Friday, December 30, 2011

How to Create HD Slideshow on Mac for Playback on HDTV

It is a kind of great visual enjoyment to watch DVD movies on the big screen of HDTV. Have you ever thought of viewing photos on HDTV as well? It is very easy to transfer photos to HDTV for viewing at full screen, as there is a USB port in most HDTVs.

However, still photos look just as plain on HDTV as on a PC. How about decorating the photos with texts, effects and even background music to bring them to life again? I am sure it makes a world of different to watch the dynamic photo slideshows on the HDTV at 1920 x 1080.

Today, I'd like to introduce a Mac slideshow app named HD Slideshow Maker, which enables you to easily create fantastic photo slideshows with background music, transition effects, texts, Pan & Zoom, theme styles, etc. It lets you encode slideshows as full HD videos for playback on an even bigger screen of HDTV. You can also choose to upload slideshows to YouTube and Facebook directly.

HD Slideshow Maker for Mac

Now, let me simplify the process of creating an HD slideshow video with HD Slideshow Maker for playback on HDTV:

1. Download HD Slideshow Maker to your Mac, install and run it.

2. Add photos from your Mac HDD.

3. Click the "Add Music" button to select songs from your Mac HDD as the background music.

4. Click the "Theme" button to choose a theme style for the slideshow.

5. Click the "Arrange" button to reorder the photos.

6. Click the dice icon to choose transition effects between photos. By default, transition effects will be randomly applied.

7. Click each photo in the timeline to add texts and set Pan & Zoom effects for it.

8. Click the "Play" button to preview the slideshow.

9. Click the "Export" button to choose to encode the slideshow as HDTV video.

10. When the encoding is complete, copy the output video to a USB drive. Then you can connect the drive with your HDTV via the USB port.

Now you can start sitting in front of your HDTV and enjoying the fantastic slideshow you just created.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Create HD Slideshow and Play on HDTV with HD Slideshow Maker for Mac

Have thousands of exciting photos from grand festival and daily life and wanna share them with your family or friends? HD Slideshow Maker for Mac helps you create fantastic photo slideshows with your favorite background music and stunning transition effects. It lets you encode slideshows as full HD videos for playback on an even bigger screen of HDTV or for directly uploading to YouTube and Facebook. HD Slideshow Maker for Mac helps you make a slideshow movie with high resolution of 1920 x 1080. It's really a good Mac app for you to share the perfect moments with your family and friends.

HD Slideshow Maker

Features of HD Slideshow Maker for Mac

1. Make attractive dynamic slideshows in a snap.

Just add all of the photos you have collected and add your favorite songs as the background music, and you will get the slideshow ready for showing.

2. Export to full HD video with high speed

HD Slideshow Maker for Mac is designed to export slideshows in HDTV format. The resolution of the output video can be as high as 1920 x 1080. To play the slideshow on HDTV, you just copy the output video to a USB drive and then connect the drive with HDTV via the USB port. Then you can enjoy the slideshow via the remote control.

3. Various transition effects

There are a variety of transition effects to choose from. You can add cool effects and animations to your slides and create multi-photo montages. You can also set Ken Burns (pan/zoom) effect for each photo.

4. Lots of album theme styles

There are lots of album theme styles to choose from, which will help the slideshow look more attractive.

5. Directly upload slideshow to YouTube and Facebook

HD Slideshow Maker for Mac allows you to directly upload the slideshow to YouTube and Facebook.

System Requirements, Availability and Pricing

The current version of HD Slideshow Maker for Mac is only compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. You can download it for a try from http://www.hdslideshowmaker.com. The full version of HD Slideshow Maker for Mac costs $29.99.

Monday, December 19, 2011

How to Create Photo Slideshow DVD for Christmas 2011

The Christmas Day is just around the corner. Have you ever thought of making a slideshow of your special photos all over the year to celebrate the special festival?

Today, I'd like to show you how to create a photo slideshow DVD in celebration of Christmas 2011 using Photo DVD Burner Professional. The steps are as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner Professional to create one or more albums, select photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc.
Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music, apply transition effect, specify transition duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

Create Photo Slideshow for Christmas

In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate images to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose Menus

Click the Choose Menus tab in the interface of Photo DVD Burner Professional to choose a menu template for the Christmas slideshow. You can also specify the background music and background image, set font style, size, color, etc to customize the menu template.

