How to Create a Slideshow of Excel Images

This article will cover the steps of how to assemble and export such a file to YouTube in an Apple iMac/Performa platform environment will be covered in this article. Watch by tapping the green font link of the video slideshow, “Electron Eggies Spiritual Adventure” below in YouTube before proceeding, and then in YouTube use the browser’s back button to return here.

Contents

• 1 Steps
  • 1.1 The Tutorial
  • 1.2 Storyboard Progression
  • 1.3 Helpful Guidance
• 2 Related Articles
• 3 Sources and Citations

Steps

• Get to know the main image:

The Tutorial

1. Click on the green text to watch the slideshow video and press ESC or your Back Button to return here: Electron Eggies Spiritual Adventure
2. Create the story’s images. See Tips below for the storyboard progression for this video.
3. Save the images as JPG files by doing Copy Picture and Paste Picture in Excel, then Copy and open the application Preview and do File New From Clipboard. Then export as JPGs to a unique file folder.
4. Open iPhoto and Import all the JPGs in their correct storyboard order insofar as possible. Do Import to Library, and collect all the JPGs from Preview into iPhoto. Open the Last Import folder if not already open and your pictures are showing. Select each photo in its proper storyboard order and set its keyword to a consecutive numeric order, e.g. 001, 002, 003, etc, Select all and sort by keyword. Do Create Slideshow with the button at the bottom right. Copy and paste any JPGs that appear twice in the storyboard order in the upper storyboard frame, and any JPGs that need to appear for double the standard duration per the narration.
5. Set the Settings and Music to fit taste and idea. If adding music, be aware that YouTube may consider the music that Apple provides with iPhoto to be copyright-protected, and fail the import on that account. So be sure to have the rights or permission to the music, if any, being added. Dissolving from one frame to the next may be preferable. If narrative is added in iMovie, set Music to None. It would certainly be wise to choose to create a new album and store a copy of all the photos altogether in it.
6. Set the Theme. Ken Burns may be preferred; others work as well. Experiment until satisfied.
7. Export via the bottom center button. Choose Medium typically and to Automatically send it to iTunes, which then quit when it opens.
8. Go to Finder on the Desktop and open Applications; open iMovie. Do New Project. Select the project type in the upper left, No Theme, with the house as it gives the most creative freedom.
9. import the stills per the Camera Icon at middle far right, from iPhoto’s Imported Slideshows folder. Select a picture then do Select All and drag them over to the Projects frames. The way to set up is with Projects on the bottom and Events on the top, preferably, and there’s a two-arrow flip button to exchange the two in the far left middle of the iMovie app screen.
10. Double-click on the microphone icon in the center Editing bar and set the microphone settings. If you will use the built-in microphone for input, block out about 65% of the background noise, especially if living by a freeway and the trucks sometimes honk at each other, plus, there are a lot of convalescent hospital nearby so there’s also a lot of ambulance sirens, not to mention the noisy terrier across the street! In other words, carefully gauge the background noise likely to affect the recording and adjust for it.
11. Play the video several times with the microphone off and do a mock voiceover until comfortable what will be said and when it will be said are known. Then, when ready, tap the mic icon and begin speaking after just a half-second or so.
12. Finalize the project by selecting that option from the File menu.
13. Open YouTube in the browser and click on Upload File when the home page is reached, else set up a home page first in YouTube. Drag and drop the iMovie file from its file folder into the YouTube import box and wait while it uploads the file. If it’s going to be over an hour, the file may exceed YouTube’s 15 minute size requirement / allowance, so then pare it down with selective editing (this may be an outdated limit). Name the file and watch it to make sure it uploaded correctly with the sound intact, etc. But wait and see if it uploads anyway even if it’s long: importing about 63 photos has been successful. You’re done!

