Christmas gift: how to make homemade Christmas cards and photo slideshows.

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Looking for the best Christmas gifts? Do you ever thought making a unique Christmas gift yourself? Just look at this!

 

Then you can make a wonderful Christmas cards and photo slideshows using you and your friends' photos.

 

Step by step guide： How to make flash slideshow with Flash Slideshow Maker?

 

Step 1. Adding photos and music and editing them if required

 

Run this Slideshow maker by clicking the shortcut of Wondershare-Flash-Gallery-Factory, you will see the program window like this.

 

 

This is a selection window that you can choose the model which is more suitable for Christmas cards and photo slideshows. This guide we show you how to make a flash slideshow, therefore we choose “start slideshow mode.” Then the program will start the Slideshow mode shows like this.

 

 

In this “Browse” tab, select the photo folder in the File Explorer that appears on the left hand side of current window. On the right hand side, all supported photos in this folder will be displayed in this window. What you need to do now is selecting your need photos and dragging them to the storyboard at the bottom of Christmas cards and photo slideshows maker.

 

Tips:

 

1) You can add photos by double clicking the storyboard or select the photos then press “Add Photo” button.

 

2) If you have put wrong photo to Storyboard, first highlight it and then right-click it to select Delete Photo from the resulting menu or simply press Delete key on your keyboard.

 

Click “Add Music” button to open up a browse window and add your music file to the storyboard.

 

 

This Christmas cards and photo slideshows maker allows you to edit the photo and music, so that you can edit your added photo and music if required by double-clicking them on Storyboard.

 

 

 

Tip:

 

If we need to change the photo duration, you can right-clicking photo and selecting "Photo Properties" then enter a needed duration figure.

 

To change all photos to same duration, check the "Apply current photo duration to all photos" box.

 

 

 

Step 2. Selecting template in Template tab window

 

Click “Template” tab and choose your favorite template to Christmas cards and photos. There are many pretty templates in this Christmas cards and photo slideshows software.

 

Tip: 

 

You can also customize your template by clicking “Customize Template” to make template by yourself.

 

 

Step 3. Specifying transition or motion effect to your photos

 

Click “Effect” tab, specify your favorite transitions and motions by dragging them to the photos. The more kinds of transitions and motions in the flash slideshow, the more attractive your flash slideshow are. This Christmas cards and photo slideshows maker supplies you hundreds of transition and motions, so that you do not need to worry about it.

 

 

Tip:

 

We can apply selected or random effects to all photos by clicking “Apply to all” and “Randomize to all.”

 

 

Step 4. Decorating the flash slideshow

 

Click “Decorate” tab, in this tab window, we can add Text, Clipart, Sound and Animation to photos that we want. To make a slideshow, decoration is not necessary. However it is very important which could beautify your flash slideshow.

 

 

Tip: 

 

We can set preloader and intro/end movie by clicking “Add Accessories” button.

 

 

 

Step 5. Generate the flash slideshow

 

Click “Publish” tab, in this window you may click “play” button to preview the flash slideshow.

 

 

Click “Publish Settings” button to change Loop option, flash output quality, Action at the end of show and Background color if it is required.

 

 

Click “Create SWF Movie” button. After setting the SWF size and specifying destination folder, click OK to start the generating. When it finishes the job, you may go to destination folder to enjoy your first flash slideshow now.

 

Of course, this Christmas cards and photo slideshows maker allows your make some other types of Slideshow such as Html mode, Exe mode, etc.

 

Ok, now you have known how to make a Christmas card and photo slideshow. What are you waiting for? Just Download the Wondershare-Flash-Gallery-Factory and make your own first Christmas flash slideshow now!