An Overview of Slideshow Makers

Photo slideshow software helps us to making still photos to animated photo slideshows with background music, motion effects so that we can share photos with friends and families in a funny and entertaining way.

There are lots of reasons to make a photo slideshow. Christmas letters get a lot more exciting when you include a photo slideshow of the highlights of your year. Retirement parties, graduations, anniversaries and anything else that signifies a change in someone's life are made that much more poignant with slideshows. Not only that, but with a slideshow and with the current available slideshow makers, you can easily burn photo slideshows to a DVD and have an inexpensive but meaningful gift for your guests.

Today’s slideshow maker is extremely easy to use. Features like drag-and-drop picture placement, edit/undo functionality and built-in hotkeys, make taking your favorite photos from simple to superb a real cinch. Other features available through slideshow software include audio sync, which automatically begins and ends the photo slideshow with your music selection, graphic edit tools, giving you the ability to alter the appearance of your images for just the right touch and numerous transition effects, to add texture and flair to your photo slideshow.

More and more slideshow software for creating Photo DVD Maker Pro become popular, such as, Proshow, Ulead Pictureshow and ANVSOFT Photo DVD Maker Pro. With these well developed slideshow makers, you can now burn your photos to a DVD or CD to play on many home DVD player sets.

Proshow offers many feature we were looking for, starting with one of the most impressive transition selections around, including paintbrush, spiral-in, exploding picture, waves and more. This program, however, does not offer pre-designed templates and doesn’t allow you to add video clips to your slideshow. Proshow lets you save your photo slideshow as a screensaver and executable file or burn it to a VCD or a DVD. You can also share your creations with family and friends online, by uploading your slideshow to the program’s sharing site.

Ulead CD & DVD PictureShow 4 offers an impressive feature set ranging from photo effects to customized touches, giving your photo slideshows the personality and level of professionalism you want. With a built-in photo editor, you can immediately make needed modifications (i.e. adding text, picture rotation, light and color adjustment and so on) prior to placing photos into your slideshow. For better customization, CD & DVD PictureShow 4 also comes with several pre-designed textures for background as well as themed templates for added fun and flair.

Photo DVD Maker Pro is extremely easy to use, allowing for quick mastery of the software. The slideshow software is broken up into three sections: Organize, Menu and Burn. A feature of this slideshow maker that we particularly liked was being able to select from a variety of backgrounds for the menu and album theme, or use an image of your choice. A feature that will appeal to everyone is the ability to add sound tracks to the photo slideshow. The included MP3, WMA and WAV sound files can be selected from your own, even your own recorded voice. Almost all elements in the show can be customized, including background music, transition effects. Pan&zoom,, onscreen text, art clips and menu appearance. When you have your photo slideshow set up as you want you can save it as a project for future modifications, or write it to disc immediately. The program has its own CD/DVD burning engine and it worked very well.

By using all these photo slideshow software, you can make photo slideshow with professional-grade results. The best slideshow software provides flawless sound and visuals, allowing those watching your slideshow to get completely enveloped by it.

Comparison of Proshow, Ulead Pictureshow and ANVSOFT Photo DVD Maker Pro