By now you should have a good understanding of how SlideShowPro for Flash works; including editing its live preview, the Content Area, how in-line elements like the Navigation can alter the internal dimensions of the component, and so on. Now it’s time to get our hands dirty and create some content for SlideShowPro for Flash to load.

But before we do, do you...

Have SlideShowPro Director?

If you have purchased our CMS product SlideShowPro Director, you can skip nearly this entire section. Director was built to supply SlideShowPro for Flash will all the content it requires, regardless of what size you scale the component to or what options you select. Go to the Director Quick Start page to load some content.

Have Photoshop?

Your purchase of SlideShowPro for Flash gives you free access to a pair of Photoshop scripts for exporting images and XML data to use in your slideshow. The "Export for Photoshop" scripts may be downloaded from the SlideShowPro for Flash product page (login required). See the Export for Photoshop documentation for usage instructions.

If you want to create your own images and XML markup for SlideShowPro, this section is for you! Let's start by Creating an XML document.