Tuesday, March 30, 2010

How to make a slideshow with music

The tutorial is mainly about how to make a slideshow with music, you will learn it step by step with easy and fun. Here we recommend you a very easy-to-use program Flash Gallery Factory, you just need to prepare some digital photos, your favorite background music, then start to make all kinds of customized flash photo slideshow with music and share it with your family and friends, including baby slideshow, wedding slideshow and photo album with music etc,.
The reasons why choose Flash Gallery Factory:
It is a very easy to use program for making dynamic and interactive flash slideshow with music;
Abundant free well-designed templates in the software for you to choose for any occasions you want;
You can add more than one music (MP3, WMA, or WAV), set and coordinate background music to the slide show;
Variety of transition and motion effects for you to select for individual images or for the slide show as a whole;
Multiple output formats enables you to generate SWF, HTML, XML or EXE files or Screensaver, send via email or share album online.
 
 
Step 1: Import your digital photos and background music 
Install your flash slide show maker and the program will go to "Browse" tab by default .Click "Add photo" built-in button or just drag the photos into storyboard directly to add digital photos to storyboard. If you want to add background music for your flash photo slideshow, please click "Add Music" button to add background music.  
Step 2: Select slide show template or customize your own template 
Flash Slideshow maker provides 60+ new free photo slideshow templates .You can select your favorite one to make your flash slide show. You can also customize your own template by click the left down "Customize Template" button. See below thumbnail:
 
Step 3: Set transition and motion effects 
There are 82 transition effects and 10 motion effects for you to choose to make a slideshow with music. You just need to drag the transition effects to the middle of the two images to set transition effects. While to set motion effects, you need to drag the effects to the certain image. See below thumbnails: 
 
Step 4: Decorate 
“Decorate” your photo with texts. Click “New Text” to add texts, select font, size, color, text effect, etc. for your photos. So that your flash slideshow with music will be more stunning and interactive. 
 
 
Step 5: Preview and Publish your flash slide show with music Preview your flash slide show by click the start button in the bottom of the right screen. If you are satisfied with your work, you can publish your flash slide show in swf, html, exe, or screensaver formats, or you can mail the flash slide show to your friends directly as a gift. In addition, you can add hyperlinks in the end of the slideshow by open the "Publish Setting" and select the "Action at the end of the flash" item. 

Tips:
Digital photos and music displaying duration can be customized.
You could follow the above steps and make a unique slideshow with music in minutes, why not do it now? Let it show your perfect moment with your family or friends.Your memories of those special days will never fade when you view the stunning slideshow with music again.
 

Wedding slideshow with music

If you're interested in making wedding slideshows, you could do it before or after your wedding day. You may make a wedding slideshow with your old meaningful photos and play it on your wedding day, or select the wedding photos that captured the beauty and essence of moments then make a unique wedding slideshow to share the joyous day with your family and friends, which will accompany you forever and will bring this wonderful experience back to you as if it were happening again the very instant you look at them.

A stunning wedding slideshow with music that's played on your wedding day will give you a much more memorable wedding, which could display your lives from birth to engagement - how you meet each other - what you want to say to your lover. Now it is most important that the wedding slideshows could be created by yourself, isn't it the sweetest surprise to your groom or bride on the wedding day.


 Flash Gallery Factory can help you to make such a perfect wedding slideshow with music in a few steps, you only need to prepare your favorite images and the wedding music, even you don't need any flash or other professional skills.




the wedding slideshow music

The wedding music that you choose to play throughout your wedding day will truly have a much bigger impact on your event than most people realize, also the background music of wedding slideshows will enhance the emotions felt by you and your guests when view your wedding slideshow.

Do you know that many popular wedding music have simply endured the test of time because of the timeless message they convey and classic style they bring to the moment when they are played.

Wedding Ceremony Music:

Prelude Music - Played prior to the beginning of the wedding ceremony

Processional Music - Played as the wedding party and important guests are seated

Bride Entrance Music - Played as the bride walks down the aisle

Interlude Music - Unity Candle, special music, and transition songs.

Recessional Music - Played as the couple and wedding party leaves the ceremony

Postlude Music - Played while guests leave, after the Recessional

Wedding Reception Music:

First Dance Music - The bride and groom's first dance!


