How to make a flash New Year Greeting e-card
New Year is just around the corner. Are you going to choose the New Year' gifts for your family or friends, Do you want to send them a more precious gift than before? We always did shopping for gifts every year, maybe you thought to order new year gifts online already, so how about New Year Greeting card.
It is not a common holiday greeting e-card, as this special flash New Year Greeting card will be made by yourself with your favorite photos and you could share the New Year e-card with others? I’ve just made one holiday greeting e-card for my best friend Shirley as a Christmas gift. She loves it very much. So how about making your own flash greeting card now?
flash New Year Greeting e-card
Created by Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory
How do you think of the flash greeting card above? I made it by myself in minutes with easy steps. Wanna a try?
Follow my steps please.
Step 1: Download Flash greeting E-card maker
Download and install your flash greeting E-card maker, then run it.
Step 2: Import photos and music to greeting E-card maker
“Browse”. Import your photos & add background music. You can import the photos which are pre-processed by some professional Image Processing Tool already, say Photoshop, or just import the original photos then process them with the built-in editing tool, which includes some basic functions like crop, rotate, filter, etc by double clicking the images on the Story Board. Add a bunch of your favorite music to make your flash greeting card more beautiful. Especially, you can add a hyperlink for each photo here. Below are my original photos.
Step 3: Select holiday Templates for your flash greeting E-card
Select “Template”. Here I choose the “Christmas” templates from “Template” Tab. The above greeting e-card template is the one I love the best. However there are lots of other holiday templates for you to choose, just pick up your favorite template. Want to see more stunning templates, you can visit: http://www.flash-slide-show.com/free-slideshow-template.html
Step 4: Set Slideshow Effect for your flash greeting E-card
More than 100 transition and pan/zoom effects are available to use. This is the main reason why I choose this software. After set all effects for each images, right click on one photo on the Story Board to set the “Duration Setting”. Set “Picture Duration” as 4.5 sec and “Transition Duration” as 2 sec, then check the option “Apply all settings to all pictures”.
Step 5: Decorate your flash greeting E-card
“Decorate” your photo with texts. Click “New Text” to add texts, select font, size, color, text effect, etc. for your photos. Here I select Font “Eras Light”, Size “22”, Color “Light Orange”, Effect “Fade”.
Step 6: Preview and Publish your flash greeting E-card
Modify some “Publish Settings” to make the flash greeting E-card the best. Click “Publish Settings”, first change the Slideshow Size as the same as your photos’ size then other settings like play control, you can just leave them if you don’t need to change. After done these, click “Create SWF Movie” to publish your flash greeting E-card.
OK. Now the holiday greeting e-cards is finished. Send it to your family and friends to enjoy them with your love.
Much more flash holiday greeting cards templates here, view and choose one for making your own flash New Year Greeting E-card.
Tips:
1. If the music duration doesn't’t match slideshow, you can add or trim the background music to make them fit. Click “Edit Music” on the tool bar above Story Board in “Browse” Tab, or just double click the area underneath Story Board and modify the music.
2. Add your very own greetings in Intro/End credits movie, your family or friends will get a big surprise when view the flash greeting card at the first sight.
3. Modify text effect duration to make it best fit. After choose “fade” text effect in “Decorate” Tab, set the text delay as 1 sec to make the text display 1 sec later after image.
4. Set a hyperlink for each image. Double Click the image on the Story Board, then click “hyperlink” tab and input the URL.
5. Choose a gorgeous preloader for your own. Move to “Publish” Tab, click “Publish Settings”, then click “Preloader” tab and check the box “Enable Preloader”. After that, just select your favorite preloader and click “OK” to save the settings.
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