Create a Photo Album Presentation in PowerPoint

October 19th, 2005

Have you ever wanted to use PowerPoint to show a collection of pictures? PowerPoint contains a Photo Album feature exactly for this purpose. There’s no need to insert the pictures one slide at a time. PowerPoint will even take the pictures directly from your digital camera!

Here’s how:

  1. If you want to create the Photo Album from pictures on your computer, start by copying all the pictures you want to include into one folder. It will be easier to select them later.
  2. Create a new blank presentation.
  3. In PowerPoint 2003, select Insert | Picture | New Photo Album.
    In PowerPoint 2007, click the Photo Album button in the Illustrations grouping on the Insert tab of the ribbon and select New Photo Album…
  4. PowerPoint will display the Photo Album dialog box:

    5. PowerPoint Photo Album Dialog

  5. Select File/Disk if the pictures are in a folder on your computer. (Select Scanner/Camera if the pictures are on your digital camera.)
  6. Navigate to the folder containing your pictures, hold down the CRTL key, and click on each picture you want to include. If you’re including all the pictures in the folder, press CTRL + A to select them all.
  7. Click the Insert button.
  8. In the Album Layout section of the dialog box, you can make each picture fill the slide by selecting Fit to Slide. You also have the option to put 1, 2, or 4 pictures on a slide, with or without titles. If you choose to add titles, you will have to go into each slide and type the titles.
  9. If you select 1, 2, or 4 pictures per slide, you can also select the Frame Shape that will border each picture and a
    Design Template for the slide background.
  10. Click Create.
  11. PowerPoint will create the presentation with the options you selected.
  12. Navigate to the first slide and edit the title and subtitle, if you wish.

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