Mother Son Music - Share a special song with mom

Father Daughter Music - Share a special song with dad

Anniversary Music - Invite all those that are married already to join you on the dance floor to celebrate their marriages

Cake Cutting Music - Cutting the cake is not only a time-honored tradition, but can also be messy

Last Dance Music - Save the best for last. Conclude your perfect day with the perfect last dance song!

Monday, March 29, 2010

Baby slideshow with music

Babies brought a lot of joy and happiness to each family, their smile can light up your life. But have you ever captured the happiness and beauty of your child as he grows from day to day. From new born… the baby learns… every holiday the baby celebrates… his first day to Kindergarten, your memories of those special days will never fade when you capture them in photos, with which you can make a baby slideshow to preserve and and share your baby's most precious moments.

You may took numerous pictures for every new trick of your baby, don't let the digital photos be unused in your computer, take them out, share with your family and friends or upload to the internet. But maybe the flash slideshow with music would be a much better presentation than individual photos. You can utilize baby photos to design own customized babies slideshow with music.


A perfect baby slideshow can be created with easy and fun with Flash slideshow Maker. This software can help you to make it with babies music in a few steps, you only need to prepare some baby photos, choose babies music as slideshow background music (it's your like).




Download free trial version of Flash Gallery Factory and try it now!


Why choose Flash Gallery Factory as your baby slideshow maker?

1. It is a very easy to use program for making dynamic and interactive babies slideshow.

2. Abundant free well-designed templates for you to choose as the layout and background of your slide show. 60+ new free slideshow templates in the software to make flash slideshow for any occasions you want, including free flash slideshow templates.

3. You can add more than one music (MP3, WMA, or WAV), set and coordinate babies music to flash slideshow.

4. Variety of transition and motion effects for you to select for individual images or for the show as a whole. In "decorate" Tab, you can add "Text", "Clipart", "Animation" and "Sound", so as to make your baby slideshow more stunning and alive.


5. Multiple output formats enables you to generate SWF, HTML, XML or EXE files or Screensaver, send via email or share album online.

You just need to import your favorite baby photos and music, choose one baby slideshow template, add transition & motion effects, then publish the slide show automatically and immediately. It is so easy, you could make a series of babies slideshow with music to tell your baby's story more interactively, which could preserve the most precious memories for they to cherish when your baby grow up.

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

change text flash

How to change text direction in Flash CS
Everyone knows you can type horizontal text in Flash CS4, but did you know you can change the direction of the text to vertical. You can change the direction of the text without using the transform tool, or repeatedly pressing the enter key to form a vertical line.

Firstly, you need to select the Text tool (T) then locate the ‘Paragraph’ section on the properties panel. If you can see the properties panel, select Window > Properties (Ctrl + F3).
text-flash

Now select the ‘orientation’ button as shown above. You can either select the vertical left to right, or the vertical right to left. Both of these options set the text vertical, but change the reading point of view as shown below. As you can see below the ‘vertical left to right’ expands the text field to the right. While the ‘vertical right to left’ expand the text field to the left. This is a great feature for people using different languages because you can easily change the character flow from left to right.

flash-text-direction

The orientation button also lets you switch between horizontal and vertical text which avoids you having to manually edit the text. You can change the default text setting to vertical in the Flash preferences by choosing Edit > Preferences > Text then checking the ‘Default text orientation’ box. You also have the option of change the text work flow and disabling the kerning.
flash-text-direction-chage

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

graduation music flash slideshow movie

This tutorial is mainly about how to make photo slideshow with music for Graduation. You can also use the tutorial to make other photo slideshow, such as wedding photo slideshow, birthday photo slideshow, etc. Watch following Graduation Slideshow with music and begin to conceive your own Graduation slideshow with music.

Flash Gallery Factory is an easy to use photo slideshow creator. After purchase you can get 55+ free flash photo templates that enable you to make web photo slideshow, 3D flash image gallery, dynamic photo album and online flash banner without any flash or programming skills at all.


Follow my steps, and an impressive Graduation Slideshow with music will be created in minutes.

Step 1: Install photo slideshow creator
Install your Flash Gallery Factory first, and choose a Mode. To create Graduation Slideshow, please choose Slideshow Mode.



graduation-flash

Step 2: Import your digital photos & add background music 

Your digital photos should be BMP/JPEG/JPG/PNG format, and you background music should be in MP3/ WMA/ WAV format. Click "Add Photo" build in button to add photos or just drag the photo to storyboard directly. Then click "Add Music" button to add your background music from your computer.

flash-slideshow-music-graduation

Step 3: Select a template for your Father's Day image galley


The image gallery maker provide 55+ free flash image gallery template for you, and you can also custom the template by yourself. Here I choose the blank template.

music-graduation-flash

Step 4: Set Transition effect and Motion effect.


