Online slideshow maker

[Pelikal]

I wonder if anyone here has any suggestions for an online slideshow maker.

I'm about to make a number of speculative work enquiries, the work being of a photographic nature and I want to link to a slideshow of samples of my work from my email covering letter. I have a Photobucket account and the pics are uploaded. I copy the slideshow link and paste the URL into the appropriate place, this all works fine. Very neat, just what I wanted.

However, I sent a test email to a friend and the response was "looks good, shame about the ads.". I was unaware of any ads. but then I do have adblock. I do not want ads, I can't afford the presentation to look cheap or gimmicky. After so much work on research, the letter, CV and images themselves I really don't want to be let down by the presentation.

Hence, any suggestions for an alternative. From a search, I see there are a good number out there any of which may do the trick. I don't need any thrills, effects or sounds just a fade transition from one slide to the next. Presently, the number of slides is 11 so quite small.

If it's of any relevance, my ISP is BT and I'm using BT/Yahoo mail. Maybe there is something in there that could work that I'm unaware of.

The PB solution was so close. Many thanks.

[mixture]

Flickr do slideshows without intrusive ads I believe ?

I assume you're after some ready made service rather than messing around with code and hosting it yourself ?

[Pelikal]

mixture, thanks. I'll look into Flickr.

As to "messing around with code and hosting it yourself". Interesting thought, perhaps worth looking into!

Cheers.

[mixture]

I'll try to dig up a couple of names of slideshow software you can use when hosting yourself, I looked it up for someone about a year ago, so might still be lurking around my bookmarks somewhere.

[Mac the Knife]

Irfanview (free) can package your images into a nice single executable slideshow that you can attach to your email.

Just change mysideshow.exe to mysideshow.rename-as-exe before you send it since most email clients are suspicious of executable files.

Or you could just zip the images and send them as a zipfile.

Mac

:oh:

PS: Here's a little forgotten gem: Use a Built-In Windows Utility to Create Self-Extracting Archives (http://lifehacker.com/384658/use-a-built+in-windows-utility-to-create-self+extracting-archives)

[Pelikal]

Ok, just as an interim 'report', Flickr isn't quite doing it for me for this purpose; too fussy. I'm getting all confused with their terminology, so I think I'll leave that one for now.

I'll try and explain my 'workflow' and thinking:

I used Scribus, the open source DTP package, to create pages. These pages consist of many image elements, ie my photographs, and text elements. (As an ex-Compositor, quite a handy package). I can export the entire document as a single PDF and then attach this to my email. This is quite neat but the PDF is large and does involve the recipient waiting for the download. This is still an option.

However, I then discovered that I could export the Scribus pages as individual images, in a variety of formats. These are the images that I refer to. This led me to the 'bright idea' of shoving them on PB and creating a link in my email to a slideshow. 'Click here to see samples of my work' sort of thing.

Irfanview - looks interesting, will have a look. If I were to use it for a speculative work enquiry, I guess that would be for commercial use.

Just wondering, if I accept the limitations of PB I'm unsure of what privacy settings to use. Private but with a password I would have to supply or just stick with public.

[Pelikal]

Well, had another poke around Flickr and it does actually give the result I want. I guess I was a bit lazy at first. Images appear crisper than PB and no ads.

Thanks to all for suggestions, I'm glad I asked here!:ok:

[cattletruck]

I used SlideShare once a long, long time ago (Upload & Share PowerPoint presentations, documents, infographics (http://www.slideshare.net)). Back then it was just for business stuff, they've grown a bit since so I don't know what the experience is like now, perhaps you can try it out and let us know. :ok:

[Pelikal]

cattletruck, thanks, :ok:I will add that one to my list to explore. For now, Flickr worked.

[fastaviation]

I'm using slideshare too. It is good. There are also many slideshow maker online. Flickr is also good. I tried it once.