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In the previous post “[Tutorial] Create photo slideshows with ProShow Gold on Windows” we introduced some basic steps for creating a photo slideshow with ProShow Gold software on Windows. In this post, we continue introducing some advanced techniques about layers, motion effect, caption, …

1. Transition effects

After inserting photos into the timeline, the photos are connected by small windows. These windows show the transition effects between photos. To change a transition effect, double click on the small window and choose a new one from the “Choose Transition” dialog.

To change the duration of a transition effect, double click on the number below the transition window and input your desired duration.

2. Layer Management

ProShow manages objects in each slide using layers. Therefore, you can add, edit, or delete layers easily. To edit layers, choose a slide you want to edit and click “Layers” button on the toolbar. The “Slide Options” dialog will appear and you can change the settings:

- Name and Notes: Layer name, layer notes.

- Layer Settings: scaling, position, zoom, aspect (should use Auto).

- Layers: list all available layers. Layers will be numbered. Click on Plus (+) button to add a photo or video. Click on Minus (-) button to delete a layer. The Arrow buttons are used to change the order of layers.

3. Edit Photos in a Layer

You can edit photos in a Layer easily by accessing to Layers and choosing Editing tab. In Adjustment, you can change brightness, white/black point, contrast, and Hue and Saturation. In Editing Tools, ProShow provides some functions: Rotate, Flip, Red-Eye removal, and Crop.

4. Motion Effect

In “Slide Options” dialog, choose “Effects” tab. In this tab, you can create motion for a photo. You can specify the starting  and ending positions for a photo in the left and right windows, respectively. You also can change the size or orientation of this photo for the starting and ending positions. At the bottom, you can choose the motion speed for the effect. To preview the result, click on “Play” in “Preview”.

5. Add captions into photos

In “Slide Options”, choose “Captions” tab. You can input your text in the window of “Caption”. You can add many captions if you want. You can change the format of text, such as the font, size, and color in “Caption Format”. The “Text Effects” will help us create effects for the caption.

Good luck and enjoy your slideshows!

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It rather fun to take photos with your Android devices. Why don’t you add some special effects to your photos to make them more beautiful? You can add some common effects (black/white, vignette, vintage, …) to your photos easily  with photo editing apps (5 best photo editing apps for Android tablets). Herein, we introduce a special effect that can convert your color photos into grayscale ones with some remaining color regions. With this effect, the remaining color objects will stand out from other image regions.

We have two apps that can add this effect to your photos: Color Pop and Little Photo.

1. How to use Color Pop

This app can convert your color image into grayscale one. You can restore color for some image regions by drawing on your images. After running this app, open an image by capturing a new photo or opening a photo in Gallery. On the top of the interface, there are 3 main buttons: Move, Pop, and Unpop.

- Move: move the color brush.

- Pop: restore color for the image region.

- Unpop: remove color.

First, using Move button to move to the region that you want to restore color. Using Pop to restore color for this region. You can change the size of the brush by touching on the arrow icon at the bottom of the interface.

2. How to use Little Photo

- Open a photo that you want to add this effect. Touch on the screen to display menu and choose Effect-(2) > Color shade.

- Touch on “Tune” button on the left.  A scrollbar will display at the center of the screen.

- Using the scrollbar to choose which color tone you want to retain.

- Finally, choose Options > Save to save your photo.

Enjoy your results.

Read more >> 5 best photo editing apps for Android tablets

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In the previous post, we introduced how to create photo slideshows with PulpMotion Advanced on Mac. On Windows, ProShow is a simple and good software to create beautiful slideshows. ProShow Gold helps us create photo slideshows with some simple steps.

First, you need to download the software from http://www.photodex.com/proshow/gold and prepare your photos and music files for your slideshow.

1. Add photos, background music, and title

When the program runs, a wizard displays to introduce some simple steps for creating a photo slideshow. In the first dialog, click “Create” to create a project. Click “Add” to add photos to the project. You can arrange photos by moving them.

We have some photo editing tools on the left. The “Text” is used to add text into photos. “Remove” button helps us remove unwanted photos. You can also rotate or resize photos easily.

2. Choose music and theme for your slideshow

In the second step, we can add music into the slideshow. You can add several music files to your slideshow if you want.

In the next dialog, ProShow Gold allows us to choose a theme for the slideshow. The theme contains translation effects between slides. You can choose a theme and then edit the details, such as adding or removing some effects.

