Make a Halloween PhotoShowRevive the ghosts of Halloweens past. Create a PhotoShow of your family's best costumes, scariest pumpkins and spookiest decorations for an eye-popping treat that will be the highlight of any holiday party. You can create a dynamic multimedia show with music, special effects and animation in minutes. Watch the kids grow, costume by costume!

Better yet, involve the whole family. Everyone can have fun gathering photos, choosing music, and adding captions and special effects. You'll create new memories while you relive the old ones. Play your spooky show on your big-screen TV as a backdrop to your Halloween celebrations, even use it in a haunted house! Or put it on your Web site or blog (including Facebook and MySpace), email it to friends and relatives, or burn a DVD.

So how does it all work? The best way to learn is simply to create a PhotoShow! Here, we'll show you how to create a Halloween PhotoShow on PhotoShow.com.

Step-by-Step: 1. Start your PhotoShow. Go to PhotoShow.com, and click the button to “Get Started Now,”

or the “Make a PhotoShow” tab at the top. You’ll see the following Web page. If you aren't already signed in, sign in now. You can create a free or Premium account immediately. The Premium service lets you add your own video and MP3s, burn DVDs of your shows, and choose from many more styles and effects. Once signed in, click the Add Photos button.

2. Add your photos. Now select the photos you want to use in your slideshow in the "le browser that pops up. You can add multiple photos at once from the same folder by holding down the Control key. When you’re done, you’ll see your photos queued up in a list. You can also add videos if you have a Premium account. When you're "nished adding to the queue, click the Upload button. Note that we could also have imported photos from Facebook, Shutter#y, Flickr or Picasa, using the options at the right of the screen (see Step 1). You can add more photos at any time, from any source, while you’re creating your show.

3. Give your show a title. Enter a title and credits in the boxes and click OK. Don’t worry, you can edit these later if you need to change them.

4. Start personalizing your show. Now the fun begins! Notice the tabs at the top of the PhotoShow window: Style, Music & Photos, Captions, and so on. We'll proceed from left to right in this tutorial, but you can go back and forth between these tabs in whatever order you like to personalize your show. Let’s click the More Styles button to see the choices.

5. Choose a style. Since our theme is Halloween, we'll click the Holidays button and then select the Halloween style. There are dozens to choose from. You can see a preview of each style in the upper right corner. Click OK.

6. Arrange your photos. Now click on the Music & Photos tab. Here, you’ll see all your photos in the order they will appear, together with any backing music. To rearrange photos, just drag them into the order you'd like them to appear. Notice the "Last Ghost in Town" title in the background. This is the music track that comes with the Halloween style. You can drag the blue handles to change where the music starts and stops.

7. Add a music track. Let's choose different music for the beginning of the show, by dragging the blue handle to limit the current music to the last two slides, then clicking the music icon on the "rst photo. (Three action icons appear when you hover over a photo: rotate, delete, and music.)

8. Select or upload a track. Let’s choose an upbeat children's track, “Dancing in the Streets.” You can preview any of the songs by clicking the speaker icon. If you have a Premium account, you can also add your own MP3s by clicking the Upload button at bottom left.

9. Preview your show. Now you can see the second music track in a different color. Before moving on, let’s check out the entire show, with music, by clicking the Preview button. You can also check the show so far with the Preview button.

10. Add Captions. Now click the Captions tab. Here, you can enter captions for each photo and choose a style. You can drag captions anywhere on a slide, and resize them using the sliders at bottom left. Click the Next button to move from slide to slide.

11. Add Bubbles. Click the Bubbles tab. Bubbles are fun speech balloons like the ones you see in cartoons. To add a bubble, simply drag it to the slide. Then type in some text and move the size slider as needed to "t. You can add bubbles to as many slides as you like.

12. Add Stickers. Click the Stickers tab. (We’ll skip the Title tab since we entered our title and credits earlier and don’t need to change them. But you can customize the title text, style, and background at any time.) Stickers come in tons of fun shapes and themes. You'll "nd everything from #ying ghosts and witches to hopping Easter bunnies. Some are animated, like the witch below, and some aren't, like the pumpkins. You can drag stickers wherever you like on a slide, and resize them with the slider.

13. Add Borders. Now click on to the last tab, Border. Here, you can choose a frame for your slides. Our Halloween theme already has a good border, so we'll leave it as is, but there are many others to choose from. You can also turn borders on or off for each slide.

14. Preview your PhotoShow. Now that you’re "nished personalizing your show, check it at full size by clicking the Preview Mode button. If you see anything you’d like to change, simply click the appropriate tab and edit it. One you’re satis"ed, close the Preview pane and click the Done button to save your show and start sharing it.

15. Share your PhotoShow. There are four basic sharing options: email; Web posting; DVD; and certain cable video-on-demand systems. Click the email button to send a link to the show to family and friends. You can type in a message, and import contacts from your Outlook, Gmail, AOL or Yahoo address books. With a Premium account, you can also save shows to your hard drive in MP4 format, for viewing on your iPod or other portable player. Now, wasn't that fun and easy?