How to Make a Perfect Wedding Slideshow by Yourself

So you made it, the wedding is finally over and you and your new spouse want to make a slideshow of your big day. But do you really want to pay someone else to do it for you? Making a wedding slideshow yourself is now easier than you would ever believe. And it gives you more quality time to spend together.


Before making your wedding slideshow, you will need to choose a program. There are many tools you can use, but one tool I will recommend is PowerPoint. As it is easy to use, and it has a step by step guide when you are in the program. Your wedding photos, videos and songs can all be inserted into it.

As you may have lots of photographs and videos want to include in your wedding slideshow, one thing to do before you make your wedding slideshow with PowerPoint is to select photographs, video clips, songs and anything else you want to insert to your wedding slideshow. This also works as a great bonding opportunity and allows you to relive all of the moments of your wedding.

After that, directly import the photos, videos and songs into the PowerPoint or use the photo album function of PowerPoint to form your wedding slideshow. For details about how to do it step by step, you can reference this article.

Below are four useful tips that will help making your wedding slideshow more delicate.
1. Choose Quality Wedding Photos - Pictures that look great printed will also look great while scanned. Now it's more and more popular to use digital camera to take wedding photos.
2. Add short wedding video montage clips - Do you have any home videos sitting around gathering dust? Think about adding perhaps a 10-15 second wedding video clip in the middle of the wedding slide show.
3. Give some thought to music - Choose music that has meaning to you, music whose lyrics go well with the pictures. Slow romantic songs and Fast dancing songs will have different feeling and drive different emotion. As long as the pace of showing pictures are matching to the music.
4. DVD Menu - Creating a DVD menu is not a big task anymore. It will provide you to show your work in a more professional look and including your great pictures in your menu to indicate different episode.

For preserving your wedding slideshow for long-time use or distribute it to your families and friends, you’d better further burn the wedding slideshow you made with PowerPoint onto a DVD disc. Then only with a DVD disc, you can view your wedding slideshow on TV via a DVD player. For methods to burn your PowerPoint wedding slideshow to DVD, you can click here.

Use DVD wedding slideshow to record the most beautiful moment in your life. Have a sweet day everyday with your honey.

Perfect Gifts for Mother’s Day

When it comes to Mother's Day, the best gifts aren't the fancy or expensive ones, but the ones given from the heart.


Stick to a modern Mother’s Day tradition for a safe gift choice. After all, almost every woman loves a chocolate and a bottle of wine. Do your research first: ask your dad what her favorites are, if you are not sure, and shop around for some gourmet confectionary that will make an extra special Mother’s Day gift, shop gourmet chocolates or other sweet treats online.

Following a close second behind traditional sweet and alcoholic goodies, a sentimental and thoughtful gesture will mean a great deal to your mum. Make a delicate digital photo album and fill it with photographs of your mother with you (and your siblings if you have any). To make this unique gift even more personalized, add a few words underneath each picture about your memories, or a Mother’s Day poem. Priceless!

Regarding the tools to create digital photo album, if you are happened to be a fan of PowerPoint, you can fully use the photo album function of it. Create a personalized photo album with PowerPoint is just as easy as ABC. Here are the 6 steps for creating an attractive digital photo album with PowerPoint 2007.

1. Open PowerPoint, on the Insert tab, click the Photo Album button, in the drop-down list, there is the New Photo Album option.


2. Insert pictures
Click File/Disc button. Choose pictures from your computer. You can change the order of a picture by choosing it and clicking the Move Up or Move Down button. Below the preview of the picture, you will be able to see six buttons, which you can use to adjust the rotation, contrast and brightness of each picture.


3. Create album layout
Under Album Layout, by clicking Picture layout arrow, and then in the drop-down list, you can choose the layout format you like. By clicking Frame Shape arrow, in the drop-down list of it you can choose the frame you want to add to your pictures.

4. Create title and subtitle for your album
After you have clicked Create button, on Slide 1, type the title you want for your album in the place of the words of Photo Album. Then if necessary, give your album a subtitle by inputting it in the place of your user name.

5. Apply a theme to your photo album
On the Design tab of PowerPoint, in the Themes area, select a theme that meets the need of your album.
Or you can also customize the look of your album by choosing a theme from your computer. Here are some free PowerPoint templates for Mother’s Day.

After finish making the photo album with PowerPoint, the next step is to burn it onto a CD/DVD. Finally send it to the dearest mum. Here is an article introduces 5 ways to burn a PowerPoint file onto DVD, follow the instructions, and you will surely find one way works fine with you.

Surprise your mum with an unusual gift on Mother’s Day. Express how deeply you love your mum.