A photo slideshow should be an artwork of your memories and emotions which
can be captured in a photograph. But it is a great challenge to create an
effective and memorable slideshow. To make slideshow awesome, you should make
it to be appropriate for the setting; the elements in the slideshow should be
coherent to each other and fitting to theme. Below are the four parts of
creating your memorable photos slideshow which may help you a lot. They are
choose the proper slideshow software, collect the photos and videos, make
photo slideshow with special effect and choose the way to share photo
slideshow.
Choose the proper slideshow software
The first thing you need is slideshow software. Be sure to pick one that
gives you a lot of flexibility. People will be fussy about what it looks
like, and so should you when creating your own! There are many free programs
that can help you get the job done. If you're using a Mac, you can produce
slide shows with iPhoto, which comes free with all Macs sold in the past few
years. If you have a legal version of windows XP, you can get a free program,
Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows XP. Photo Story makes it easy to add
special effects such as transitions, panning and sounds. And Picasa is also
free software download from Google that helps you organize all the photos on
your computer; edit your photos with a few simple clicks and share your
photos with others through email, prints and on the web.
If you want to get some more professional results, you’d better to buy the
powerful software. It is hard to find the proper one from so many similar
programs. ProShow Gold is a great choice. Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder
is also one that is very good. Wondershare apparently has more options as far
as implementing video, while ProShow is more focused on photos. Both are
capable of photo and video, however. ProShow also enables you to host your
videos online through them for free, and Wondershare provides many different
options for format such as MP4 for iPod, WMV for Zune, AVI for youtube, etc.
ProShow Gold runs at around 70 USD, where as Wondershare DVD Slideshow
Builder costs 50 USD. Check out their websites for more information on both,
but I recommend Wondershare and I use it for my work. Besides the most
popular software above, there are also some other ones, such as Ulead CD &
DVD Pictureshow, MemoriesOnTV, Arcsoft DVD Slideshow, etc. They are all good
at some aspects and better than most of the similar software.
Collect the photos and videos
Then you need to collect photos and videos that are of much importance for
the photo slideshow. And the collecting step varies from slideshow to
slideshow, depending on who you do the slideshow for. If you do it for you or
your family, you should pull out of all the photos and videos that mean
something to every family member. You should make everyone to share their
photos and videos. If you also do it for someone outside the family, you need
to get photos and videos from them. It is easy if they only give you the
photos and videos they want to be in the slideshow.
If not, you have to go through the photos and videos they give and pick out
the ones you think that are of much meaning for them.
Once you have all of the photos and videos, you will need to put them in
order. Chronological order is a great way to organize family photos. If you
do the slideshow for someone else, asking them who know what order will be
most effective to help you with the order will be a wise choice. If the
slideshow is acting as your portfolio, it is better to group the photos and
videos both by subject and by quality. The same rule applies to photos and
videos as it does to writing: finish with your strongest. So put what you
consider your weakest set first, and finish with the strongest set. The end
is what people remember the best.
Make photo slideshow with special effect
Next, you can perfect the photos and videos by editing them with various
special effects. You can use kinds of frames, masks and clipart to make
photos more attractive, add text to give the photos some funny descriptions
and edit the photos with pan/zoom effect, etc. You can use the video edit
function to trim the video, add the caption and frame to the video, and
change the original audio with your favorite music, etc. Once you have your
photos and videos in place with great effects, you are on to the step which
is transition effect and video effect. You can easily to add the pre-designed
effect such as zoom and rotation to the video or just customize video effect
at ease. You should remember that transitions should be simple, smooth, and
quick. Anything else will be distracting and is at high risk of appearing
tacky.
Music is the next step. It will never be too more to emphasize the
importance of the music in a slideshow. You should make sure that the music
does not take away from the slideshow, but complement it. For example, if
your grandparents asked you to make a slideshow, would you put the Hip-Pop
music in it? No, you wouldn’t. It will be better to make a piano playing in
the background of a slideshow. Soft music is a must for the family memory. If
you make slideshows for some triumphant party, the inspiring music will be
better. I’m not a big music listener, so ask someone else if you can’t find
the right music. After you choose the proper music, you have to edit it such
as cropping it to sync with slideshows, making sound effect such as fade
in/fade out, etc.
Choose the way to share photo slideshow
The last step is creating a final product. With most programs, you have
several options to choose from. You could make a DVD to play on TV. If you do
this, you have to make DVD menu which you can make easily from various
attractive pre-designed DVD menu templates or just customize your own one.
You could make videos in different format such as MP4, WMV, 3GP, which are
ideal for the popular mobile devices such iPod, Zune, 3GP cell phone. Then
you can enjoy the slideshows on the go. Also, you could make videos in WMV,
AVI format which you can upload to youtube and other online share sites. It
is a great option for that you can access it from wherever you present and
share it with the friends all over the world. Which option you choose? It’s
up to you and your needs.
There are the links to the software in the article:
Microsoft Photo Story 3
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...y/default.mspx
Picasa
http://picasa.google.com/#utm_source...&utm_medium=et
Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder
http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/dvd-slid...lder.php?sid=8
ProShow Gold
http://www.photodex.com/
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