How to create & upload a large photo slideshow (say, with 30 images) to slideshare in 5 minutes flat!

Sep 4, 12:06 pm PST

Picture slideshows are hugely popular on slideshare. You are likely to find various genres of them- natural landscapes, personal photographs, screenshots, cartoons etc. Now imagine you have a collection of 30 photographs on your computer and you wish to put them into a slide deck and upload to slideshare. It might be a time-consuming task for most people- opening a powerpoint/ open-office Impress file, inserting the images one-by-one and then uploading. Sounds long-drawn, does it not?

So here’s a way of doing the same thing in a jiffy. This is not a magic potion that we have invented; this function has existed in powerpoint all along (via a feature called Photo Album), but its likely that you are not aware of it. Read along and this could save you a lot of effort next time you want to upload your pictures to slideshare.

Step 1>> Open Powerpoint and go to ‘Insert>Picture>>Photo Album’

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Step 2>> Click ‘File/Disk’ and select all your images (jpegs,gifs etc) in the pop-up file selector and press ‘Insert’


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Step 3>> Select your desired Picture Layout (1,2,3 etc per slide) and press create; your picture slideshow will automatically be created before you can say Happy Birthday!


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Now upload to slideshare as usual. Wasn’t that fast?

We’d like to thank one of our users, alancrean for asking us this question by email. Surely a lot of users stand to gain from his query.

Posted by amit Posted in Uncategorized

5 Responses to “How to create & upload a large photo slideshow (say, with 30 images) to slideshare in 5 minutes flat!”

  1. JZA says:
    Sep 8, 11:01 pm

    Would be cool to have something like this for OpenOffice.org Impress.

    I guess you can do this with a Wizard.

  2. jon says:
    Sep 10, 5:32 am

    Yes, Open Office would be awesome; we checked out OO for sure but it seems not to be having this feature as yet.

  3. mikelmin says:
    Nov 12, 7:01 am

    Check for Impress Photo Album creator macro. It works the same way as MsOffice New Photo Album.

  4. Yigal says:
    Aug 7, 9:52 pm

    What is the option for PowerPoint 2007?

  5. Ashwan says:
    Aug 8, 10:41 am

    In Office 2007, click on Insert on the ribbon and then select photo album. The rest of the steps are the same as described here.

    Just remember to save as a PowerPoint 97-2003 file and not the new Powerpoint 2007 file. Or you can save as PDF before uploading to SlideShare

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