Tiger Tip: Create a slideshow without using iPhoto

The other day I had some pictures that I wanted to look at full screen in a slideshow, but that I didn't want to put into iPhoto for a variety of reasons (no comment on the nature of these pictures, thank you). I got frustrated by trying to figure out how to start a slideshow in the Finder, so much so that I resorted to doing a Spotlight search that I knew would result in those pictures. Once I got the result set I simply clicked the Slideshow button and I was done.

How silly, I thought, that Tiger doesn't have an easier way to do this. Heck, Windows XP has an easy way to do this!

Today I found out that the answer I sought was lurking in a contextual menu (pictured to the above). Simply select the photos you want to view in a slide show, right click (or command click), select 'Slideshow' and that's it.

This may be old news to some, but it was a pleasant surprise for me.