Storyboard Progression

• Storyboard progression of the video: In the story of Electron Eggies Going On A Spiritual Adventure, the story is narrated from the viewpoint of a Math Professor who visits their Mother Planet just as the Eggies return. Given this idea to go by a spiritual inspiration, carried by friendly electrons, he goes through a portal called a Tekeporter and then through their Tekeporter. He come upon a bright radiant star-planet which converts itself chemically into a cloud-covered shy moon-like planet and then opens a receptacle in herself to receive her children and a Father Photon, which makes the relatives all jump for joy (as in the picture above). The Electron Eggies are in the 4th Dimension and flatten out to join their relatives in the 3rd Dimension of space-time as they return. Then they enter their Mother, align, and everyone aligns, and the receptacle closes as a new stage of Life begins for them. Lessons are given on electron theory and math along the way and on the square root of 1 being seemingly unequal to 1 squared and 1 cubed. Returning to Earth to document the trip by making the slideshow video, the images are mostly formed from the Garthwaite Curve, which is a ring of spheroids, much like the lighter yellow ring in the background of the picture above, via a series of duplications and random placements or spiral formations, etc. The planet as a star and moon-star are made from the same curve, as are the teleporters / tekeporters, and also the lessons. By following this single theme, the story gains a certain oneness of identity and clarity in its mythology.
• More Excel animation can be found in the Related WikiHows below in the article How to Create Floral and Other Images with Trig and Neutral Operations.

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How to create a slideshow in Excel ?

Hi, is it possible or does anyone know how, to store images within Excel and have the images displayed as a slideshow on the front page (tab) when the spreadsheet is opened? I only want to use Excel (no Power Point or jpeg references to a folder) it has to be stand alone. VBA is ok. My task is to have a spreadsheet that when opened runs a VBA script that shows a series of pictures in increasing speed to a final picture, kind of like a flash intro on a web site. Is there any way of doing this with VBA that does not use external files, add-onss or other software packages?
Thanks Guy

Re: How to create a slideshow in Excel ?

One of simple methods (may be just as a starting point).
Create hidden sheet (ose VB editor to change visibility – it is set to very hidden, so cannot be shown with unhide from worksheet interface) with pictures to be used as “slides”.
In ThisWorkbook code insert workbook open event handler:

note that I:
hardcoded here number of slides,
first is visible for 4 seconds, next 3, 2, and last one just for 1 second
used simplest method of just copying pictures

Posted on May 3, 2016 | SharePoint

In case you are not impressed by the dull look and feel of the Out of the Box SharePoint sites, there are things that can be done to spice things up. Today I will explain how to add a slideshow to SharePoint Site. This could be a great addition to an Intranet Homepage and provide an awesome way for your employees to connect and adopt to SharePoint/Office 365.

How to add slideshow to SharePoint Site

Below is an example of the end result once all is set and done. The image in the center is not a static image, but rather a rotating slideshow of images. (the particular image below depicts a skyline of my favorite city in the world – Boston, MA).

The way Slideshow works in SharePoint is as follows:

1. Picture Library Web Part stores slideshow images
2. Another web part, called Picture Library Slideshow Web Part displays images on the chosen page.

So let’s begin and build this together!

Step 1: Create a picture library Web Part

Go to Gear Icon > Site Contents > Add App

From the list of available out of the box web parts, choose Picture Library. Picture Library is sort of like Document Library, except it is designed specifically for images. It has special views and metadata built in, related specifically to photos and images (i.e. picture preview, thumbnail views, image size, etc.)

Give the Picture Library some name. Hit Create

Step 2: Add images to the library

This works exactly the same way as with documents. You can either upload one by one or drag and drop a bunch together. Very Important: Do not create folders in the library, otherwise slideshow won’t work. Just drag and drop images into the picture library

Step 3: Insert the Picture Library Slideshow web part

Now that we completed the first major piece of the puzzle, we are ready to create our slideshow. The first thing we need to do is add another web part to the page where we want slideshow to appear. To do this, go to Page > Edit Page > Insert Tab > Web Part

From the list of available web parts that appears, click on Media and Content > Picture Library Slideshow Web Part. Click Add button

This will add the web part to our page. The only thing left is its configuration

Step 4: Configure Slideshow

To configure slideshow, click on small drop-down in the upper right-hand corner of the web part, then Edit Web Part

