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If your images are in Google Photos or a folder on Google Drive, you have several ways to show a series of these images. Each method allows unlike degrees of control. For example, not every choice lets you control motorcar-accelerate timing or play specific music or audio files with specific images. Any of the following options will help you lot create a slideshow of images.

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How to create a slideshow from a Google Photos anthology in a browser

From a web browser, Google Photos offers a slideshow selection. If you share a Google Photos anthology and let other people to add photos, this can be a bang-up manner to display photos from dissimilar people.

To brandish a Google Photos anthology as a slideshow, first create an album and add together photos. Then, with the album agile, select the vertical iii-dot menu and cull Slideshow (Effigy A). The images will auto-advance every five seconds. An on-screen display includes intermission, back, and forward controls. To prove images in a different sequence, you lot may suit the organization of the images inside the album.

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With an album open in Google Photos on the spider web, select the vertical three-dot menu in the upper right, then cull Slideshow.

How to create a movie with Google Photos

The Google Photos web and mobile apps (Android and iOS) allow yous make a movie using photos and/or videos. To create a movie in mobile apps, select the three-dot carte in the upper right, then cull Movie. To create a film from Google Photos in a browser, select the +Create option (to the right of the photograph search box) then cull Pic. Select upwardly to 50 photos and/or videos to include in your moving-picture show (Figure B). Afterwards you've selected your images, adjust the slider next to each item to change the on-screen duration of each, if yous wish.

Your movie also may include music. You may choose the stock music offered inside the app, or select and add together your own audio file. Of course, you too may choose the No Music choice.

Figure B

In Google Photos in your browser, select +Create, then Movie in Google Photos, and and so choose up to l images or videos. The process works similarly from the 3-dot menu (upper right) in the Google Photos mobile apps.

How to select and show images with Chrome OS Gallery

If you use a Chromebook or other Chrome OS devices, the Files app includes a gallery characteristic with a slideshow option. To access information technology, open up the Files app, which has a white folder with a blue background equally an icon, then Ctrl-click on one or more images to select a prepare.

Right-click when you lot're washed, then cull Open up With Gallery from the options. Await a moment for the images selected to appear in the Gallery. Next, select the rectangle with an pointer that points to the right (in the upper right corner area) to display the images as a slideshow (Figure C). As within the Google Photos app, the images machine-advance every v seconds. You also may cull to intermission or select right or left arrows to move through the images.

Figure C

On a Chromebook or Chrome OS device, use Ctrl-click to select images, then right-click and choose Open With Gallery, equally shown on the left. In the Gallery (right), choose the slideshow icon (upper correct corner).

How to create a slideshow with Google Slides

For more precise control, you might employ Google Slides. Although information technology takes a scrap more work to add each of your images to a separate slide, you may notice the timing options worth it. Where Google Photos and Chrome OS Gallery slideshows both auto-accelerate every five seconds, Slides offers auto-advance options of 1 minute or two, 3, v, ten, fifteen, or 30 minutes. To enable auto-advance, select Present while in Slides on the web, and so choose the sprocket (for settings). Cull Auto-Advance (When Played), so select a timing option (Effigy D). You also may turn on the Loop option to bike through the slides until manually stopped.

Google Slides as well lets you insert sound on individual slides, with a diverseness of controls. See the "How to insert audio in Google Slides" section in How to use Google Slides enhancements for presentations for details.

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You might also add images in Google Slides. After y'all select Present From Slides in a browser, select the sprocket (for settings), then Automobile-Accelerate (When Played), and then choose how many seconds each images displays.

How to make a slideshow with mobile apps

Third-political party apps for Android and iOS give y'all greater control over motorcar-accelerate image pacing than Google's ain Photos, Gallery, or Slides options. On iOS devices, SoloSlides ($ane.99) lets y'all select a Google Photos anthology for your slideshow and specify nearly whatsoever auto-advance time you want. On Android, pFolio ($3.99) includes a slideshow option for Google Photos albums, where gFolio ($iii.99) displays images from a folder you choose on Google Drive (Figure E).

For precise control over all aspects of images and music, you might plow to your preferred video editing app, such as Adobe Premiere Blitz, Apple Clips, iMovie, KineMaster, or LumaFusion, among many others.

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Third-party mobile apps offer additional options. SoloSlides on iOS (left two images) and pFolio on Android (right two images) let y'all not only choose a variety of auto-advance timing options, only also customize several other slideshow settings.

What's your experience?

What is your preferred method to create a slideshow with images in Google Photos or Google Drive? Practice you prefer to show photos from a Google Photos album, or exercise you lot adopt a method that lets you conform automobile-advance timings? If you prefer an alternative slideshow app, share that as well—either in the comments below or on Twitter (@awolber).