Technorati tags: [tag-tec]Desktop slideshow[/tag-tec], [tag-tec]create-slideshow[/tag-tec], [tag-tec]photo slideshow[/tag-tec] When you leave your computer for a while, the screen saver kicks in. Instead of the default Windows logo flying across the screen, isn't it more fun to pop up your photos on your PC screen. One time, I return to my PC and find a photo from a camping trip from long ago I had forgotten. It brought back many happy memories.
The video below shows you how easy it is to turn your PC into a desktop slideshow by pointing the Screensaver settings to a photo folder. Having a party, family gathering, it's fun to randomly pop up photos, share your vacation, pictures from the last family reunion… It's like having one of those popular digital picture frames, except bigger.
Just one caution, your PC does use up more power than a digital picture frame, but hey, if you were just going to let the screensaver run anyway, why not have it go through the thousands of photos on your hard drive.
Technorati tags: [tag-tec]create slide show[/tag-tec], [tag-tec]make slide show[/tag-tec], [tag-tec]animoto[/tag-tec] Animoto calls it “The end of slideshowsâ€. This nascent website - just a few months old - takes your photos, your music selection, and wham, creates a pretty hot production that has the energy of a music video and the emotional impact of a movie trailer in 3 easy steps:
Step 1: Choose your images. You can upload from your PC, or if your photos are on one of the online photo hosting site, just tell it where to find it.
Step 2: Choose your music. They have a nice collection of tunes to choose from, or you can upload from your computer.
Step3: Then, the Animoto application painstakingly analyses your photos and your music, and Wham, you get a unique video production that’s totally customized to every nuances to your music.
Click here to watch a video tutorial on how to create an Animoto video.
Now you can email it to friends, or press the remix button and see what you get this time. No two videos are alike, you get a unique video creation every time.
Animoto offers 2 levels: Short videos (under 30 seconds) are FREE. Full-length video cost $30 a year. I’m pretty happy with the 30-second videos (free shorts, they call it), so I’m staying with FREE for now.
Below I use the same photos to create 2 slide shows, one using www.Animoto.com and the one following using www.Slide.com. Which one is more your style?
The slide show below is by another popular free web slide show maker, www.slide.com :
So which slide show is your style? Drop a comment below. Either way, your photos would be much happier dancing in a music slide show than being stashed away in your hard drive.
What to do with all those wedding pictures? Or Vacation pictures? Or the 3,000 pictures you took of baby's first year? Make a slide show out of them, email it to your friends and family, and share your life.
Technorati Tags: [tag-tec]photo slide show[/tag-tec], [tag-tec]slide show software[/tag-tec], [tag-tec]create slide show[/tag-tec] Below video tutorial shows you how to make a photo slide show with www.slide.com. It's way cool, not because it's free, but because you can easily specify how the photos should transition to the next - dissolve, spin, revolve…(they call it "Style"); you can easily add frames and borders (they call it "Skins") and adding background music is also a mouse click away.
Recently, they added preset designs so you just pop in your photos, and oila, you have a photo slide show complete with border, music and fun effects. You could be done in 2 steps.
But my guess is that you won't resist tweaking it. Warning: give yourself a time limit, it's addicting. Anyway, once you're done with it, save the slide show and an URL is created for you to copy and paste in an email to your family and friends. If you have a blog, the 'embed code' is available to your blog post.
"I'm not computer savvy at all. I wouldn't have dared start my photobook project if I didn't know I had these step-by-step videos to guide me. It turned out to be so easy." ~ Ruth T.
" I never knew you could do so many things with photos. I'm going to tell all my friends about your site, especially my friends who take tons and tons of pictures." ~ Elaine Ding, Singapore
"I run a home day-care and I created a photo calendar using photos of of the children. The parents said it was the best holiday gift they received from their childcare provider." ~ Esther Waworuntu, Framingham, MA.