The configuration menu will appear on the screen. You have control over several features of the slideshow. Let’s go over them:

• Duration to Show Picture: # of seconds each picture will appear on the page
• Picture Library: drop-down shows all available picture libraries on your site. If you have 1 – only 1 will appear. If multiple – all of them will appear so you can choose the one from which you want to display images
• Library View: shows all available views from the chosen picture library. This might be handy when you have lots of images in a picture library and want to only display certain ones in the slideshow. Just create a view in the picture library, filter by some metadata such that only certain images appear in that view and you can use that view in the slideshow. It is like creating different albums/themes for your slideshow!
• Picture Display Mode: you can alter between sequential and random. Sequential means that slideshow will display images in the same order they appear in the picture library view
• Display with: you can alter between different modes. If you have Title and Description metadata filled out in the picture library and they make sense – you can display them in your slideshow. I usually do not display them, but it is up to you.
• Show toolbar: If you mark the check box, users will have ability to pause or go forward/back in the slideshow via the toolbar >. I usually do not display the toolbar

Once you set the desired settings, click OK at the web part menu and then Save at the page level. That’s all – your slideshow will now appear on the page!

While it’s not the same as previous versions, in Windows 10 you can still play an image slideshow from within File Explorer. Here’s how.

In previous versions of Windows, starting with Millenium Edition, or Windows ME for those of you too young to remember that debacle, you could play a slideshow of your pictures in the My Pictures folder. With Windows 10, things have changed a bit, but you can still play an image slideshow from within File Explorer. Here’s a look at how to choose the images you want, and start the slideshow via the updated Ribbon interface.

Play an Image Slideshow in Windows 10

To easily start a slideshow of all images in a folder, open the folder that contains the images you want, and then select the first picture from the folder. A new yellow section called Picture Tools will appear in the Ribbon above the Manage tab; click on it.

There you will see some new options and in the View section. Click on Slide show to begin a slideshow of all of the pictures in the folder. Note that if you don’t select any of the pictures in the folder you will not be able to start a slideshow.

You can also start a slideshow with only the specific images in a folder you want to use. To select the images in the folder you want, hold down the Ctrl or Shift key on your keyboard to select the pictures you want to use. That will give you the same Picture Tools option in the Manage tab with the option to start a slideshow.

Once you start the slideshow you can right-click on any of the displayed images and control playback, change the speed, or exit from the slideshow.

Remember that this will only display the static images in File Explorer. If you want more sophisticated tools, check out the built-in Photos app or the upcoming Windows 10 feature, Story Remix, which will let you edit and combine pictures and video files, too. Or, you can always use a third-party app like IrfanView which also offers more customizable slideshow options.

Do you use the Slideshow option in Windows 10 File Explorer or do you prefer a third-party app? Leave a comment below and let us know how you like to show off images on your PC.

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How do we add geometric shapes in Excel, and can they be custom-designed? Excel provides over 16 dozen geometric shapes that you can size and manipulate to your specific needs, plus hundreds of special effects to customize those shapes. Additional shapes are available in the form of icons, pictures, or 3D Models, all of which can be sized, manipulated, and custom-designed.

Insert Shapes, Icons, Pictures, & 3D Models

1. For Shapes, select INSERT > Illustrations > Shapes and choose one from the drop-down list.

2. For Icons, select INSERT > Illustrations > Icons and choose one from the huge drop-down submenu, which is organized by category.

3. Shapes and icons are also available as online pictures. Select INSERT > Illustrations > Online Pictures and type Icons or Shapes in the search box, then press Enter. Locate the shape or icon you need, click once to highlight, then click the Insert button.

4. The best shapes are under INSERT > Illustrations > 3D Models. The sizing and manipulation options for the 3D Models are amazing! You can change the X, Y, or Z Rotation, change the Camera View for the X, Y, and Z Position or Look-at-Point; or you can select a three-dimensional view from a list of preset options.

