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How to Make Christmas Flash E-Card

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:35:15 +0000

Christmas eCards carry the whole meaning of Christmas. Personalized Christmas greeting eCards with your own photos and voice work as a warm tool to communicate, connect and express your emotions, your feelings, and your care for friends and love ones in this Christmas. This guidance will show you how to create personalized Christmas eCards with PowerPoint and PPT to Flash converter.

PowerPoint lets you easily personalize the colors and design, insert your own videos and photos, and attach the right warm greeting messages. The following is a sample of greeting card with photos and videos created by PowerPoint and PPT to Flash converter.

Follow this easy 3 steps you can create your own Personalized Christmas Flash greeting eCard in minutes!

Step 1 – Prepare multimedia resources for your greeting eCard

Photo: Find it on your photo album or download some Christmas pictures from website.
Free Christmas pictures download: http://www.hickerphoto.com/christmas-pictures-photos.htm
Music: Download Christmas songs or record your own greeting voice.
Free Christmas songs download: http://www.christmasgifts.com/music.html
Steps to record your own greetings with PowerPoint:
For PowerPoint 2003, please go to: Slide Show -> Record Narration
For PowerPoint 2007, please go to: Insert -> Sound -> Record Sound
Video: You can get some Christmas videos from You Tube and other online videos websites.
Tip: free way to download You Tube videoJust input the url of the video you want at http://downloadyoutubevideos.com/ and click Download to get the video.

Step 2 – Integrate multimedia resources into PowerPoint presentation

Design the slide layoutYou can start to create the greeting card by choosing the PowerPoint templates or launch PowerPoint to create a new design by yourself. Also, you can set animated effects to your presentation through Custom Animation option.To download free PowerPoint templates for Christmas, please go to:http://www.presentationmagazine.com/free_powerpoint_template.htm
Insert multimedia resources to PowerPoint
Insert photos: Insert -> Picture
Insert music: http://www.acoolsoft.com/support/powerpointzone/How-to-add-music-to-PowerPoint.html
Insert YouTube video: http://www.acoolsoft.com/knowledges/embed-youtube-powerpoint.html
Insert Flash: http://www.acoolsoft.com/support/powerpointzone/Insert-SWF-File-in-PowerPoint.html

Step 3 – Convert your PowerPoint presentation to Flash eCard

Now, go to the last step – converting PowerPoint to Flash eCard. Acoolsoft PPT to Flash converter is a good tool to convert your animated PowerPoint presentation to interactive Flash eCard in one click by simply clicking the Publish button.

You can send this Flash greeting eCard by E-mail, or upload to your blog and website for web sharing. Now, everything is ok. It is very easy to make such personalized greeting eCards with PowerPoint and Acoolsoft PPT to Flash, isn’t it? Get your feet wet. Send your warmest regards to your friends and love ones with your exquisite Christmas eCard .

Creative DIY Christmas Gift Ideas and Tips to Show Your Sincere Wishes

admin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:14:24 +0000

It is the gift time! Oh yes, Christmas is coming. Dear friends, have you begun to prepare the Christmas gifts? Many of you must have formulated the gift plans. Some may decide to buy delicate presents, which can save time, while another group of people prefer to make DIY Christmas gifts. Indeed, a DIY Christmas gift seems to be a greater surprise.

DIY Christmas gifts show our warm care as well as sincere wishes to the receivers, and impress them more. However, thinking of great Christmas gift ideas for so many receivers is a little complex indeed.

The following are some Christmas gift ideas you can take as reference:

For your dear mom, aunt, sister, grandma, etc, the gift can be something like dress ornament, cute handbag; grandpa, dad, uncle, etc probably like things such as beautiful photo frame, and hand-stove; as for bosom friends, you can send some little memorable gifts to show your care. It is more meaningful; the gifts that can show your warm care are good choice for lovers; for workmates, classmates , etc , some marvelous Christmas cards are good choice to express your wishes; …. There are so many choices, and you can also get inspiration from the following resources: 34 Great Gifts You Can Make Yourself, and ideas for DIY Christmas gift

Is it still a headache to think out several ideas? To save you out of this hard work, here comes a Christmas gift idea that is wonderful for different receivers – make a DIY DVD photo album or Christmas DVD card with PowerPoint. You can design your own card and photo album showing the happy moment with family, friends, etc. Also DVD can be played by people with different ages and can be stored for a long time. Check the detail ways to make a DVD slideshow with easy-to-use MS PowerPoint and PowerPoint to DVD converter.

