Creating Graduation Slideshow

Tips For Making Gorgeous Graduation Slideshow

Want to make a gorgeous graduation slideshow effectively? Then you need to do some preparations.

Photo / video gathering

If you are in charge of this slideshow project for your school mates, then you may need to gather a large amount of photos from your school mates, so that every one would be involved in this slideshow. Of course, photos and video of special school event should be the top priority. You can also gather photos or memorable video clips that taken at the best moments you spent together with your school mates. If you want to do it more creatively, you can gather up all your school mates to record their voice and video for inserting to the slideshow.

Word drafting

Graduation Slideshow is more than a photo slideshow, to make it complete and meaningful, the text is also very important thing that could not be ignored. After gathering photos and videos, you may need to sort them to small part then title them in to chapters. Also, make this graduation slideshow lively, you can gather words from your school mates to let them show their own personality in their own part. Graduation poems can be added as well to express your feeling of leaving school. By using Photo Flash Maker Platinum, you can not only choose to add brief text on photo, you can also add long text as desciptions to the photo and video, and even control the format of the text.

Atmosphere Creating

To create a warm atmophere for the slideshow, you can choose graduation slideshow music for adding to the slideshow. With the customizable settings, you are able to repeat your background music or just let it stop in the end. There are sound control in many advanced templates, you can switch to lower volumn for a speech without affecting the displaying of slideshow. Apart from background music, the transition effects can also help to bring special atmophere. There are 60+ transition effects for your choice.

And then you just need to follow three simple steps below:

Step 1. Add photos (add videos if you want to create graduation video slideshow) and graduation songs

Step 2. Choose transition effects and template to display the graduation video slideshow, insert text.

Step 3. Publish the graduation video slideshow

Graduation Slideshow Songs Suggestions

Want to add a song that best express your feeling of graduation? Here is a list of suggested graduation slideshow songs for your reference.

Wonderful Journey - Richard Marx And Donna Lewis
My wish - Rascal Flatts
Whenever You Remember - Carrie Underwood
This Is My Now - Jordin Sparks
Find Your Wings - Mark Harris
Good Riddance (time of your life) - Green Gay
Butterfly Fly Away (if you can play only past 1:09) - Miley Cyrus&Billy Ray Cyrus
I Will Remember You - Sarah Mclachlan
There Youll Be - Faith Hill
These Are The Days - 10000 Maniacs
We Can Go Anywhere - Jesse Mccartney
Graduation (friends forever) - Vitamin C
Together - Jack Hartmann
Each of Us Is a Flower - Charlotte Diamond
Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson
I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - Baz Luhrmann
On My Way - Phil Collins
Winds of Change - Scorpions
Time of your life - Green day
I'm Moving On - Rascal Flatts.
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Make It Happen - Mariah Carey
The River - Garth Brooks
There You'll Be - Faith Hill
On My Way - Phil Collins
Whenever You Remember - Carrie Underwood
Your Raise Me Up - Josh Groban
Farewell - Raymond Lauchengco
The Final Countdown - Europe
I've had the Time of my life - Dirty Dancing
We are the Champions - Robbie Williams & Queen
We Go Together - Grease
These are Special Times - Christina Aguilera
Momma Used to Say - Rick James (minus the third verse)
Go with Kings in Castles - Michael Tolcher.
I'm Not Gonna Cry - Corey Smith
Cast of Rent - Seasons of Love
Graduation Day - Dropline
Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 - Pink Floyd
Long and Winding Road - The Beatles
Imagine - John Lennon
Seasons of Love - RENT the Musical
Graduation Day - Chris Isaak
I Will Remember You - Sarah McLauchlan
Teenage Dirtbag - Wheatus
Our Lives - The Calling
Here In This Diary - the Ataris
Hey Hey, My My - Neil Young
Last Goodbye - Jeff Buckley