Taking pictures and capturing videos of your moments in your life can be exciting, but it is more exciting if you put them in a slide show and gives them character and life that really take you dramatically to that captured moments of your life.

The birth of technology as well as the internet has not only create global connection to any people in the world but also gives people an opportunity to share their files, share their thoughts and ideas, meet new friends, make debates in forums, etc. But the most affecting is one is capable to create their own shows that the whole world could watch through the web without any costly equipment but only the internet and an effective slide show software.

One could create his own beautifully transitioned and crafted movie and be shown in the world through the world wide web using the latest technology we have today – digital video and still cameras plus a slide show software. Camera giants like Sony, Canon, and Samsung have added slide show capabilities on their both still and video camera products in line in our heavily technologized world today. They added free slideshow software to induce the creativity of the photographer or videographer and could transfer their works in their PCs or Laptops and eventually upload them in their websites or in Youtube so that the world could see their own show or slide show.

Microsoft has also free slide show software that is pre-installed in your PCs when you buy a Windows computer, namely, the Microsoft PowerPoint and Windows Movie Maker. Both Microsoft slide show softwares could make picture slideshows or could make photos slideshows and even videos and movies slide show. However, the Microsoft PowerPoint is not designed to make Movies but only picture or video presentations or videos and photos slide show. But the Windows Movie Maker is designed for the latter in other hand. If you don’t know how make slide shows on these Microsoft slide show softwares, you can search for slideshow tutorials about them on the web.

Microsoft is not alone on this slide show software because there are a lot of slideshow websites out there on the web that offers free slide shows for your pictures or photos and even videos and make your own photos slide show using their software and could even download slide show softwares they offer for free. Some of these slideshow websites are Slide.com (this is mostly used in Friendster, Myspace, Facebook, Hi5, Bebo, Blogger, and a lot more),RockYou, PictureTrail, ImageShack, PhotoBucket, PhotoShow, FilmLoop, and a lot more. 

Some slide shows are also using the flash animation special effects aside from the animations in an ordinary or regular photo slide show. A flash picture slideshow could show some animated images or cartoons on the show puffing-up that makes your slideshow photos looks entertaining and not boring.

Furthermore, not only your pictures or videos  is important in a slide show but also the slide show templates of your show if it compliments you photos or videos or not. A slide show template is also very important to make you slide show looks beautiful and entertaining and not quite boring. 

Another slide show is the html slideshow, wherein you can make you web pages like picture slides. You can browse for an online slideshow creator or software of html slide show in the internet if you want, as well as slide show tutorials for it.