Family pictures are an important source for our memories of family history. Most families have some ambition to sort through all their pictures, arrange them in albums, and with today's computer technologies digitize the photos so they can be viewed on television or through projection onto a screen.
Once photos are sorted, scanned and arranged into slide shows that can be accessed by computer or DVD player, multiple copies can be distributed to all family members so no one needs to feel left out.
Families also are smart to plan ahead for rites of passage types of events at which a slide show can be a valuable feature: weddings, wedding anniversaries, birthdays, and funerals. I recently created one of these for a son-in-law's grandfather for presentation at his 100th birthday. Each party attendee received both a DVD and a CD. The DVD was used to play the presentation on a large screen TV. The CD included all the pictures(accessible for making prints) and also a pdf document containing all of the family history. The picture below shows a sample CD menu that has the history document and the slide show play button.
Once photos are sorted, scanned and arranged into slide shows that can be accessed by computer or DVD player, multiple copies can be distributed to all family members so no one needs to feel left out.
Families also are smart to plan ahead for rites of passage types of events at which a slide show can be a valuable feature: weddings, wedding anniversaries, birthdays, and funerals. I recently created one of these for a son-in-law's grandfather for presentation at his 100th birthday. Each party attendee received both a DVD and a CD. The DVD was used to play the presentation on a large screen TV. The CD included all the pictures(accessible for making prints) and also a pdf document containing all of the family history. The picture below shows a sample CD menu that has the history document and the slide show play button.
Here's a video clip of a slide show that has tags and captions. The elder generation needs to convey to the younger generation who appears in the family picture collection, and this is one way to get identifications in the DVD slide show (the YouTube cuts off one side and doesn't maintain text quality, but all tags and captions are legible when played as a DVD on a television set).
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