I accidentally stumbled upon this Saturday afternoon. I was presenting a few designs I had done for a client for their "new" website and was going to cycle through files one by one on Quicklook. On a whim I selected all the files (10 of them, all JPG) and hit the Quicklook icon and they came up. I went to grid format so they could see the thumbnails and had planned on going one by one through them. I selected the first one, and we were talking about elements they liked/disliked on the first image (I was facing them, they were facing the screen), and suddenly their eyes got big, I was shoved aside by the owner of the business and he started commenting on the different versions which I hadn't gotten to yet. I turned to look and to my surprise Quicklook as cycling through the images on its own like a slideshow.

Very useful during a presentation when you just want images of a product (or whatever) cycle in the background as a slideshow... without actually creating a slideshow.

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You also can leave the Quicklook window open and navigate into, out of, and around folders using any of the usual keyboard navigation shortcuts. Quicklook dutifully displays whatever is selected at the time. It's rather handy for browsing around a large collection of picture files when the thumbnails just aren't enough.

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I really like this and I would like to set this to wake me with my automator alarm clock. Does anyone know of a way to activate the quick look slide show with automator?

Thanks.

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You can record an Automator action (watch me do) to open a folder with photos, select all (cmd-A), quicklook (cmd-y) and then click the fullscreen. This will automatically start the slideshow. Then add the music to the Automator action.

I tested it, and it works sometimes. But watch me do should be called "watch me screw everything up". Good luck.

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