Those smart kids at Google have done it again. This time they've found a way to indulge my every passion all at once, and it's just too easy! Photography, family history, scrapbooking, playing around with Paint Shop Pro, blogging--it all comes together in the creation of a digitally scrapbooked slideshow to embed in my blog.
The basic steps are easy:
- Decide what images you want to include in your slideshow.
- If you enjoy digital scrapbooking, create layouts for your images using Paint Shop Pro or other image-editing software.
- Upload the images to a Picasa Web Album.
- On your album's page at Picasa, click Embed Slideshow. Choose the appropriate size, then copy the HTML code.
- Go to your blog and paste the code into a post or HTML sidebar module.
To control the slideshow manually, mouse over the lower edge of the image so the controls appear. You can also use the right and left arrows to move through the slides or click the button between them to pause on an image.
If you add more images to the Picasa Web Album, they will automatically be included in the slideshow.
2 comments:
This is the utmost in perfection. I love it!
I totally love it too! I've been hoping someday Blogger would let me fill up all the great space in this wide template with big photos. I do wish the slideshow would loop though, not just stop on the last slide, because the Go button doesn't work from there. But that is not going to spoil my day! There will definitely be more slideshows in this blog!
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