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Wednesday 11 november 2009 3 11 /11 /Nov /2009 13:02

Simple flash making tutorial for thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a holiday overflowing with joy .It's a wonderful time to take photos of family members and friends.As families gather, the cameras come out to capture magical moments of Thanksgiving to enjoy and share through the years!

Simple flash making is a good way to keep these precious memories as a flash keepsake, which can be used to enhance your photo presentation with stunning and colorful 3D effects.and share with friends and families on website, blog or MySpace.

This simple flash making tutorial will show you how to make a simple, yet effective, slideshow-type 3D image gallery.It’s easy and interesting and the process needs no flash or XML skills at all.

Here are a few tips to help you take memorable pictures that loved ones will thank you for.

Choose a medium to wide zoom lens
Use auto-ISO setting when you need it
Don't be afraid of the flash
Keep a respectful distance and be unobtrusive
Don’t shoot people while they’re eating

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Wanna have a try now? Download the Flash Gallery Factory Free Trial Version to get started!

step 1: choose a mode

You may find that the software includes Gallery and Slideshow two modes . To make 3d flash gallery, please choose Gallery Mode.

thanksgiving

step 2: Import photos

After selecting single or multiple photos, drag and drop them to the storyboard, which locates at the bottom of the interface. You are allowed to add up to 500 photos in one gallery. If you want to delete the photo, just right click on the photo and select "Delete Photo" item. If you want to add background music, just use the "Add music" built-in tool above the storyboard.

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step 3: Select 3d template

Flash Gallery Factory 4.8 version provides 60+ free flash photo gallery templates including 25+ free 3d flash template.To make 3d flash curve screen gallery, please choose below template:
Choose left down items to set background image or just change background color.

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step 4: Add image caption and description

Click "Edit photo" button or double click on the photo and it will turn out a new window. Choose "Properties" Tab and click "Caption & Description" item to edit your image caption and description. Finally, click ok to close the window.

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step 5: Preview and publish

Preview your 3d flash image gallery by click the start button in the bottom of the right screen. If you are satisfied with your work, you can publish your flash photo gallery to swf, html, exe, or screensaver formats, or you can mail the 3d flash image gallery to your friends directly as a gift.You can set an end hyperlinkas well by click the "Publish Setting", and select the "Action at the end of the show" to input your link.

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create xml slideshow with free template

This tutorial is mainly about how to make flash xml slideshow with simple 4 steps. First you should know something about XML knowledge. If you don't know much about XML please try another free flash slideshow software. It need no xml skills and can make flash slideshow for website instantly and easily.

So the tutorial will include two parts:

How to make flash xml slideshow with free xml template
Use flash slideshow software to make flash slideshow

Now follow my steps and I am sure you will pick up this flash xml slideshow tutorial soon.

Step 1: Download free flash xml slideshow source file

Download free xml source file and unzip it. The package should include images folder, xml.fla file, xml-gallery-slideshow.swf file, and images.xml file.
Open xml-flash-slideshow.swf file to see the original samples as below thumbnail:

flash xml

Step 2: Add your digital photos to image folder

Choose your favorite photos to add into image folder. There is no quantity limitation for digital photos. However, in order to get a good presentation, the size of your digital photo should not exceed 300px*200px.

Step 3: Edit XML file for adding digital photos

Open images.xml file with a text editor, such as Dreamweaver MX. You will notice that all images are described with the following XML tags located between the <pic> and </pic> tags. You can place as many images as you want by copy and paste the content between the <pic> and </pic> tags. You just need to revise the red content according to your own requirements.

<pic>

<image>images/1.jpg </image>

<caption>First </caption>

</pic>

Step4: Upload your xml flash slideshow on website

Copy and paste the following HTML code to your website, such as MySpace, Blogger. So long as your website supports HTML code, you can put it anywhere as you like. Don't forget to revise the red URL blow to your own URL. Learn more about how to upload slideshow on website.

