Life is full of events and memories you may enjoy reliving from time to time. Modern digital cameras allow even novices to capture clear, accurate images of these events. You can share digital photos over the Internet by attaching them to an email or uploading them to a photo-sharing or social networking site. If you want to share your photos on a larger screen, however, consider creating a slide show DVD, which consists of a series of photos that advance automatically on a television screen. Windows makes creating slide show DVDs from your treasured photos simple, and you can view them on any standard home DVD player.
Instructions
1. Click "Start," then "All Programs." Scroll down the programs list and select "Windows DVD Maker." The Windows DVD Maker window opens.
2. Click the "Add Items" option on the Windows DVD Maker toolbar. The "Add Items to DVD" browser window opens. Find and open a folder on your computer containing photos you want to use to create your slide show DVD.
3. Press the "Ctrl+A" keys to highlight and select all files in the folder, then click the "Add" button. You can also click to highlight a single file, then click "Add." Click the "Add Items" button in the Windows DVD Maker window to add additional photos as needed.
4. Click the "Next" button after you add all the photos you want to use. When the "Ready to Burn DVD" window appears, click the "Slide Show" button.
5. Click the "Add Music" button in the "Change your slide show settings" window. Browse to a folder than contains an audio file to use as background music for your slideshow. Windows DVD Maker accepts MP3, WMA and WAV files as slide show background tracks. Select the file you wish to use, then click "Add."
6. Enable the "Change slide show length to match music length" option to have Windows DVD Maker adjust timing for slide transitions automatically, or click the "Picture Length" list box and manually select a display time for each photo.
7. Select the type of transition effect to use between slides by clicking the "Transition" drop-down list. Click to select a transition, which is a special effect displayed as one picture disappears and the next appears. Windows DVD Maker can set your photos to cross fade, dissolve as the next slowly appears, flip in and out or transition in several other ways. Select a transition type, then click the "Preview" button at the top of the window to view how the photos transition during the show. If you don't like a particular effect, close the preview window and select another type from the list.
8. Click "Change Slide Show" after adding music and enabling your preferred options. After the "Change your slide show settings" window closes, click the "Burn" button in the "Ready to Burn DVD" window.
9. Insert a blank DVD disc into the DVD writer drive of your computer when prompted. Windows DVD Maker verifies the disc is blank and starts writing files to it. Remove the disc from the drive when prompted, then close Windows DVD Maker. Use the new disc in any DVD player, or on any PC with Windows XP or later installed.
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