How to Make an Eye-catching Slideshow?

Except time and money, you should spend other emotional ingredients on the slideshow work. Just like cooking up a fabulous dish, you need to combine all “ingredients” in correct way. Otherwise, your slideshow may look like a bland and boring event or just a collection of photos rather than a fascinating movie.  

The following is the Ingredients you need to prepare before you publish the slideshow.

Ingredient 1: Focus and Tone

Regard yourself as a movie director not a photo collector when you making a slideshow. You do not only need to collect all photos and music you have but organize a Photo Story with reasonable structure, finely-tuned timing and a thread going through the whole slideshow.

Before you make the slideshow, try to think about your purpose of creating the slideshow. What is the focus? This focus is the root of what you need to do in the slideshow.

After you find out the focus, you should have an idea about the slideshow tone. What kind of mood do you wan to express in the slideshow? Is it going to be cute with some touching elements or funny with some more serious highlights? Or perhaps is it about someone who’s passed on and requires a more thoughtful approach, with a few carefully-placed, lighter moments?

Ingredients 2: Story Line

Try to find a way that connects all photos in a natural way. You may find something in common or related in all photos. This common or related thing may be the storyline of the slideshow. You should try to make the whole slideshow like a consistent story not a separated photo collection without any cohesiveness.  

Ingredients 3: Matched Background Music

Obviously, the first thing that catches people’s attention is not the image but the music. The music pulls people in your story and immerses them in. To some extent, the music you choose impact the viewer more than the photos you use since the music can reach people to emotional level.

The music you choose should also be a mixture of your storyline and your theme, fitting both the mood and the framework of your show.

Ingredients 4: Perfect but Correct Pictures

You may have thousands of pictures, but not all of them fit your slideshow. Try to find pictures taken wonderfully as well as related to your focus. The most important factor in choosing one picture over the other is whether it supports the story you’re trying to tell.

Ingredients 5: Share

Most of the slideshow software available today not only offer the capacity to easily make shows, but also to share them through different mediums, including DVDs, video CDs, screensavers, email and online galleries.
Once your show is completed, you can share the slideshow in different ways. You may watch the show any time you want.