Tips on creating a slideshow with images

[Elmar Venter]

I need some advice on how to create a "movie"-like slideshow of pictures (with music). I have tried the option in Photoshop Elements but it degrades the images badly. Any other suggestions of good software (that wont break the bank).

[Sabyasachi Patra]

There is an option in Lightroom to create a slide show. You can use a sound track as well. You can download a trial version and try. There is a Lightroom 3 Beta available as well. You can try that.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Dan Brown]

Proshow Gold is a good one. here's a link, I think you can download a trial. http://www.photodex.com/products/

[Roger Clark]

Powerpoint, or if you want free use the powerpoint equivalent in OpenOffice openoffice.org.

Roger

[Bill Coatney]

Best Bang for the buck is ProShow Gold-- imho
Just did a 440 slide show with music for a PSA exhibition and it was not hard at all
The program gives you many different export formats and the customization of title slides,captioning and transitions is top notch.

Free 15 day trial that is fully functional here http://www.photodex.com/downloads/

good luck

[Howard Burkert]

Thumbs up for Pro Show Gold. Awesome program with a great support team. You can also buy on line classes if you want. Great software!
Best,
Howard

[Eleanor Kee Wellman]

Pictures to EXE is good, too!

http://www.wnsoft.com/

[Mike Fuhr]

iPhoto works really well and image quality is preserved when converting to DVD which gives some nice versatility for presenting.

[Jeff Donald]

Unless the slideshow is just for personal use, be careful that the program outputs a format that does not need special software to play the program. PDF slideshows and powerpoint presentations are pretty safe as most people have Adobe Acrobat for the PDF show or PowerPoint Viewer (they're free). However the best is to output to one of the video standards as almost any computer will have a player for the various video standards.