Tuesday, December 29, 2009

New Year Card Template for your Appriciation

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Hey! New Year is here! Put on your party hat and raise a toast to good times. Begin this New Year in a very special way with your friends, family and loved ones. Send them the New Year Greeting Card with sweet words and best wishes.

Learn the tutorial on How to make a printalbe New Year greeting card.

Monday, December 28, 2009

Free 2010 Photo Calendar Templates

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Create a digital photo calendar scrapbook using your photographs and make your own recycled display case. Plan ahead! Impress your friends with your pre-cognitive powers! All you need is a photo from that fancy digital camera of yours. Heck, go nuts and make a 2010 photo calendar on New Year family reunion photos. The Year, Month and Date on templates can be rewriten as your pleasure, so you just need select the template you loved and Make fabulous Photo Calendar- Yearly Calendar or Monthly Calendar!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

How to make cards clipart for Thanksgiving 2009

Creating your own funny clip-art card isn't difficult and placing it on e-cards is also a straightforward process. If you really want to personalize your cards clipart and make someone smile or laugh at the same time, you're definitely on the right track with this ideas of card. The following steps outline how you can get started creating fun clipart for Thanksgiving day 2009 to send out to friends, family and co-workers. Here we take the Photo Collage Software for an example.
Download the Photo Collage Software First

Part 1: Make Fun Clip Art Card

Brainstorm your clipart design ideas of card by sketching or doodling them in a sketchbook using colored pencils. Silly or goofy designs can often be the most amusing. Ironical ideas card or witty clip-art carddesigns can also be quite funny and memorable. Remember that the goal is to create clip-art card to make someone smile when she opens the clip art card, so the art shouldn't be too involved. It's best to avoid anything distasteful.

The first step in creating your clip-art card is selecting the individual pieces you want to use. This includes photos, clip art, stamps and text tabs. Each tab allows you to add a different type of cards clipart component. Simply choose the category you wish to view from the pull-down, then drag-n-drop the clipart cards or stamp you want in the same way that you added your images. Rotate, resize, crop and reposition each piece as you see fit. To add text, just switch to “Text” tab, and click ‘New Text” and then type your text in the text box. You can also set your font, size, style, alignment and color. Check the Shadow box to add a shadow to your text.
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Part 2: Print your Clipart Cards

In Print Clip Art Card tab window, you can print your cards clip art directly using the print tool in Photo Collage Studio. Before that, you could specify settings about how to print your clipart.

1. Select Page

If you have create many pages of clip art card in one project and you want to print only some of clipart cards, you should select desired pages to print. To do so, click the button select_page to bring up a window to select pages from. By default, all pages would be checked to print. To print specified pages, you have to uncheck the pages you don't want. Make sure that only the pages you want to print have the tick sign at the bottom left corner of each page thumbnail.

2. Orientation

Select page orientation of your clip art card on the top left hand side. By default, the orientation would be Portrait. Portrait works for most documents, which means its height is taller than its width. On the other hand, you can select to print your clipart page in Landscape orientation, which means its width is longer than its height.

To make advanced settings for printing clipart, you can click button to open the setting dialog, in which options of Printer, Page range, Copies and so forth are available. You can even make in-depth parameters of selected printer by clicking "Properties" button beside the printer name drop-down list. See the printer manual for detailed information if possible.

3: Lay-out

The layout option allows you to select or customize the layout of your selected clip art card pages. For a fixed background, you can contain one, two, four or night pages in the same printed cards clip art page. Furthermore, you can make your selected clipart cards pages best fit the background or customize the layout yourself.
As soon as all the settings have been done, you could print all your selected clip-art card pages now!
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[b]Notes:[/b]
1. While you are making settings, you can preview clipart card pages to print if there are by clicking and button on top of preview window.
2. Only the selected pages will be printed. Besides, the settings of orientation and layout are applied to all the selected pages.
3. Once you have selected a layout method, the program will reload the data and display the first page in your project. You can go to next page through the button.

Monday, May 4, 2009

Convert AVI Movies and Videos to DVD

While movie downloaded from the internet and recorded with digital camcorders is always AVI format, how to take it from your hard drive and burn it to DVD disc so that you can watch it on a standard DVD player is an important question for most of us.

You can simply burn the movies to DVD folder or ISO files to share with friends and family who have computers, but if the people you want to share the movie with don't have a computer, what will you do? With the right software, creating a DVD for them is not that difficult.

In this tutorial we will show you the most easy-to-use way of converting and burning AVI movie and video to DVD using st.

Step 1: Download Aimersoft DVD Creator and install it

Meanwhile, you can insert DVD +R (DVD-R, DVD+RW or DVD-RW) into DVD-ROM (The DVD-ROM should have writing and recording functions).

Step 2: Add video files

Click "Load Video" or select "Load Video" under the "File" drop-down menu to load videos or movies from your hard drive. Multiple video files could be added at a time. After the video files have beed added, they will appear in the main interface. Display the loaded video files by a simple click to choose the video file which you want to convert.

Step 3: Convert video to DVD directly

If you don't want to add any special effect, of course you can convert video to DVD directly.

Drag and drop video files from the main interface to the storyboard below, click the video file which you want to burn and click "burn" to burn it to DVD directly.

Jump to step 7: Start burning DVD

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Step 4: Organize a slideshow

Organize: Drag & drop the loaded video files from the main interface to the storyboard to start organizing your slideshow.

Order: You can sort the order of the video files in the storyboart by dragging and dropping.

Transition: Click "Transition" and you will see all the available transition effects in the transition pane. A simple click could help you to display the triansition effect in the right window. Just drag and drop the transition effect you want to apply to the middle of two video files in the slideshow storyboard.

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Edit: Select a loaded video in the storyboard, click "edit selected video file", you may see a window with a box below for settings. There are five tabs here for you to crop the size, to trim the length, to adjust the video effect, to design your watermark and to plug-in subtitle.

Click here to learn more about how to edit video effects

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Step 5: Customize DVD menu

Click "Menu" to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it. You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu.

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Step 6: Preview video slideshow

Click "Preview" to preview your slideshow. This step is to help you decide if everything is what you have expected. If not, you can go back to any of the previous steps to make changes to your project.

Step 7: Start burning DVD

For DVD disc: Click "Burn", select "DVD" option in the "Burn to" field, specify a temp folder (used to save the generated temporary files), select your DVD drive and burning program (either built-in or your own burning application), select your TV Standard and output Aspect Ratio, and click "Start" to burn your project.

For creating DVD file or an ISO file: Click "Burn", select the "DVD Folder" or "ISO file" option, specify a folder to save them, and click "Start" to generate DVD files or ISO onto your computer.