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Photo Slideshow

Turn your photos into a slideshow — one photo per black slide, scaled to fit the whole slide without cropping or stretching. Present it fullscreen right here, or download it as a PDF or PowerPoint. Everything runs on your device.

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JPG · PNG · WebP — add several, then drag the grip to reorder

    🔒 Everything happens on your device — nothing is uploaded.

    Why use it

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    Consistent black slides

    Every photo lands on the same clean black canvas, no matter its size or orientation.

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    Never cropped

    Photos are scaled to fit fully inside the slide — the whole picture stays visible, leftover space stays black.

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    Present or export

    Play it fullscreen right away, or download a PDF or PowerPoint to share or present elsewhere.

    Timing decides whether it is watchable

    Slide duration is the setting that most affects how a slideshow feels, and the instinct to keep things moving usually produces something too fast. Three to five seconds per image suits photographs with a single clear subject. Group shots, landscapes and anything with detail people will want to search need five to seven, because the eye needs time to travel around the frame.

    Transitions should be much shorter than slides — roughly half a second to one second. A three-second transition between three-second slides means the viewer spends half the runtime looking at a dissolve, which reads as sluggish. Crossfades are the safe default; wipes, spins and page curls date a production immediately and draw attention to the software rather than the pictures.

    Total length is the constraint people ignore. Attention drops sharply after about three minutes for a personal slideshow, which at four seconds an image is roughly 45 photographs. Editing 200 holiday photographs down to 50 is almost always the single biggest improvement available, and it is the step most often skipped.

    Mixed aspect ratios and the letterbox problem

    Photographs from a phone arrive in a mixture of portrait and landscape, and a slideshow has one fixed frame. Portrait images in a 16:9 frame leave large empty bars at either side — pillarboxing — which looks unfinished when it happens repeatedly.

    The options are all compromises. Cropping portraits to landscape loses the top and bottom, which is destructive for a full-length portrait but often fine for a scene. A blurred, enlarged copy of the same image as a background fills the bars attractively and is the standard solution in consumer software. A slow pan down a portrait image — the Ken Burns effect — fills the frame while showing the whole picture over time.

    If most of the set is portrait, consider making the whole slideshow vertical at 9:16 instead. That is the right frame for anything destined for a phone or a stories feed, and it inverts the problem rather than fighting it.

    Music, rights and delivery

    Music transforms a slideshow, and it is also the fastest route to having one muted or blocked. Commercial recordings are covered by two separate copyrights — the composition and the specific recording — and platform content-matching systems detect them reliably even under other audio. A slideshow posted publicly with a popular song will typically be muted, age-restricted or have its revenue redirected.

    For anything shared publicly, use properly licensed production music or Creative Commons tracks with attribution terms you have actually read. For a slideshow shown at a private gathering and never uploaded, this is not a practical concern.

    Cut images to the music rather than at a fixed interval where you can — changing on the beat is the difference between a sequence of pictures and something that feels edited. For delivery, export at 1080p unless the source images are genuinely high resolution, since upscaling adds file size without detail, and remember that location metadata in the source photographs is worth stripping before anything goes online.

    Photo Slideshow FAQ

    Will my photos get cropped?

    No. Every photo is scaled to the largest size that fits fully inside the slide while keeping its original aspect ratio — nothing is cut off. Any leftover space on the sides or top/bottom stays black.

    What can I export?

    A PDF with one black slide per photo, a PowerPoint (.pptx) that opens in PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides and LibreOffice Impress — or skip the file entirely and present it full screen straight from the browser, with automatic advance if you want it.

    How does presenting work?

    Present takes over the whole screen — real browser full screen, so the address bar and tabs go too, not just a black box over the page. and step through, Space starts and stops automatic advance, F toggles full screen and Esc comes back. Set the pace with the seconds picker in the bar at the bottom; touching the arrows takes over from the timer, and it stops on the last slide rather than looping. On a phone, swipe.

    Can I reorder or remove photos before exporting?

    Yes — drag a photo's grip handle to reorder it, or click the ✕ to remove it. The list order becomes the slide order.

    Are my photos uploaded anywhere?

    No. The preview, the PDF and the PowerPoint file are all generated locally in your browser — your photos never leave your device.

    Can I choose the slide size?

    Yes — pick 16:9 widescreen (the modern default) or 4:3 standard. It applies to both the PDF and the PowerPoint export.

    How long should each photo stay on screen?

    Three to five seconds for simple images, five to seven for group shots and detailed scenes. Keep transitions to half a second or so — long transitions between short slides make the whole thing feel slow.

    Can I use a popular song?

    Not for anything posted publicly. Commercial recordings carry two copyrights and are detected reliably by platform matching systems, which mute or block the video. Use licensed production music for public sharing.