If you have a series of photos from your recent trip, you can turn these images in to a video slideshow with free slideshow creator to share those photos with friends, or for the pleasure of watching them on a big screen with different transition effects thrown in between.
Bolide Slideshow creator is a freeware for Windows and allows you to create pretty video slideshows using photos and music. The app itself is simple to use with drag and drop functionality. you can drag and drop photos you want to add to your video in to the app or load all the images from a folder into the work space and select which one to add to the video. You can select transitions to add in between photos, there are 38 photo transitions to choose from. One can set the duration for photo as well as for transition from the options. You could also add your favorite tunes to the video to spice it up.
The slideshow creator takes almost any picture format for the slideshow, audio formats including MP3/AAC/WMA/M4A/MP4/OGG are supported for adding music to the video. The output video file can be saved in AVI, MKV or WMV with  up to full HD resolution.
The app is still in beta so you might encounter some issues such as, when i tried to rotate the pictures inside the app it is sluggish.