I recently began playing with a product Microsoft released just recently called Photo Story 3 for Windows. Photo Story 3 allows you to create video slideshows or 'stories' with your photo collection and add all kinds of transitional effects, text & text effects, themes and even set it to a musical soundtrack.

This video clip I did with a few photos I took of Melbourne last week was fairly basic with a few transitional effects set to a musical soundtrack, but the clip gives you a good indication of what you can expect to acomplish with the software.

Enough of me hyping it up, go try it out for yourself. For a quick 5MB download, its well worth it if you have a large photo collection you want to share with friends and family in a different way.