Create Christmas DVD Photo Slideshow

Step 3. Burn Disc

Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose the output format for the Christmas slideshow. You can choose to burn Christmas photo slideshows to DVD/Blu-ray discs or create Christmas photo slideshows movie. The following formats are available for you to choose from:

Christmas Photo Slideshows

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

How to Create Thanksgiving Photo Slideshow

Thanksgiving Day is a time to give thanks, of family gatherings and holiday meals. A time of turkeys, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. A time for Indian corn, holiday parades and giant balloons... If you are going to host a Thanksgiving party, it is a great idea to create photo slideshows being played during the reception, showcasing the important moments of your family for the whole year. It is very easy and fast to create a Thanksgiving's Day photo slideshow with Photo DVD Burner Professional. Now let's take a look at how it performs:

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner Professional to create one or more albums, select your family's photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc.


Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music (your favorite Thanksgiving songs), apply transition effect, specify transition duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

Create Photo Slideshow for Thanksgiving

In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate photos to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose Menus

Click the Choose Menus tab in the interface of Photo DVD Burner Professional to choose a menu template for the Thanksgiving slideshow. You can also specify the background music and background image, set font style, size, color, etc to customize the menu template.

Create Thanksgiving DVD Photo Slideshow

Step 3. Burn Disc

Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose the output format for the Thanksgiving slideshow. You can choose to burn Thanksgiving photo slideshows to DVD/Blu-ray discs or create Thanksgiving photo slideshows movie. The following formats are available for you to choose from:

Make Thanksgiving Photo Slideshows

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

How to free create wedding photo slideshows on iPhone

There are numerous reasons to create a photo slideshow and wedding is on the top list. You may need to make photo slideshows for playing during the wedding receptions; you may have the idea of making a slideshow of your favorite wedding photos; or you'd like to create a photo DVD slideshow in celebration of your wedding anniversary...

Today, I'd like to introduce a fairly easy-to-use iPhone app named Slideshow+ Free, which can help you create a wedding slideshow on iPhone with ease and speed.

wedding slideshow app

Now let's take a look at how it performs to make a slideshow of your favorite wedding photos using Slideshow+.

Step 1. Download Slideshow+ Free from iTunes app store

The iTunes link is http://itunes.apple.com/app/id462690585. Or you can search this app in the store by its name – Slideshow+.

Step 2. Launch the app, create a new project and add photos

Launch the app on your iPhone. Click the "New" button to create a new project. Then you can begin your slideshow. Click the "Photo" button on the lower left corner of the interface to go to "Albums", where you can choose to add photos from Facebook Album, Flick Album, Picasa Web Album, iPhone Camera Roll or photo folders in your iPhone.

iPhone wedding slideshow

Step 3. Choose theme and apply transitions

Go to the "Theme" tab to choose a theme for the slideshow. Click the dice icon in the timeline to apply transition effects to the slideshow. Click any of the photos to add text to it or add a blank image and text. Meanwhile you can click the "Settings" tab at the top right of the interface to adjust the photo duration and transition duration for slideshow presentations.

iPhone wedding slideshow app

Step 4. Add background music and theme

Now you can add your favorite wedding songs to the slideshow as the background music. It's easy, just click the "Music" button at the bottom of the interface.

Step 5. Export the slideshow to HDTV

You can click the "Play" button at the bottom of the interface to preview the slideshow and play the slideshow on your iPhone or click the "Export" button to start streaming the slideshow to HDTV.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Free iPad Slideshow App - Photo Slideshow Director HD Free

free ipad slideshow appToday, I'd like to share with you a free iPad slideshow application on the iTunes app store - Photo Slideshow Director HD Free. Most of the features in Photo Slideshow Director HD Free is the same as its paid version, except that the free version cannot export the slideshow to 540p or 720p HD video.  

The iTunes link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photo-slideshow-director-hd/id471560424?mt=8  

Requirements: Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 4.1 or later.  

