Sunday, April 27, 2008

Mother's Day tips: Tribute To Mother

Mother. Probably the greatest gift that one can ever receive in a lifetime. It's her love that makes you strong. It's her care that prepares you to face the world. It's her hands that help you to overcome all the trying times of life. It's Mother's Day once more. The time to give back your mother a fraction of the love and care that she showered on you all her life. Celebrate this Mother's Day in the best possible way with Wondershare Photo Software. Make your mom feel special this year!

At a loss on how to pay a perfect homage to your mom? Wondershare recommends 6 small steps that would help you take a giant leap towards giving her an ideal Mother's Day tribute with our photo software. Don't moon around now. Put these to good use.

1. Make a Mother's Day collage of your beautiful mother, capturing her in all her moods. And spice up your mother’s
room with this pretty collage when she is sleeping.

2. Start the morning by giving your mom a nice Mother's Day card. It would be best if the text of your card is in
the form of a song or a poem.

3. Present her with a bouquet of flowers. It is the easiest and cheapest way, yet probably the best way to tell
your mom what she means to you.

4. If cooking is not your forte, take her to a first-class restaurant in the evening and order a table for two.
Choose a place she has fond memories of, if you can arrange it. Order her favorite dish and give her a treat.

5. Post dinner, take her to a favorite haunt, any place that was frequented by you with her in your childhood
(a park, a former residence, a street etc).

6. Culminate your Mother's Day celebrations by handing over to her a gift which is made by yourself. Especially
something can re-live the memory of those golden olden days you and your mother passed together.

Get Wondershare Photo Software to make her a “Mother’s Day Slideshow“ with photos and video clips of your mother’s will take your mom on a beautiful heartfelt trip down memory lane.

How to Make a Collage for Mother's Day

Mother's Day is just around the corner. This year I am going to DIY a photo collage with our photos and share joy with family on the special day. It is not a big project via Photo Collage Studio.

Here's what you'll need:

  • Wondershare Photo Collage Studio;
  • Photos of mother's.

    Below is the step by step instruction:

    Step 1. Create a new collage from template.


    Run the program and click "Create a New Collage" and than a pop-up window will prompt you to select a collage template. Here I pick the "Family1".


    Make a collage for Mother's Day
    Step 2. Add photo.

    Double click or drag the photo from the left list box to the frame of template and adjust the size of photos in the frame to the best effect by using the editing toolbar upper of the selected photo.



    Make a collage for Mother's Day

    Tip: If photos are 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 3. Add the text.

    Double click "Put your caption text here" and then type "Happy Mother's Day." The powerful function of text editing like wordarts, shadow, halation, texture can give more space to show creativity and true love.



    Make a collage for Mother's Day

    Step 4. Print out.

    Print the greeting card at home with more custom sizes or even more than one picture on a page.


    Make a collage for Mother's Day

    Ok, that's done. How happy we are! I think that Mammy will be so surprise and pleasure to see it. What about you? Try to make a photo collage to show you love to Mammy.

  • Create a Mother's Day Greeting Card

    With Mother's Day just around the corner, the crunch is on to find the perfect gift. Of course, mommy says that all she wants is a homemade card and maybe some breakfast in bed as usual. Yes, a greeting card for mommy with gifts is needed every year. But how to make this card more special to show my love to mommy? This year I am going to DIY it with our photos and some words from my heart via a collage software called Photo Collage Studio.

    Here's what we'll need:

  • Wondershare Photo Collage Studio ;
  • Photos of mother's and poem.

    Below is the step by step instruction:

    Step 1. Create a new collage from template.

    Run the program and click "Create a New Collage" and than a pop-up window will prompt you to select a template. Here I pick the "Greeting Card1".
    Create a Mother's Day Card

    Step 2. Add photo.

    Double click or drag the 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.

    Create a Mother's Day Card
    Tip: If you think your photo is too dark or not perfect, use the effect tab to retouch it withouthesitation. 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 theeffect to your photo and right click to cancel.

    Step 3. Add the text.

    Write something from heart to Mommy. The powerful function of text editing like wordarts,shadow, halation, texture can give more space to show creativity and true love. Here are somewords I wrote to my mother:


    To you who raised me
    I offer this thought
    It is something I learned
    Without being taught
    In all the world
    There is no other
    To take the place
    Of my dear Mother

    Create a Mother's Day Card

    Step 4. Print out.

    Print the greeting card at home with more custom sizes or even more than one picture on a page.

    Create a Mother's Day Card

    Ok, that's done! I think that my great Mommy will be so happy to receive this card on
    Mother's Day. What about you? Try to follow the steps and create a Mother's Day card by yourself.

  • Sunday, April 20, 2008

    How to Put Photos on a DVD for Storage and Share

    by Jessica

    Now today in a digital world, many digital photographers always face to tons of digital photos in the laptop and confuse how to deposit and share in a better way. As a shutterbug, I prefer to put photos on DVDs for storage and share.

