How To Use an iPad as a Picture Frame

The iPad's large screen makes makes it a wonderful picture frame. And, iPad has Picture Frame capabilities built-in. The Picture Frame feature on iPad let's you display an album of photos in a slideshow, while your iPad is locked.

Choose Photos
Open Settings and then tap Picture Frame. You'll see a number of options. You can choose to show all the photos on your iPad, or just the ones is a specific Album, Faces or Event category. Once you select a category, you'll see a list of albums, faces and events. Tap to select one or more of them.

Start Picture Frame
To use Picture Frame, press the power button to sleep and lock your iPad. Press the power button again to wake it. Then, press the Picture Frame button (to the right of the unlock slider). The slideshow will begin.

Transitions
You can choose from two transition styles. Really, they are two quite different styles of slideshows. In Picture Frame settings, choose either Dissolve or Origami. The Dissolve slideshow displays one photo at a time and smoothly changes to the next photo. Origami displays a few photos at once, like a montage of sorts. The next photos fold into the screen.

Other Settings
The Zoom in on Faces option uses Faces information from iPhoto '09 to zoom and center on the face of a person in a photo. If there's more than one person in the photo, Picture Frame picks one. Zoom in on Faces only works when the Dissolve transition is selected. 

Turn on the Shuffle option to display photos in random order.    

Comments

[Zymeth Blues]

Hm, it's more or less a high-tech screen-saver. That's pretty cool. The best part would be that you can pick any photo that you have, and use it here as if it were a very advanced picture frame.