Price: Forever Free  

Size: 5.5MB  

Screenshot:


free ipad slideshow app  

Here is the description from iTunes:
Photo Slideshow Director is a HD photo slideshow app that lets you use your iPad to organize your digital photos from camera roll, picasa web albums,Facebook photo albums, Flickr photo sets and create eye-catching slideshow in minutes. It's an idea tool for you to share your great shots with family and friends on big screen HDTV with iPad, it is also a great software for you to present your business photos quickly and easily.
Key features of Photo Slideshow Director HD Free include:
 
1. Make photo slideshow on iPad easily

With taps and drags on iPad, you can turn your photo collections and music into live and dynamic slideshow with ease. With slideshow themes, you just need to add photos and music then your slideshow is ready for showing. You can also add text narration, adjust transition effects to customize slideshow.  

2. Export slideshow to HD movie

With a simple click, you can encode the slideshow to HD video so you can transfer to PC, upload to YouTube and Facebook. The video encoding is very fast with almost 1x speed. You can watch the slideshow movie on TV via AppleTV AirPlay.
 
3. Support Picasa, Facebook and Flickr web album

You can import Picasa albums,Facebook Photos and Flickr albums to this app and play your Picasa,facebook and Flickr web album or transform them to slideshow movies as easy as 1,2,3.  

4. HD full screen slideshow presentation

Photo Slideshow Director is designed to show the best quality of your photos, all photos are processed with highest quality settings and played with best result.
 
5. Ready for TV output with Apple Digital AV Adaptor or Apple VGA Adaptor

Photo Slideshow Director is ready for showing on ever bigger HDTV screen. The output image resolution is 1920x1080. Your photos will looks great with highest quality on big TV screen when you connect your iPad with Apple Digital AV Adaptor and HDMI cable or with a Apple VGA Adaptor.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

How to create mp4 photo slideshow

Want to create an mp4 photo slideshow movie, immediately bringing your still photos to life? Here comes the solution. Following this guide, you will be able to easily make slideshows of your favorite photos, decorated with stuning transitions, background music, album themes, cliparts and more, and output photo slideshows as MP4 movie files. Then you can easily transfer the .mp4 slideshow video to your mobile devices such as iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, BlackBerry, Zune, Creative Zen, etc and watch it on the go. No still photos or pictures, but dynamic HD slideshow!

The only software you need is MP4 Photo Slideshow Maker. It is very easy to create mp4 photo slideshow using it.

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab to create one or more albums, select photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc. Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music, specify transition effect/duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

Create MP4 Photo Slideshow

In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate photos to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

Create MP4 Photo Slideshow

Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose Output Format

Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu of MP4 Photo Slideshow Maker to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose MPG Movie for the slideshow. And in the Parameters Setting area, you can specify output directory, profile (MPEG-4 Movie), and video/audio parameters such as video bitrate, size, codec, frame rate and audio codec, bitrate, sample rate, channel.

Create MP4 Photo Slideshow

Step 3. Create MP4 Photo Slideshow

After you set the above parameters, click the Create Now button and start creating mp4 photo slideshow.

Thursday, August 25, 2011

How to create picture album slide show and show on PowerPoint presentation

How to create image album slide shows easily and show on PowerPoint presentations? It is no doubt that a picture album video embedding photo slideshows and music is the best way to show your photos on PowerPoint presentations. The PPT image album slide show in dynamic MPEG music video format can help you attract more people's eyes. The dynamic MPEG PPT picture video slide shows with songs are more wonderful than the still photos to show your memory on PowerPoint presentations.

How to show picture album slideshows on PowerPoint presentations? The PPT can support the videos in asf format, avi format, mpeg format and wmv format. Photo DVD Burner Professional is a PowerPoint image video slide show maker software that can help you convert still picture to dynamic MPEG or AVI video for PowerPoint presentation.

You need to Free download Photo DVD Burner Professional and install it at first. After launching the program, you can start to create your picture album, set picture album theme, convert photograph slide shows to the dynamic mpeg video slideshows. Now, As an easy-to-use PowerPoint image video slide show maker, Photo DVD Burner Professional guides you how to make or create Photo MPEG video slideshows and add to PPT presentations. There are just 3 simple steps to guide you to create or make dynamic PowerPoint MPEG picture album slideshows and add to PPT presentation.

