How to Enhance Digital Photo for Photo Album Making

We may take many photos on Holidays and events, like Birthday, Wedding, and Reunion. With these beautiful or funny pictures, we would like to make a photo album with animation and music to bring more life to the pictures.

If you have PowerPoint, it is recommended in my old posts to make digital photo album.

Before we start to add photos to our photo album project, we may need to optimize or enhance the picture with some special effects.

We do not have professional photo editing tool Photoshop. What can we do?

Don’t worry. We can use some online free photo editor to do this.

The following two recommended websites would help you.

http://editor.pho.to/

http://www.freeonlinephotoeditor.com

We can use them to:

1> Rotate, Crop and Resize it.

2> Adjust its basic effects.

3> Enhance it by applying special or artistic effects.

4> Add frames, texts (or glitter texts) or even watermark.

Here below are three samples made by me.

To remove the red-eye with one click

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3330/3649407279_dbf6cb0571.jpg?v=0

To add frame

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3642/3649407365_23959fa973.jpg?v=0

To apply artistic effect and add glitter text

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2432/3649407443_dfccf8895b.jpg?v=0

Besides these kinds of online editor, you can also use some shareware to make photo collages for the photo album, digital scrapbook.

If you have Windows PC, you may try this Photo Collage.

If you have Mac, you may try this iCollage tool.

Article from:

http://videopptpower.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/how-to-enhance-digital-photo-for-photo-album-making/

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Share your memories about Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958) is an American musician, entertainer and businessman who passed away at 2.26PM local time on 26th June 2009 at the UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles. Cardiac arrest was said to be the cause of death….

Now Michael Jackson has left us. People all around the world recalled Michael Jackson by their own ways. Here are three most memorable roles he was successfully played.

Michael Jackson is a musical brilliance-

“I was lucky enough to know and work with Michael Jackson in his prime. Michael was an extraordinary talent and a truly great international star. He had a troubled and complicated life and despite his gifts, remains a tragic figure. My wife, Deborah, and I will always have great affection for him.” lauds John Landis, the director of the music videos “Thriller” and “Black or White”.

Michael Jackson is a philanthropist-

Michael Jackson supported dozens of charities during his life, including USA for Africa, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. A Pop Star reportedly listed him in the 2000 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.” The number was 39.

Michael Jackson is an entertainer-

“I am so saddened by the loss of a great idol and icon, Michael Jackson,” the ‘American Idol’ judge tells Spinner. “He was, to me, the greatest entertainer of all time. He was a huge inspiration for performers across all music genres. He taught us all how to light up the stage.”

Michael Jackson has passed away, but he will always remembered by people.One way is to make DVD slide show with his music.

In addition, if you have PowerPoint and are a fan of PowerPoint, you may use PowerPoint to create a photo slide show with music. You can find some splendid Michael Jackson’s templates below here:
Http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/freetemplates/free-mj-powerpoint-templates-download.html

When completing your PowerPoint slide show, you may want to preserve long for memory, then you can convert your PowerPoint presentation to DVD with a third-party tool to help you. You can find a convert tool from Google “PPT2DVD”. This PowerPoint to DVD converter named PPT2DVD is recommended. After using this method, you can distribute Michael Jackson’s slideshows with DVD copies, display the presentation on TV.

Moreover, you may also want to share your slide show with all subtleties retained in the original PowerPoint, such as animations, transitions, sounds and video clips on website, like YouTube. Then you can convert your Michael Jackson’ PowerPoint presentation to video with a certain format that can be accepted by YouTube. Check out the PowerPoint on YouTube tool. In addition, here is a sample video “Share your memories about Michael Jackson” on YouTube, check it out below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx_Xd_Q-zek

How to view powerpoint presentation on TV

Microsoft PowerPoint is widely used by people. You may use it to create company profiles, informative presentations, presentations on your products or services. Have you ever imagined transferring them to DVD for viewing PowerPoint presentations on TV sets? Thus, you can:

1. Distribute the DVD copies that contained company profile out to potential and existing customers to avoid printing them.

2. Display the informative presentation on TV for waiting room, lobby or foyer.

3. Make in-housing DVD advertising slideshow for your menu board of your restaurant, nightclub, ice cream store, or hot books in your bookstore, and so on.

