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People like to celebrate graduation with some graduation gifts. No clue for a graduation gift? In the last article about Top 3 Graduation Gift Ideas, I introduced you three commemoratory graduation gifts that you can present to your friends. And now I will tell details of how to make a graduation DVD slideshow with PowerPoint and PowerPoint to DVD converter.
Why select PowerPoint and PowerPoint to DVD converter
** PowerPoint is very popular.
** PowerPoint is quite user-friendly. Only after some clicks, the phenomenal slideshow will come out.
** PowerPoint is quite effective that you can add songs, pictures, etc. to the files.
** A good PowerPoint to DVD converter such as Wondershare PPT2DVD pro can burn your PowerPoint presentation into DVD with very high quality and create some professional menus for your DVD slideshow.
Prepare resources for graduation DVD slideshow
If you want to make a stunning DVD slideshow, you can prepare some resources such as graduation songs, graduation photos, and graduation blessing words before making DVD slideshow. Here are some resources I search for you.
Songs for Graduation DVD Slideshow:
Here are top 10 graduation songs for you:
School's Out - Alice Cooper
Graduation Day - Chris Isaak
Graduation Day - Kanye West
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) - Green Day
You're Gonna Miss This - Trace Adkins
Photograph - Nickelback
Graduation (Friends Forever) - Vitamin C
Here's To the Night - Eve 6
I'm Not Gonna Cry - Corey Smith
Photos for Graduation DVD Slideshow:
Adding some special photos of significance about your school days, your travel, and your party into the DVD slideshow often can remind him or her school memories. And collecting some other pictures with words like "Happy Graduation!", "I'm Proud of you" are very helpful to show your appriciation and congratulations to your friends in the slideshow.
You can download some available photos from this site: http://www.hellasmultimedia.com/webimages/graduation/graduation_images.htm
Make a DVD slideshow with PowerPoint and PowerPoint to DVD converter
1. Select a PowerPoint template for your graduation slideshow
There are many Free graduation PowerPoint templates you can download from websites. With these delicate PowerPoint templates, your slideshow will be more memorable.
You can also make the template by yourself following these steps: Open PowerPoint Program, View | Slide Master. Paste the photo you want to set as the main background. After that, click Close Master View.
2. Add content to your slideshow
You can add some words that you want to tell your friends
3. Add photos to your slideshow
To insert pictures, you just need to click Insert | Pictures, select the photos you just prepared.
4. Insert songs into your slideshow
To insert songs, you just need to click Insert | Sound, then select photos you want to insert from your computer.
5. Add animations to pictures
There are a lot of animations in PowerPoint. Adding animations to pictures will make the slideshow more vivid.
6. Create a graduation DVD slideshow
This is the last step to make a DVD slideshow. In this step, you can burn your PowerPoint slideshow onto DVD Disc with Wondershare PPT2DVD.
Make a meaningful graduation DVD slideshow as gift. Leave the impressing time in mind forever.