Step 5: Create a new category for flash xml slideshow

You may found that there are some different categories in the sample xml gallery. If you also want to create new category to grouping your photos, just copy and paste the content between <category> and </category> tags and revise its name. Then the flash xml gallery will be made. You can open the gallery.html or gallery.swf file to enjoy it.

Another Easy Way to Create Flash Slideshow with Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory

Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory is an easy to use flash slideshow software which provides 60+ free flash slideshow templates and 70+ transition and motion effects for you and need not edit XML code at all. All the processes are automatically and instantly, and you just need to move your fingers to click some buttons in the software.

Watch the following flash slideshow sample made by free flash gallery templates:

Created by Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory

Note: If you can't open the graduation slideshow, please refresh your browser or wait a litter longer.

Step 1: Add your digital photos & music to Flash Gallery Factory;
Step 2: Choose image gallery template or just custom your own template;
Step 3: Output and save the gallery as SWF or HTML format.
Learn more about Flash Slideshow Tutorials

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Tuesday 27 october 2009 2 27 /10 /Oct /2009 12:17

step by step to make digital photo album

You may got lots of digital photos, such as in wedding celebrate, family gathering, travel trip, etc. I guess most of the photos are stored in your computer and just a few of people have seen them. How to get a better way to sharing your photos with more friends and people? The best and easiest way is making a digital photo album and uploading it on website, such as MySpace, Blogger and embed on web pages.

The tutorial is mainly about how to make digital photo album with music. What you need are some digital photos, a piece of background music and digital photo album software. Here we choose Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory as the digital photo album software.

Seeing is believing, watch digital photo album sample made by Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory and get inspired to make your own flash photo album.

Travel photo album with music

Step 1: Install Flash Gallery Factory.

Install your the digital photo album software first. You may found there are Gallery Mode and Slideshow Mode two modes in it. To make digital photo album, you can select both modes. Here I choose Slideshow Mode.

Step 2: Import your digital photos & background music

The program will go to "Browse" tab by default .Click "Add photo" build in button to add your photos or just drag the photos to storyboard directly. And then click "Add Music" button to add background music.

Step 3: Select template for your digital photo album

Flash Gallery Factory provides 60+ free digital photo album templates for you to choose. In addition you can custom your own template in Slideshow Mode. Here I made a custome template. Intro/credit movie can be added before and behind the digital photo album too. See below thumbnail to get more info.

flash photo

Step 4: Add transition and motion effects.

There are 62 transition effects and 10 motion effects for you to make your digital photo album more animated. You just need to drag the transition effects to the middle of the two photos in storyboard. And then switch to Motion Tab to drag the motion effects on the certain photos.

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Step 5: Preview and publish your digital photo album

The digital photo album software provides various output formats, so you can publish your digital photo album in SWF, HTML or EXE formats as you like. If you can't finish making the flash photo album at one time and want to revise later, you can save it as a project by click the "File" Tab. See below thumbnail to get more info.

flash photo

If you want to embed the flash photo album on web page, MySpace or Blogger, please publish it to SWF or HTML formats.

Step 6: Upload digital photo album on website

Upload the created SWF file to any web hosting and get the file's URL. If you don't have a personal web host, you can upload your SWF file to Google Sites for free. Then Copy and paste the following HTML code on your web page, MySpace or Blogger, so long as it supports HTML code. Then replace the red URL to the real SWF file address. You can also change the size of the flash photo album by revising the red number "264" and "550".

Ok, that's done. You see, in minutes, a wonderful flash photo album with music is made. It is so easy that no flash or programming skills are required.

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Tuesday 20 october 2009 2 20 /10 /Oct /2009 11:24

Halloween Family Activity Ideas

It's important to know various Halloween family activities and things for family to do on Halloween. Halloween is one of the most fun holidays not only for children, but also for other family members. With Halloween comes, a variety of interesting family ideas for Halloween come into my mind. Planning great Halloween family activities is essential to make sure that this Halloween is fun for all the family members.
If you can't figure out what to do with your family on Halloween, don't worry. Here are some interesting Halloween family ideas:

1. Supernatural spots:

If you are really courageous, you probably like scary things. Visiting a local haunted house is a great way to enjoy the Halloween with family and get scared at the same time. You can quickly find local haunted old houses, railroads, and supernatural spots by doing an online research. It was one of those fun things to do for Halloween that no one should miss it.

supernatural spot

2. Trick or Treat:

I can still remember how fun it was to go trick or treat with families on Halloween. I looked forward to this day for months. When Halloween arrived, we would always get a group take a lot of pictures. I used to stay out all night long going from house to house getting candy and showing off our Halloween costumes.
If you are looking for something to do on Halloween with families, you can't miss it. It's always a fun time!

