Learn to make your own slideshows with photos and videos: A review and giveaway!

I think having a program to create a slideshow for photos is a great thing to have on your computer and learn how to use. For instance, you can make a slideshow of your Etsy shop items or even your dogs (like this crazy dog lady, right here!) to post on YouTube or on your blog. So when I was asked to review Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder for Windows (Mac users click here). I had to jump on it because I know lots of you have shown interest in creating your own slideshows. And at the end of this post, you will have a chance to win your own copy of this software, so please stick around to read more about this program!

With Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder (available for Windows and Mac), you can easily put together a slideshow with your photos, background music, and some pretty cool transition effects. This program also allows you to add video clips to your slideshow too! It seriously only took me 10 minutes to put together a photo slideshow of Monty & Mabel.

Please note, that this program is not solely a video editor where you can split and trim your videos together (like my Day in the Life video) but rather you can add your video clips to the slideshow and organize them amongst your photos. The end result is a video that will contain your video clips and/or photos that you can save to your computer or burn onto a DVD.

If you save your slideshow to your computer, here's a list of the files you can save them as:

MPEG-4 Video (mp4, mpeg4)

AVI Video (avi)

Windows Media Video (wmv)

MPEG Video (mpg, mpeg)

Windows Media Video (asf)

QuickTime Movie (mov)

Mobile Video (3gpp, 3gp, 3g2)

Matroska Format (mkv)

Flash Player Video (flv)

DVD Video (vob)

Ogg Format (ogm)

What I like most about this program is the ease of putting together a slideshow rather quickly. You are able to manually drag and drop each photo in the order you want them in. You can choose the transition effect for each photo individually. You can add an MP3 file for background music. You can add an intro slide to give your slideshow a title and you are able to use any font that you already have installed on your computer to add subtitles.

It doesn't take too long to find your way around the program. What I would recommend doing is downloading the free 30 day trial to see if this program is something that could work for you (Mac users click here).

Here's a sample slideshow I made so you can see some of the transition effects and what you can do...

(of course now that it's uploaded, I realize my typo at the end. Ops!)

Please note that any slideshow you create and save while using the free trial will have a big watermark smack dab in the middle of your photos so you won't be able to actually use your slideshow anywhere. But if you purchase the full copy of the software there won't be a watermark of course, and you are given free technical support service and free life-time updates.

--The giveaway has closed! Thank you for entering!--
The people at Wondershare were happy to offer a free copy of their software to one of my readers! 

How to enter ...

Mandatory:

-Please be a follower of The Curious Pug (via Google Friend Connect, RSS, or Bloglovin) and leave a comment below telling me what you'd like to make a slideshow of.

Additional entries:

Please leave a separate comment for each one you do for more chances to win.

-Follow TCP on twitter

-Tweet this giveaway
Example:
Giveaway alert! @thecuriouspug is hosting a giveaway to win a free copy of slideshow making software. Enter here! http://bit.ly/AscY8k

Please be sure there is a way for me to contact you in the event you win.

The winner will be chosen randomly and announced on March 3rd. 

The winner will have 48 hours to get back to me before a new winner is chosen. 

Good luck!

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Disclaimer: I was compensated for this review, but all opinions are honest and of my own.

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