Two ways for you to make flash slideshow from photos
Published on August 24 2013
"I need to create a slide show for my sister's wedding, but the organizer at the hotel said the pictures needed to be in swf format. Who can help me"
There are many applications online promised to create flash slideshow from photos, and below I will share two applications which I tried, pretty good.
Option 1: Flash Slideshow Maker
Flash Slideshow Maker can help you create animated slideshow gallery with professional flash templates. Publish and share your flash photo gallery on the Web in minutes. No coding needed
It has four main features:
1. Build Flash Gallery
Convert your digital photo collection to professional slideshow galleries with templates.
2. Create Flash Banner
Make dynamic Flash banners, Flash intros and put them on your web sites in easy steps.
3. Music Flash Slideshow
Build wonderful XML photo slideshows and tell your stories with background audio.
4. Web Albums
Let your photos play on Facebook, Wordpress, Blogger or your web site. Idea images presentation tool for photographies.
Just in three steps, then, you can create flash slideshow with images
With Flash Slideshow Maker, you can either publish your photos to Flash SWF files, or burn the photos to CD/DVD or upload to blog etc.
Step 1: Import photos
Click "Add" or "Add All" to add photos, you can also click "Transition Effect" and "Properties" to add transition and set properties for the photos you for which you want to make flash slideshow
Step 2: Selet the proper theme
There are two options "Basic" and "Advanced" for you to choose your favorited theme for the flash slideshow.
Step 3: Pubish photos as flash slideshow
There are three options for you to publish your photos: "Create Flash File Only", "Make a Gift/Presentation CD/DVD", "Create Flash Files and Upload to SkyAbum.com", you can choose either publish SWF or burn to CD or DVD.
Tips: If you are a Mac user, you can turn to Flash Slideshow Maker for Mac
Flash Gallery Factory is the best Flash slideshow maker and photo gallery software to make interactive flash slideshow for business banner, family photo albums, holiday greeting cards. 120+ amazing free templates are provided to create flash slideshow without any flash skill required, including 3D gallery templates and slideshow templates for wedding, love, festival, and so on. Now it's extremely easy to share flash on Facebook, Myspace and Twitter.
Main features of Flash Gallery Factory Deluxe
1. Easily create flash galleries, perfect for blogs, e-cards for any occasion
2. Design your own 3D gallery templates or choose from our library
3. Make it truly interactive with hyperlinks, music, transitions and animated effects
4. Preview and save slideshow as SWF, HTML, XML, EXE and Screensaver
Step by step to make flash slideshow from photos
Step 1: Add Your Photos and Music
After installed, launch flash gallery software and select Slideshow mode or Gallery mode at the welcome screen. Simply click "Add Photo" to browse photos on computer and import to slideshow/gallery storyboard. If you like, you could click "Add Music" button to add your background music and create new album (Gallery mode only).
Note: You can enhance the original photos with built-in photo editor to crop, rotate, filter and more. Besides, you can set photo duration and add a hyperlink for each individual photo.
Step 2: Choose a Slideshow/Gallery Template and Personalize It
In "Template" tab, there are flash slideshow/gallery templates for you to choose from, including 3D (Gallery mode), general slideshow/gallery templates and themed templates such as Wedding, Love, Christmas, etc. No template suits your needs? Design a template yourself by clicking Customize Template button.
Diverse ways to customize your slideshow/gallery
By applying transition/motion effects, captions, duration or decorations like cliparts, animations and sound effects, you could make your slideshow/gallery different and outstanding.
Change transitions: The transition will be applied automatically when import photos. To change it, click the transition thumbnail onthe storyboard, and drag desired one to the thumbnail (Slideshow mode only).
Change motion: The motion effects make your flash photo animated. To add it, go to "Effect > Motion", simply drag and drop a motion to desired photo (Slideshow mode only).
Add caption and description: You need go to the photo editing window by double-clicking photo thumbnail on the storyboard. In the Description panel, input the text you want. The caption will appear when you hang your mouse over the specified photo in a gallery, while description will show up as a mask over photo at top or bottom. You could even add a hyperlink to the description to lead audiences to your website. To add a hyperlink to photo, switch to the Properties tab and check Hyperlink option.
Decorate slideshow/gallery: The software contains lots of well-designed resources to spice up your slideshow/gallery. To add decorations, go to "Decorate" tab and simply drag and drop selected elements to work area and make some settings (Slideshow mode only).
The program also provides general photo editing tools to retouch your photos, including crop, rotate, photo effects, and so on. Explore more to make a satisfied slideshow/gallery.
Step 3: Publish and Share Your Slideshow/Gallery
Now go to "Publish" tab to preview your slideshow/gallery first. When you are satisfied with the result, it's the time to publish slideshow/gallery to local or online. Now click "Save" button to publish slideshow/gallery to local (SWF, HTML, XML, EXE or Screensaver), which you could then share manually on the web.
Tips: If you want to create flash slideshow from pictures on Mac, you can turn to Web Gallary for Mac
Web Gallery for Mac is the best Mac web photo gallery software, which helps you make stunning flash gallery or web photo album from photos on Mac. You can start from a built-in template, spice up your photo gallery, then output or upload it to a web host within clicks. It’s so easy. You even don’t need to have any flash programming knowledge.