Bring Photos to Life with a Movie Slideshow in Photoshop (including music!)

[@ForgottenDetails]

Thank you for this instructional video of how to make a slideshow. I can see this coming in handy for sharing vacation pictures or an end-of-the-year recap that I'd like to share with my out-of-state family. Helen, I *really* look forward to each and every PS tutorial you post. They are always so informative. ❤

[@HelenBradley]

You're very welcome!

[@gerhardhoeger1048]

Very interesting and enjoyable. Love it.

[@HelenBradley]

Glad to hear it!

[@KathyStahl-j9k]

Great tutorial! Couple quick questions- What size image did you start with? Does Adobe provide any music files that are included in the Creative Cloud subscription? Thanks!

[@HelenBradley]

Thank you! My images were small - 930 x 664 because they were a group I had that were all cropped nicely to start with and which were accessible to me. I suggest you start with the size you need for your video - so, for 1080p crop/size to 1920 x 1080. If your images aren't the correct aspect ratio Photoshop adds black bars to them - but if it were me I would crop and size to the exact same size and aspect ratio before I began to get a neat looking show. And, Adobe Stock has music and it's accessible from Premier Pro but nothing "included" in your CC subscription. I hope this helps?

[@KathyStahl-j9k]

@@HelenBradley Yes, that is helpful. Thanks - Kathy

[@HelenBradley]

Cheers Kathy!

[@PierreLeBoef]

Good morning Helen from rainy Plymouth UK. I found your tutorial clear and very informative. When I came to render, there was no pop up menu and the render started. I have found a solution. Close down all Adobe programmes and in particular Bridge. Open Photoshop only. Render then functions correctly. My one frustration is that I can find nowhere, a method of adjusting image time to all images or applying transitions to all images. Surely, Adobe does not expect a person to apply time and transitions to each image individually. My slideshow contains 60 images.

[@HelenBradley]

Hi there Plymouth! Ok so, there is a link in this forum to a GitHub routine that might work for you (it's a long read but you probably want to make sure it's going to be a fix for you and it will run on your PS version): community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/p-ability-to-change-the-duration-of-multiple-layers-at-once/idi-p/9546506

[@ruthannhiner4484]

Great video Helen! Any idea why I'm unable to render the video...a dialog box comes up that says "Initializing Video Export" and it never goes away.

[@HelenBradley]

I’m sorry this is happening to you. I have a few ideas. First of all save your work and then exit Photoshop and restart your computer. Close everything that you don’t need to have running so you allow your computer the maximum processor cycles and also the maximum memory to use while rendering. I would also try to encode my video first of all at a lower resolution. Just to check to see that it actually will encode at all. You need to prove to yourself that there’s not a problem with the process or your file rather than an issue with the resolution that you are encoding it at. A little bit of trial and error should help you to determine where the issue is - rendering your video at all or rendering it at the resolution that you want to encode it at. Also be aware that depending on how old your computer is and how fast your processor is and how much memory you have, it may take quite a time to render the movie. I’ll be interested to hear how you go.