Thursday, March 30, 2006

Make your blog unique!

Want to make your blog or webpage a stylish and fresh look?




What if I told you that you can change your blog view by adding your image sideshows
on to your blog? Nothing new, right?

That's right! In just minutes you can create an eye-caturing webpage view by adding a wonderful slideshow presentation like the left demo. Simply create a SWF slideshow with Wondershare Flash Slideshow Builder, then embed the SWF to your blog HTML code. Haha, it's so easy?

Have fun:P

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Simple yet Special effect to optimize your photos

Maybe you once met the situation like this: want to add filter to photos, and the software you think of is Photoshop. No doubt, it’s also the best software I recommend. However, when you open the photo with PS, you find that it’s too hard to master for a beginner.
Right, I have a better method to make it! Most important thing, make sure you’ve get a Photo Collage Studio.
With the help of filter, you can optimize your photo just by some simple steps. The built-in filters are grouped in 15 categories. Those filters can soften an image; give it the appearance of depth or substance, or to add an organic look, etc.
Here are some short description.

3D Grid
Add grids to your photo, like those representing latitude and longitude. The larger size you choose, the fewer grids you’ll get. And the grid depth help to make the grids dark or light.

Color Tone
Wavelength of the light reflected or absorbed by an object. Normally the color tone is identified by its name like red, blue or green. The color tone option enables you to make a subtle color adjustment of an image.

Gamma
Gamma measures the brightness of mid-tone values produced by a device (often a monitor). A higher gamma value yields an overall darker image.

Gaussian Blur
An image-softening effect utilizing a bell shaped Gaussian distribution to apply the softening effect. A "Gaussian" curve (a/k/a "bell curve") is a bell-shaped curve showing a distribution of probability associated with different values of a variant.

Ribbon
The Ribbon option turns an image a long object resembling a thin line.

Splash
The Splash option makes an image look like to be splashed by water.

Threshold
The Threshold option converts grayscale or color images to high-contrast, black-and-white images.

Hue & Saturation
The Hue/Saturation option lets you adjust the hue, saturation, and lightness of the entire image or of individual color components in an image.

A Dog Saved her Owner by Calling 911


I had seen a piece of news about a dog save her owner. It looks like a comic strip. Every picture is inserted a few words to describe it. So i want to make a flash slide show to show this news. Also, music is one element which i have to add. I felt very good when i finished it. It was very interesting.
The slideshow link: http://img71.imageshack.us/slideshow

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

How to add photo frame with Photo Collage Software

More and more people use Digital Camera to capture the memorable moments. Therefore, photo collage or digital scrapbook becomes the new way to store that special memory.

Here’s a tutorial helping you to apply frames and something interesting to photos with Wondershare Photo Collage Studio.



Step 1:

Then install and start up Photo Collage Studio

You’ll view the Panel Settings which is for setting the Orientation, Background and Size of the collage in advance.



Step 2: Browse

Click ‘Browse’ in the navigation bar and select the folder that contains the target photos or pictures. You can preview the thumbnail of pictures in the selected folder.

Just drag and drop the thumbnail of your fond photo to the palette. Double-click is Ok as well.


Step 3: Edit and optimize

Before apply frames to the photos, I suggest to edit and optimize your photos above all. There are multiple choices for getting better-looking photos: Rotate, Crop, Flip, Shadows, Gray and negative.



Step 4: Add Photo frames

Hundreds of selectable photo frames can be applied according to different occasions. Get a theme from the pull-down frame type list, and select a desirable one.

A. Add

By double clicking the frame, it will be applied to the target layer automatically. There are Art, Basic, Cartoon, Holiday, Flower and Classic for choosing. Here are some demos.

Frame with Art



Frame with Basic




Frame with Cartoon



Frame with Holiday



Frame with Classic



Frame with Flower




B. Adjust

If it’s not necessary to apply frame to the whole photo, then, frame adjustment is needed. Use the adjustment tool on toolbar, apply frame to any part of the photo and make your favorite.



C. Merge

Maybe someone would like to add frame to more than one photo, ok, follow me! It’s quite simple, just merge the layers. You have the ability to select to merge all layers, visible layers, or next layer.



Step 5: Enhance your collages

Make your collages larruping by adding cliparts and wordarts. Select your favorite cliparts to make collage much funnier. You can also add your own cliparts from local drive. Certainly, writing your words on photos is possible with the help of Text and Wordart by simply choosing the font, color, size, font style and font effect.



Step 6: Save

Yep, you’ve done a good job! Don’t forget to save your work in a appropriate image format - *jpg, *png, *bmp, *tiff or *gif. Moreover, you can set your artworks as wallpaper, send the picture via email or print it at virtually any size



Tips:

1. The panel can be re-set if it doesn’t meet your need.

2. Press F9 to review.

3. You can add mask effect as Step 5 by click the Mask in the navigation bar.



Warning:

1. You cannot change the shadow setting of a locked layer;

2. Deselecting Set shadow will remove shadow effect;

3. Photo mask and photo frame can not be applied to text or wordart.



External link:

Brand-New Version 2.1 of Flash SlideShow Builder Released

Wondershare, Inc., a leading developer of digital photo editing, video editing and multimedia software, recently released Wondershare Flash SlideShow Builder 2.1, a brand-new flash slide show tool that quickly and easily creates stunning Flash photo slideshow and Flash web gallery with your digital photos. Several additions to the software program allow increased control of the design process and inspire creativity with new effects.

Version 2.1 is packed with a brand-new interface, enhanced logical structure and optimized encoding engine as well, and all of these highly improved the performance of the program.