[Macworld.com]

When in manual slideshow mode, iPhoto displays an onscreen controller. Keyboard shortcuts, however, can do what the controller does, making its presence unnecessary. Learn one way to hide this onscreen controller. [more]

[kperera12]

Great Tip - Those controls have always annoyed me. I didn't try draging the tiffs out - I guess I should have tried that first. I did the transparency to zero method, and it worked great.
(MacBookPro 2.4 Core 2 Duo, OSX 10.4.9, iPhoto 6.6)

[lrymal]

Excellent article/hint! Thanks!
Within the same context, sorta, is there a way to change the speed of the slide show? Actually, I'm using the slide show option in PREVIEW, but I can't help but think this is all the same engine.
I do presentations before large groups and for my purposes, the Apple slide show option is all I need. I just wish the speed could be defined.

[BBob]

I don't know why y'all are stressing over this, the controls are right there in iPhoto. See all the icons along the bottom? One of them is labeled Slideshow. Click it and you'll get a preferences pane where you can toggle the onscreen controls, set the speed, transitions, music and few other things.
at least that's in iPhoto 4...

[griffman]

No, the preference pane does not apply (at least in iPhoto6) if you're in manual mode. The controller still appears, regardless of the prefs setting.
-rob.

[ConnieO]

I am running 10.4.9 and iPhoto 6.0.6 (322).
With the controls display turned off, the controller will appear when you press the spacebar or arrow keys but it fades away in two seconds. If you move the mouse, the longer controller bar appears but it fades away in three seconds. However, if you leave the mouse positioned over it then it will stay indefinitely. Since I am manually (slowly) stepping through the slides a two second disturbance doesn't bother me. Not to point of hacking up iPhoto anyway.

[griffman]

Well, that's kind of the point of this hint /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif ... for those who do find that annoying, now they will no longer be annoyed.
-rob.

[Deborah2007]

Great hint. Thanks.

[pnb987pb]

Would cause IPhoto 6.06 to crash on my MacBook. Just dragged the files from the desktop back in to the respective folder and it went back to normal. Too back it didn't work b/c I hate that bar!

[maphead]

Great Tip - I used the _NO method and have good results so far.
Any idea what the long bar menu is called? It shows up when the mouse is moved or the trackpad is touched. I'd like to make that disappear too.