Then, how can we view PowerPoint on TV? The method to view PowerPoint on standard TV is different from the method to view PPT through Apple TV.

View PowerPoint on stand TV with DVD player

To play PowerPoint presentation on TV, you need to use a solution to save your PowerPoint presentation to DVD. A time-effective method is to use an all-in-one PPT to DVD converter that retain all subtleties in the original PowerPoint, such as animations, transitions, sounds, video clips, and even hyperlinks between slides!

Wondershare PPT2DVD is recommended. Moreover,it is an easy-to-use utility that could burn your PPT into blank DVD disc so that you could watch PPT on TV or other media player without a computer. Follow the steps to convert PowerPoint to DVD:

Step 1: Download and install PPT2DVD converter. Start it and mount an empty DVD disc.

Step2: Choose Standard DVD as the output choice.

Step3: Import PowerPoint presentation with PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX entensions which you want to save to DVD. You can import up to 12 files at one time.

Step4: Do choose the right TV standard and leave other advanced settings as default for the first testing.

Step5: Choose the right DVD menu theme you want or customize it.

Step6: Tick Burn to Disc and click Start the converting and burning process.

After conversion and burning, you can play your PowerPoint presentations with PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX extensions on TV through DVD player.

Obviously, this is a time-effective and easy-to-use method for viewing PowerPoint on TV. Anyway, DVD player is very cheap, at the some time, it is convenient for distribution after burning PowerPoint to DVD.

Watch PowerPoint on TV via Apple TV

Apple TV is a network device that allows consumers to use an HDTV set to view photos, play music and watch video that originates from an Internet media service or a local network. When you want to watch PowerPoint on TV via Apple TV, you should follow these steps:

Step 1: Convert PowerPoint to certain Video formats like MP4 that can accepted by iTunes and sync. You can use this tool PowerPoint to Apple TV. You can also use PPT2DVD converter or PPT to Video converter help you convert the certain format that can accepted by Apple TV.

Step 2: Upload the video to iTunes and sync to Apple TV, then you can watch you presentation on you HDTV.

Further benefits to view PPT on TV

• Show presentations with everybody without a computer.

• Share your slideshows to others widely and freely, because TV sets and DVD player are very popular.

• Prevent your presentations be modified by others.

• Preserve your slideshows for a long time

After using these methods, we can distribute the company profile with DVD copies, display the informative presentation on TV in waiting room, lobby or foyer, and make in-housing DVD advertising slideshow easily. Actually, by saving PowerPoint to DVD, you can also create training DVD, annual report, and photo slideshow and so on.

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DIY In-House Advertising DVD Based on PowerPoint

Are you running a store on your own?

Are you planning to create your own In-House Advertising DVD which can be shown on plasma TV sets throughout the self-owned dental practice, estate agency, ice store, restaurant or bar and the like?

Are you looking ahead, for hoping for the best and planning for the worst to save nickels and dimes to create the advertising DVD by yourself under the pressure of expensive quote for video-graphy and editing during such storm of budget in economic recession time?

Are you a fan or addict to PowerPoint?

If you say “yes” to all above, you can follow the solution below to DIY in-house advertising DVD for your own business.

It is a solution to create advertising DVD based on delicate PowerPoint presentations. Here below is a sample.

How to do?

->> Step 1

Create PowerPoint slide show with the prepared stuff for the in-house advertising DVD, including pictures, video clips and audio, text and so on.

->> Step 2

Convert the completed PowerPoint slide show to DVD format and burn to DVD disc using some PowerPoint to DVD converters, like Wondershare PPT2DVD without any attendance.

You are even allowed to put up to 12 presentations in one single DVD with stunning DVD menus. You can display different advertising around a week.

->> Step 3

Done! Display your self-made DVD advertising on TV in your own store.

Benefits of this Solution

->> Both MS Office PowerPoint and such PowerPoint to DVD converters are easy to use. If you have already been skilled to use PowerPoint, there is no learning curve. You do not need to strive to learn some other video to DVD burner or DVD authoring tools. It saves you much time.

->> To save the budget for your business as video editing and creating service is always expensive.

->> You can make full use of the animations, transitions and other features of PowerPoint to compile your prepared photos & pictures, video clips, songs and other elements.

->> The in-house advertising DVD can be easily modified and updated based on the original template of your PowerPoint slideshow which contains logo, ETC. It is convenient and time-saving.

