The Theme drop-down menu allows you to browse the many themes available and choose a design theme to apply to your slides. You can round the corners, put a simple frame around each picture or even a darker frame if you prefer. The Frame shape drop-down menu allows you to put nice edging around your photos. If you decide you want to include a title for each picture then you can select this option from the Picture layout menu. By default the album will have the pictures set to “Fit to slide”, this can sometimes mean your photos are stretched and become distorted so you have options to display 1 picture per slide (so the picture is not stretched, just positioned in the middle of the slide), you can even have 2, 3 or up to 4 pictures included on the one slide. The album layout options allow you to specify three different options for your album.įirst, the Picture layout drop-down menu allows you to specify how many pictures you wish to display on each slide.
You can rearrange the order the photos are being displayed, remove a photo if you have imported it by accident and even display all photos in black and white. You can easily flip a photo (which is great if a photo you have imported is displayed the wrong way up), and also adjust the brightness and contrast of a photo. Although these are very basic, they can save you time as you don’t need to adjust your photos in another program prior to importing them into PowerPoint. One of the benefits of using the Photo Album tool is the built-in editing capabilities.
You can easily hook your computer up to many of the latest TV systems to allow your photo album to be displayed on your LCD or digital TV or even connect your computer to a data projector if you have one available. I’ve used this feature to quickly create a slideshow of photos for my daughters’ birthdays and other special occasions and have always had great feedback.
Have you ever attended an event where a slideshow of photos was showing on a screen for everyone to view? Ever wondered how to create one? It’s very easy using the Photo Album function available in Microsoft PowerPoint.