Graduation time is right around the corner and a touchstone of that experience is creating a senior slideshow for the ceremony or graduate party. In the past physical photo boards were the norm but today more and more graduates and their families are opting for digital photo galleries to show their highlights. Not only is a web photo album a great way to chronicle your graduates life story, it’s easy to share with others who aren’t able to attend the party in person.
The first step to creating a great slideshow is collecting all of the material to put it together. Look through all of your digital photographs and then look back to any print images you might have. Choose the best quality images you have, especially if they’ll need to be scanned as they’ll likely lose some of the quality in transition. If you still have items from their baby days, you might take some photographs of them to be included. Did your child have a favorite TV show, musician, or other interest growing up? Look online to find pictures that you can use to represent that in the slideshow. You want to have enough material to create a comprehensive tale of your graduate.
Choosing a wide variety of images is also important. Pictures with siblings, pets, parents, on family trips, school accomplishments, or sporting feats are all ideas for pictures to include. But shy away from including a lot of images of any one thing. When it’s time to arrange the pictures take some time to think about how you’ll group them. You won’t want to randomly upload images with no thought. The most common way is to put the pictures in chronological order. However you could also group them by family pictures, friend’s pictures, images from sports, etc. There’s no right or wrong way but do put some thought into arranging them in a way that makes sense to those viewing the slideshow.
If you plan to show the images on a large screen, horizontal images appear better than vertical. If you want to include captions to describe the pictures test how this looks on screen. It may make more sense to physically add the captions to the images with a photo editing software than to rely on the captions underneath. Including title slides is an important way to tell viewers what they are about to see. Some of your guests may have only know your graduate as a small child and aren’t familiar with their high school accomplishments. Always keep in mind the viewpoint of those viewing your photo galleries.
Finally, some advanced touches to a slideshow include adding in short video clips or music. This is a nice way to break up the picture and provide more emotion. Not all programs are capable of doing this but they are becoming more and more common. After the slideshow is done you might send guests home with a thank you card including a URL for them to access the web photo album from home.
The first step to creating a great slideshow is collecting all of the material to put it together. Look through all of your digital photographs and then look back to any print images you might have. Choose the best quality images you have, especially if they’ll need to be scanned as they’ll likely lose some of the quality in transition. If you still have items from their baby days, you might take some photographs of them to be included. Did your child have a favorite TV show, musician, or other interest growing up? Look online to find pictures that you can use to represent that in the slideshow. You want to have enough material to create a comprehensive tale of your graduate.
Choosing a wide variety of images is also important. Pictures with siblings, pets, parents, on family trips, school accomplishments, or sporting feats are all ideas for pictures to include. But shy away from including a lot of images of any one thing. When it’s time to arrange the pictures take some time to think about how you’ll group them. You won’t want to randomly upload images with no thought. The most common way is to put the pictures in chronological order. However you could also group them by family pictures, friend’s pictures, images from sports, etc. There’s no right or wrong way but do put some thought into arranging them in a way that makes sense to those viewing the slideshow.
If you plan to show the images on a large screen, horizontal images appear better than vertical. If you want to include captions to describe the pictures test how this looks on screen. It may make more sense to physically add the captions to the images with a photo editing software than to rely on the captions underneath. Including title slides is an important way to tell viewers what they are about to see. Some of your guests may have only know your graduate as a small child and aren’t familiar with their high school accomplishments. Always keep in mind the viewpoint of those viewing your photo galleries.
Finally, some advanced touches to a slideshow include adding in short video clips or music. This is a nice way to break up the picture and provide more emotion. Not all programs are capable of doing this but they are becoming more and more common. After the slideshow is done you might send guests home with a thank you card including a URL for them to access the web photo album from home.
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