->> To choose +RW or –RW disc to be used again and again to save money.

->> PPT2DVD comes with many and stunning DVD menu templates, including DVD menu themes.

It’s all that easy and inexpensive. You can also exploit your creativity to the full to make your satisfied DVD slide show for advertisement.

You can find a case on this page.

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How to Create DVD slideshow with Stunning DVD Menu Based on PowerPoint

PowerPoint’s power can be stretched out of a crutch just when you presenting. PowerPoint can be used to create slideshow for all kinds of celebration like the passed-by Easter.

PowerPoint converter like Wondershare PPT2DVD is a good choice to empower you to transfer your PowerPoint slideshow to DVD slideshow to be played on TV. And Wondershare PPT2DVD provides newly added DVD menu themes to make you look more professional to create DVD with stunning DVD menu.

How can we create DVD slideshow with PowerPoint to DVD converter?

->> Create slideshow in PowerPoint with its plenty of transition and animation, clipart ETC.
->> Download PPT2DVD converter from the this link.
->> Install PPT2DVD and import your completed PowerPoint slideshow. And choose both manual mode and auto mode if you like.
->> On the preferences window, you just need to choose the right TV standard. If you do not know which one to choose, you may select it by choosing country. Leave other settings by default when testing it.
->> Click Next and come to the DVD menu setting window.
->> Click Design button or one of the five menu thumbs to enter into the menu designing panel. You just need to choose the right theme from the template from the right gallery. It contains Business, Family, Celebration, Education catalogues. After that, the theme can be applied by click Apply to All button on top side. Then you would get DVD menu theme with matched frames, buttons and icons by default.

->> Besides DVD menu theme and templates, you may also customize your own DVD menu just by clicking the Customize… button. Here below is an illustration with changed Icon, Frame, Button, and modified position. You create different menu based on the menu theme or template.

->> Leave it to your PC to convert it and burn it to your testing RW DVD disc.
->> Done! Then you can play your DVD slideshow which is created by PPT2DVD converter.

Enjoy it!

What’s the difference between the DVD menu theme and old menu template of this DVD authoring tool?

->> In the previous version Wondershare PPT2DVD 5.2, the background of the DVD menu templates are the same.
In the new version of Wondershare PPT2DVD 5.3, the backgrounds of the root menu, title menu and the play options menu are not the same but a couple of similar pictures.
->> The backgrounds, frames, icons and buttons are more vivid.
->> It is allowed to add title along with description of your project.
->> You can download additional free DVD menu templates from the link below to enrich your DVD menu resources.

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Make Your PowerPoint Presentations as Mobile as You with Burning PowerPoint to DVD

I saw an article called “Copy Your PowerPoint Slideshow to DVD” on the DVDshrinknow blog, the author said, “However, transporting the hardware to show your slides can be a problem, unless you have the capability to copy the PowerPoint slideshow to DVD. Now your presentation can be as mobile as you”.

Do you even image that you can take your presentation with DVD? Do you also think burn PowerPoint to DVD is an impossible thing? And what is the advantage of burning PowerPoint to DVD?

I do not want to offend the author, but I still post a topic Copy Your PowerPoint Slideshow to DVD on their forum, what I want to say is, it is not a problem with transporting the hardware to show your slides, you probably has heard some word like PowerPoint DVD, pps to DVD, burn PowerPoint to DVD and so on. You can just do the job with one click with the software PPT2DVD.

As a business man, PowerPoint is probably the essential tool to present vital information to your company, your shareholders, or whoever needs the information. The slides encourage conciseness with professionalism. As a teacher, it is a great way for your to progress smoothly through your lecture. While you are talking, the notes came directly from the information on the slides. As a student, when you design your project, it is both visually appealing and informative to create a PowerPoint……

Since PowerPoint is an excellent tool for students, teachers and businessmen, we do can not work without it. But, to take your laptop everywhere to show your slideshow is a troublesome thing. Just imagining how much easier it will be to save a PowerPoint slideshow to DVD. Now, you can slip the DVD in a briefcase, a backpack, or a pocket, and take your presentation with you.

