How to create flash Christmas Greeting E-card
Christmas is just around the corner. Are you ready to have a more memorable Christmas than before? Shopping for gifts, having dinner with family and friends, enjoying Happy Hours parties with others, etc., of course we’ll do all of these that we did every year.
However, are there something special come into your mind? How about making flash Christmas Greeting E-cards with your favorite photos and send to others? I’ve just made one for my best friend Shirley. She loves it very much. So how about making your very own flash E-card now?
How do you think of the flash Christmas E-card above? I made it by myself in minutes, it's so easy.
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Wanna a try? Please refer to this flash christmas card tutorial and start it now.
Step 1: Download Flash E-card making software
Download and install the flash slideshow maker - Wondershare Flash Slideshow Builder, then run it.
Step 2: Import photos and music
“Browse”. Import your photos & add background music. You can import the photos which are pre-processed before by using some professional Image Processing Tool, say Photoshop, or just import the original photos then process them with the built-in editing tool, which include 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 greeting card more beautiful. Especially, you can add a hyperlink for each photo here. Below are my original photos.
Step 3: Flash Slideshow Templates
Select “Template”. Here I choose the “Christmas” templates from “Template” Tab. The Christmas e-card template is the one I love the best. However there are lots of 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: Flash Slideshow Effect
More than 100 transition and pan/zoom effects are available to use. This is the main reason why I choose this program. The other several programs I used don’t have this much effects like this program. 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 ecard
“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: Publish
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 Christmas greeting e-card is finished. Send it to your family and friends to surprise them with your love.
Tips:
1. If the music duration doesn’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 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.
6. Download free Christmas Font from Internet, such as:
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/seasonal/xmas/fsxmas1.htm
http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=804
http://www.xmasfonts.com
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