Creating Video Slideshows In Photos

A quick and easy way to create a video slideshow with your photos is to use the built-in Slideshow function in the Photos app. You can just select some photos, stick with the defaults, and get a video to upload to YouTube or Facebook in less than a minute. Or, you can customize the theme, individual photos, text and more to create something a little more specific.

Comments: 11 Responses to “Creating Video Slideshows In Photos”

    Pavla Bajgar
    6 years ago

    Thank you , Gary. I was needing this many time and didn't know how to do the slideshows in Photo. Does Photo make a collage pictures? I sure miss that.
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    6 years ago

    Pavla: Not sure what you mean by a collage. Do you mean having many pictures on one page? You could always use File, Print to make that as a PDF.

    Allan
    6 years ago

    Gary, it would be helpful if you could do a iPad version of creating a video from photos in an album on iOS devices. Whilst I can do such a slideshow, is there a way to put titles on the individual photos? Also, the music I choose from my iTunes library can be the sountrack for the slideshow, but can I attach different tunes to different slideshows from different albums? At present the same music applies to all slideshows. Thanks

    6 years ago

    Allan: On the iPad the best way to create custom slideshow videos is to use iMovie or Keynote. That's what I would do. While you can play basic slideshows on Photos for iPad, you can't create a Slideshow "project" like I show here in this tutorial.

    Richard Stiers
    6 years ago

    If a video slideshow is created in Photos on a Mac and saved to Photos iCloud where all my photos get stored, would it then be accessible on iPad or iPhone to use as an Instagram post?

    6 years ago

    Richard: If you saved the video file to your iCloud Photos library then it should be available wherever you can access your iCloud Photos library. So yes, it should work.

    Allan
    6 years ago

    Gary. Thanks for your comments on the best route as regards using an iPad for to create a custom video of photos. Thanks also to Richards for a possible work around. Allan

    Martin Kimeldorf
    6 years ago

    Best I've seen on Photo shows...I relied on old iPhoto. So now after watching this I can do all that in the newer Photos app. One question remains. I like to apply the Ken Burns to individual slides for emphasis. Can one still select an individual slide and apply a custom Kens Burns to an individual slide?

    6 years ago

    Martin: Yes. I show that at about 4:40.

    Vanessa Grey
    6 years ago

    How would I fit the photos? Some heads are cutoff.

    6 years ago

    Vanessa: The photos shouldn't be cropped, if that is what you mean. I tried using photos of all different sizes, and it always resized them to fit the whole photo. Which version of Photos are you using? Have you checked the original photos?

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