Comments on: The Ultimate Guide To Memorable Travel Slideshows http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/ Online travel magazine dedicated to exploring travel in the 21st century. Offering travel news, compelling interviews, online travel tools, and more. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:31:24 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Chris Johnson http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-14543 Chris Johnson Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:21:42 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/#comment-14543 Another comment on "narrating..." The use of captions or title slides may be helpful if there are things you'd like to point out. For example, I just did a presentation for our church that highlighted many of our summer activities. Adding titles to the first slide of each section helped people understand where we were in the show. Rather than creating a "blank" title slide, I pick a slide from the event or trip and add the title to it. This helps the show move along. Note -- when doing this, avoid "busy" slides, and consider raising the brightness and lowering the contrast of the photo before adding the title. Another comment on “narrating…” The use of captions or title slides may be helpful if there are things you’d like to point out. For example, I just did a presentation for our church that highlighted many of our summer activities. Adding titles to the first slide of each section helped people understand where we were in the show.

Rather than creating a “blank” title slide, I pick a slide from the event or trip and add the title to it. This helps the show move along.

Note — when doing this, avoid “busy” slides, and consider raising the brightness and lowering the contrast of the photo before adding the title.

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]]> By: Min Guo http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-13923 Min Guo Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:45:58 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/#comment-13923 Total agree with you. Ian! I've been bored by too many photos that are not edited or organized before sending out to friends. I usually use free tool such as Picasa to edit my photos, trying to show people the most important part. I don't care if the photos are original or not. I am not a professional photographer after all. Nice tips. Thanks. Total agree with you. Ian! I’ve been bored by too many photos that are not edited or organized before sending out to friends. I usually use free tool such as Picasa to edit my photos, trying to show people the most important part. I don’t care if the photos are original or not. I am not a professional photographer after all.

Nice tips. Thanks.

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]]> By: ianmack http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-1246 ianmack Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:00:52 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/#comment-1246 Hey everyone, thanks for all the feedback on the article. Some great follow up tips were shared. One thing seemed to be contentious though, and that was the "don't narrate" tip, which I feel I should clarify. First of all, if you're doing a slideshow where you actually advance the photos yourself, with no music in the background, etc, then BY ALL MEANS narrate away. This is really more of your story with an accompanying slideshow to back you up. In my case above, I'm talking about a fully automated film/slideshow that runs on it's own. In this case, narrating the slideshow would mean you're talking "over" the presentation, which is distracting, or you'd have to stop the show, which breaks the magic. So hopefully that makes sense. Hey everyone, thanks for all the feedback on the article. Some great follow up tips were shared. One thing seemed to be contentious though, and that was the “don’t narrate” tip, which I feel I should clarify.

First of all, if you’re doing a slideshow where you actually advance the photos yourself, with no music in the background, etc, then BY ALL MEANS narrate away. This is really more of your story with an accompanying slideshow to back you up.

In my case above, I’m talking about a fully automated film/slideshow that runs on it’s own. In this case, narrating the slideshow would mean you’re talking “over” the presentation, which is distracting, or you’d have to stop the show, which breaks the magic.

So hopefully that makes sense.

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]]> By: Mike http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-1244 Mike Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:46:39 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/#comment-1244 Some great tips. I think the most important one is the photo selection tip. With digital picture there are so many yet it's important to trip the amount to avoid making the slideshow boring. Another point to consider is the photo/video sequence. Usually I sort photos by location but sometimes the first part of the trip isn't necessarily the most interesting part. I think that for the sake of generating interest especially at the beginning the show the photos can avoid following the chronological sequence of locations as visited during the holiday. This also applies when sorting photos for a particular location in the slideshow. Looking forward for more content. Some great tips. I think the most important one is the photo selection tip. With digital picture there are so many yet it’s important to trip the amount to avoid making the slideshow boring.

Another point to consider is the photo/video sequence. Usually I sort photos by location but sometimes the first part of the trip isn’t necessarily the most interesting part. I think that for the sake of generating interest especially at the beginning the show the photos can avoid following the chronological sequence of locations as visited during the holiday. This also applies when sorting photos for a particular location in the slideshow.

Looking forward for more content.

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]]> By: Steve Williams http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 Steve Williams Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:34:21 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/#comment-1126 Combining photography with travel, in my case done on a Vespa scooter, is a wonderful activity and I do it a lot for my blog Scooter in the Sticks. The advice here is exceptional and I look forward to going through more of your content. I might offer some disagreement about narration though. I agree that for most people narration creates more problems than it solves. But for the exceptional storyteller with the right images narration either recorded or spoken can yield an amazing performance. The challenge is figuring out whether one is an exceptional story teller or not. Steve Williams Combining photography with travel, in my case done on a Vespa scooter, is a wonderful activity and I do it a lot for my blog Scooter in the Sticks. The advice here is exceptional and I look forward to going through more of your content.