    DVDs are a great way to backup photos from computer for storage and share. With inexpensive prices, a standard single layer DVD can store 4.7GB of data while a dual layer one has a capacity of 8.5GB and both easily to be burned copies by common DVD writer for share. For larger capacity, Blu-ray disc (25 GB single layer, 50 GB dual layer, 100GB 4 layer, 200GB 8 layer) may be a better choice. But problems of these high-tech products are not only the costliness of BD discs, reader, writer and player but also the non-popular of use and result in the disaster of share. So, I still use the common DVDs.

    In order to start putting photos on DVDs, a DVD writer is needed. The speed of the writer all depends on what type of DVD drive you have. 1X DVD write speed indicates that the DVD writer can burn your data roughly the same speed that a DVD player can read a DVD. So if your DVD writer writes at 16X that's 16 times faster.

    You don’t need to burn a specially formatted disc but just a regular data DVD full of digital photos if you own a DVD player with built-in slide-show features for viewing JPEG images. Lots of new type DVD players have the features such as Sony DVP-NS57P, Pioneer DV-490V-S, LG DN788, Panasonic DVD-S53S/K, Philips DVP5982 and etc. Different types of players with different play menu, photo quantity limitation and so on. So, DVDs display in this style via my Sony player but that on my friend’s Panasonic.

    If your DVD player doesn’t have such features, creating DVD photo slide shows via apps will be help and it is a much more stunning and professional way for storage and share. Bellows are kinds of apps.

    1. Free apps that can create photo slideshows.

    Google’s Picasa, is a free software download from Google. Picasa can make photo slideshows with simple clicks and copy files to DVD media using both the "Backup" and "Gift CD" features, but DVDs create by Picasa can not be played on all types of DVD players.

    Windows Movie Maker 2, included free in XP and Vista, helps to create AVI or WMA slideshows. Although it doesn’t natively burn DVDs playable by many DVD players, Windows Movie Maker has many powerful features (say exquisite effects) to magnetize users and adding DVD writing capabilities to Windows Movie Maker with inexpensive applications will figure it out.

    2. Commercial apps wholly make for creating DVD slide shows.

    Nero PhotoShow Deluxe 5 ($39.99) is famous and powerful software which includes a massive amount of slide-show-authoring options for photo DVDs. Nero has a 15-day trial for PhotoShow Deluxe, while the free PhotoDVD trial lets you create slide shows with up to 100 images. As a sub-product from Nero, it has highly stability on its writing capability.

    DVD Slideshow Builder 4 ($39.95), another professional and popular app that can create DVD photo slideshows with photos, video clips and music in high-resolution HD DVD video format and burn directly. It provides a free trial version with Watermark on output, 30-day trial limitation. What it attract me is its plenty 2D/3D transitions and Ken-Burns effects.

    Although photo online sharing is a hot trend, such as Flick.com, DVDs displayed via TV set and player can not be instead by other things. It is in a popular style for years.

    Monday, April 14, 2008

    Introducing New Wondershare Photo Software Website...

    Hi, everybody,

    Wondershare have just released a brand-new designed official website http://www.photo-to-dvd.com/index.html for their Photo Software ( includes Wondershare DVD Slideshow Builder, Flash Slideshow Builder and Photo Collage Studio ).

    DVD Slideshow Builder

    Wednesday, April 09, 2008

    How to create DVD movie with Photo Story Platinum

    Making great looking DVDs at home is a lot of fun. In this column, I explain how to use Photo Story Platinum to create a home video with your digital photos so you'll have the best experience burning it to DVD and later viewing it on TV.



    At first, Download Wondershare Photo Story Platinum and run it on your computer

    Step 1. Add your favorite photos and music

    Run Photo Story Platinum, you will see the interface as below. Create your own album, and then import your digital photos and background music. Besides drag and drop to add photos to story board, you can also realize it by double click.

    Tip: For changing the photos position on the story board, you can directly drag it to where you wish.




    Step 2. Apply the animated templates

    The big deal of Photo Story Platinum is "template" style. It offers 200+ animated effects templates to satisfy all your demands for any special occasion. In order to create a stunning flash slideshow, you can choose the dazzling templates to apply flash effects. When you select one template, drag it to the timeline, then double click it to preview the real-time effect in corresponding region below.

    Tips: You can select the basic template to single photo, or apply the advanced and themed template to group relative photos. The special group effect templates can make your home movie more funny.




    Want to watch more Free templates , you can visit:

    http://www.ourpix.com/theme.html


    Step 3. Set Intro/ End animation

    This software offers different excellent Intro/End effects to choose from, just preview and pick your favorite. You can also add your album information, such as title, director, cast, etc, and set the text effects like movie style.







    Step 4. Select the decorative elements

    Here you can add your customized text caption with different text effects, stunning scene effect, animated clipart and sound in flexible timeline.



    Step 5. Publish DVD movie and share it on TV

    After you preview the whole photo movie and feel satisfied with the effect, select "Publish" tab and click "Author/Burn DVD". Make sure your parameter setting and then hit the "next" button, Photo Story Platinum will do the rest.

    When finished burning, you can play it on TV using a home DVD player and show your creativity. Enjoy the movies with your family or friends together!


    Want to watch more Free DVD-templates , you can visit:

    http://www.ourpix.com/resource.html









    If you want to experience it yourself, click the link below to get the free trial :

    http://download.ourpix.com/psp_trial.exe