Use the Photo Share slide

Photo Share turns the big screen into a live photo wall that the whole room builds together. You pose a prompt, your audience takes or picks a photo on their phones, and each one appears on screen the moment it lands. It is an unscored media slide — no question, no timer, no points — so it stays up and keeps filling for as long as the room keeps sharing.

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Photo Share at a glance

Participants join the usual way, with the join code or QR code, and need no app or login.

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Create a Photo Share slide

You can also add your own photos ahead of time from the editor — they play in the same slideshow as your audience’s, so you can seed the wall before the room joins or run a slide entirely from photos you supply. As you set the slide up, the editor canvas previews the shape of your chosen display mode before any photo arrives, so you can compare the modes without a live submission.

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Photo Share display modes

Display mode sets the rhythm of the wall. There are three:

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Tiled wall

Every photo stays on screen at once, and new arrivals pop in as they land — the classic live photo wall. Two extra controls shape it:

• Photo layout — how the tiles are arranged: Uniform grid, Mosaic (featured tiles), Masonry columns, or Polaroid collage. In Mosaic, AhaSlides picks which photos get the bigger tiles, and each photo keeps its size as new ones arrive.
• Transition — how the wall keeps moving between arrivals: Shuffle, Drift, Spotlight, Cascade wave, Flip, Zigzag, Tornado, Orbit, or Reveal one by one.

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Carousel

Shows one photo at a time and auto-advances, with a choice of Transition between photos: Zoom blur, Flip, Cube, Swirl, Slide across, Slide up, Fade, or a hard cut. Set Seconds per photo to control the pace.

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Ken Burns

Shows one photo at a time with a slow, cinematic pan-and-zoom across each image. Set Seconds per photo to control how long each one holds. In Carousel and Ken Burns you can also step through photos yourself while presenting: click the arrows on the photo or the dots below it, or click into the slide and press the left and right arrow keys. Stepping by hand restarts the countdown, so the show keeps advancing on its own afterwards. In any mode, click a photo to open it full screen.

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Present a Photo Share slide

You give the slide a title — a prompt like “Share a photo of your desk” — and turn on audience joining. Every participant gets an upload screen on their phone where they take or choose a photo, add an optional caption, and tap Share photo. Photos stream onto the presenter screen live, and you choose how they are shown: a Tiled wall where every photo is visible at once, a Carousel that shows one photo at a time, or a Ken Burns show that pans and zooms slowly across each photo. If you leave audience submissions open, people can keep adding photos throughout. Click Preview in the top header to check the presenter and participant views first. When you present, photos appear on the big screen as your audience shares them. To take a photo off the wall, hover over it and click Remove. Keep submissions open to let the wall keep growing, or close them once the room has shared enough. After the session, you can download every photo the audience shared: open the presentation report, open the session from the Sessions tab, go to that session’s Slides tab, find the Photo Share slide, and click Download photos. A slide with a lot of photos can take a while to download, so give it a moment.

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Ideas for using Photo Share

Photo Share fits any moment where a shared visual brings the room together.

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Events and socials

• Live event wall — collect photos from a party, conference, or meet-up and run them as a Tiled wall on the main screen.
• Icebreakers — “show us your view right now” or “your pet” warms up a room in seconds.

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Meetings and workplace

• Team check-ins — a photo of everyone’s desk, lunch, or workspace for a remote or hybrid team.
• Celebrations — gather snapshots from a project, trip, or milestone into one Ken Burns reel.

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Education

• Field or project work — students submit a photo of their result, experiment, or sketch to a shared wall.
• Show and tell — a fast, visual way for a class to contribute at once.

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Photo Share vs. Interactive Image

Both build on photos, but they work in opposite directions. With Interactive Image you upload one picture and the audience taps hotspots to read it. With Photo Share the audience supplies the pictures and they gather live on screen — it collects photos rather than presenting one.

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Frequently asked questions

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How do people add a photo?

They join your presentation on their phone, then take or choose a photo and tap Share photo. No app or login is needed.

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Can I add my own photos?

Yes. In the Your photos section of the slide’s settings, use Add a photo to upload your own — one at a time, or several dropped in at once. Your photos play in the same slideshow as your audience’s, so you can pre-load the wall before the room joins. Reorder or remove them any time in the Added photos strip.

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Can I see how it will look before anyone uploads?

Yes. As you set the slide up, the editor canvas shows a preview of your chosen display mode — placeholder tiles arranged the way real photos will be — so you can compare Tiled wall, Carousel, and Ken Burns without waiting for a live submission.

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Can I stop unwanted photos from appearing?

Not in advance: Photo Share has no approval step, so each photo appears as soon as it is shared. While you present, hover over any photo and click Remove to take it off the wall.

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Is there a limit to how many photos a slide can collect?

No. A Photo Share slide has no set limit on photos. Each participant shares one photo unless you allow multiple submissions; then they can add as many as they like.

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Can each person share more than one photo?

Yes, when you allow multiple submissions — the phone shows “Add as many photos as you like” and people can keep contributing.

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Can participants add a caption or their name?

Yes. Captions and Participant names are optional toggles in the slide’s settings.

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Is Photo Share scored?

No. It is an unscored media slide — there is no timer, no points, and no leaderboard.

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Which display mode should I use?

Use Tiled wall to keep every photo visible as the room shares, Carousel or Ken Burns to spotlight one photo at a time as a rolling show. Have a question? Contact our support team — if you’re logged in, use the chat bubble in the bottom-right of your dashboard; otherwise contact us here or email hi@ahaslides.com. Want to connect with other users? Join the AhaSlides community to share tips, request features, and see how others engage their audiences.