3. Halloween Family Decoration:

I always enjoyed going up to the houses that were decorated on Halloween. Get your yard ready for all the trick-or-treaters. And put on scary outfits, fill garbage bags with leaves, hang up spider webs on your house and make a few fake head stones. It is really easy to do the Halloween family homemade decoration and it won't cost much.

halloween decoration

4. Halloween Family Party:

Not everyone likes to let their kid go trick-or-treating. A Halloween themed party is a great way to bond with your family and to get them into the spirit of Halloween. Halloween is the perfect holiday to dress up silly, make and eat some good food and socialize with your families and friends. Serve some Halloween inspired cocktails, finger foods, and candy. At a family Halloween party, set up trick or treat stations throughout the house and allow children to trick-or-treat.

5. Halloween family fest.

Many movie theatres around the country host a special all-night horror fest on Halloween,they usually begin around midnight. So get together some friends, load up on popcorn and soda, and get ready for hours of horror.

6. Visit an old cemetery

What could be more terrified than an old, gloomy cemetery? Make sure you have the courage to try it because you never know what would happen and what you might see!
7. Create a Halloween Flash Slideshow:

Whatever your plan is, never forget to capture these scared moments and spooky scenes, these are all the memorable moments of life.
It's a Great way to create flash photo albums with the Halloween pictures you took.
Halloween Flash Slideshow sample

You can easily create the Halloween Flash Slideshow with flash slideshow software, and upload the flash album on your blog or website, share with your family and friends even the visitors to your site.
Tell your special Halloween story and bring them into your Halloween world.
Celebrate and whatever you create, Happy Haunting!

Tips:
1. You can edit photos and music by click the "Edit photo" and "Edit music" button above storyboard on Browse tab.
2. The duration time for each photo can be revised by double click the default value under the photo in Browse or Template Tab or right click the photo by revising the "Photo Properties".
3. You can put your flash album to your blog, MySpace or websites for sharing with your friends.

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Tuesday 13 october 2009 2 13 /10 /Oct /2009 13:21

Create Digital Family Photo Album

More and more people take digital photos using catch-and-shot camera. For a general family, they capture photos to remember happy events and precious moments, from special celebrations and holidays to everyday moments. And with time going on, they have got either multiple big family photo album or loads of digital photos in some corners of computer. This article will offer some ideas to relive your old family photos and preserve family memories by making digital family album DVD for TV and sharing with others.

Relive Old Family Photo Album

If you are a photography enthusiast since long time ago, you may have several family photo album regarding to summer vacation, family reunion, wedding, Christmas and general holidays. This is the good way to save family memories. To get more fun and showcase your creativity, I suggest you to digitize these photo, therefore, you can make family digital scrapbooking, family photo album, online family tree building, and more. Don't know how to digitize old photo on your family photo album? Check out how to scan old photos to DVD. You may also be interested in taking good family photos.

Make New Family Photo Album DVD with Music

So, just imagine a beautiful DVD menu with multiple frames and a background photo of your family. Click each frame go to enjoy that photo album, say family reunion, and more for summer vacation, family picnic, family barbeque, etc. Hard to make. Not at all with DVD Slideshow Builder. It allows you make family photo album DVD with good-looking DVD menu in a snap! After importing family photos and music, authoring beautiful album DVD menu, you could then burn family photo album DVD with CD and DVD burner. If needed, you could also choose stunning 2D and 3D transition effects. Plus, sweet titles/credits are necessary for family photos. It's easy to add animated titles/credits with text effects. In a word, Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder is powerful but easy-to-use family photo album creator.