Apart from the wonderful Christmas ideas, there are also more things to consider. Here will introduce some tips to make a DIY Christmas gift.

1. List the receiver and the proper gift. Among your family members and acquaintances, you need to decide whom you will send a DIY gift. It is better to devote the time and attention to the key gifts. Also a plan should be made to make the ideal gifts clear for the receiver.

2. Make the budget clear. The whole plan to make a DIY Christmas gift should come wisely. With a comparatively clear budget, you will feel more relaxed and everything will follow your plan. It is not sensible to make yourself anxious because of the gifts’ cost.

3. Keep it a secret. When the preparation is done, keep it a secret to the receiver. People always like some happy surprises. Therefore, when you show them the gifts, you will gain a wonderful reward – the receivers’ touching smile.

4. Think of the creative way to send the Christmas gift out. Innovative gift interests the receiver, while the novel ways to send the gift out make the gift delivery this year perfect. Surprise plus innovation is equal to the satisfactoriness and excitement of the receivers.

Make a DIY Christmas gift, and you will be the great Santa Claus saying “Merry Christmas, dear family and friends!”

Christmas Tips- Planning a Great Family Reunion and Preserving the Good Memories

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:03:34 +0000

During Christmas, most of you may hold a family reunion. Need any tips for planning a great one and preserving the good memories?

At a family reunion, you can not only share time with loved ones, but also meet your new relatives. You can seize this opportunity to gather precious genealogy information. It will be a rewarding experience. Furthermore, you can collect many stories that happened in the last year, and took photos of your families as a souvenir. The reunion itself will become part of the lore of family history.

Here I would like to list some tips for planning a great family reunion during Christmas step by step. Hope these tips can help.

Decide what kind of party to have and where to have the reunion.
Determine who will be in charge of the event. Ask for volunteers if necessary.
Choose a suitable date. The more people you plan to invite, the more advance notice you will need to give. Leave plenty of time for your guests to plan.
Make a guest list. Start with the people for whom you have complete contact information. Then call them to jog your memory about long-lost relatives.
Formulate a budget. It depends on how many people will be invited. So make your guest list carefully first.
Determine who will handle expenses. In most cases, each family member shares the cost of the event.
Prepare invitations and mail them out. Note you should include all the important details about the reunion in the invitation. Leave plenty of time for people to respond and ask everyone to make you know if they will attend.
Give a phone call to verify the guest list after the invitations. Because during Christmas, schedules are always hectic.
Reserve rooms at a hotel near the reunion site if necessary. Many hotels offer discounts for special events which require several rooms during Christmas.
Review all arrangements again. Make sure all things are prepared well. Ensuring rooms are ready, food is served promptly and accommodations are comfortable.
Make your family reunion memorable. Take plenty of photos. Hire a professional photographer or a video-camera person to film the reunion, or assign this task to an experienced family member. You also need to prepare some funny activities for the reunion.
Get a volunteer or volunteers at the reunion to make out something valuable that includes stories, photos and news items from the reunion. Then send a copy to all your families who have attended the reunion.

As it how to preserve the photos and videos taken during the family reunion, here is a small tip that may very helpful.

Insert all your photos and videos into PowerPoint. Add certain descriptions and background music into it. Or directly make a photo album with PowerPoint. After finishing making the PowerPoint, you can burn the PowerPoint to DVD with DVD menus. Then send a copy of the DVD disc to each member who has attended the family reunion as a Christmas gift.

You can click here to know how to burn PowerPoint to DVD with DVD menus step by step.

Advantages of doing so:

PowerPoint is easy to operate. It allows users to form the content freely
DVD discs are ideal for long-time store. And DVD is supported by most computers and players.

