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Create your graduation photo slideshow on DVD is a great way to share those special moments of your life.

You can make a graduation DVD album music slideshow of your graduate that you can show over and over at the graduation open house. Imagine all of your friends and family watching favorite photos of your graduate playing on a DVD player with your favorite songs.

You may think this is too hard, but I am telling you it has never been so easy to create a graduation DVD album music slideshow with hundreds of transition effects ,styles and music.Even a baby can do that with Photo Story Platinum,lol.

Follow me with just three simple steps to create a graduation DVD photo album or we can call it DVD music slideshow.

You need to download a slideshow software which can burn DVDs,here I choose Wondershare Photo story platinum,which is easy and powerful to make DVD albums and slideshows.

Step 1. Choose photos and add background music

When you run photo story platinum, it will automatically open a new project and lets you start creating a DVD slideshow. Browse and select your favorite photos,double click or simply drag & drop to add them to the “Story Board”. Adjust photos of your graduation DVD album, DVD slideshow with the built-in editing tools and effects. Customize the graduation DVD album by adding, deleting photos, arranging the order of photos. If you are not satisfied with your photo selection for graduation DVD music slideshow,choose the one you want to remove from the slideshow, but do not worry, when you delete a photo the original photo will not be deleted physically from your hard drive.

Double click to add background music to your graduation DVD album music slideshow,here I suggest “Auld Lang Syne” for graduation DVD album music slideshow

Step 2. Choose transition effects and styles:

Select your favorite transition effects and styles from more than 200 amazing transition effects and special movie styles. It allows you to add styles and effects to several photos or just to single photo in the graduation DVD album .So with different transition effect and style you can make totally different graduation DVD slideshow with the same photos.The Preview window gives you ideas of how your graduation DVD slideshow will show on TV with DVD player.With 200+ build-in animated movie styles, you can make your graduation DVD album music slideshow to impress everyone.

Step 3. Burn to DVD :

Click the “Create” tab and Preview the video ,choose “Create DVD”, Select the story you want to create to DVD ,author the DVD Menu and choose the menu template, then burn the graduation DVD album on your DVD disc and display it on TV .

Extra Tips:

You can also choose other video format like “AVI”, “WMV” or “MPEG-2″ which are supported on YouTube ,MySpace, Google Video and other websites, and share it on the web.

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You don’t need to burn a specially formatted disc but just a regular data DVD full of digital photos if you own a DVD player with built-in slide-show features for viewing JPEG images. Lots of new type DVD players have the features such as Sony DVP-NS57P, Pioneer DV-490V-S, LG DN788, Panasonic DVD-S53S/K, Philips DVP5982 and etc. Different types of players with different play menu, photo quantity limitation and so on. So, DVDs display in this style via my Sony player but that on my friend’s Panasonic.

If your DVD player doesn’t have such features, creating DVD photo slide shows via apps will be help and it is a much more stunning and professional way for storage and share. Bellows are kinds of apps.

1. Free apps that can create photo slideshows.

Google’s Picasa, is a free software download from Google. Picasa can make photo slideshows with simple clicks and copy files to DVD media using both the “Backup” and “Gift CD” features, but DVDs create by Picasa can not be played on all types of DVD players.

Windows Movie Maker , included free in XP and Vista, helps to create AVI or WMA slideshows. Although it doesn’t natively burn DVDs playable by many DVD players, Windows Movie Maker has many powerful features (say exquisite effects) to magnetize users and adding DVD writing capabilities to Windows Movie Maker with inexpensive applications will figure it out.

2. Commercial apps wholly make for creating DVD slide shows.

Nero PhotoShow Deluxe 5 ($39.99) is famous and powerful software which includes a massive amount of slide-show-authoring options for photo DVDs. Nero has a 15-day trial for PhotoShow Deluxe, while the free PhotoDVD trial lets you create slide shows with up to 100 images. As a sub-product from Nero, it has highly stability on its writing capability.

DVD Slideshow Builder 4 ($49.95), another professional and popular app that can create DVD photo slideshows with photos, video clips and music in high-resolution HD DVD video format and burn directly. It provides a free trial version with Watermark on output, 30-day trial limitation. What it attract me is its plenty 2D/3D transitions and Ken-Burns effects.