Tutorial: Create a slideshow in Google Sites with Photo Gallery

Post date: Mar 02, 2017 4:31:50 PM

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Goal

As Picasa / Google Photos deprecated its slideshow feature, one remaining solution was to add your photos as slides from a Google presentation. But this can be very time consuming if you have many photos!

Thanks to our Photo Gallery add-on, you can simply put all your photos in a Drive folder or upload them to Google Photos, and we will automatically insert them in a Google Slides. It will also create a photo gallery in an Awesome Table view. Both can be embedded in any website to display a slideshow / photo gallery of your album.

What you'll build

By using Photo Gallery, you will create a photo gallery with Awesome Table and a slideshow with Google Slides from photos stored in your Drive folder or on Google Photos, that you can insert in a Google Sites:

Here’s the tutorial to insert a slideshow in Google Sites with Photo Gallery.

Time to complete

10 min.

Prerequisites

Before beginning this tutorial, you should feel comfortable using Google Sites and basic options with Google Drive and Google Photos.

Running a simple example

After taking many pictures from holidays, you want to share them on your website. This tutorial will show you how to do that.

Upload photos in a Drive folder or create an album on Google Photos:

From Google Drive

From Google Photos

Install Photo Gallery on a Google Sheets

Click on the button below to install the add-on:

Install Photo Gallery

You can also install it on a new spreadsheet: Simply go to the add-on menu, then ‘Get add-ons…’ and search for ‘Photo Gallery’:

Use Photo Gallery to create the slideshow

Once installed, click Add-ons and select Photo Gallery by Awesome table.

In the right sidebar, click 'Use existing album', then select your Drive folder that contains the photos you want in your slideshow:

If you prefer, you can also choose a photo album from Google Photos, then validate:

When the add-on finishes to load your pictures, click to view the Slideshow on a Google Slides that has been created:

Embed your slideshow on your Google Sites

In your Google Sites, go to ‘INSERT’ then click ‘Slides’:

Select the newly created slideshow, resize it if needed, and insert it in your website:

Update 8/3/2017: It is now possible to retrieve your photo album from Google Photos!

For the moment we are just able to retrieve your photos from a Google Drive folder, but we are already working on an integration with Google Photos so that you can directly pick your album from it.

We hope you will enjoy using Photo Gallery to embed many beautiful slideshows in your Google Sites!