PPT2DVD is just the software that can burn your PowerPoint slideshow onto DVD. You can show your presentations on DVD player with a DVD remote control. Follow the 4 steps below,

1. Import the PowerPoint files

2. Configure settings or use the defaults and skip to the next step

3. Create professional look DVD menus with built-in templates

4. Start the burning process

Just slip the DVD in a briefcase, a backpack, or a pocket, and take your presentation with you and Make Your PowerPoint Presentations as Mobile as You with Burning PowerPoint to DVD.

Make presentation with PowerPoint and show it on TV

Make presentation with PowerPoint and show it on TV

Wondershare PPT2DVD 4.5 Released

Oct. 30th, 2007 – Wondershare, the global award-winning provider of presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT2DVD 4.5，an innovative yet affordable solution to bring your PowerPoint presentation out of the computer onto DVDs and show it on TV.  Have this ever happened to you? You need to play a PowerPoint presentation at certain places but there is no PC available but only a DVD player. The presentation may be a product presentation, company presentation, trade mark display or educational presentations. In a word, it should be very important that you find out a solution to play your presentation without computers.

Another case is that you’ve created a compelling PowerPoint presentation with sound tracks and movie clips embedded, but have no choices but attach the huge package in the email and send to others for sharing, or carry your heavy box wherever you go. And what if the receipts or audience do not have a PC even have such access, and if they do not have the right version of PowerPoint viewer to play presentation correctly and if the attached media files are lost during the delivery? Needless to say, the efforts you spent on the presentations return nothing to you but only complaints, pities, and lost opportunities.

Wondershare PPT2DVD is the first and so far the top innovative program that brings the idea to convert PowerPoint presentations to DVD which is designed to  give an end to the above troublesome cases.  

As one of PPT2DVD users said: “THIS SOFTWARE IS AWESOME, you can burn directly to a Standard CD which or DVD, or create an ISO file, when 1st put in your DVD player you have the options to manually go through the slides or let it do it automatically, this software will be a great plus for business and education, hooking $1500 projectors to a computer will be a thing of the past, just use a $20 DVD player…. “

Key features of Wondershare PPT2DVD.

1.     Convert PowerPoint to DVD, MiniDVD, HDTV

2.     Keep original PowerPoint animations, transitions, sound tracks, movie clips and even the inner hyperlinks in the DVD movie.

3.     Customize DVD menus to create a real DVD that can be controlled using a DVD remote controller.

4.     Convert to WMV, AVI, MPEG (MPEG-1, MPEG-2) video.

What’s new in PPT2DVD 4.5

1.    Automatically check PowerPoint file for errors to insure the best results

2.    Flexible preview step to enable you to customize the video quality before burning

3.    Brand-new interface with easier step by step guide

Click to learn more details about Wondershare PPT2DVD.

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/overview.htmlPricing and Availability:
Price: $99.95
Free Trial:

http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/powerpoint-dvd-download.php

System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007

About Wondershare SoftwareWondershare Software is an industry-leading desktop presentation application provider. Since its foundation, it has been specializing in providing powerful yet affordable multimedia presentation tools for home users, business people and educational professionals. Its product line includes flash presentation tools and video presentation tools. These tools offer users on-demand solutions with full controls to distribute presentations online and offline.

Spread PowerPoint presentation courses worldwide on DVDs

Spread PowerPoint presentation courses worldwide on DVDs Have this ever happened to you? You’ve created a compelling PowerPoint presentation which is looking forward by lots of people, but you have no choice but attach the huge package in the email to others for sharing, or carry your heavy box wherever you go. The problem is, what if the receipts or audience do not even have access to a pc, or might not have the right version of PowerPoint viewer, or have the attached media files lost during the delivery. Needless to say, the effort you spent on the presentations returned nothing to you but only complaints, pities, and lost opportunities.
Wondershare PPT2DVD is the first and so far the top program that brings the idea to Convert PowerPoint to DVD which is about to give an end to the above troublesome cases.   With Wondershare PPT2DVD, you can easily burn one or several PowerPoint presentations to a single DVD with the animations, transitions, audio tracks, video clips, action buttons, internal links in the original PowerPoint retained.  By burning PowerPoint presentations to DVD, you can get 5 benefits for distributing1.       No need computer, PowerPoint presentations can be watched on TV sets which can be easily found.  2.       No need to worry the PowerPoint version and platform system differences, PowerPoint presentations can be viewed on any computer with Windows media Player or QuickTime player. 3.       Bring PowerPoint presentations from online distribution to offline distribution through DVDs, Which is more stable and trustable to send your PowerPoint presentations.4.       It provided a solution to backup several PowerPoint presentations on one DVD.5.       It is accessible to send huge PowerPoint presentation above 100M. What’s more, by burning PowerPoint presentations on DVD, you can not only play the presentations with a DVD Player on TV anywhere, but also control the playback just use a DVD remote. This is more acceptable by common users because it coincident to the custom. 