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the "Organize Photos" button to create or make image slide show album (now I just create one picture album) and select photos from your computer to add to the particular image slideshow album. After creating an album, you can customize the slide show album by adding pictures, deleting pictures, arranging the order of pictures, etc.

Organize Photos

Go to the "Transition & Music" tab, where you can add the background music or song to the image slide show and select your desired photograph slideshow transition effects from up to 260 amazing special transition effects.

When click the "Album Theme" tab, you can select a theme from themes warehouse and add to the ppt photo slide shows. You can also design the slideshow theme by setting all kinds of parameters. Then click the "Album Preview" tab, where you can preview the picture slide show effect.

Choose album theme

Step 2. Convert picture album slideshows to PowerPoint MPEG video

Click the "Burn Disc" button to the converting window of the make software and click the pull-down menu to choose the Output Format "MPEG Movie". And in the video Parameters Setting area, you can set all kinds of parameters and choose the Profile as MPEG-1 Movie(*.mpg) as the album slideshows output file. If all is OK, you click " Create Now!" button and your PowerPoint album slide shows of MPEG-1 Format will be created in a short time.

Step 3. Add the MPEG-1 video slideshows to PowerPoint and show on PPT presentation

Once your PowerPoint MPEG-1 album slideshows are created completely, you can play it on your computer firstly. If you think the MPEG picture video is OK, you will open PowerPoint and choose these creative PPT video slide shows to insert.

While inserting, you can select the video slide show playing way. After adding, you can preview the PPT presentation with the MPEG slide show video. If the slide show video can be played on the PPT presentation, it means that you have successfully added the dynamic picture album video to PowerPoint. Now, you can show your dynamic MPEG album slide shows on PowerPoint presentation with animating transition effects and background music or song.

Thursday, August 18, 2011

How to create photo slideshow for Facebook

Facebook is the most popular social networking website and allows you to easily share photos and pictures with your friends. However, have you ever thought of turning these photos and pictures into a slideshow and upload the video to Facebook? Simply get Photo DVD Burner Professional to help you! It can help you easily make a photo video slideshow for uploading to Facebook.

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner Professional to create one or more albums, select photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc.
Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music, specify transition effect/duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

Facebook photo slideshow

In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate photos to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

Facebook photo slideshow

Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose Output Format

Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose Facebook Uploadable Movie for the slideshow. And in the Parameters Setting area, you can specify output directory, profile (MP4 or FLV), and video/audio parameters such as video bitrate, size, codec, frame rate and audio codec, bitrate, sample rate, channel.

Facebook photo slideshow

Step 3. Create Facebook Uploadable Movie

After you set the above parameters, you click the Create Now button and start creating photo slideshow for Facebook.

Source from http://www.photodvdburner.com/support/make-photo-slideshow-for-facebook.php

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Birthday Slideshows Songs Suggestions

If you are creating a birthday slideshow, you may want to add one or several songs to the project as the background music. The song Happy Birthday to You would be the one that best fits the birthday slideshow, but you still have other choices. Below are 31 songs that are very suitable for a birthday photo slideshow. You may choose your favorite ones to make birthday slideshows with birthday songs. Or if you are asked to suggest some birthday songs, you can simply share this list.

Happy Birthday to You – Victor Silvester
Birthday – The Beatles
When I Grow up to Be A Man — The Beach Boys
Wild One – Faith Hill
Happy Birthday — Chorus
Because you love me - Celine Dion
Happy Girl - Martina McBride
If I Could - Celine Dion
You Are So Beautiful - Joe Cocker
Can You Feel the Love Tonight - Elton John
Keeper of the Start - Tracy Byrd
Happy, Happy Birthday Baby - Ronnie Milsap
What a Beautiful Day - Chris Cagle
Forever Young - Rod Stewart
I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack
My Guy - Mary Wells
Young - Kenny Chesney
Thank You — Dido
Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Let Them Be Little — Billy Dean
Baby of Mine — Tanya Goodman Sykes
My Wish — Rascal Flatts
Find Your Wings - Mark Harris
Butterfly Kisses - Bob Carlisle
Come to Me - Celine Dion
It Was A Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
Wouldn't It Be Nice - Beach Boys
Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
A Day In The Life - Beatles

Learn how to create a birthday photo slideshow >>

Sunday, August 7, 2011

How to Create FLV Photo Slideshow

In this guide, I'd like to show you how to convert photos to flv and create flv photo slideshow using Photo DVD Burner Professional.

