When you want to create a slideshow, what slideshow software could fulfill your requirement? How to make a slideshow with a Slideshow Maker?  If I want to make a flash slideshow, is there any flash slideshow maker I can use? This Flash Slideshow Maker guide shows you how to use Flash slideshow software to make a slideshow, how to create a slideshow with Flash Slideshow Maker.

Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory is an easy to use, time-saving yet powerful Flash Slideshow maker to create a slideshow with transition effects, dazzling preset templates, text captions, background music and more. Therefore we use this Flash Slideshow as our sample.

Step by step guide: How to make flash slideshow with Flash Slideshow Maker?

Step 1. Adding photos and music and editing them if required

Run this Slideshow maker by clicking the shortcut of Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory, you will see the program window like this.

This is a selection window that customer could choose the model which he/she needs. This guide we show you how to make a flash slideshow, therefore we choose “start slideshow mode.” Then the program will start the Slideshow mode shows like this.

In this “Browse” tab, select the photo folder in the File Explorer that appears on the left hand side of current window. On the right hand side, all supported photos in this folder will be displayed in this window. What you need to do now is selecting your need photos and dragging them to the storyboard at the bottom of slideshow maker.

Tips:

1) You can add photos by double clicking the storyboard or select the photos then press “Add Photo” button.

2) If you have put wrong photo to Storyboard, first highlight it and then right-click it to select Delete Photo from the resulting menu or simply press Delete key on your keyboard.

Click “Add Music” button to open up a browse window and add your music file to the storyboard.

This slideshow maker allows you to edit the photo and music, so that you can edit your added photo and music if required by double-clicking them on Storyboard.

Tip:

If we need to change the photo duration, we can right-clicking photo and selecting “Photo Properties” then enter a needed duration figure.

To change all photos to same duration, check the “Apply current photo duration to all photos” box.

Step 2. Selecting template in Template tab window

Click “Template” tab and choose your favorite template to the photos. There are many pretty templates in this slideshow software.

Tip:

You can also customize your template by clicking “Customize Template” to make template by yourself.

Step 3. Specifying transition or motion effect to your photos

Click “Effect” tab, specify your favorite transitions and motions by dragging them to the photos. The more kinds of transitions and motions in the flash slideshow, the more attractive your flash slideshow are. This slideshow maker supplies you hundreds of transition and motions, so that you do not need to worry about it.

Tip:

We can apply selected or random effects to all photos by clicking “Apply to all” and “Randomize to all.”

Step 4. Decorating the flash slideshow

Click “Decorate” tab, in this tab window, we can add Text, Clipart, Sound and Animation to photos that we want. To make a slideshow, decoration is not necessary. However it is very important which could beautify your flash slideshow.

Tip:

We can set preloader and intro/end movie by clicking “Add Accessories” button.

Step 5. Generate the flash slideshow

Click “Publish” tab, in this window you may click “play” button to preview the flash slideshow.

Click “Publish Settings” button to change Loop option, flash output quality, Action at the end of show and Background color if it is required.

Click “Create SWF Movie” button. After setting the SWF size and specifying destination folder, click OK to start the generating. When it finishes the job, you may go to destination folder to enjoy your first flash slideshow now.

Of course, this Slideshow maker allows your make some other types of Slideshow such as Html mode, Exe mode, etc.

Ok, it is the end of this guide, now you have known how to make a flash slideshow with a Flash Slideshow Maker. What are you waiting for? Just Download the Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory and make your own first flash slideshow now! Download Free Trial

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