NOTE: When you select Shapes, as soon as you click the one you want, Excel inserts the drawing crosshair into your spreadsheet, which then requires you to hold down the left mouse button and drag down and over to “draw” the shape. With the other INSERT > Illustrations (Icons, Online Pictures, 3d Models, etc.), Excel provides a graphical submenu for you to select from the image library. Once you click the image you want, you must then click the Insert button for the image to appear on the spreadsheet.

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Insert Shapes, Icons, Pictures, or 3D Models

Sizing the Illustrations

1. Sizing the illustrations is a familiar process that you have likely used in other programs. After you insert a shape, icon, picture, or 3D model, notice the four circles (called image “handles”) in the four corners, plus the circles located at the middle top and bottom, and both sides.

2. Place your cursor on one of the circles (e.g., bottom right), hold down the left mouse button and drag down and over to enlarge the image; or drag up and to the left to reduce it. Those are just suggestions. You can drag up or down, left or right, based on whatever feels comfortable to you and produces the desired effect.

NOTE: Use the corner circles/handles to size the image proportionally. Use the mid-top, mid bottom, mid-left, or mid-right circles to distort the image. For example, if you use the top or bottom middle circle, the image gets shorter and wider (or fatter). If you use the middle-side circles, the image stretches longer and thinner.

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02 Size or distort the illustrations using the image handles

Editing the Illustrations

1. When you insert a Shape into an Excel spreadsheet, the DRAWING TOOLS tab appears as long as the shape is selected. Select Edit Shape (in the first box on the Ribbon Menu), then click Edit Points. Notice that Excel adds editing points all over the selected image.

2. Click the points (one at a time) to modify the image and see your results.

3. You can also edit the icons. Insert one from the library (e.g., a butterfly). In its current form, all you can do is size it, distort it, or make it all one color, one pattern, or one gradient, with or without an outline.

4. To edit an icon, select it. Notice that a new GRAPHIC TOOLS tab appears, with a FORMAT tab beneath it displaying the Format Ribbon menu. Click the Convert to Shape button. In the popup menu that asks: “. . . Do you want to convert it to a Microsoft Drawing object?” click the Yes button.

5. Looks like nothing changed, but it did. Hold down the Ctrl key and click one of the butterfly’s wings. Notice that all the pieces of the butterfly can be individually selected, modified (as in stretched, squeezed, rotated, etc.). You can also add different colors, patterns, gradients, lines, and special effects to each individual piece of the butterfly; that is, four wings and its body.

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03 Editing the Illustrations

Custom Formatting/designing the Illustrations

1. In Excel, the term for custom-designing the attributes of an image is called formatting. When an image is selected, the FORMAT tab appears, showing all the formatting options and features for that particular image.

2. Formatting in Excel includes Color, Artistic Effects, Transparency, Styles, Borders, seven Picture Effects (with lots of custom or preset features in each Effect), and Picture Layouts.

3. You can also do Color Corrections and Remove the Background of an image that contains more than just the “floating” object.

4. As mentioned above, images can be flipped, rotated, scaled, distorted, grouped, aligned, cropped, or sent forward or back.

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04 Custom Formatting the Illustrations

5. The FORMAT tab includes three different sets of tools: Drawing Tools, Picture Tools, and Graphics Tools. These sub-tabs (even though they appear above the FORMAT tab) are displayed based on the object selected—Illustrations, Pictures, or Graphics.

6. Load some images and experiment with the formatting options until you feel comfortable with the different menus.

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05 Drawing Tools, Picture Tools, Graphics Tools menus

JD Sartain is a technology journalist from Boston. She writes the Max Productivity column for PCWorld, a monthly column for CIO, and regular feature articles for Network World.

Undoubtedly Microsoft Excel is amongst the best tools for increased productivity in our workplace today. Microsoft Excel helps workers perform their assigned tasks easily. The use of Microsoft Excel has greatly improved productivity in organizations. It offers a quicker way to complete your task effortlessly. Many organizations now sort after Men and Women with good skill in Microsoft Excel.

