My story begins...
In the early part of the decade when I got my hands on a copy of
Photoshop Elements 2 not really knowing what the heck I was going to do with it. So one day I took out my mothers stash of old photographs. Thought to myself I would add color to them using my imagination. Hehehe, yea right, I saw this button that said "
colorize", clicked it and was so disappointed with what happened..
Yea I was a real neophyte when it came to this type of software. I laugh when I think about that now. Anyway through trial and error I finally figured out a way to add the color to the photographs and taught myself how do do this and did a good bunch of them. I stored them away on the hard drive and forgot about them.
In 2004 I got into
video editing. I got all my brothers video tapes from his 8mm camcorder and made little shows out of them. One day in 2006 a friend of mine wanted to know if I would do a slide show for her for her sons graduation from University. I said I would even though I had never done this before. What did I get myself into!
I tried using the video editors I was used to and for the most part it worked. Then for some reason I pulled up
Google and typed in "
slide show software" and one of the search result listings was
Proshow. I liked what I saw and bought
GOLD. I went on to make my friends show and she was very happy with it. About 6 months later I upgraded to
Producer.
Then one day I got a hair brained idea that involved the colorized photos I talked about in the first paragraph above. I thought I'd do a type of "before and after" show that would exibit the photos before colorization and after colorization. Then I thought why not just incorporate them into a type of family history show. Thats how "
My Colorized Roots" show came about.
After that show I decided to make a show about my Uncle who is MIA in Korea, and basically did the same thing except I didn't have very many photographs of him to use in the show. So I scanned in his medallians, his last written letter, and a few other things, and used them as filler material. Thats how "
The Lost Hero" show came about.
Anyway, I am much like
HunnyB in that I mostly do this for family. Lately though I haven't even done that. I haven't upgraded to version 4 yet so I am probably going to have to learn the software all over again as it incorporates new things I've never used before.
Well, thats basically how I got into making slide shows.
Ben