Create Photo Slideshow

[Cortney Ruic]

Create and save a slideshow project. You select a group of photos, then add text, choose a theme, add music, and set how long each slide appears. You can export a slideshow project to play it on a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV.

Choose Theme Songs from the pop-up menu to see music included with Photos, or choose Music to see music from your Music library. Drag the songs you selected to change the order they play in. To delete a song, select it and press Delete.

I need to create a slideshow from a folder containing 60 photos with each picture displaying its filename. Can this be done? It can be through the Photos app or the Preview app.
I know this is a big ask, but I really have no idea how to do this. Thankful for any help.

The issue here is not making a slideshow, the issue is automatically creating a slideshow that includes the filename of each photo on the photo, as if you were adding a caption or title to the photo manually. I could do this manually, but I have several thousand of photos I need to do this process on, 60 photos at a time, each time creating one slideshow.

Graphic Converter can do a slideshow from a folder of files and automatically put the filenames on for you -- it's a long time since I've used it, so I don't know what formatting/positioning options you have.

Graphic Converter, Photoshop -- and probably others -- can be scripted to process all your images files, compositing the name directly onto the image or resizing the canvas and adding the name above/below. You could even do that in KM with a combination of the "Modify Image" action using the "Add Margins" option plus the "Composite onto image" action. You'd then make your slideshows from those modified images.

What you do will depend on what you have available (or are willing to buy!), how you are going to present the files (sending them to other people means you can't guarantee the viewing software), how much control you want over text formatting and placement, etc.

I insert photos in every e-mail we send (we are an event florist). Sometimes I have to create a collage on another site then upload it because the layouts in Constant Contact don't allow for cohesive photo sharing!! Would love an option to insert a photo collage or slideshow to showcase our floral designs Thanks for the consideration!:smileywink:

Thanks for the feedback everyone! We're going through the process of updating the statuses of all our ideas in hopes of making it more clear where features stand in the product pipeline. There are no immediate plans in the works for this, but we recognize and have done some preliminary research into this request. We found that many of our customers were already using Canva to create their graphics, which influenced the decision for the Canva integration. This should make it easy to create and use collages, but we're still open to feedback on whether this is enough or if there should be more exploration of a feature like this. Please continue to comment and provide any use cases that would be helpful.

I just thought you will be needing a photo viewer and an editing program? If you do, then you may want checking this PhotoViewerPro that I use for my photo collage. It has an advance features that works great.

In regard to the comment from SarahD637 it's interesting that the moderator thinks it necessary to block the name of the CC competitor that offers the composite photo gallery option. What is the purpose of this?

I have Creative Suite so can use any of the programs but not sure which one to use. Is it just one or do I need to use multiple. If so where can I find tutorials for how to do this, I am a newbie for this purpose.

I too am interested in this question. For the exports out there who have created slideshows, which tool provides the most flexibility. I have tried in Lightroom, and though it may be easier it is quite restrictive. I wanted to place text in a certain spot, it limits me to where I can place text, and it is not consistently placed on each slide.

Would Encore, Premiere or After Effects be better tools to do what Michelle requested in her initial post, while providing the greatest flexibility to do different things on each slide, yet not require a Ph.D. to learn to use the tool.

Premiere Pro is also a fantastic video editing program but cutting together large amounts of video is it's main focus. After Effects can still do excellent video editing but it is better suited than Premiere Pro for creating presentations.

Of the non-Adobe products, I would say that Fotomagico is the easiest to learn. For Windows there's also iSkySoft but I haven't tried it: iSkysoft Slideshow Maker: Make amazing photo videos in seconds.

You could make a simple slideshow in the Photoshop Video timeline and with a bit of work add titles and a premade soundtrack. However, it is much more effective to use the right tool for the job so , I would use Premiere Pro for compilation , transitions, music and voice over. I would then use After effects only for any sections where specific effects were needed that were not available in Premiere Pro.

I currently have access to Lightroom, After Effects, Premiere (Pro and Elements), Encore, Movavi Video Suite and Photoshop. I like that you have ultimate flexibility in After Effects, but after watching some video courses on Lynda, it seems like a very complicated tool to learn for my purpose. Yet Movavi has the similar constraints as Pr. Elements where it allows pan/zoom but is sometimes limiting.

Right now, I might just create a simple slideshow in Lightroom and edit/embellish it Movavi and Premiere Pro. I dunno, feeling a bit frustrated as one tool has a steep learning curve and the other is overly simplistic.

If your intention is to use Premiere to embelish it, I would just start in Premiere. Set up your required video format then import your images as clips and drop them onto the timeline. You can adjust the lengths and transitions for each clip easily and zoom/ pan around the image to introduce a bit of movement to the video.

For those of us who use Adobe CC products however, the pricing may not be as troubling since we typically want high quality, professional grade tools and are willing to pay a premium - Photopia looks, at least preliminarily, like it may fit that description.

As a former user of ProShow Producer, the high-end version from Photodex. I can say that it appears that the developers of Photopia are taking the design and features of ProShow to the next level. They do include a demo video created using their Director version on their homepage and it is extremely impressive.

I am personally wrestling a bit with the cost of the Director version (that I would want) however I'd love to hear what the rest of you think after checking it out. I am still waiting for the Mac version before I use my free trial, however if you use both Windows and Mac, they say you can use the same account for BOTH versions. Please share your first impressions if you either try it or end up subscribing.

**NOTE** Their website address above IS correct...they are using a new .nl suffix in their domain name. I have not seen an address like this before so I thought it might be helpful to some to reassure that it is correct.

I was in a rush to put sometihng together a bit more ambitious than a slide show. I chose, yes, Adobe Rush and it is doing the job that I needed. No frills though, but you can mix video and photos, lay music tracks and create reasonable title sequences. Minimum learning time and good training videos. David.

So I thought, hmmm...maybe I need to purchase the songs in the iTunes store first. So I went into each song in iTunes, but there's no Purchase option for any of the songs I'd downloaded for this project. (Maybe because I've already downloaded them? Don't know)

While I realize DRM is needed to prevent music theft, I'm actually not trying to steal anything. I simply need to create a nice playlist for this memorial service, using songs that I think everyone will appreciate. This project won't even be exported to anything, as I plan to connect my MacBook Air to a projector for this event.

To use a song you've purchased from the iTunes Store in your project, you have to be the copyright holder of the song or have express permission from the copyright holder. For more information about using content in Photos, you may view the Photos software license agreement: Legal - Software License Agreements - Apple

To confirm, do the songs you want to select play without any issues in the Music app? Also, you'll want to ensure that you are following the steps below to add the songs to be able to play in the slideshow:

If you've followed those steps, do you notice the same issue happening if you create a test slideshow and try to add music? We want to see if this happens with only a specific slideshow project or multiple, which can help us determine possible next steps.

But to answer your question, yes...I did follow those steps when selecting the music from my Music library. Most of the songs I wanted to add to the slideshow were shown in music list, but were grayed out, which prevented me from selecting them. (This despite the fact they'd been downloaded).

So earlier today I tried looking at a couple of the songs I wasn't able to select before in iTunes, and purchased the album they were in. Going back to my slideshow, I was now able to select those songs for the slideshow.

(I've not exported the slideshow I created, so perhaps I'd see some some warning if I exported it?) I don't plan to export it, though, as I'll be playing the slideshow from my MacBook Air at the memorial service, and I don't think I need to export it to do that.

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