PowerPoint is another outstanding program that enhances business excellence. PowerPoint offers a clear understanding and interpretation of data. It has a unique display setting that makes the audience appreciate the program, but it is static.

Some persons believe PowerPoint to be superior to Excel and vice versa. But recently, people create PowerPoint from Excel data. Excel is used for computations because it has a lot of data needed for the report. PowerPoint will help enhance the appearance of these reports. So, simply present your result in PowerPoint after all calculations from your Excel.

PowerPoint is ideal for Data presentation, but when there is the need to display numbers, it is best done on a spreadsheet. It’s easier to enter raw data and make calculations on Microsoft Excel. However, the display of these data on Excel may appear unappealing to viewers. So, it is better to make use of PowerPoint for your final presentations instead.

There is an advanced tool called DataPoint that will help bring out the best of your result in PowerPoint. You can use DataPoint for mail merging and multiple document generation. Once you plugin DataPoint, it will update anything and everything automatically at every given point with no mistake.

For instance, if you want to present a piece of live display information comprising of words, numbers, and even pictorial display. You’ll simply use Excel to compute numbers and figures, and PowerPoint for pictorial effects. To display your end information result, all data should appear in a single presentation. The DataPoint tool will make this easier to achieve as it, allows you to create dynamic presentations for superiority.

To present these live data, some persons tend to copy objects from Excel and paste directly to PowerPoint. This is a very wrong method. If you’re looking for professionalism, then its best, you do not follow this method. The grid lines from Excel will remain visible, and this may appear unprofessional in your final presentation. Your system will not support the update of information automatically over the network.

For the best presentations, use only the data on Excel, and do the formatting in your PowerPoint presentation. You can export from Excel to PowerPoint as images, or better reproduce charts and tables in PowerPoint.

You can display live information’s from your spreadsheet to PowerPoint and also update to real time using DataPoint. To achieve these, you must first;

• DataPoint Installation: you must download and install DataPoint
• After installation, a menu will appear in PowerPoint, Click the DataPoint menu
• Next, you will click the list button of the connections group
• Then locate the Excel file and click add a connection
• Next, you browse to the Excel file you want to use and click OK
• Then, rename the connection to any given name of your choice

• To connect to a given worksheet, click add Query
• A list of all the worksheets in your excel document will appear, select By Product worksheet
• Below change the range to A7: E1000.

A7- it is the first information on display. The end point of this range will need more explanations.

E- This refers to column E, that is the last data used on our worksheet. If we look at the Data E33 will appear as the last Data used. Since you cannot correctly know the total entry for a year. It is best to set the endpoint to E1000 to accommodate as much. DataPoint will automatically skip empty rows at the end of the data.

• On the option, you’ll notice the first rows contains field names. Simply set ‘Data refresh’ rate for continuous updating in an interval of 60 seconds. In every 60 seconds DataPoint will update from your worksheet.
• Then Rename the query to preview your Excel data here.
• Finally, click OK to close your connection.

• First insert a table to your slide, then use a table that has number rows and 5 columns. That table will show the names of customers and the remaining 4 columns is for the quarterly totals.
• Then select on the table and click on DataPoint table to open its dynamic properties.
• Here, you will find only one default data connection to your Excel file. First, copy the column names to the first rows of the table from your options. The Start filling Data automatically will set to 2.
• Then click OK to close. The data file automatically copies to the table.
• Then select all cells that have numeric data, and click on DataPoint and Table again.

Click and select the format tab. Then set the formatting to number. After which you increase the decimal places to 2, using 1000 separator for the cells. Then click OK to close.

• Make sure the presentation is set to loop forever since it will be displayed on a screen.
• Then click Set up Slide Show in Slide show menu.
• Verify that Show Type is set to Browsed at a kiosk.
• Then start your slide show by pressing F5 or simply click from Beginning on the slide show menu.
• You can now open the Excel document in another computer and edit content if needed.
• Finally, save your documents after corrections and DataPoint will automatically update new information’s every 60 seconds.

In conclusion, Use DataPoint to read the raw Excel data at every given point automatically. And then add professionalism to your result presentation by sharing your work with your audience using PowerPoint.