Enjoy the happy hours spent with families and have a merry Christmas with these small tips. Leave a valuable Christmas memory in mind forever.

Christmas ideas – Making Christmas card with PowerPoint and podcast it on YouTube

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:47:04 +0000

Christmas is around the corner! Want to wish your dear ones blessings of joy on this special day? Sending elegant Christmas cards may be a good idea. Especially with the development of the Internet, more and more people tend to send electronic cards instead of paper-based ones to their friends and relatives.

Compared to the traditional cards, ecards are lively and more environment friendly. Besides, it is faster to give your wish by sending an ecard than mailing a postcard. As PC computers getting popular in modern life, ecard is easy to be accessed.

There are many web sites online on which you may find thousands of stunning Christmas cards. But many of them are alike, and no one allows you to create your own. How about DIY your own Christmas ecards? It will be more fun and you are allowed to make full use of your imagination to make your own e-card as interesting as possible. Send the most sincere greetings to your dear ones. Now, let me show you the way of making your own Christmas card.

Since MS PowerPoint and Windows Movie Maker are available on most computers, below is a way of how to make a special and lively Christmas card yourself with the help of these two tools step by step.

1. If you want to personalize a video in your Christmas card

You can make use of the free tool Windows Movie Maker which comes with all Windows XP and Vista installed computers. You can either directly capture a video from the video capture device or make one with existing videos, pictures and music. After the video is OK, you can further add effects, transitions and titles to the video. In simply 3 steps, a personalized video will be created.

Below is an example of how to capture a video for your Christmas card with WMM:

* Click Capture from video device in the Movie Tasks menu

* In the coming page, you can set the Mic Volume and configure the camera & video settings

*Click Next. Then you will be able to see a blank needs you to enter a file name for your captured video and the place you want to save it on your computer.

*Click Next to continue. In the coming page, choose the video setting for your captured video. Choose Best Quality for Playback on my Computer is recommended.

* Go on clicking Next to the last step. In this page, you can start to capture video by clicking Start Capture, end the capture by clicking Stop Capture.

* After you have finished capture a video yourself, click Finish to end this process. The captured video will be displayed at the Collection area. Drag it to the video area in Timeline board. If you still want to add other pictures or music to form your video, you can do this by clicking Import Pictures and Import Audio or Music in the Movie Tasks menu. Then drag all of them to the corresponding area in Timeline board below.

Right click each object in the Timeline board. Then you will be able to set the Video Effects and the Play Timeline for them.

*After you have adjusted all the settings for your video, you can save the video onto your computer by clicking Save Movie File in the File tab.

2. Form the content of your Christmas card with PowerPoint

As PowerPoint allows you to insert customized backgrounds, characters, pictures, animations, movies, and etc, you can take this advantage to make the content of your Christmas card colorful and meaningful. The video you made with Windows Movie Maker can also be inserted into the PowerPoint. Besides, you can input greetings and warm wishes into the PowerPoint.

In this process, you just need to make full use of your imagination to create the e- card.

3. Turn the PowerPoint you made to video format

The last step for making your own e- card is to convert the PowerPoint you made to video format. In this way, you can make your e- card look like a movie and upload it to websites such as YouTube for wide sharing. After that, you can send out your Christmas greetings just with a video or a website link.

Here you can try this tool: Acoolsoft PPT2Video Converter, it is designed to convert your PowerPoint to almost all popular video formats such as MPEG, AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP, FLV and MOV.

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Here are two DIY Christmas cards from YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SLY_HfO-pQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRfvSOuwM_4&feature=related

Interesting? Take actions now, make Christmas ecard by yourself. Send out your warmest and most sincere greetings to your friends and relatives. Have a merry Christmas!

PowerPoint Templates for Christmas

admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:54:18 +0000

We offer you some PowerPoint templates for Christmas to make youre holiday more wonderful!

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Christmas PowerPoint template

admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:28:20 +0000

Christmas is coming, and you must want to make some wonderful PowerPoint presentation. Here we would like to offer you some Christmas PowerPoint templates.
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For PowerPoint�97�- 2003

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