Flash Slideshow Tutorial

With Photo Flash Maker, you can create gorgeous photo flash slideshows in SWF format for watching on computer, burn the auto-run flash photo album to gift CD/DVD, build a web gallery with amazing flash slideshows with dynamic SWF + HTML + XML files, or upload the slideshows to our free web album Go2Album, and then embed the slideshows to MySpace, Blogger, Friendster and many other social websites.

You can publish the photo slideshows to our free photo album hosting service Go2Album to share with friends.

What's more, your can then add the slideshow to MySpace, Blogger, Live Space, Yahoo 360, WordPress, LiveJournal, and all social websites and blogs that support editing HTML code.

Flash xml slideshow tutorial

1. Creating XML-driven flash slideshow

When you proceed to choose theme template for the photo slideshow, click the Advanced tab. The advanced templates allow you to make dynamic flash slideshows.

2. Saving the photo flash slideshow

Before Photo Flash Maker publishes the flash slideshow project you create, you will be prompted to take care of the output settings. You can rename the SWF file and HTML document. Don't rename the XML document, just keep it as "slides.xml". Changing it might cause the SWF file to "Load fail".

3. Managing the documents and assets

In the output folder, you will see several files and folders. These are the data source and assets that keep the flash slideshow play properly when it's embedded into website. It's suggested that you keep the HTML document with all these assets in the same file folder, and do not rename those three file folders.

4. Inserting flash slideshow into webpage

To incorporate the flash slideshows created with Advanced templates into an existing HTML document, you can manually adding the <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags to the existing page.

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Create flash slideshow tutorial

1. Download Photo Flash Maker from www.photo-flash-maker.com

2. Install Photo Flash Maker

3. Run the Photo Flash Maker

4. Add photos to the Photo Flash Maker, and choose transition effects for the photos

5. Choose flash template to dispaly the photo slideshow

6. Publish the flash slideshow as SWF file to your computer. You can choose to publish the flash slideshow and upload it to GO2Album to share with friends.

Flash picture slideshow tutorial

When you start to make slideshows with Photo Flash Maker, you create a Flash Slideshow project. The project file has a .psm file extension.

There is another project file with the extension of .info. These two files does not store the photos nor music you used for the slideshow, but the name and location of these photos and music, what effects you applied to the slideshow, and which flash template you choose, etc.

If you do not save a copy of the flash slideshow as a project file, you will not be able to edit once you close the project. And, if you move the photos or music after creating the slideshow project, the program will not be able to load the photos nor music again.

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