Did you know you can make a simple slideshow movie in Picasa, Google's free basic photo organizing, sharing and editing software?
Here's how.
Open up Picasa. Open the folder containing the images you want to use, and select the images for your slideshow. Thumbnails of the selected images will appear in the "tray" at the lower left corner of the screen.
Click on the movie icon. Picasa provides two movie icons, one under the folder title, and a larger one in the toolbar. Both icons serve the same function.
The Movie icon takes you to the Movie Maker screen. Picasa automatically inserts a text slide at the beginning displaying folder name and date. Select the Transition Style and Duration from the drop down boxes in the Movie tab.
Click Create Movie to get started.
The Draft screen will appear as Picasa performs the initial processing of the slideshow.
When Picasa has finished processing, it will run the slideshow. You might be satisfied with the initial version straight out of the box. But if you want to make revisions, when the slideshow finishes, click Edit Movie.
To add a text slide, click on the image that you want to precede the text slide . Then click the Text Slide icon.
Select a font, and colors, and add your text.
After each change or addition, click the Create Movie button to save the changes. You can choose to replace the existing movie with the revised movie, or you can choose to save each version as a new file.
A simple drag and drop operation changes the order the images are displayed in the slideshow.
Remember to use the Create Movie button to save after each change. When finished, you can upload the completed slideshow to YouTube.
Log into your YouTube account to grab the embed code for your slideshow and display it on a website or blog.
An important footnote: By Default, Picasa saves your slideshows to
My Documents/My Pictures/Picasa/Movies
Thank you for sharing this beneficial post. I will check Picasa out, Cheryl.
awesome. thank you for putting together such a precise (and valuable) tutorial! Best regards,
Jeremy Butts
FlipsInFocus.net
I have been working with Picasa and did not know. Thanks for the post!!!!
Hi CJ,
Thank you for doing this. I was stuck on the editing after created already. Also, one of the dangers of suscribeing to your blog is that I never get to make comments, yet I read most of your posts. Thanks for the variety of blogs :)