3. Input information and export the slideshow

Next, input some details. Input the slideshow’s name in “Name your show”. Next, set up the rhythm for our slideshow in “Tune the Energy Level”. Move the slide bar to the right to increase the speed and vice versa. You then may need to choose the screen ratio for your slideshow (16:9 for computer monitor, TV LCD and 4:3 for old TV). Finally, click “Create” to create your slideshow.

Click “Next” if you satisfy with the result or click “Back” to edit.

Now you can “Save your show” or “Publish your show”. To share with your friends, you can upload the slideshow by “Publish your show”. In the next dialog, you can choose a site to upload or the format of the target file.

4. Edit the details for each slide

The main interface of ProShow Gold contains many useful tools with 4  main parts: menu and toolbar on the top, photo navigation on the left, preview window in the right, and the timeline at the bottom. In the timeline, you can change the duration and information for each slide. To change the duration, double click on the number at the bottom and change the duration. You also can change the time for the translations between slides.

5. Stop or limit the playing time for the background music

The background music is displayed in the sound wave form below the timeline. Double click and choose “Stop Track Here” to stop the music at a specific point.

You can add other music files by deleting the green music chunks and adding other music files into the Soundtrack.

After editing, choose menu Create to export the slideshow as mentioned above. Hope you will have good slideshows with this software.

Some advanced techniques are introduced in [Tutorial] Using ProShow Gold: layer, motion effect, and caption

Read more >> [Tutorial] Create photo slideshows with PulpMotion Advanced on Mac (Basic)

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Do you want to create photo slideshows with beautiful effects to share with your friends? In this post, we will show some basic steps to create a photo slideshow with PulpMotion Advanced 3 (PA) on Mac OS (for Windows users, ProShow Gold or Windows Live Movie Maker will be a good choice)

First you need to download and install PA from http://www.aquafadas.com/en/pulpmotion/adv/download.php . If your computer is not very powerful, remember to save your work frequently!

Step 1: create a new project and add photos to project

After installing, run PA program. Go to File > New to create a new project. Choose an appropriate theme for your project. For example, herein we choose “Books” theme.

The main interface will display with 2 parts: Media Manager and working area. If you want, you can move the Media Manager window to another position.

Now you can add photos to the project by clicking on the + icon in Media Manager. Next, you need to specify the folder containing your photos and click Open. You can also use iPhoto to manage photos and add selected photos directly to Media Manager.

You can drag and drop photos to the timeline located at the bottom of the interface. There are 2 options when we drag and drop photos: Add & Format and Add Media.

Add & Format: after adding, the photos will have the format of the selected theme. To modify the settings, double click on the photos.

Add Media: only add photos to the timeline (usually using when you want to display a separate photo or a big photo). After adding, choose the photo and change its Name, Note, and Date. There is an option at the bottom to display or hide these photos in slideshow.

Step 2: modify your photos

If you want to modify photos in slideshow, double click on the photos to display the Image dialog as follows:

- Zoom: zoom in or zoom out your photos.

- Filters: apply a filter to your photos. If there is no filter, click on “Add Filter” to add some. Choose the filter and click Select to apply. To remove a filter, select it and choose “Remove Filter”. There are 5 pages of filters for you.

- Parameters: the parameters of filters.

Besides, you can crop and rotate your photos to fit the frame with the buttons on the left.

Step 3: add and modify text

First, double click on photos to access the editing dialog. Then double click on the text to edit. You can choose new font, size, color… for your text.

If you want to add more text, choose Layout tab and click “Add Text” (A icon). The text “Double click to edit” will appear in your photos.

To access advanced settings, press ‘i’ to display the Inspector dialog. In this dialog, you can change the position, orientation, background color and many more for you text.

Step 4: insert music

Click M to open Media Manager and then choose Music icon and choose you music file. Drag and drop the music file to the timeline to add it into the slideshow.

In default, the time duration for each photo is set automatically. To change this duration for each photo, click on the clock icon and choose “Media Duration”. Finally, input your desired duration.

You can add several music files to the timeline.

Step 5: preview and export

Click Play to view your result. If you want to view high quality slideshow, click on stars and choose “High Quality Preview”.

Finally, you can export the slideshow by pressing “Command + E” or choosing File > Export.

There are many options that you can choose for the target file. After clicking Export, input your file name and click Save. Now you can upload this clip to Facebook or Youtube and share with your friends.

Read more >> [Tutorial] Create photo slideshows with ProShow Gold on Windows

(ref: tinhte.vn)