Slideshows are the best way to combine all your photos memorize into a single video with amazing effects. You got photos from your school days? Went to a trip and want all photos taken there in one place? Working on someone’s biography and want to narrate on photos? Slideshows are the answer to all those questions.

You can easily create slideshows right on your PC, all you need is some pictures (good quality) and a dedicated software. Fortunately, there are many free and paid slideshow maker tools available on the internet to choose from. However, it can be a bit tough to select the best tool according to your need.

To help you with your decision, we have reviewed a completely free to use slideshow maker tool called 4K Slideshow Maker . It is a powerful tool and extremely simple to use, one of the main reason why we have reviewed it. So without further ado, let’s get straight to learning how 4K Slideshow Maker can help us create beautiful slideshows.

Introduction

4K Slideshow Maker is created by 4K Download , a software company known for its powerful and completely free to use softwares. As mentioned above, the tool is completely free (no hidden charges) and very simple to use, perfect for beginners.

Although, it doesn’t offer much customization options, but its built-in customized options are more than enough for many people. This flaw is also one of its strong points, as it lets the user (especially, a novice) create an amazing slideshow without tinkering with many settings.

Furthermore, it is also a very light software (just 31 MB), and comes with a portable version to take it anywhere and use it right from the USB drive.

Compatibility & Installation

According to the 4K download website, 4K Slideshow Maker works on Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, OSX 10.9, OSX 10.8, OSX 10.7 and Ubuntu Linux. However, we tested the software on Windows 10 as well. The software worked flawlessly with same performance, you can see it in the screenshot below.

Just download 4K Slideshow Maker for your choice OS from the main downloads page and install it. The installation is simple and doesn’t contain any kind of adware, toolbars or malware, unlike some other free softwares.

Interface

When you will launch the program, you will see a very simple interface. To be honest, it might seem a bit offset as well, there aren’t many menus and grayish interface might not seem too attractive to many photo lovers. However, when we digged deep a bit, we understood its real strength. With simple interface containing least menus, this software makes it easy to focus on what is important and get things done with just few clicks.

You will see quite a few options there, and all of the processes of 4K Slideshow Maker depend on just these options. We are going to explain each one of them to make it easier for you to understand.

1. Add Photos

This one is simple, if you want to add pictures from your PC, just click on this option. The Windows “Open” dialog will open, from which you can select the photos for the slideshow

You can also just click in the middle of the interface to access this option or drag and drop the pictures from Windows Explorer in the middle of the interface to add them to the program.

2. Change Music

You can add background music to the slideshow using this option. Just click on it and select the audio file you want to add. This is pretty much it, now the music/audio will be played behind the slideshow.

However, this feature will work best for music files, as it can be quite hard to sync a narrated audio file with the slideshow. The tool doesn’t offer any live narration option to add narrated audio to a slideshow.

Some of the supported audio formats include, .mp3, .wma, .wav, .ogg, .ape, .flac, .aac and .ac3.

3. Show Preview

You can use this option to preview the slideshow in 4K Slideshow Maker’s built-in video player. It is quite handy to find out how your masterpiece will look like and make required edit