Suggestions for creating a digital slide show

At most workshops or tours you get a chance to share a few of your images, usually in a critique session and usually only about five or six images. Usually you'd like to be able to share a whole lot more.
What we'd like to do for this tour is to take at least one evening and have everyone share some of their favorite images, or images from a favorite trip, or any other theme you'd like, in the form of a digital slide show. We'll get together in our hotel, perhaps sample some of the "fruits" of our winery visits, and enjoy each other's company as well as each other's photography.

We'll have a digital projector, a laptop (Windows XP), and a pair of speakers for these presentations. Bring your shows on a cd, dvd, or jump drive. Or you can plug your own laptop into the projector. Try to keep your show to no more than five to seven minutes long.

If you don't want to create a slide show but still want to share images, that's fine too. Just put them all into one folder, or on one disk, and you can simply narrate to your images.

 

 

Suggested Programs

ProShow Gold

Pictures to EXE

Photoshop or Lightroom can also create slide shows that are saved as PDF files.