Picsart Photo Slideshow — guide skill for greetings & celebrations
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Official Picsart recipe: your photos in order, a transition at every seam, blurred fill and an animated title, for birthday and anniversary reels.
- Type: Guide · Greetings & celebrations
- Slug:
picsart-photo-slideshow - Status: live
- Publisher: PicsArt (community)
- License: MIT
- Source: https://github.com/PicsArt/gen-ai-skills/tree/main/skills/photo-slideshow
- Works in: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- Requires: Picsart gen-ai CLI and account (picsart_scene_* tools)
- Adoption: 6 GitHub stars (GitHub, 2026-10-30)
What it does
Probes every photo's size, sequences them as a clip track with transitions, fills off-aspect photos with a blurred copy, adds a title that stays readable over any photo, picks a font, and verifies with a sweep of full-resolution frames. Values validated at 1080x1920. Repo also ships background-music (music bed that ducks under speech).
Use when
- A vertical birthday / anniversary photo reel with a name title, from the person's own photos.
Not for
- AI-generated scenes; works on supplied photos only.
Install
- Claude Code:
npx skills add PicsArt/gen-ai-skills --skill photo-slideshow -a claude-code -y - Codex:
npx skills add PicsArt/gen-ai-skills --skill photo-slideshow -a codex -y - Cursor:
npx skills add PicsArt/gen-ai-skills --skill photo-slideshow -a cursor -y - Gemini CLI:
npx skills add PicsArt/gen-ai-skills --skill photo-slideshow -a gemini-cli -y - Any agent, with the vargai CLI:
vargai install picsart-photo-slideshow
How-to tutorials that use it
- How to make a birthday video with AI: A birthday video that is unmistakably theirs: their name sung on the chorus, their photo blowing out the candles, the details only their people know.
More greetings & celebrations skills
- Turn photos and a name into a personalized AI birthday video: A birthday video that is theirs: a song that sings the name, their photo blowing out the candles, a retro camcorder tape, then-and-now; tested on varg.
- Turn photos into an AI invitation, holiday greeting or tribute video: Invitations and save-the-dates that print the names right, Christmas, Diwali and Eid greetings, old photos brought to life and calm tributes; tested on varg.
- ACE-Step 1.5 songs: Official skills for the open-source ACE-Step 1.5 music model: write the lyrics, then a full sung song made locally, such as a birthday song with a name.
- Eachlabs Age Transformation: Age progression and de-aging from one photo, for a then-and-now milestone birthday with the person's consent.
- Eachlabs Photo Restoration: Repair scratches, tears and fading, restore faces and colorize black-and-white family photos before you animate them.
- Eachlabs Wedding Invitation Generation: Invitations, save-the-dates, RSVP cards and e-invites in classic, floral, rustic, destination and cultural styles; design the card, then animate it.