Make a baby slideshow of the moments you want to keep

Organize by age and milestone

Start with a small photo list outside the editor: the picture, when it was taken, the baby's age and why you want to keep that moment. Arrange this list by age before adding files. A photo received from a grandparent today may belong near the start of the story.

1. Set the period. Choose a first month, a first year or another stretch of early childhood. A first-year video can use monthly portraits as its main sequence, with a few family moments between them.
2. Select changes you actually recorded. Include the first photo at home, a favorite expression, time with a sibling or an outing. Use your child's own story; you do not need a particular achievement in every month.
3. Leave honest gaps. If a month has no useful photo, move to the next confirmed moment. Do not give an undated picture a precise age just to complete a monthly set.
4. Add and reorder. Open the workbench and choose Add photos. Drag the pictures into your planned order, or select one and use the earlier/later arrows. The editor does not calculate ages or sort a baby timeline for you.

One first-year plan uses twelve monthly photographs and four family or milestone pictures. At four seconds each, plus a three-second opening and closing card, those 16 photos make a 70-second paid story. For Free, twelve photos at 4.5 seconds each plus the cards make 60 seconds. These are editable examples, not a developmental timetable. Automatic timing shares out the remaining time; you still check every age label and choose the order.

Use JPEG, PNG or WebP files, up to 20 MB each and 100 MB in total. Select a photo to change its Duration between 1 and 15 seconds in half-second steps. Keep the whole video within 60 seconds on Free or 180 seconds for a paid project. If you want a longer record with many more photos, keep the full album separately or choose an editor designed for a longer film.

Keep faces and details in frame

For a video mainly watched upright on a phone, try 9:16 under Video format. For a landscape family screen, choose 16:9. Decide from the viewing situation, then inspect the mixture of portrait and landscape photos you have; one shape will not closely match every picture.

Under Photo fit, choose Whole photo to keep the original picture visible, accepting space around it when the shapes differ. Fill frame crops the picture to fill the video. That crop may remove a hand, a foot, the top of the head or a relative standing at the edge. Photo fit is a setting for the entire slideshow, so a change made while looking at one portrait also affects the wider family photos.

Start with Gentle photo movement off. Select each photo and check the face, the details you want to remember and anyone else in the frame. If you turn movement on, play through the photo as well as looking at the paused image. After changing Video format, repeat the check rather than assuming the earlier framing still works.

A complete picture can still have a caption across its lower part. Keep important hands, faces and keepsakes clear of that text. If the caption covers them, shorten or remove it, or use a different picture. You cannot drag the caption to a different position. Whole photo prevents the fit crop; it does not move the caption away from a subject.

Add dates and little details

Check the date before writing the memory around it. Consult the original photo in your album and any family notes, then ask the person who took it if something does not line up. Treat a received or scanned file's date as something to check, not proof of when the scene happened. Compare the date with the birth date before using a precise age label.

For example, if your records confirm that the baby was three months old in May 2026, a caption could read “3 months · May 2026 · Laughing with Dad.” Only call a moment a “first” when your records support that wording. Otherwise, describe what is visible: “A sunny afternoon with Dad” still keeps the memory without inventing a milestone.

• If you know the month but not the day, use the month. If only the age is reliable, use the age and leave the date out.
• Check names and spellings with the family member concerned. Keep the age labels consistent, such as “2 months” and “3 months.”
• If two relatives remember different dates, look for the original album or another record. Omit the disputed detail until it can be settled; it does not need to hold up the whole video.

Select a photo and enter the wording in Caption. There is one caption field per photo, limited to 120 characters. Favor a short phrase with one detail over a list of measurements and events. Play it at the chosen Duration and read it once without pausing. If it feels hurried, cut words or give that picture more time.

Put a family-approved name or date range in the opening text card and a short message in the closing card. Quiet Light is a gentle suggested accompaniment; Warm Days and Small Celebrations are also available on Free and paid projects. A silent keepsake works too. For your own permitted MP3, WAV or M4A up to 30 MB, use Add your music and follow the music guide. Listen with the pictures before exporting.

Choose a family sharing scope

Decide whether this is a keepsake for your own device or a copy for named relatives. For a shared copy, leave out identifying locations and unnecessary personal details, and check with other parents about pictures that include their children. Ask recipients not to repost it; private messages can still be copied or forwarded. These precautions follow the eSafety Commissioner's child privacy guidance.

Free editing and export process your photos in this browser, without an account. Export free 720p produces a watermarked copy. A paid project’s Export 1080p produces a copy without a watermark using private server processing; one project credit unlocks one project. See pricing and limits; paid checkout is not open yet. Wait for completion, then choose Download video. Open the saved MP4, check its pictures, captions and sound, and then share that file through the method you chose. Any privacy settings for that later sharing belong to that service, not this editor.

Keep the original photos, your date notes and a backup of the finished MP4. The editor saves one draft on the same device and browser when storage is available. Wait for Draft saved on this device before relying on a refresh to restore it. If you see Draft not saved, keep the tab open and download a completed video before leaving. The draft is not a long-term backup. Account drafts and guest drafts are separate; a guest draft can be continued after signing in.

If you choose Save project while signed in, the photos and music upload to a private server project in My projects. Each unused credit provides one unexported draft slot, and server files expire 30 days from the first cloud save. Optional OpenAI text or image checks send only the content you choose to check after your explicit consent. Neither action creates a public family album or an audience-controlled sharing link.

To remove material, choose the action that matches the copy you mean:

• One photo in the editor: use that photo's remove button. If other photos remain, wait for the updated draft to save. Removing the last photo clears the saved draft; if that clearing fails, the editor reports the error and keeps the photo. Retry rather than assuming it was cleared.
• The complete local draft: choose Clear photos and confirm. On success this clears the photos, music and saved draft in this browser. It leaves your source files and downloaded videos on your device. If clearing fails, the error says the photos are still there.
• A private server project: use Delete project in My projects. Clearing the local workspace does not delete a server copy.
• A downloaded or shared video: delete unwanted local files separately and use the sharing service's own deletion options. Ask recipients to delete their copies too; clearing this workspace cannot recall them.

If MP4 export is unavailable, keep your source files and caption notes before trying a current desktop Chrome browser; the draft stays with its original browser. For a first-birthday party message, continue with the birthday guide. For a story that follows several generations, use the family slideshow guide.