Aardy Manager (Mac)

Pack settings

Transitions, timing, portraits, captions, sound and Live Photos for a pack.

Choose the gear in the pack builder's toolbar to open a pack's settings. They set the pack's look and sound. A TV can override most of them; see Apple TVs.

A pack's settings are also saved as the defaults for the next pack you create.

Playing

  • Play order: by date, by place, or manual.
  • Shuffle: stacks stay together and in their own order.
  • Transition: how one photo gives way to the next. Choose from the list, from Crossfade and Ken Burns to Origami, or Varied to mix them.
  • Seconds per photo: how long each photo stays up. A stack can override this.
  • Portraits: how tall photos fill a wide screen. Options include a blurred fill, pairing two portraits, cropping, or letterboxing.
  • Live Photos: off, silent, or with sound.

Captions

  • Dates, Location and Labels each turn a caption on or off.
  • Overlay position: where the date and place appear. Bottom left unless you change it.
  • Overlay order: the order of the lines, for example date, then landmark, then place.
  • Overlay opacity and Overlay text size (small, medium or large).
  • A live Overlay preview shows how the lines will read.

Sound

  • Ambient sound: rain, ocean, forest and more, or none.
  • Sound volume.
  • Streaming music: none (use the ambient sound), a local playlist, or Apple Music. See Audio and music.

Resolution

Enhance low-resolution photos lets Aardy upscale small photos for 4K TVs. Turn it off for scans, artwork and graphics, which can look better without it.

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