Sharing photos and videos are quite popular nowadays, especially when there are so many social networking on the internet. People keep checking their social networking account to find out what their friends and families do at that time.

The easiest way to sharing the pictures that you have is by creating the slideshow with it. You could also create a self-running slideshow and burn it into VCD/DVD and send it to your families. There are so many applications on the internet that you can use to make a picture slideshow. But, before you download any of them, make sure you follow these steps below to create a fast and easy slideshow:

1. Photo selection

To create a slideshow, you first need to select the pictures that you want to put in it. You could separate it by using themes, people your take pictures with, etc. The size of image that you have will be different depends on the devices that you use to take picture. For example, when you take a picture with a cell phone than a digital camera, you’ll find that the quality is not really good, and the size could be smaller. You could use image editor to fix it to become a normal size pictures before you include it into your slideshow.

One thing to remember, a larger image will require a longer time to load. If you create an online slideshow, make sure you make the size smaller so it can load faster.

2. Building process

In this step, you’ll be combining the pictures that you selected before into your slideshow and adding some effects, music, voices, and so on. Slideshow doesn’t have to be boring by looking at one picture and another. Put an easy to listening music or effects into your slideshow to enhance the final results of it.

3. Running the slideshow

Please notice that if you want to send the slideshow with burn it first into VCD/DVD, you’re only need to test it in your computer and after the burning process. However, if you decide to send it through video networking website or other online carriers, you need to check it repeatedly. Often, the specific video networking website can’t accept your slideshow because it has different media format.

Read the information that these websites provided first before you start so you could share your slideshow with your families and friends easily, without doing any activities to change the format and so on.

Those are 3 simple steps that you can do if you want to share your pictures with your family in a slideshow format. Follow it, and your families will want to do the same thing and share their pictures with you!