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How to make a photo album, photo book (programs for beginners)

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You can spend more than one hour viewing your favorite photos, and even more than one evening! Well, having sorted the photos into different collections (photo albums), you can later not only quickly find the necessary frames, but also share them with your friends!

In this post I will offer several options for how you can beautifully combine several photos into one photo collection (photo book / album).

What will it give:

  1. the album can be decorated in a certain style (theme);
  2. it will be possible to sign each photo (and people on it);
  3. add a thematic melody (or even sound it yourself);
  4. it can be a good gift for your friends and colleagues (and, moreover, the gift will be unforgettable!).

And so, it's time to get down to business ...

To help!

How to make a collage from photos - //ocomp.info/kak-sdelat-kollazh-iz-fotografiy.html

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Photo album software

PHOTO SHOW PRO

Official website: //fotoshow-pro.ru/

This program is good, first of all, because it allows even completely novice users to fully work with it (it is in Russian, and all actions in it are performed in steps).

As for the functionality: the program allows you to create a beautiful slideshow (photo album) with your selected photos in just a few mouse clicks. In the arsenal of PHOTO SHOW there are more than 150 transitions and effects, the ability to add both photos and video-audio files, you can add beautiful 3-D inscriptions to each of the photos. I also can't help but note that the program has over 100 built-in melodies on various topics.

I will consider in my small example all the actions in order.

1) After starting the program, select one of the options:

  1. "New project" (I chose this one in my example, because it allows you to work more closely with the photo);
  2. "Create a slideshow in 5 minutes" ... This option will allow you to process the photo much faster. In addition, you will be offered one of the thematic templates (see screenshots below).

Creation of a new project - PHOTO-SHOW Pro

The program will offer the choice of a template (as in the screenshot below) when creating a slideshow in 5 minutes.

Slideshow templates: kids, holiday, youth, wedding, etc.

2) Next, you will automatically open a section "Add" : just select the folder where you have saved photos (pictures), then select the ones you need and add them to the project (see screen - there is a green arrow for uploading pictures).

Adding photos to the project / PHOTO-SHOW Pro

3) Then add the necessary effects and transitions between the photos. This is done quite simply: first select the transition between the photos (see the number "5" on the screen below), and then add the desired one (see the number "4"). Note that the program immediately visually demonstrates how it will all look.

Transitions and animations / Clickable

4) The next step is to add music to the project (after all, it is much more pleasant to watch a photo album listening to a correctly selected melody). For this in the PHOTO-SHOW there is a section "Music". In it you can both add your own melody and use an already selected collection for many occasions ...

Adding Music

The number of selected tracks is quite large - 201! In addition, they are all sorted by genre: children, sports, travel, wedding (romance), etc.

Standard Music

5) By the way, before saving the project, it would not be superfluous to sign some photos. To do this, first find the desired photo in the project, then click in the preview window on the button "Edit slide" (see arrow-11 on the screenshot below).

Edit slide (text drawing)

6) Next, you can add a fairly large number of elements to the slide: caption, GIF animation, effects, video, etc. In my example, I settled on a simple caption ...

Add an inscription

7) Please note that after adding the caption to the photo, it began to be displayed in the preview window (see arrow-13 on the screenshot below).

And the final touch is to save the resulting slideshow. To do this, just go to the section "Create" and choose the appropriate option (you can create a regular video file, a DVD, or immediately prepare a video for uploading it to popular web hosts).

Saving a photo album

In general, that's all, you just have to wait for the compilation of your entire project into one finished film ...

ACDSee (10th version)

Official website: //www.acdsee.com/en/index

In general, ACDSee is a program for viewing and cataloging media files (pictures, videos, etc.). About 15 years ago it was considered almost a basic program for working with graphics (since in Windows ME / XP it was extremely inconvenient to view pictures (and even now it is not better, but this is only in my opinion)).

In the arsenal of ACDSee (in the 10th version) there are specials. tools to create slideshows and photo albums. It is very simple and easy to work with them. Therefore, if you already have this program installed on your computer, perhaps its capabilities are enough for you ...

1) And so, I will show a small example. First you need to open the section "Create / slideshow file" (see the example in the screenshot below).

Create slideshow / ACDSee file

2) Next, select the type of slide show (screensaver). It can be executed in the form of a program (EXE file), Windows splash screen (SCR file), or Macromedia Flash (SWF). I will focus on the last option, as the most versatile (this format can be viewed even in a browser).

Macromedia Flash Slideshow

3) After add photos and pictures to the project, and click "Further" .

Adding a photo

4) In this step, you need to set the display duration of a particular photo, select transitions and their duration. You can set this both for all slides at once, and for each separately.

Setting the duration of transitions and effects

There are not many effects, but each of them works flawlessly (the picture does not "spoil").

Selecting Effects

5) After that you need to specify how the frames will change during playback (automatically or manually), and click "Further" .

Frame change - automatic or manual

6) Next, you can set both a specific width / height of the video in pixels, or just put a tick so that the program stretches the resolution to fit the photo.

Also in this step, the folder is indicated where the finished video will be saved. In general, after pressing the button "Further" - your project will be completed!

Parameters

By the way!

ACDSee has another interesting photo layout option - "HTML Album". This method is good in that dozens of miniatures can be placed on one sheet at once, adding a name and description to each of them (see the screen below for how it looks). However, this gallery can only be viewed using a browser.

Another alternative is HTML Gallery

Family Chronicle (in the review version 6.3)

Official website: //www.the-family-chronicle.com/download.html

The main purpose of this program is to compile your own pedigree. But in its options there is also creation photo album ... Moreover, the developers added one interesting feature: each photo can not only be signed and put in the right order, but also indicate each person on the frame.

Having opened such a photo album even after 10-15 years and hovering over a person in the photo, you will immediately see a window in which all the information that you have entered will be presented: name, surname, who you belong to, etc. (I'll show you how it all looks below).

1) And so, after installing and running the program: the first thing to do is to create a database. See example below.

Family Chronicle - Creating a New Database

2) Next, go to the section "Photo albums" and click on the button "Create" .

Create photo album

3) In this step, you need to specify a name for the photo album and upload a cover for it (optional). Then press the button "Create photo album" .

Create Album

4) Now you can add all the necessary photos and pictures to the photo album.Please also note that you can make a slideshow from the finished photo album.

Add photo

5) While viewing photos from the photo album - you can mark any person in the photo (to do this, click the "Mark Person" button). Subsequently, when viewing this photo, you can find out who it is by simply hovering your mouse over it (example below).

You can tag each person in the photo

By the way, you can also add comments to photos, make captions, arrange them in the desired order, edit (see the options window on the screenshot below).

Additional options for the photo album

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That's all for now ... Additions are always welcome.

All the best!

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