Click "Effect" Tab and there will be Transition column and Motion column. This step is not necessary if you like the default effects, but they can made your image gallery more animated. Simply drag your desired transition effect to the gap of the two images. Add motion effect is in the same way.

flash-movie

Step 5: Preview and publish your image gallery.


You can click the "preview" button in the bottom of the screen to see your gallery work. If you are satisfied with it, please choose the output formats to publish your gallery to your local computer. There are SWF file, HTML file, Exe file, Screen Saver for you to choose.

graduation-flash-movie

How to upload Graduation Slideshow on Website

Step 1:
Publish the Graduation Slideshow as SWF Movie format and upload it to any web hosting. If you haven't a personal web hosting, please see how to embed dynamic flash slideshow on website to upload your SWF file on Google Site, and get the URL for your uploaded SWF file.

Step 2:
Copy and past the following code on your website, and replace the red code to your own value.

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" height="264" width="550" data="http://www.flash-gallery-software.com/images/tutorials/flash_banner/banner550.swf">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="never" />
<param name="allowNetworking" value="internal" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.flash-gallery-software.com/images/tutorials/flash_banner/banner550.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
</object>

Thursday, March 04, 2010

car flash slideshow animation

Create professional car flash slideshow presentation is a good way to improve your online business with attractive effects and friendly user experience on your website.Flash slideshow can enhance the presentation of your Work, Product, Service, and Brand on the web in an interactive way.

In this tutorial you will learn how to make an car flash slideshow animation, which is commonly used for online banner presentation.

Using this thoroughly explained, detailed flash lesson, I will explain to you how to create shine car photo animation, using some special flash tips and tricks. You don't have to use action script code to make this lesson. Using this lesson, you will also learn how to import any photo into a flash stage, how to convert it into a Movie Clip Symbol, how to apply flash filters on it, how to create shine effect using the Color Mixer panel and much much more. This animation you can use for some flash banner, photo presentation or for some effects. Let's go!
General tools to create a web flash presentation:
1. Adobe Flash
Making car flash slideshow animation with Adobe Flash:

Adobe Flash seems like a complex program to learn. One reason for this is that you can use it for so many different things, such as cartoon animations, media players, and sophisticated software.
Step 1
First, save the car photo below that we will use for this lesson as background.
flash-car-animation

Step 2
Create a new flash document. Press Ctrl+J key on the keyboard (Document Properties) and set the width of your document to 440 pixels and the height to 283 pixels. Select any color as background color. Set your Flash movie's frame rate to 33 and click ok.

Step 3
Call the current layer car. Double-click on its default name (Layer 1) to change it. Press Enter once you have typed in the new name!

Step 4
Choose now, file > Import > Import to stage (Shortcut key: Ctrl+R) and import a photo that you just saved in step 1 into a flash stage.


Step 5
While the photo is still selected, go to the Align Panel (Ctrl+K) and do the following:
1. Make sure that the Align/Distribute to Stage button is turned on

2. Click on the Align horizontal center button and

3. Click the Align vertical center button.
Step 6
While the photo is still selected, hit F8 key (Convert to Symbol) to convert it into a movie clip symbol.

car-slideshow

Step 7

Click now on frame 30 of layer car and hit F6 key.

Step 8

Go back on the first frame, select the Selection Tool (V) and click once on the photo to select it. Then, go to the Properties Panel (Ctrl+F3) below the stage. After that, select Filters tab from the left side. Click on the plus icon and select the Blur filter. Make the adjustments as follows:

flash-slideshow-car-animation

Step 9
Right-click anywhere on the gray area between frame 1 and 30 on the timeline and choose Create Motion Tween from the menu that appears.

Step 10
Select the First frame again and hit F6 key seven times.

car-slideshow-animation

Step 11
Go back on frame 2, select the Free Transform Tool (Q) and make this photo position:
car-flash

Step 12

Select frame 4 and make this photo position:
car-flash-slideshow

Step 13

It's time for shine animation, so create a new layer above the layer car and name it shine.