Slideshows

Music | Diplo – Images by Craig Ferguson

When I was about 5 or 6 years old, my grandparents took a trip to Britain. I remember they came back with lots of slides and it became a regular feature of trips to their place during school holidays and so forth to have a slide show. Even though I’d seen the photos numerous times, as a kid I was always keen to see them again.

Slideshows these days have evolved and we can now easily see them online everywhere, from news media to blogs, travel sites to You Tube. Putting them together can be as simple or as difficult as you like.

At the most basic level, a slideshow is a series of pictures automatically progressing to the next. From there you can move onto features such as adding transitions, captions, fades, animation, voiceovers and music. If you decide to add music to a slideshow, so remember to respect copyright – I have seen a lot of slideshows by both amateur and professional photographers that essentially contain pirated music.

The slideshow with this post is served automatically from my portfolio archive hosted at Photoshelter. Quick slideshows can be easily put together in Lightroom. In the past, I’ve used software such as Slideshow Pro, Proshow Gold, iMovie, Windows Moviemaker and more. There are plenty of other options available as well.

So give it a try. Select a series of photos, create a slideshow, share it via YouTube or Vimeo and share it with your friends.

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