Step 1. Organize Photos

Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner Professional to create one or more albums, select photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc.
Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music, specify transition effect/duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

create flv photo slideshow

In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate photos to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

create flv photo slideshow

Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose Output Format

Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose SWF/FLV Movie for the slideshow. And in the Parameters Setting area, you can specify output directory, profile (FLV Format Movie), and video/audio parameters such as video bitrate, size, codec, frame rate and audio codec, bitrate, sample rate, channel.

create flv photo slideshow

Step 3. Create FLV Format Movie (*.flv)

After you set the above parameters, you click the Create Now! button and start creating flv photo slideshow.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Wedding Slideshow Songs Suggestions

TitleArtist
Perfect MomentMartine McCutcheon
Could This Be LoveVictoria Acosta
A Moment Like ThisKelly Clarkson
All My LifeAmerica
Beautiful in My EyesJoshua Kadison
Endless LoveLionel Richie & Diana Ross
For You I willMonica
Forever and AlwaysShania Twain
From This Moment Shania Twain
I Could Not Ask for More Edwin McCain
I Do Cherish You 98 Degrees
I'll Grow Old With YouAdam Sandler
It's your love Tim McGraw & Faith Hill
I Will Always Love You David hamilton
I Will be HereSteven Curtis Chapman
Spend My Life with You Eric Benet
Dreaming of You Selena
Eternal Flame Bangles
Truly, Madly, Deeply Savage garden
Promises don't come easy Caron nightingale
Now and Forever Rich max
Take a BowMadonna
Love Will Keep Us AliveThe Eagles
Learn how to create wedding slideshows >>

Thursday, July 21, 2011

How to Embed Picasa Photo Slideshow on your Site

Picasa is a photo sharing website from Google, having many features for the users. It allows you to create albums on the fly, upload pictures into them and download them when you want. If you ever accidentally delete photos from your hard drive, then you can have the online backup with Google Picasa. Currently, it gives you space of 1GB, which is good enough for the photos. However, if you need more space, then you can always upgrade to premium.

Picasa Photo Slideshow

Let's come to the point. With photos in your Picasa Web Album, you might want to embed them on your site. For this, Picasa has very easy solution which lets you embed picasa photos on your site. Here goes the steps to embed picasa photos on your site.

1. Go to Picasa Web and then choose your photo album.

2. On the right sidebar, you can see the option saying Link to this album. Click on it.

3. Now, a menu will fall down, choose the Embed Slideshow option.

Embed Picasa Photo Slideshow on your site

4. It will pop-out a dialog box, just set the settings as per your choice and see the preview on the right side.

5. Now, in the same dialog box, you can see a code snippet, which you can use to embed photos on your site. Just copy it and paste on your site where you want the slideshow to appear.

Be aware that the Picasa uses the Adobe Flash for slideshows, so the visitors must have it installed in order to see the slideshow.

How to Prepare Your Wedding Slideshows

At many weddings, couples use video and photos to introduce the bride and groom to their guests. In many weddings, the most popular type of video created is a wedding slideshow. Telling the story of how you met your fianc̩ is the perfect way to start off your wedding slideshow. You can start your slideshow from the beginning of your relationship. An example would be your first date and even the time of your proposal. If you're hiring a production company, be sure to share all the details and have them take notes so they can convey your story with moving images РLet them know where both of you grew up. Explain the experiences you've shared together, and describe how your love has blossomed over the years. The information you give to the video producer will help him to accurately tell your story of love through the use of photos. Your wedding guests and friends are sure to enjoy watching your story unfold on the big screen at your wedding ceremony.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Top 10 Sites To Create Slideshow Online For Free

Slide shows is an excellent way to give a new life to your old photos. With its awesome effects, customized music, tags and titles, slide shows allows a more interesting way to view your pictures and share it with your families and friends. We often go on vacations and take some clicks so that we can remember our golden days while looking at old pictures but these are left in our computers for years and years. This might be because they are same in all angels or we get bored watching same photos again and again. But the slide shows can help you keep the track of all photos in a better way so that you may not feel bore with your own pics.

