Monday, November 26, 2007

Meaningful Xmas gifts match to special person

Christmas gifts signify the happiness and celebration, of course important in our Xmas plan. But finding the perfect Christmas gifts for the special persons in our lives is really difficult, racking our brains in scheming. Now if you have a digital camera and a computer, you can stay far away from trouble and make personalized, unique Xmas gifts that will help your loved persons remember their happy moments.

Capture the highlight with your digital camera
To give your special person surprise, you have to take some out-of-the-ordinary pictures as raw materials to create your gift. It means you should use unique perspective and subjects to shoot the pictures that nobody else will take. Following the tips below, you will have all photos you need to get started:
  • If you have opportunity to go Xmas shopping with your special person, do not forget take your digital camera and record the happy shopping. The Christmas decorations carefully chosen scene and bargain time both are the best subjects, not to let them quietly slip.
  • Christmas decorating through the whole house is a perfect time for everyone. Take pictures while your loved persons prepare. Also make sure the labor results- this year’s Xmas house is in your digital camera.
  • Christmas dinner is the precious moment of the family reunion. Snap the candid moments and those filled with the emotion of dinner.
  • In Christmas carnival party, pay attention to each person’s facial expression and action especially your special person’s, then keep his/her every delighted presentation eternal on the digital photos. Notice not to miss any little thing that other person will ignore such as the party decoration and food.

DIY creative gifts to your special person
Once you have got the requested pictures, it's time to decide what form your gift will take. Here are a few unique Christmas gift ideas that will help you create the most unique gift to delight the person who receive them.

  • Make Xmas Collages. Using a photo collage or digital scrapbooking software, such as Picasa, Photo Collage Studio, to combine multiple photos into a single image that you can frame the highlight in Christmas forever. What’s more, you can take advantage of the free Xmas templates to realize it easier. Just choose a colorfully designed Xmas template, drop in your photos, customize your text, add embellishments, photo frames, and click. Beautifully printed pieces will be delivered to you in minutes. Put them into your loved person’s mail box, he must be surprised and happy.
  • Create a Xmas Calendar. Select your favorite digital photos, put them into a predesigned Xmas calendar template, add your greetings and print out. Besides the professional calendar tools, Photo Collage Studio also can help you complete it. When you go to your special person’s house, watch the calendar you created on desk or hanging on the wall, your heart will be filled with sweet.
  • Design a Xmas Photo book. Combine Xmas collages that you create with a suit of Xmas templates into a photo book to tell your loved person’s whole Xmas story. This special book will undoubtedly find a place of honor on recipients’ coffee table.
  • Burn Xmas photo movie to DVD. Making use of some DVD slideshow software like DVD Slideshow Builder, you can design Xmas slideshow movies for your loved person with transitions, 3D effects, unique decorations and dynamic camera movements and zooms. Burn and present your designed cinematic TV slideshows ready for a big audience - without any experience!
  • Share Xmas photo album on the Internet. Create a digital photo album for your special person and then upload it on your web, MySpace, Blogger, etc. While your loved person visits, you can imagine how delighted he/she feels. Try Flash Slideshow Builder such easy flash tool, even if a flash green hand can also realize it breezily.
  • Show your designed entertaining slideshow movie on iPod. iPod, portable media player becomes wildly popular among the fashion crowd. If your special person also has one, using a iPod slideshow software to make or convert Xmas photo movie for his iPod. The new method enables him share your unique gift filled with memories at any moment and anywhere.

With Christmas coming, many company offers unbelievable discount to celebrate the important holiday. Don’t miss the special Xmas offer to create your personalized gifts for your loved person.

Monday, November 12, 2007

DIY your personalized Wedding Invitation Card

Have you ever thought of designing your wedding invitation card by yourself? Maybe you'll consider it as a hard work if you are an amateur.Here I'll recommend an easy scrapbooking tool to make it! Which you need prepare first is only your digital photo.


To realize it with Photo Collage Studio do the following:
Step 1. Create a new collage from template(the software supplies four ways to start the design including from template, from layout, from blank and from image) and select your favorite theme template; here we choose the template named as Love 3 to match the occasion of wedding.


Step 2. Adjust the objects in the template according your needs. Everything except the background picture of the pre-designed template can be moved, enlarged, minished and deleted separately so that you can also do many things with the template. Here in order to make the invitation card look much better, we just hold the wedding frame and roses.

Step3. Double click or drag your photo from the left list box to the frame of template and adjust the size of photo in the frame to the best effect by using the editing toolbar upper of the selected photo; The first button is used to move the photo in the frame; are used to enlarge or reduce the size of photo in the frame. If you only want to import a part of the photo, the fifth button for cropping can help you realize it easily.


Tips: If you think your photo is too dark or not perfect, use the effect tab to retouch it without hesitation. There are many effects offered by the program, such as old picture, oil, blur, brightness, contrast, embossment and more. Double-click a thumbnail of effects to apply the effect to your photo and right click to cancel.

Step 4. Add the important captions such as the card theme, wedding address, wedding time and your name. The powerful function of text editing like wordarts, shadow, halation, texture can give you more space to show your creativity. Here we should be cautious to decorate the words for standing out the romantic theme.


Step 5. Print your personalized wedding invitation card at home with more custom sizes or even more than one picture on a page. Sent the prints to your families and friends, they must be surprised.


You can do many other things to design your invitation card such as adding effects, cliparts, stamps, frames or masks. But I think it's not suitable to using here. Photo collage studio is a collage and digital scrapbook application but if you have more inspiration you can do many things with it. Let your mind fly now!

Monday, November 05, 2007

Just a few minutes to create a beauty digital scrapbook

The step-by-step instructions will let you know clearly how to use the photos below to create a digital scrapbook with Wondershare Photo Collage Studio.

Original four photos:


Digital scrapbook made with Photo Collage Studio:


To realize it with Photo Collage Studio you only do the following:

Step 1. Create a new collage from template(the software supplies four ways to start the design including from template, from layout, from blank and from image) and select your favorite pre-designed template; here we choose the template named as General 20.

Step 2. Double click or drag photo from the left list box to the frame of template.


Step 3. Move and adjust the size of photo in the frame to the best effect by using the editing toolbar upper of the selected photo; The first button is used to move the photo in the frame; are used to enlarge or reduce the size of photo in the frame. If you only want to import a part of the photo, the fifth button for cropping can help you realize it easily.

Step 4. Retouch the photo with the effect tab to make it look perfect; there are many effects offered by the program, such as old picture, oil, blur and more; here we choose Brightness Contrast to apply in order to let the photo match the background.


Notice: double-click a thumbnail to apply the effect to your photo and right click to cancel.
Drag the other two photos into the relevant position and do some adjustments to make them look better.


Step 5. From the upper figure you can notice that the orientation of frame on the right bottom is landscape but we need import a photo of portrait orientation. What we should do? Don’t worry! The frame and other objects in the template all can be moved and adjusted freely by dragging the mouse.
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Step 6. Publish or print; after importing the last photo, you can use publish tab to preview the collage and save it as jpeg format, wallpaper, or email it directly to the person you want to share with. Also you can show off your masterpiece with the high-quality print function.


You can do many other things to decorate your scrapbook such as adding wordarts, cliparts, stamps, frames or masks. More details you can get from the program tutorial. But you can image that using any other more embellishments in this digital scrapbook really gild the lily.

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