How to Make a Slideshow for YouTube
Make a slideshow for YouTube is what you want? Forget about complex authoring software that costs obscenely much and takes days to learn with the user manual: you can make a beautiful slideshow for your friends, fans and followers on social networking sites in minutes using a simple computer program with a modest price tag. Whether you’re looking to design a unique slideshow with the photos from the recent family vacation, a birthday slideshow gift with the photos of your friend, or a promotional slideshow that shows your company’s products in style, our Photo Slideshow Creator puts all necessary creativity tools you need right in your hands!
To get started, you need to download photo slideshow software (35.6 Mb) from here and install the software, following the prompts of the wizard. Default settings are fine, so just click NEXT all the way through the installation, and then FINISH. Now that you have the program installed, you can make a slideshow for YouTube in minutes.
Run Photo Slideshow Creator, open the image folder (or folders) and drag the photos down to the timeline at the bottom of main window. As you drop the pictures, the program automatically inserts transition animations between the slides in a random fashion. Once the slideshow is complete, you can preview the result in the built-in player or at full screen and go back to the timeline to replace transitions you don’t like with your own until you find exactly the right combination of effects. There are many transition animations you can use to make the slideshow more interesting and fun. To replace a transition, you simply drag and drop it between the pictures on the timeline.
The next step is to enhance the slideshow with templates and themes. Templates are pre-designed slides that can be used to start or end the slideshow or be inserted between the slides. You can edit default templates to your preferences such as change text and background to fill with solid color, gradient or image. Also you can add new text, define its style and formatting, plus add some special effects such as outline, shadow and rotation. Besides, you can apply a specific theme to the slideshow with a fancy layout and design to personalize your creation. Themes include such categories as Decorations, Greeting Cards, Modern Style, Travel and Virtual Screens. The latter lets you display the slideshow on the virtual TV screen, whiteboard, ad banner, laptop, movie screen and other things.
Finally, you get to choose the output format. Video for the Internet is the option to select. You need to click CREATE VIDEO SLIDESHOW > CREATE VIDEO FOR INTERNET > VIDEO FOR YOUTUBE. This opens the dialog where you can select a video format (Standard, High Quality, High Definition, or Custom) and initiate the conversion. For this, simply click CONVERT. Once that is done, you are half way to the fame as a slideshow author! The program will prompt you to play the output video or open the destination folder with the slideshow.
Now you need to upload the slideshow to YouTube and share it with others by posting the link to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, or a personal blog. You can also send the link by email or through Skype.
That’s how to make a slideshow for YouTube.
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