{"id":17194,"date":"2011-05-25T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=17194"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:00:38","slug":"how-to-create-a-photo-slideshow-in-powerpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-create-a-photo-slideshow-in-powerpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"How to: Create a photo slideshow in PowerPoint"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve probably had a few PowerPoint<\/strong><\/a> photo slideshows in your email already. They seem to be a popular topic for messages coming from friends and relatives with too much spare time on their hands. But have you ever tried creating one? It’s easier than you think, and it might actually be a good way to share pictures – just don’t abuse the slideshows with cute kitty images!<\/p>\n

1.<\/strong> Open up PowerPoint, click the Insert<\/strong> tab and then the Photo Album<\/strong> button. Select New Photo Album<\/strong> to open the Photo Album settings menu.<\/p>\n

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2.<\/strong> In this new window, click the File\/Disk<\/strong> button to select the photos you want to use in your slideshow. Remember you can select multiple files simultaneously by holding the Ctrl<\/strong> key while selecting them with your mouse.<\/p>\n

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3.<\/strong> Once you’ve selected all the photos, they’ll be listed in the “Pictures in album”<\/strong> box. You can rearrange them, preview them, rotate them and also adjust their brightness and contrast values.<\/p>\n

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4.<\/strong> The options under “Album Layout”<\/strong> at the bottom of the window let you choose how many photos you want to have on each slide and select a frame or border to decorate each one of them. You can also choose the theme for your slideshow here, but my advice is to leave it for later because this menu doesn’t allow you to preview the result.<\/p>\n

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5.<\/strong> The Picture Options<\/strong> let you set all images to black and white, and also insert a caption below them. Note this captions is just the file name, so if you want to customize it you’ll need to edit each one of them manually.<\/p>\n

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6.<\/strong> When you’re done configuring the Photo Album options, click the Create<\/strong> button and PowerPoint will automatically create a presentation with all your pictures.<\/p>\n

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7.<\/strong> The only thing left is to choose a theme for your slideshow. Click the Design<\/strong> tab and select one from the drop-down menu. Try picking one that fits with the topic in your photos.<\/p>\n

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Done! Now it’s time to save it to PPT and share it by email. You can do this the traditional way (saving the file to your hard drive first, and then sending it with a third-party email client) or use the built-in Save & Send<\/strong> feature in PowerPoint, which automatically saves the file and sends it with the associated email client.<\/p>\n

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You’ve probably had a few PowerPoint photo slideshows in your email already. They seem to be a popular topic for messages coming from friends and relatives with too much spare time on their hands. But have you ever tried creating one? It’s easier than you think, and it might actually be a good way to … Continue reading “How to: Create a photo slideshow in PowerPoint”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2011,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":2},"categories":[2441],"tags":[1072,1060,1039,1036],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-17194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-office","tag-multimedia","tag-productivity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2011"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334266,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17194\/revisions\/334266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17194"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=17194"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=17194"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=17194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}