When you open Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0, you will be presented with the screen on your right. From here, select “Make Photo Creation.”

This will open “Creation Setup.”
Next, highlight “Slide Show.” On the right, you will get a brief description about what you are about to create. Click “OK.”

You will be presented with two options:

1. Custom Slide Show – Select this if you would like to add audio, text, and music to your slide show.
2. Simple Slide Show – Select this if you simply want to make a slide show with no bells and whistles. This type of slide show tends to be very small in size so you can easily send it via e-mail.
Chose “Custom Slide Show” and click “OK.”
This opens “Photoshop Elements Slide Show Editor.” The best way to think about this project is creating a mini-movie. On the bottom, you have what will be more or less your storyboard. Each picture will be a “scene” in the slide show.

New > New Collection Group >Type AP Art (Period 1) in the Collection Group Name box.
Now add pictures to the slide show. At the bottom, click where it says “Click Here to Add Pictures.”

From here, select any pictures you would like to add (this step assumes you already have pictures imported into Photoshop Elements 3.0). If you have created any tags or collections, you can easily select these subsets to import. Otherwise, highlight the pictures to add and click “Add Selected Photos.”
The photos selected will now appear in the bottom of the slide show editor.
Now, rearrange the photos. Remember, this is the order they will appear in the slide show. Try to come up with a logical transition from slide to slide. To edit the order, simply click and hold a picture and drag it to its new place in the lineup.

Digital picture by high school student Shira Weinstein
Above the slides are some controls. At any time, use these to preview the in-progress slide show.

Now, let’s add some audio to the presentation. Ideally, you should select a track that is as long as the duration of the slide show. So, for example, if you have 10 slides, and you show each slide for 5 seconds, you should pick an audio track that is roughly 50 seconds long.

Click on the icon, select “Add Audio From Folder,” and select any audio file (with extensions, mp3 or wav), and click “OK.” If a student plays an instrument, this would be an ideal place to show off his/her musical talent. Imagine watching a slideshow of a student’s artistic projects while listening to a music rendition by the student ... impressive! I have chosen to use audio in this presentation, but you could have done a custom narration by simply clicking the and following the menus.
Below each slide, you will notice some numbers. By default, you will see “5 s” that stand for 5 seconds. This is how long the slide will be displayed during the slide show. To adjust it, simply click the down arrow and select other presets or create a custom time. Below the pictures, you can see how long the music track is so you can adjust the pictures accordingly. Better yet, select “Fit Slides to Audio” and Photoshop Elements 3.0 will do the math for you. Each slide can stay on the screen for different amounts of time. This allows the teacher or student total flexibly.


Digital image by high school student, Viviana Maciel.
To the right of each slide, you will notice a circle with a line through it. This is a transition. A transition is nothing more than how the slides will change between each other. By default, there are no transitions. Click the circle and select one. Adobe has given 17 different transitions, so experiment!

Now we are going to add some text to the slides. First, add a blank slide to the beginning of the show by pressing.


Next, highlight the slide and press . The box to the right will pop up. As text is written, it will automatically show the slide with the text on it. You can adjust just about everything, so experiment. Text can be written on any of the slides, not just blank ones.
Now save this file:

File > Save As >“Give it a title”

This will now save the slide show in your Photo Browser.
Once you are finished, do a full-screen preview by pressing .
Once you are satisfied everything is done, now all we have to do is create a file that can be sent to other people:

File > Output as WMV

You can adjust the output quality as you see fit, but unless there is a real size issue, you should keep it at “High-quality Output.” Click “OK.”
Now name the file and click “Save.”
Depending on its size, it may take a little while to write the file. You’ll see a status pop-up. Wait for it to finish, and simply double click on the newly created file (that you just saved in the previous step), and voila, a perfect presentation format for sharing student work!

This lesson was created by educator and Adobe Master Teacher Barbara Delikaris.


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