slideshow

Sometimes, simple photos seem boring. Suppose, you want to create a birthday video for a friend, but you don’t have the actual video footage. In situations like those, you can take the help of the photos. That is, you can create a video from still

Slideshows are perhaps one of the easiest ways to sum up an event or a trip. Instead of showing the whole bunch of pictures to your friends in one go, you can just pick up the pivotal moments and stitch them together to create a beautiful video. Add

This is the age of social media, and everything revolves around pictures and videos — right from your stories to personal accounts. Sadly, today nobody has the time to spend on reading a lengthy post or browsing over 30-40 photos. Hence, it’

Most of us have gone through at least one episode where our slides had too many infographics. The thing with these elements is that you have to strike the right balance. Put a bunch of charts and graphs, and i

A few days ago, I was trying to make a video with Adobe Sparks. Though it’s a very versatile tool with plenty of features, the watermark feature dismayed me a bit. That’s how my search for a video editor started. My main criteria were rea

You’re sitting with your family members, laughing about a funny moment from the recent past. And then they ask you to show them the wedding/baby photos. What do you do? The pics are on your phone.

What’s the secret of a good presentation or a good presenter? Usually, a good presentation is low on words and high on pictures (could be animations, tables and charts too). It also depends on how well the presenter is able to put his poi

While the most popular tools for creating slideshows, like Powerpoint or Apple’s Keynote are great thanks to their rich feature-set, one thing that they are missing is an option to make them more accessible to the youngest ones looking to learn

Slideshows are always a great way to present projects and ideas. In fact, with applications like Keynote (of which we wrote in this entry and this one) you are able to create the best slideshows with relative ease. There are many other uses for slid

Multimedia is all around us. All of us, the creatively inclined and the not-so-creative ones, would love to put together YouTube videos and picture slideshows. The stumbling block usually is the complexity of some tools (and of course the cost) like

A nice way to preserve memories of important occasions like birthdays, weddings and vacations is by creating a photo slideshow. Better, create a video out of those images and it would tempt you to revisit those memories frequently.