I might offer some disagreement about narration though. I agree that for most people narration creates more problems than it solves. But for the exceptional storyteller with the right images narration either recorded or spoken can yield an amazing performance.

The challenge is figuring out whether one is an exceptional story teller or not.

Steve Williams

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]]> By: Arthur http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-1034 Arthur Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:15:00 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/#comment-1034 Another idea is to put together a professional looking, hard bound, coffee table type of album (such as a Photobook) and have your guests discover it as it sits on the living room table. They will ask questions. Another idea is to put together a professional looking, hard bound, coffee table type of album (such as a Photobook) and have your guests discover it as it sits on the living room table. They will ask questions.

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]]> By: mino http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-1032 mino Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:46:08 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/#comment-1032 Good article. I have been making slide shows for many years and with new software available it has become easier and faster. For Windows the best free program is Photo Story 3 (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx). When using Ken Burns effects (zooming and panning) I found the flickering of lines that are slightly off of horizontal and vertical lines quite anoying (particularly at higher definitions). I found only one program that handles this problem well - ProShow Gold (http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/) -at about $70 it comes with DVD authoring as well as burning programs. Both Windows programs give you fully automatic or manual control of Ken Burns effects (just import pictures and music and you are done - then you can tweak , if you want, presentation to your liking). I also have a MacBook Pro (which I love, and prefer over PC for many applications) and I agree with kt that it is easy to make slide shows with iLife, but no matter how hard I tried their quality is much worse then the ones I can get with Windows programs. Lastly, one WIndows program worth of checking out is MemoriesOnTV (http://www.codejam.com/). This program, as well as ProShow Gold come with free trials. Good article. I have been making slide shows for many years and with new software available it has become easier and faster. For Windows the best free program is Photo Story 3 (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx).

When using Ken Burns effects (zooming and panning) I found the flickering of lines that are slightly off of horizontal and vertical lines quite anoying (particularly at higher definitions). I found only one program that handles this problem well – ProShow Gold (http://www.photodex.com/products/proshowgold/) -at about $70 it comes with DVD authoring as well as burning programs. Both Windows programs give you fully automatic or manual control of Ken Burns effects (just import pictures and music and you are done – then you can tweak , if you want, presentation to your liking).

I also have a MacBook Pro (which I love, and prefer over PC for many applications) and I agree with kt that it is easy to make slide shows with iLife, but no matter how hard I tried their quality is much worse then the ones I can get with Windows programs.

Lastly, one WIndows program worth of checking out is MemoriesOnTV (http://www.codejam.com/). This program, as well as ProShow Gold come with free trials.

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]]> By: David http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-1029 David Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:56:29 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/#comment-1029 We take a slightly different, approach using some of those ideas on our online travel journals: http://www.mainething.com/AuNz07/ http://www.mainething.com/samerica06/ http://www.mainething.com/hawaii/ Thanks David We take a slightly different, approach using some of those ideas on our online travel journals:
http://www.mainething.com/AuNz07/
http://www.mainething.com/samerica06/
http://www.mainething.com/hawaii/

Thanks
David

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]]> By: kt http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-1025 kt Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:54:37 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/#comment-1025 Great tips, thanks so much! I'm going to Europe this summer so this is a very useful list. Yeah, as far as I know Roxio is good, but it is SO SO SO much easier to just do the whole thing on a Mac. Easier, more beautiful, and (after the computer) free. Thanks again Ian. Great tips, thanks so much! I’m going to Europe this summer so this is a very useful list.
Yeah, as far as I know Roxio is good, but it is SO SO SO much easier to just do the whole thing on a Mac. Easier, more beautiful, and (after the computer) free. Thanks again Ian.

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]]> By: YouthMinistryTV.com » Blog Archive » Mission Trip Presentations http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/comment-page-1/#comment-968 YouthMinistryTV.com » Blog Archive » Mission Trip Presentations Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:29:03 +0000 http://www.bravenewtraveler.com/2007/03/27/travel-slideshows-ultimate-guide/#comment-968 [...] you show it to your church? Will you put it up on your ministry’s website? I came across this great guide to memorable travel slideshows. It is written for general travel slide shows, but you could use it in your ministry, too. [...] [...] you show it to your church? Will you put it up on your ministry’s website? I came across this great guide to memorable travel slideshows. It is written for general travel slide shows, but you could use it in your ministry, too. [...]

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