Rightly or wrongly, I've been using Picasa for years to store and edit travel photos.

I've occasionally used Picasa (Picasa Web?) to create slideshows and put on Blogger pages to share with friends and family.

Now, all friends and family seem to be on iPads, and Picasa slideshows are in Flash.

I've used "Slidemypics.com" to easily convert the slideshows, but it loses the captions that were created in Picasa.

I tried HTML Five Slideshow maker, and it's not easy to use (and seems to lose the captions as well).

Any suggestions?

I'm also open to eventually creating a website to house all this, so I'll be asking about that next.

And also eventually asking "What's a cool way to post those cool panoramic photos that looks so cool?"


I know this isn't the kind of stuff folks usually address here at CH, so if there's a better website for me to go to, I'll take that advice as well.

Thanks Here's an idea that might work for you. Unless you just enjoy doing a lot of work, it's best to use the easy and quick method with stuff that's already available.
Assuming the slideshow runs quite well on your personal computer, there is a practical way to to make a copy of it and provided to your friends and relatives who use tablets for cell phones.
You can ACQUIRE the entire hardware or software programs that will capture live video. The good ones will capture very high resolution video and audio. It will be stored in a format that can be LATER converted to a suitable file The most common video files used for, tablets, and cell phones is either MP4 or AVI. Both of which can be reduced in size and frame rate and bit to suit smaller devices.

You might start out by trying some of the free software programs that are available. To use these programs, you'll need to have a high-performance desktop computer and no tasks running in the background. Here are links  that identifies some of the popular free video capture software programs available.
Free trial from Adobe.

http://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/

http://www.ezvid.com/top_5_free_video_capture_software_for_windows

I have no recent experience. But I am sure it is easier now than it used to be.
Disclaimer: These tools are for use only on material you own and are not for copyright abuse.
So if I understand your suggestions, it's basically - Create a video of the slideshow, and post the video.

Hm. That's interesting.

You'd have to "rewind" instead of clicking back and forth, but that is an interesting solution!

rjbAnother way is to Google this:
Adapting a Slide Show to Mobile device.
I think there are apps for mobile that do this.
Or else it is embedded into a web site using some kind of SCRIPT. They do that in some WordPress blogs.


Thanks, Geek.

My Googling led to the two aforementioned software solutions; Googling your exact phrasing only leads to WordPress solutions. Everything I have, INCLUDING links that have been SHARED, already points to Blogger not WordPress, so I'm hesitant to move everything if I don't have to.

That's not a Must (I could always just post re-direct links), but what is a Must is being able to use photos as edited already in Picasa (including captions)...

So if anyone else has other suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

(Also, thoughts on making cool panoramic pictures look cool online?)