Slide show used at club 40th : How to create your own

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 At our club's 40th birthday weekend we had a TV running a slide show of more than 100 photos from Cane Country Squares 40 year history. 

Our earliest photos begin in 1983 with our first club caller, Steve Shorey. Photos continue on with various dance events and theme nights till the end of 2022. Some key events are Shirley Kelly taking on the role of club caller in 1985 and Matthew Mills becoming Co-Caller in 2008. 

The old album photos were scanned (from back in the days we printed all our photos) and added to our collection of digital photos. 

The most useful feature added to these photos was the text written on each photo to give some of the information we knew about them, such as the event, date and some of people in them.

We have gotten a lot of positive feed back about the display and a number of enquiries about how other clubs could do the same, without using complex and expensive software. My software of choice is CorelDraw and Corel Photo-Paint but another similar, more commonly know program is Adobe Photo Shop. These are not cheap programs and require some time to learn how to use them.

The cheap way to add text to photos can be done with two programs that come with your personal computer running Windows. These are MS Paint and MS Photos. They have limited functions but can produce text written on photos and some basic photo editing.

I also cover saving the photos to a USB drive, to run your Slide Show on most current TVs. 

Click on the links to each instruction page.

View the slide show, extended with photos from our 40th Birthday weekend, as a You Tube video below.



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