired text and select and edit a corresponding animation.

Under “Fade out” you can determine whether the text should remain visible until the end of the image and should be cross faded with the next image, or whether the text should be faded out prior to the end of the image. In this respect, the duration of the animation determines when the fading out should begin.

Should you set 3 seconds, the fading out is started 3 seconds before the image finishes.

With "OK" your entries are accepted and you can use

play back the text animation on the screen.

The background is now shown in black. If you wish to have a different color, you can do this in the “Object settings” of the “Colored background”. For that purpose, you have to click the object in the “Image List” or on the “Timeline”. Should the “Object settings” not be shown in the view available to you, you can also retrieve them by right-clicking the object.

You can also have the colored background faded in animated. Under “Transitions” you can select a cross fading effect.

Under „Text“ you can carry out the formatting of the text, as well as change the color of the font.

Should the text not be faded in animated, but together with the colored background, check the “Show text with image” option.

The “Colored background” can also be used to dim out/fade out images. Should a black background color be set and a cross fading effect selected, it has the effect on the observer of a fading out of the previous image. In this way you can end a slide show in style.