Slideshow is an efficient way to show your ideas and presentations; however, some people asked that if they can make a slideshow on Microsoft Word.

Generally speaking, Word is used to process text and create document. As time goes by, Microsoft has introduced lots of features into Word. That makes it becoming a versatile tool.

In brief, Word has the capacity to make slideshows, though the procedure is a bit complicated.

In this tutorial, we are going to show you the workflow and simplify the procedure to make slideshow on Microsoft Word.

Make Slideshow on Microsft Word

Part 1: Why is iTunes so slow?

When making a slideshow, you have to create an outline first. It is the text content telling the story or structure of your presentation.

Step 1 Open the Word application, go to File -> New and select Blank Document to create a new document.

Step 2 Type in the content of your slideshow on separate lines, like the title of each chapter and page.

Step 3 Locate the top ribbon and go to the Home tab, click the dialog launcher in the Styles area. That will expand the Styles panel.

Step 4 Highlight a title and choose the Heading 1 style. Repeat it on other titles. Next, select a subtitle and choose the Heading 2 style. Then use the style on other subtitles. Apply the corresponding Heading styles on other subsequent levels of titles.

Step 5 Moreover, you can add some remarks in each title. For instance, if you want to use a picture to explain the title, you can write it down or add the filename of the picture under the title.

Step 6 Finally, go to the File menu and click the Save As option. Drop a name for the outline and select the destination folder. Once hit the Save button, the outline will be stored to your hard drive.

Note: The procedure of making Microsoft slideshow outline on Mac is much similar to what you do on Windows. The only difference is the output format. On Mac platform, you need to select RTF from the File Format option on the Save As dialog, if you want to use the outline in PowerPoint for Mac.

Part 2: Make a slideshow on Word

A slideshow is a combination of text, photos, graphs, charts, and other contents. After making an outline, you can feel free to add these contents into your slideshow in Microsoft Word.

Here, we only take making a slideshow on Windows Microsoft Word as the example. For Mac, the process is similar. Or you can use the built-in slideshow maker on Mac, iMovie, to create your own slideshow here.

Step 1 Open your outline in the Word program, go to the View tab on top ribbon and select Outline to switch to the Outline view.

Step 2 Place your cursor under the first title and enter the words. To insert a picture or a graph, go to the Insert tab and select the Insert Picture from File icon, locate the picture and open it in the slideshow. If you want to add a table under the title, use Word’s Table feature.

Step 3 Besides, Microsoft Word provides some useful features to make a slideshow, like the Insert Chart feature in the Insert tab, and you can add Clip Art to decorate your presentation.

Step 4 Add contents to other titles of your slideshow in Microsoft Word. If you are making a slideshow on Microsoft Word 2007/2010, you cannot add videos into your presentation. For Word 2013 or later, click the Online Video option and you will be presented three options on the Insert Video dialog.

Step 5 Next, open the File menu and select Options to open the Options window. Hit the Quick Access Toolbar, select All Commands under the Choose Commands From menu and choose Send to Microsoft PowerPoint. Hit the OK button and then send the slideshow to PowerPoint.

Besides making a slideshow on word, you can also read this post to make professional slideshow in PDF format.

Part 3: Microsoft Word slideshow maker alternative – Slideshow Creator

If you are looking for a professional slideshow maker, Aiseesoft Slideshow Creator () is a good option. Its main features include:

1. Create a slideshow on computer with oceans of templates and themes.

2. Use music, photos, and videos in your slideshow easily.

3. Offer extensive photo editing tools.

4. Preview slideshows with the built-in player.

5. Export your slideshow in MP4, AVI, or targeting devices.

How to make a slideshow without Microsoft Word

Step 1 Add videos and photos in your slideshow

Install Slideshow Creator on your computer and start it. Hit the Add icon and import the photos and videos that you want to use. Then you can edit the media file with the Slideshow Creator.