Family Album Maker Features

No Skills Required: Drag and Drop to make Family photo album DVD, using your creativity to make unique family album DVD. It's you who can make family photo album DVD and give a surprise to your relatives.
Amazing transitions for family photo album: Tons of transitions and motion effects to help you make family photo album smooth.
Animated titles: Want to say something on family photo album? Just add titles and make it animated after specifying text effects.
Well-designed DVD Menu: A good DVD menu plays important part of family photo album DVD. Now you don't need to design a good-looking DVD menu from scratch. Family photo album DVD maker provides many well-designed DVD menu templates. Organize your Family photo in albums. After burning DVD, watch them one by one with the help of easy navigation DVD menu.
One-Click to Burn Family Album DVD: It has never been easier to burn your Family photo album to DVD with elaborate DVD menu. Just select DVD as output method and start burn photo album to DVD. No other DVD authoring and burning software needed.
Support VCD and Video: You could also select VCD as output method to make Family photo album VCD as you like. Making Family photo album video in MP4, AVI, WMV, 3GP, MPEG-I, MPEG-II is also available. Therefore, you can even watch your Family photo album on your mobile phone.

Easy Steps to Burn Family Photo Album DVD

Step 1: Import Family Photos and Music

All popular photo and video formats are supported.

Supported Photo Formats: jpg, jpeg, bmp, gif, png, tif, tiff

Not only photos could be added in this photo dvd maker, it's also available now to combine photos and video into entire movie story! Besides, external audio source, e.g. music file, recorded sound can make your photo album more attractive. Following video and audio formats are supported by this excellent photo dvd maker program.

Supported Video Formats: asf, avi, dat, flv, wmv, mov, mp4, vob, mpg, mpeg, 3gp

Supported Audio Formats: mp3, wma, wav

Step 2: Design Family DVD Menu Based on Templates

Make a customized DVD menu with titles, background images, background music and more. You save finished menu to Custom category and use again next time to create family photo album DVD.

Step 3: Burn Family Photo Album DVD for TV Playback

All disc types could be used if your dvd burner could recognize them.

DVD+R: DVD+R is a once-writable optical disc with 4.7 GB of storage capacity.
DVD-R: DVD-R is a DVD recordable format with storage capacity of 4.71 GB.
DVD+RW: DVD+RW is the re-writable optical discs with about 4.7 GB storage capacity.
DVD-RW: DVD-RW disc is a rewritable optical disc with equal storage capacity to a DVD-R, typically 4.7 GB erase and rewrite to a DVD-RW disc.

System Requirement to create Family slideshow DVD

- Microsoft Windows 2000, XP(SP2) and Vista.

- Intel Pentium IV 1GHz and above or AMD Athlon equivalent.

- 256 MB RAM (512MB Recommended).

- Windows-compatible sound card (recommended).

- DVD burner or CD burner.

- TV connected to DVD/VCD player.

Songs Suggestions for Family Photo Album DVD

Family Songs Lists ( Family song name - Singer). More Family Songs.

You're in My Heart - Rod Stewart
Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler
Walk Away Joe - Trisha Yearwood
Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly
One Last Cry - Brian McKnight
My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion
Memory from The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand
Lets Get It On - Marvin Gaye
Lets Call The Whole Thing Off - Fred Astaire
Leather and Lace - Stevie Nicks and Don Henley
Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers
Lady in Red - Sting
Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
Hello - Lionel Richie
Evergreen - Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson
Endless Love - Lionel Richie and Diana Ross
Donna - Ritchie Valens
Crying - Roy Orbison and K.D. Lang
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthew Band
Breathe - Faith Hill
Blue Eyes Crying - Willie Nelson
Blossom Fell - Nat King Cole
Big Girls Don't Cry - Fergie
Annie's Song - John Denver
Angel Flying to Close to the Ground - Willie Nelson
Always on My Mind - Willie Nelson

Download Family Album DVD Maker Free Trial To Have a Try! Or watch another family slideshow sample!

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