Photo Collage Software 50% Discount for 24 Hours

Bitsdujour.com announced that Wondershare Software will soon be featuring Photo Collage Studio ComboPack 50% discount ($14.95 saved) for 24 hours on Saturday September 5, 2009.

Wondershare Photo Collage Studio  is a fun and easy tool to make impressive photo collages and digital scrapbooks with your photos. In Photo Collage Studio, you can drag-n-drop to create unforgettable gifts and keepsakes. Like a digital scrapbook complete with customized drawings. Or greeting cards and gorgeous calendars that keep the smile going all year long.

Just choose a colorfully designed template, drop in your photos, customize your text, add cliparts, photo frames, and click. Beautifully printed pieces will be delivered to you in minutes and shared anywhere!

Over 300+ professional designed collage templates for any occasion, such as Christmas, New Year, Wedding, Birthday, Love, give you more inspiration.

Click the pictures below to view collage templates and scrapbook layouts included in Wondershare Photo Collage Studio Combo Pack



What’s more, you can create photo books, greeting cards, calendar, desktop wallpaper and print them out at any size or save them as various digital image formats to share over email and the web!

Key Features:
Absolutely easy to use
Turn photos into collage and scrapbook
A wide range of collage templates and layouts for all occasions
Multiple-page Designs
Wordart, cliparts, stamps & more
Photo retouching and effects
Magic doodle drawing
DIY personalized calendar
Print & share anywhere
Quick and helpful online support

It will only be available on Bitsdujour.com for 24 hours.
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If you have any friends or family members who might be interested in Photo Collage Studio ComboPack please let them know about this sale, to get Photo Collage Studio ComboPack at $14.95 on Saturday September 5, 2009.

xml swf slideshow tutorial

Create free xml swf slideshow with thumbnails and custom background

This xml swf slideshow tutorial is mainly about how to use free xml gallery template to create xml swf slideshow with thumbnails and custom background. If you can't master the xml based tutorial, please try flash slideshow maker which can create best flash slideshow and photo gallery without xml or flash skills.
The xml swf slideshow tutorial includes the following 4 steps:

Step 1: Download free xml swf slideshow template

Download free xml swf slideshow template (it is provided by flash-gallery.com) and unzip it. The package should include images folder,gallery.xml file and slideshow.swf file.

Open slideshow.swf file to see the original samples as below picture:

Step 2: add photos and background image

Choose your favorite digital photos and add to image folder. If you want to change a background image, please set its name as "bg", such as "bg.jpg", and then delete the original one.

Step 3: Edit XML file for adding digital photos

Open gallery.xml file with a text editor, such as Dreamweaver MX. You will notice that all images are described with the following XML tags. You can place as many images as you want by copy and paste the ;item; tag. You just need to revise the red value of "source" attribute to your own xml swf slideshow.

You can also add captions for your photos by revise the blue value of "description" attribute. The "link" attribute is for previewing your photos.

Step 4: Upload your xml swf slideshow on website

Copy and past the following HTML code to your website, such as MySpace, Blogger. So long as your website support HTML code, you can put it anywhere as you like. Don't forget to revise the red URL blow to your own URL. See more about how to upload flash to website.
Another Easy Way to Create Flash Slideshow without xml skills
Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory is an easy to use flash slideshow software which can create animated flash slideshow, 3D flash photo gallery, website photo album without XML or flash skills at all. All the processes are automatically and instantly , you just need to move your fingers to click some buttons in the software.


Simple steps for making flash slideshow without xml skills:

Setp 1: add your digital photos ; music to Flash Gallery Factory;

Setp 2: Choose photo slideshow template or just custom your own template;

Setp 3: Ouput and save the gallery as SWF or HTML format.

DVD Photo Slideshow Software Review

DVD slideshow software are more and more popular to be used for burning digital photos to DVD these days. Some of the DVD slideshow software provide many output choices such as AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, etc, which can be used for create DVD album or shared on blog,YouTube, MySpace and mobile phones easily. Now, I will introduce some of the DVD photo slideshow software to you and analyze their advantages and disadvantages for you so that you can make your best DVD slideshows.

Windows Movie Maker
Microsoft Windows Movie Maker is the best free DVD slideshow application that allows users to create a DVD photo slide show presentation from their digital photos. The software uses the Ken Burns Effect on digital photos and allows adding narration, effects, transitions and background music to create a Photo Movie file with pan and zoom effects. Once a photo movie has been made it can be played on Windows Media Player or burned to a DVD or CD. The last version is Photo Story 3.1, included with Microsoft Digital Image 2006 which brings back the ability to burn a Video CD/DVD slideshow with a third party DVD Burning software.

Advantage: absolutely free
Disadvantage: No movie styles, can’t burn to video formats

Download Microsoft Photo Story 3.1

Wondershare photo story platinum
Photo Story Platinum is a powerful DVD photo slideshow software and photo movie making software. You can input non-limited digital photos and hundreds of audio to it and convert the photos to various formats: DVD, CD, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP and MPEG-2, creating DVD slideshow and watching on tv, build photo DVD slideshow video ready for YouTube™, MySpace™. What’s more, it includes hundreds of picture in picture and Hollywood movie styles as well as occasional theme styles. Transition and motion effects, pan and zoom effects and polish and retouch photos are also available.

Advantage: Plenty of themes and movie styles,various output options, friendly user interface;
Disadvantage: Should purchase to get it but provide freeware.

 
Photodex ProShow Gold
Another powerful photo DVD slideshow maker for photography professional users. It includes more custom settings for retouching photos and audio.Create spectacular effects by adding a pan, zoom or rotate to any photo in your show. Choose from hundreds of transition styles including dissolves, fades, wipes, and shapes.Outputting your slide show to various formats including DVD,CD.

Advantage: More custom settings and output formats;
Disadvantage: More compliated and expensive for amateurs