Now this was all about slide shows, but how to make a slideshow is another task which we will help you by providing you a list of top 10 websites that are providing free services to you so that you can enhance your photos and keep the track of your golden memories. These websites provide same service but have a unique criteria and unique effects that makes them fall under the list of Top 10 sites.

1. Photopeach: With Photopeach you can create a slideshow in seconds and it also supports background music, captions and comments thus adding a life to your image.

slideshow website

2. Animoto: Converts your photos and videos into professional videos slideshows within minutes.

slideshow sites

3. Smilebox: With smilebox you can create different slideshows for different occassions like birthday, anniversary etc. with its 100 style themes and effects. Its fun and creative.

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4. myPicPals: Upload your pix, create a slide show and share it on myspace and any other siew which supports flash content.

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5. magtoo: A magshow is an image presentation that you can build on Magtoo.com. It can either be slideshow or panorama show. Magshows can be posted on social network sites to share with friends.

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6. Kizoa: An excellent service that allows you to create slideshows with added extra effects and music easily. You can choose thousands of effects, burn slideshows, DVDs etc.

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7. Picturetrail: The slideshows made through this site are generaaly called Photo Flicks. These are customizable from dozens of unique designs with captions, speed control and color selection.

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8. RoxioPhotoshow: Photoshow story in just minutes! Just upload your pics, choose the theme and effect and share it with your friends.

online photo slideshow builder

9. Photosnack: Easier to add photos, create elegant flash photo slideshow and share it.

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10. imageloop: Not only slide shows you can also create other widgets with the help of this site.

sites to create slideshow

Note: It is recommended that you download a piece of Photo Slideshow Software to create photo slide shows in case of instable network connection or storage limitation.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Easily Create HD Photo Slideshow Movie for Viewing on iPad

It is a cool experience to watch movies and videos on iPad's big screen. Have you ever thought of bringing your still photos to life and creating an HD photo slideshow movie with background music, transitions, pan & zoom, text, artclips, subtitles, etc for viewing on your iPad? Get Photo DVD Burner to help you do that. The steps are as easy as 1, 2, 3.


Step 1. Organize Photos


Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner to create one or more albums, select photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.


In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc.
Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.


Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music, apply transition effect, specify transition duration and photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.


Create iPad HD Photo Slideshow Movie


In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate photos to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.


Create iPad HD Photo Slideshow Movie


Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.


Step 2. Choose Output Format


Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu of Photo DVD Burner to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose iPad MPEG-4 Movie for the slideshow. And in the Parameters Setting area, you can specify output directory, profile (iPad H.264 HD Video, iPad H.264 Video or iPad MPEG-4 Video), and video/audio parameters such as video bitrate, size, codec, frame rate and audio codec, bitrate, sample rate, channel.


Create iPad HD Photo Slide Show Movie


Step 3. Create iPad H.264/MPEG-4 Slide Show Movie (*.mp4)


After you set the above parameters, you click the Create Now! button and start creating photo slideshow for iPad.

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Make HD photo slideshow movie playable on PlayBook

BlackBerry PlayBook, the brand new BlackBerry Tablet, comes with 1Ghz Dual Core processor, 1GB RAM, 7-inch LCD display and 1024 x 600 screen resolution. It supports up to 1080p video playback.

It sounds a great idea to make a slideshow of your favorite photos and share it with your family and friends on your PlayBook. Photo DVD Burner Professional makes it easy to create an HD photo slide show movie for viewing on BlackBerry PlayBook.

Step 1. Organize Photos


Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner to create one or more albums, select photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc. Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can add background music, apply transition effects, specify transition duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

Make HD photo slideshow for PlayBook

In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate photos to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

Make PlayBook Photo Slideshow

Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose Output Format


Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu to choose output format for the slideshow movie. Since BlackBerry PlayBook supports H.264, MPEG4 and WMV video formats, you can choose "HD Video" from the format list and choose "MP4 Video" as the profile. You can also specify output directory and video/audio parameters such as video bitrate, size, codec, frame rate and audio codec, bitrate, sample rate, channel.