Learn more: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com

Wondershare Announced PPT2DVD 4 after Two-Year Wait

Wondershare Announced PPT2DVD 4 after Two-Year Wait.
       – Stay updated, burn PowerPoint to DVD disc
Aug 25, 2007 – Wondershare, the global award-winning provider of presentation authoring tools, today announced the release of PPT2DVD 4.0，an innovative yet economical solution to bring your PowerPoint presentation out of the monitors, but onto DVDs. Since its initial release on 2004, it has won tons of praises and received lots of suggestions. After two years developing, it finally upgraded from 3.x to 4.0 with great improvements.                    
Why to burn PowerPoint presentations on DVD? 1       Show PowerPoint presentations with DVD Player on TV
As the alternative solution to projector, you can burn PowerPoint to DVD and make presentation on TV with a DVD player without physical location limitations.
You can also create slideshows such as car show, product promotion slideshow with MS PowerPoint and burn them to DVD to play on a big screen TV in front the crowds.2       Distribute PowerPoint presentations more convenientlyBy burning PowerPoint presentation on DVD, you can easily distribute it to people worldwide without the trouble of different PowerPoint versions, different system s(Windows or MAC), no PowerPoint installed , or even no computer.  With the PowerPoint presentations on DVD, you can also protect them from being copied.3   Share PowerPoint slideshow on TV with family or friendsDo you have a wonderful PowerPoint photo slide show and want to share it with family or friends? Why not burn it to DVD and play it on TV with friends or family sitting together to enjoy the movie in a warm, happy atmosphere? Wondershare PPT2DVD is the very tool to burn PowerPoint to DVD with excellent quality. It can retain all the animations, transitions, audio tracks, video clips, action buttons, internal links and other things you’ve added to the presentation, and generate DVD Menus to enable you to control the playback with a DVD remote. It is used by more and more teachers, salespeople, presenters and even individuals who want to share or distribute their PowerPoint slide show more conveniently
The newly released Wondershare PPT2DVD 4.0 has been enhanced with flexible DVD Menus, additional PowerPoint to video functions, latest Blu-ray and HD DVD technology, and new encode engine for higher conversion speed. There improvements will make the PowerPoint to DVD conversion more efficient and more flexible.
Here are the main upgrades which are genuinely useful and keep the program standing on the top over the competitors: 1.          Added PowerPoint to AVI, WMV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 conversion ability..2.          With higher conversion speed, PPT2DVD 4.0 saves 50% time for you.3.          More powerful DVD Menu customization functions4.          Fully compatible with Windows Vista, PowerPoint 20075.          Blu-ray DVD and HD-DVD supported6.          Latest High Definition TV (HDTV) standards supported7.          All the sound effects in the original PowerPoint files supported8.          Midi sound in PowerPoint presentation supported9.          Supported retaining the original PowerPoint narrations10.       It can retain the video full screen play and loop setting if set in original PowerPoint presentation 
Click to learn more details about Wondershare PPT2DVD 4.0.http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/ppt2dvd/powerpoint-to-dvd-4-upgrade.html

Download Free Trial of PPT2DVD 4.0: http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/download/download.php
Pricing and Availability:
Price of PPT2DVD 4.0: $99.95Upgrade price: $39.95 (for personal license)
Purchase PPT2DVD 4.0:http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/buy/powerpoint-dvd-buy.php
System Requirements:
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista Microsoft PowerPoint 2000/2002/2003/2007

About Wondershare Software

Wondershare Software is an industry-leading desktop presentation application provider. Since its foundation, it has been specializing in providing powerful yet affordable multimedia presentation tools for home users, business people and educational professionals. Its product line includes flash presentation tools and video presentation tools. These tools offer users on-demand solutions with full controls to distribute presentations online and offline.