Step 2 Select your favorite theme

Go to the Theme tab, select a proper theme from the database based on the style of your slideshow to add theme. Next, click the Background Music button at bottom of the window and set the background music with your favorite song. Plus, the application offers plentiful transitions and filters to polish your slideshow.

Step 3 Export the slideshow quickly

Finally, press the Export button, and then select the output format and resolution, drop the name and select a folder to save it. Click the Convert button to complete it.

Here’s the video about making slideshows for you. Click it to check.

Conclusion

It is true that you can make a slideshow on Microsoft Word 2007/2010/2013 and later. If you only have Word on your desktop, follow our guides above to make presentations at any time. In addition, we also shared a professional tool, Aiseesoft Slideshow Creator. It is an easy way to make slideshow with multimedia contents.

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On a Windows computer, you can use the Aiseesoft Slideshow Maker to make a slideshow first, then burn it to a DVD disc via Aiseesoft DVD Creator. And for Mac users, you can create a slideshow on Mac via the built-in slideshow feature and burn it to a DVD disc via DVD Creator.

How to create a slideshow with music? 4 ways here shows you to make a picture/video slideshow with music on Windows/Mac/online with Slideshow Creator, PowerPoint, iPhoto and Adobe Spark.

This is the review of top 12 free slideshow maker. Go through the list to pick up the best one to make the photo slideshow on Windows, Mac, online, iPhone/iPad and Android phone easily.

Show off your favorite pics with a Google Photo slideshow

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With Google Photos, you can back up your photos, arrange photos and movies into albums, and even detect faces in photos so you can find the ones you want to show off to friends and family. It also has a great way of sharing photos via a slideshow.

Whether you want to share photos of your dog on your phone or the new baby on your Google Home Hub, Google Photos lets you make a simple slideshow that shows off your favorite images. The feature is built into the photo albums in Google Photos.

Information in this article applies to the Google Photos website and mobile app.

In Google Photos, tap Albums in the sidebar and select the album that contains the photos you want in a slideshow.

Alternatively, you can create a new album specifically for your slideshow.

Select the photos you want to appear in the sideshow by clicking, pressing or tapping on them. Continue making selections until you have chosen all the photos you want to appear in the slideshow.

If you want to show off every photo in an album, bypass selecting specific photos and go straight to the three-dot icon to trigger a slideshow.

When you choose photos for a slideshow, you can only select from photos in one album.

Select the three-dot icon in the upper right corner of the screen.

Choose Slideshow from the drop-down menu.

The slideshow shows all the chosen images in the album and starts automatically with a 5-second fade between photos.

Viewing a Google Photos Slideshow

While you can choose the photos that appear in a Google Photos slideshow, you can’t otherwise customize it. The slideshow starts automatically, and you can’t change the amount of time a photo is shown before fading into the next one. You also can’t add or change music. All you can do is choose the album and the first photo of the slideshow.

Additionally, you can’t change the order of the photos. If you create a new album for your slideshow, then the photos display from oldest to newest no matter what order you use when adding them to the album. You can’t share your slideshow directly. You can show it off on a device that has Google Photos, or cast it to a Chromecast to show off your photos on a TV, but those are the only options.

This means that if you want a slideshow with all the bells and whistles, you want to look elsewhere. The Play Store has several alternatives available that allow you to add music or fine-tune the settings of your slideshow.

It’s also worth remembering you won’t be saving your slideshow separately. It works directly out of the album your slideshow photos are stored in (which is why you may want to create a new album for your slideshow).

If all that you really need is something that is simple and easy to use, then the slideshow from Google Photos is the best option. You can set up a slideshow in just seconds.

Moreover, if you are a novice in PowerPoint or want to add a hand-made flavor to tour presentation, you can draw and write your text on paper, scan papers and create the PPT presentation in a few clicks.

To create Photo Albums, do the following:

1. On the Insert tab, in the Images group, choose the Photo Album dropdown list and then select New Photo Album. :

2. In the Photo Album dialog box:

2.1. Click the File/Disk. button to select pictures you want to insert:

• To select multiple pictures, hold down Ctrl or Shift as you click on the ones you want.
• To select all pictures in the folder, click Ctrl+A.

