Val Makes Pizza!

If you're looking for a delicious quick dinner to make, check out this cool new fig pizza recipe Kay posted over at her site, The Nite Note. It's a really gorgeous slideshow. I love the Italian colors she's got going in the photos.

She used the Soundslide software that I use here -- and that most news sites are currently using to create slideshows. One of my big plans at Seattlepi.com is to start asking our readers to submit their own recipe slideshows, just like this.

If you'd like to try making a slideshow, I can't recommend Soundslides strongly enough. It's so incredibly easy. Basically, you open the program, and it asks you: Oh, you want to make a project? Okay, what file will you save it in?

You select a file and it says, Okay, now where's the pictures at?

You browse for the folder where you've saved your project folders and bang -- the program assembles the whole thing for you. Then you go through and drag and drop the pictures until they're in the order you like. You can add captions, a title, and bang. You're done. 10 minutes.

Really an amazing piece of software.

If you are interested in narrarating your Soundslide it's super easy to add an audio file. (Where's the audio file at?) Just like with the photos, you point the program at the audio file on your computer and woosh, it uploads it. You drag a little slider around to change the timing of when the pictures come up in the audio. Super easy.

You can get Soundslides here for 70 bucks -- and incredible bargain.

You can get a free and relatively intuitive audio editing software here.

While I'm at it, perhaps the best free photo editing software is Picasa, offered by Google.

What to see how cool your results can be? Check out the seattlepi.com's past soundslides here.

Need to upload your soundslide to the interconnected tubes of the Web? CuteFTP is my favorite free software for doing that.

Need a place to upload them to? Blogger's free, dude. Get to work.