No other flash slideshow program is easier to use than Photo Flash Maker, which is now picked as the excellent flash creator by M2Review.
Photo Flash Maker packs enriched features into the deliberately designed simplified user interface, so that average users as well as advanced users can create their own flash and publish it online to share with people. Professional and simple.
Photo Flash Maker
Platform: Windows XP, Vista Price: USD 49.95
With Photo Flash Maker, you can easily
- Create flash slideshow and burn it to gift DVD/CD;
- Create swf flash for imbedding to your website;
- Create swf flash for imbedding to MySpace, Blogger and other blog sites;
- Customize transition effects and themes;
- SWF, HTML and XML are selectable for output profiles.
- Create flash with reasonably small file size that fit to publish online and share via email.
- Add MP3, WMA and other unprotected songs, or get sound tracks from CDs, as background music.
Photo Flash Maker Professional is a flash generator for making Flash (SWF) photo albums. It lets you create SWF flash slideshow with background music, transition effects and ken burns effect and then upload on your own homepage, post on your Blog or upload to your own website.
Photo Flash Maker support embedded the photo and background music to create a single FLASH file. It also supports to generate XML-driven slideshow. This XML driven mode is ideal for website. It doesn't require any XML or coding knowledge.
Features
-quite easy to sue
-support background music
-support randomizing all provided transition effects or preset randomized transitions
-ken burns effect is available
-xml-driven templates give many customizable options
-more than 100 basic and advanced templates
Pros
-Very easy to use even you know little about Flash
-Support both embedded and xml-driven flash slideshow
-More and more templates are added and some of them are awesome
-customizable options are available in advanced templates if you are skilled at computer
-Create slideshow in seconds
-XML-driven advanced templates make flash load more quickly on the webpage
Cons
-no preview option for basic templates
-ken burns effect is auto-applied rather than customizable
How to make your site catch others eyes? The answer should not be still images unless you can take photos which are really artistic or moving enough. Then what can you do if you know nothing about flash skills? Search on internet and you will find so many flash creator can help you.
Personally, I prefer still images to slideshow since still images show more meaning in most cases. But after tried several flash slideshow creators, I changed my mind and found most flash makers are not only slideshow creators but fun generators. Among software I have tested, Photo Flash Maker is out-standing in its field. It is developed by Anvsoft Inc. and priced at $49.95.
Photo Flash Maker is tailored for people without too much flash skills, so it is really easy to use. However, the program can also meet the requirements of experienced people in making flash. It divides its theme templates into two modes, one is Basic for non-skilled users and the other is Advanced template for experienced users.You need go through three steps to finish your work, add photos, choose flash template and publish the flash slideshow.
In the first step, you can add photos by drag-and-drop as well as clicking Add All to load all photos in selected folder. This Add All button is very efficient, but the lack of reordering added photos makes the work become a headache while hundreds of photos needed to be added in certain order.
Basic options for editing photos are provided after you double-click the photo. You can add text, specify the URL link and customize transition effects as well as add art clips to the slide. Moreover, you can title the photo and add descriptions to make the viewer know the background of the photo. The text and description are different in Photo Flash Maker. The former is available to each theme templates, but the later is only available to certain templates.
Background music can also be added with this flash creator, but there is no audio trimmer available. However, you can check the option to truncate or repeat the background music to fit the flash slideshow.
The flash theme template decides the flash size, background color and other flash options of the flash photo album but these options are also customizable, especially in the advanced theme. I have mentioned the basic template is more suitable for users without flash skills since it outputs SWF file only. You just need to upload the SWF flash file to your website and then insert to your webpage. But for the advanced template, it is xml-driven and outputs SWF, XML and other folders containing photo and photo thumbnail. The user needs to have a little HTML skills so that he can insert the SWF into the webpage with correct file path. To be honest, the flash slideshow created with advanced templates is more professional. You can visit the support page of Photo Flash Maker to know more details about inserting SWF to the webpage.
The final step is to publish the photo slideshow. With Photo Flash Maker, you can even burn the photo album on CD and DVD, but the burned disc is only a data disc and can only be played on computer.
Photo Flash Maker also provides a free photo sharing service, Go2Album. Users can upload the created slideshow to this site directly from the software after publishing the slideshow.
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