2.2. For each image on the Pictures in album list, select the picture and then apply any correction needed with the buttons beneath the Preview pane:

• You can rotate right or left, increase or decrease the contrast, and increase or decrease the brightness.
• Use the arrows to move an image up or down in the order.

2.3. In the Album Layout section, open the Picture layout box and choose the layout for the presentation slides:

2.4. If available, choose a frame shape from the Frame shape list. Some choices from the previous step do not permit a frame shape to be chosen:

2.5. You can create themes specifically for photo albums and then use them here by clicking the Browse. button to browse for a theme. You might also want to experiment with the photo album themes in the dialog box when you create the photo album initially.

2.6. To add caption boxes for each picture, select the Captions below ALL pictures checkbox.

2.7. To show the pictures in black and white, select the ALL pictures black and white checkbox.

3. Click Create.

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Using images is a great way in PowerPoint to add variety and illustrate your major points. Let’s look at how to add images into PowerPoint.

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How to Quickly Add Your Pictures to PowerPoint

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1. Paste Images Into PowerPoint From Your Clipboard

One of the easiest ways is to simply start with the image on your clipboard after you’ve copied it from the web browser or another app. I’ll just hit Ctrl + V on my keyboard to add it to the PowerPoint.

Picture pasted onto PowerPoint slide.

2. Use the Insert Pictures Menu in PowerPoint

This is simple enough, but we could also import images more carefully. You can move over to the Insert tab here on PowerPoint’s ribbon and choose Pictures by clicking on it. Now go to where an image or multiple images are stored.

Click in Insert > Pictures.

3. Add Multiple Pictures to PowerPoint At Once

The reason I like this option is that I can grab multiple images at the same time by Ctrl-clicking and selecting them. You can see me doing that here to select two different images, when I press Insert they both appear on the slide at the same time. If you have a lot of images you need to add it the same time, this is a really helpful trick.

Add your images into PowerPoint.

Finishing Up!

After an image is inserted on a slide, you can click and drag to reposition it. And you can grab the corner of the image and drag it to resize the image on the slide.

Resize pictures after placing in your PowerPoint slide.

There are many options on the PowerPoint ribbon you can access by clicking on Format here at the top of the app, to do things like cropping, recoloring, and more.

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In the previous section, you learned how to create a simple User Form. You’ll now learn how to create a more elaborate User Form. This form will have text and combo boxes, options buttons, tabs, and a picture box. This is quite a long project, but it will bring your Excel VBA programming skills on a treat. What you’ll create is a picture viewer that looks like this:

The first tab pulls image information from a spreadsheet. The image associated with the information is also displayed.

Notice the button at top of the View Photos tab. It says Load Image Information. When this button is clicked the form changes to this:

Loading the image information activates the Previous Photo and Next Photo buttons. Clicking these buttons allows us to display other images.

The second tab on our picture viewer is for adding new image information to the spreadsheet. It looks like this:

Clicking the Add New Picture button displays an Open File dialogue box where we can select an image. This image will appear in the picture box on the form. The Save New Details button becomes active once an image is selected. The textboxes can then filled out before these new details are added to the spreadsheet.

Spreadsheet Image Information

Create a new blank spreadsheet for this project. All the image information for the picture viewer is coming from a spreadsheet. This spreadsheet:

Create the spreadsheet using the same information above.

Now that you have the data for the spreadsheet, save your work. But when you get to the Save As dialogue box, create a new folder. Call the new folder sheets. For the file name, type picture_viewer.xlsm. Before clicking the Save button, create another new folder and call it images. Your Save As dialogue box should look like this:

Now double click the sheets folder and save your picture_viewer.xlsm spreadsheet inside of this folder.

Project Images

You now need some images. Right click an image link below and select Save Target As if you’re using Internet Explorer (or Save Link As in Firefox and Chrome). Then navigate to your images folder and save them there.

Now that you have everything you need, we’ll make a start on the form design in the next lesson below.

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