How to Create a Self Running Photo Album With PowerPoint and Distribute It

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Start PowerPoint2007

   Under Insert picture from, click File/Disk… Locate the folder or disk that contains the picture you want to add to your photo album, click the picture file, and then click Insert.
   
   Notes:
   If you want to add a large group of pictures to a new photo album all at once, after clicking File/Disk in the Photo Album dialog box, select all the pictures that you want to add to your photo album, click Insert. , Select the picture layout below:
   Picture: layout your pictures with title.
   
   Fit to slide: layout your pictures unable to change frame shapes.
   
   Select a shape in the Frame shape list that you want to use with your pictures.
   
   Theme: click Browse, and then in the Choose Design Template dialog box, locate the design template you want to use, and then click Select. , Then you are complete a photo album.
   
   You can edit the photo album at any time.
   
   Once your digital photo album is created, it is totally editable.
   
   Click on the button Photo Album on the Insert tab and select the Edit Photo Album...
   
   You may also want to insert audio and video files to your presentation to make your presentation more vivid.
   
   Find some tutorial please click to How to Add Music Song to PowerPoint Presentation and How to Add Various Videos to PowerPoint Presentation. , After completing your slideshow, you may want it to play automatically.
   
   Then you can save your photo album as PowerPoint show.
   
   Furthermore, before you save your PPT as PPSX format you need to set up the exact time duration for each slide so that it can run by itself.
   
   For more details, please click How to Timing Automatic PowerPoint Presentations. , Now, you have created a unique self-running photo album with PowerPoint, you can share or distribute it out freely. , You can upload your slide show on websites to hit this target.
   
   There are two popular methods for you:
   Share on YouTube:
   YouTube only accepts video formats in WMV and MP4.
   
   To put PowerPoint slide show on YouTube, we must convert PowerPoint file to WMV or MP4 video.
   
   You can try this tool:
   Wondershare PPT to YouTube.
   
   Share on some presentation sharing sites: ,, In this method, you can share your slide show by sending it directly to recipients who own both computers and Microsoft PowerPoint.
   
   By this way, you should always put your audio or video files and presentation file together in the same folder, zip it and send it to the recipients. , Sometimes, our recipients don’t have a Microsoft PowerPoint installed on his computer or you have a different PowerPoint version from your recipients.
   
   Then you can package your photo album presentation to CD. , There is a fact that not everyone owns a computer, especially the elders.
   
   How can you share your photo album with your recipients who don't own a computer? PPT2DVD will help you save your PowerPoint slide show to DVD slide show.
   
   The output DVDs can be viewed on TV through DVD player.
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   Step 2: click on the button Photo Album on the Insert tab and select the New Photo Album...;

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   Step 3: In the Photo Album dialog box

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   Step 4: add the pictures you want to include in your photo album.

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   Step 5: Add a picture from a file or disk.

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   Step 6: Set up the album layout.

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   Step 7: Click Create.

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   Step 8: Set and rehearse photo album timings.

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   Step 9: Share your photo album.

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    Step 10: Share with everybody around the world.

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    Step 11: You can upload your photo album presentation to some free share websites

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    Step 12: just like slideshow and Slide-boom.

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    Step 13: Share with people who have both computers and PowerPoint.

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    Step 14: Share with people who don’t have Microsoft PowerPoint installed.

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    Step 15: Share with people who don’t own a computer.

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