Have a bunch of photos and you don't know what to do with them? share them with your friends on Facebook? It is a great idea. Because Facebook is the most popular social networking website and allows you to easily share photos and pictures with your friends.

However, have you ever thought of turning these photos and pictures into a slideshow and upload the video to Facebook? it will be a great surprise to your friend, but how to make a slideshow on facebook? we are going to learn here togther.

The first step in making a slideshow, is finding a software program, that is easy to use, and can add music to your slideshow. Well, most computers with windows, have a program called Windows Movie Maker! You can create great slideshows with this program, add music, and even narrate your own words to your slideshow. There are other programs available, but for now, we will concentrate on Windows Movie Maker 2.6, and for ease of writing, from here on will be known as WMM. If you want to make a slideshow on mac, here is a mac slideshow software to help you.

Step 1: Open up WMM, Once you have done this, go to FILE, click, and you will see a box that contains the words, IMPORT INTO COLLECTIONS! Click this, it will open a drop down box, and in there should show a list of places on your computer.Wherever you have placed your pics on your computer, click there, and next, click on the photos you want to import to use for your slideshow! I always hold control and click each pic I want to use. Once you have selected your pics, now click open, and they will appear in WMM. (Don't worry if you forgot one or two, you can always add more pics later)

Step 2: Open up Story board, you can use Timeline, place your pics, left click, and drag your pics to the story board, either way is as good as the other. Don't worry if they aren't placed just the way you wanted them, you can place them in any order you want, just click and drag into the position that suits you!

Tips: about your slideshow, and that is adding titles, and captions to your slideshow. Titles can be added easily, and you have several choices, as where to add them. First, you can add a title to your slideshow! You can click on a clip, then click the following choices, Before selected clip, On selected clip, After selected clip! You can also add credits to the end of your slideshow as well. To add titles, etc. to your slideshow, once again, we go to the TOOLS Tab, and from the drop down box, click, Titles and Credits! It is self explanatory from the choices!

Step 3: Now that your pics, are all loaded onto the story board, you may want to add some video effects! WMM comes loaded with some great effects, to find these effects go to the TOOLS tab, click it, and in the drop down box, click on Video Effects! There are a great many there to play around with! To add a video effect, left click on the effect you want, and drag it to the little box with the star in it, and place it there. This isn't a have to, add, but some of the effects, really add to your slideshow! So go through all your pics, or just some, it is entirely up to you!

Step 4: Adding transitions between your slides! Transitions are what happens between each slide, very similar to effects. Once again, click on the TOOLS tab, from the drop down box, click Video Transitions. There are a wide range of transitions. To add a Video transition, you left click the one you want, and drag it to the box with the arrow in it between your pics. It's just that easy.

If you want to add music to your slideshow, you can follow the following steps.

Step 5: You now want to add music to your slideshow. First, you have to upload the music you want to your computer. Throw a CD into your CD/DVD drive, pick the song, and save it to your Music Files on your hard drive. Now that you have the song you want, once again, you go toIMPORT into Collections, find the song you have placed on your computer, click it, and add it to your Collections! Once you have it there, left click the song, and drag it to the beginning of the timeline. Actually, you can place it anywhere you want on the timeline, but for ease of explanation, we will put it at the beginning of your slideshow! That's it, we have now put together a slideshow. Before we save the slideshow to your computer, because that is what we want to do next, hit play, and give her a try!

Once again, go to your timeline, now, click on the end of the song, and drag it to where your pics stop! That's all there is to it. Now, try playing your slideshow again. Better? The song stops in a stupid place? Well you can LOOP it, that will solve that problem! You can even add more pics, etc., to make it fit the way you want.

Okay, so now you know how to make a slideshow for on Facebook, but you have to put it all together, to create the slideshow, as a file on your computer! Go to the File tab, click Save file, you will be prompted to give it a name, save it. Well, upload your file to YouTube! You will need an account for this, but it is free, doesn't take long to set up, and it's easy!

Once your account is created on Youtube, upload you slideshow, the powers that be, at Youtube, will process your video, once it has finished processing, they will send you an email, telling you it's already to go! They may mention the fact that you have music added that you don't own, but they will look after this little detail for you. Now you are ready to show your friends, the slideshow you made. You simply hit the Share button on Youtube, and there will be icons there, one of which is a FaceBook icon, hit that, and PRESTO< there is your slideshow on FaceBook, for all your friends and family to see!

Sounds exciting? Yes, so, just follow the steps. If you want to make more slideshow for other use, the free slideshow maker here can help you.