Create HD photo slideshow for PlayBook

Step 3. Create HD Slide Show Movie for PlayBook


After you set the above parameters, click the Create Now! button and start creating HD photo slide show movie for viewing on BlackBerry PlayBook.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

How to Create Summer Vacation Photo Slideshow

How do you spend your lengthy summer vacation? Traveling? Staying with your family? Visiting your grandparents? Joining a summer camp? One thing is for sure! You will take photos and video shots to preserve the best memories of your summer vacation time.

So in this post, I'd like to show you how to make a slideshow of your photos taken during the summer vacation and create summer vacation photo slideshow DVD using Photo DVD Burner Professional.

Step 1. Organize Photos


Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner to create one or more albums, select photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc. Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music (your favorite summer songs), apply transition effect, specify transition duration and photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

Create Summer Vacation Photo Slideshow

In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

Make Summer Vacation Photo Slideshow

Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose DVD Menus


Click the Choose Menus tab in the interface of Photo DVD Slideshow Software to choose a menu template for the summer vacation slideshow. You can also specify the background music and background image, set font style, size, color, etc to customize the menu template.

Create Summer Vacation DVD Photo Slideshow

Step 3. Start Creating Summer Vacation Photo Slideshows


Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose the output format for your summer vacation slideshow. You can choose to burn summer vacation photo slideshows to DVD/Blu-ray discs or create summer vacation photo slideshows movie. The following formats are available for you to choose from:

Summer Vacation Photo Slideshows

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

How to create birthday photo slideshows

Whether you're celebrating a ninth or 90th birthday, a photo slideshow is an entertaining yet heartfelt way to celebrate the birthday honoree. A slideshow can also function as a point of interest for party guests. It is very easy and fast to make photo slideshows for birthday and create birthday photo DVD slideshow with Photo DVD Burner Professional. Now let's take a look at how it performs:

Step 1. Organize Photos


Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner to create one or more albums, select the birthday honoree's photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc. Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music (your favorite Happy Birthday songs), apply transition effect, specify transition duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

Create Photo Slideshow for birthday

In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate images to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose Menus


Click the Choose Menus tab in the interface of Photo DVD Slideshow Software to choose a menu template for the birthday slideshow. You can also specify the background music and background image, set font style, size, color, etc to customize the menu template.

Create birthday DVD Photo Slideshow

Note: If all the menu templates cannot fit your needs, you may go to http://www.socusoft.com/more-dvd-menu-template.php to download more and find one that matches birthday best.

Step 3. Burn Disc


Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose the output format for the birthday slideshow. You can choose to burn birthday photo slideshows to DVD/Blu-ray discs or create birthday photo slideshows movie. The following formats are available for you to choose from:

Make birthday Photo Slideshows

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Monday, June 27, 2011

How to burn photo slide shows to Blu-ray disc

Have numerous photos and pictures stored on your PC? What are you going to do with them? Why not create a photo slideshow to share the unforgottable memories with your family members and friends? Blu-ray Photo Slideshow Maker comes to the help! With this photo to Blu-ray burner, you can easily burn photos to Blu-ray discs and create photo Blu-ray HD slideshow for playback on TV with popular Blu-ray players. To get started, download Photo Blu-ray Slideshow, install and run the program. Then follow the steps below:

Step 1. Organize Photos


Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo to Blu-ray Burner to create one or more albums, select photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc. Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music, specify transition effect/duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.

Burn Photos to Blu-ray Disc

In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate photos to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.

Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose Menus


Click the Choose Menus tab in the interface of Blu-ray Photo Slideshow Software to choose a menu template for the slideshow. You can also specify the background music and background image, set font style, size, color, etc to customize the menu template.

Create Blu-ray Photo Slideshow

Step 3. Burn Blu-ray Disc


Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu to go to the burning window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose Blu-ray Disc. Then click the "Create Now" button to start burning photos to Blu-ray disc and creating Blu-ray photo slideshow.

Make Photo Blu-ray HD Slideshow

Source from http://www.photodvdburner.com/support/burn-photos-to-blu-ray-disc.php