Best Photo Slideshow Maker: How to Make a Photo Slideshow

Have you ever taken so many photos for your family, friends and special events? One fun-filled way of sharing them is to make a photo slideshow. That helps back up the memories in your life. What’s more, it can all be done in just a few simple clicks if you use slideshow maker like Fantashow and DVD Slideshow Builder Deluxe. With either of these two programs, you can easily weave photos and video into work of art to amaze anyone. Here let's see how to easily and creatively make a photo slideshow and burn to DVD with these all-in-one slideshow tools.

• Part 1: How to make a photo slideshow with Fantashow
• ​Part 2: How to make a photo slideshow with DVD Slideshow Builder

Part 1: How to make a photo slideshow with Fantashow

If you want to quickly make a stunning video, Fantashow is what you need. This video maker provides is easy-to-use and provides 200+ amazing video styles for different occasions you can come up with. Now download the software and follow the steps below to make a video.

Step 1 Sign in and Choose a Video Style from the Library

Once you sign in Fantashow, you get over 200 stunning video styles from which to select and create your masterpiece. Pick your favorite video style and click “apply” to create your video.

Step 2 Import Files and Personalize the Style

Then you’ll go to the “Personalize” tab to import your photos and videos: you can directly drag and drop your photos or videos to the style applied in the storyboard. Then set duration of the photos or videos if you need. Double click the target files and use the built-in editing tools to crop, rotate or add effects. Then add music, texts, intro/credit or more styles to make your video more vivid.

Tip: You can record your voice to tell your story about the video. To do this, just click the Record icon above the timeline. Then record and adjust the volume in the pop-up window.

Step 3 Share Your Video Instantly

After making your video, switch to the ‘Export” tab. Here you can directly post the video to YouTube or Facebook, burn to DVD as a keepsake, save to mobile devices or your computer. Your choice!

Part 2: How to make a photo slideshow with DVD Slideshow Builder

Download and run DVD slideshow builder, then follow the steps below to see how to make a photo slideshow.

Step 1 Add photo or video files to the photo slideshow maker

After running the photo slideshow maker, you'll start from the "Organize" tab. On the interface, there are two Add Files buttons any of which you can click to add your photos and videos. Then just drag and drop photos or videos to arrange their order on storyboard. If you want to edit the photos, click "Edit" to add effects, crop photos, repair red-eye or add caption.

Tip: To have a large viewe of all the files, click the “Expand” button on top right corner of storyboard.

Step 2 Customize the slideshow like background music and transitions

When importing your files, more than 100 transition effects will be randomly and automatically applied between every two photo or video. However, you can change them anytime in the "Personalize" tab. Just drag and drop a transition from the list to the thumbnail between two slides. You can also add effects, motion or intro/credit as you like.

Adding music can greatly enhance the vibe of your photo slideshow. To achieve this, click "Music" on the storyboard. This photo slideshow maker enables you to add several different pieces of music according to your needs. If you want to add your own voice, just click "Voice Over" to record and then add it to the slideshow.

Step 3 Create photo slideshow and burn to DVD

Go to the "Create" tab and click the "Preview" button to make sure the photo slideshow is good enough. Go back to Personalize tab to change if necessary. When you are happy with the result, choose the options on the left to export photo slideshow to DVD, PC, portable devices, etc. You can also directly upload slideshow to Youtube and send message to Facebook and Twitter friends.

Now sit back and relax, it'll only take a while to get your photo slideshow for sharing anywhere.