It is more and more popular to share photos online. Many sites, such as Flickr and Slide, provide web page-embedded online photo slideshow tool so that you can make online slideshow without installing any photo slideshow software. Normally, the workflow of making online photo slideshow involved three steps: upload photos, choose a theme and create slideshow. Compared with slideshow software, online slideshow tool is more convenient to use as well as more economical. But since the limitation of web, online slideshow software has less features than the offline slideshow software.

The following lists several popular free sites for making online slideshow. The features they provide are similar.

Flickr

Flickr belongs to Yahoo and it is an online photo sharing application. It securely and privately shows your digital photos to the world, your friends and family. Flickr helps you organize mass of digital photos you have and offers a way for you and your friends and family to share them online. The photos you uploaded to Flickr can also used on Slide.Com directly. However, when you have a free Flickr account, you can upload 100MB worth of photos each calendar month. The photos you upload to Flickr will be made into slideshow automatically. You can just click View as Slideshow to view photo as a slideshow.

The service is available at http://www.flickr.com/

See how to embed slideshow created by Flickr into your webpage

Slide.Com

Slide lets you use digital photos to publish and discover the people and things that matter to you. With a super easy set-up, clean interface and multiple transition and theme options, Slide can be embedded onto any website, viewed on your desktop or shared with your friends or fans. Slide supports dozens of social networking and blog platforms, including MySpace, MySpace Blogs, Bebo, Blogger, eBay, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, livedoor, LiveJournal, Piczo, Sina.com, Sohu.com, Tagged, Typepad, Windows Live Spaces, Wretch, Yahoo! 360 and Xanga. With Slide.Com, you can upload photo directly from your Flickr and FaceBook accounts.

One of outstanding features that Slide has is the ability to add background music, althought you can only pick from the music they provide. Anyhow, this is better than many online slideshow makers we review.

There is no limitation on the number of photos you can upload, but the more you upload the longer you will need to wait.

The service is available at http://www.slide.com

Slidez

Slidez lets you create photo slideshows you can share with others online or embed in your web site.

Just upload your photos using a simple batch-loader tool and then create a "presentation", essentially a photo album. You can drag and drop photos from your main library to the presentation and use the same method to re-order photos within it. Slidez gives you some basic options for animating your photo album, like choosing a background color and a location for image thumbnails.

Completed photo slideshow can be e-mailed to others, embedded in a site or shared via an XML feed. The created slideshows themselves appear quite professional.

The service is available at http://www.slidez.net/