Christmas is just around the corner. You may have taken many digital photos all the year round. So on this special day, you probably wish to share those photos with your loved ones, friends and family. Wondering if there is any way to share stacks of photos much easier and more conveniently with your loved ones, friends and family who are far away?

Here, there is an amazing way for you to share as many photos as you want. Using a freeware named Photo Flash Maker to add those photos, and import pieces of music along with photos, applying built-in transition effects as well as professional-looking theme templates, and then publish your slideshow to Go2Album, a free flash web space, for sharing.

Photo Flash Maker is a[i] freeware[/i] for creating elegant photo flash slideshow. If you don't mind the logo in the last slide, or if you don't use it for commercial purpose, it is undoubtedly the best freeware for making photo flash slideshow for your Website, Blogger, MySpace, YouTube, and more. It can easily make animated photo slide show with SWF file as the output format. AnvSoft Photo Flash Maker is the ideal tool to create slide show widget which you can share your memorial moments with your family or friends on your own homepage, post on your Blog or upload to your own website.

Following is an instruction for creating a stunning flash slideshow with background music and special transition effects. With the aid of Photo Flash Maker, you can also add nice looking animated slide show to your website in a few seconds, and then share those memorable photos with your family or friends. The output format of the following program is SWF file.

(1) Download Photo Flash Maker from
this website and install. Bellow is the interface of the program:



(2) Adding photos to the slideshow:
Click Add button on the toolbar to select photos from file browse pane. Press Ctrl or Shift key to select multiple photos at one time and add selected photos to the album. You can also simply drag photos from the photo displaying panel and drop them to the slide panel.

(3) Editing photos
Double-click the selected slide or select a slide and then click Edit button on the slide toolbar. You will see a pop-up window. You can input info, add text & art clip to your slide.

(4) Apply transition effect
Click Transition Effect tab to apply transition effect to your slides. You can apply transition effect by simply dragging your desirable one from the Transition Effects panel and dropping to the slide below. You can set the transition duration and photo duration here. The maximum duration time for transition and photo is 10seconds and 15senconds respectively. You can also click Define Random Set button to check the transition effects in the pop-up window, then those checked transition effects will be applied to your slides randomly. One thing is needed to remind you here: the 53rd and latter transition effects, such as Fade in and Fade to Black, can only be used in advanced themes.



(5) Enter properties
Click Properties tab, and then click slide in the slide list, then input title and description in Title and Description text boxes respectively, afterwards click Apply to Selected or Apply to All tab. Insert URL, then click Check Valid tab to see whether it is valid or not.

(6) Select Basic or Advance Theme for the slideshow
a. Choose Basic Theme
Here, you can enter your album title, change the Width and the Height, select Background color and transition & photo duration, and define the Frame Rate as well. And you can set auto-play and auto-repeat option here. More than 57 professional-looking slideshow themes, together with several photo decorations are ready for choice.

Click More Options, you will see a pop-up window, and you can set more flash options, like photo URL link and output folder setting, music sample rate and music quality, image size etc.

b. Customize Advanced Theme
If you need to customize the theme in terms of size, color and other settings, simply click advanced tab, and then select one of your favorite themes from the drop-down list of category.



Click Customize Properties button and you will see all settings for this theme.
After you complete your changes to the settings, please click Save As button and your modified theme will be automatically saved.

No matter which theme you use, basic theme or advanced theme, you can easily add background music for the slideshow. You can also import audio tracks as background music from CD.

(7) Choose output format
There are three output options under the Publish window. If you just want to create a flash slideshow, you can just check Create Flash Files Only. Click Publish Now and your creative slideshow will be published according to your setting at once. If you want to burn your slideshow onto a disc and make it into a backup CD or a gift CD, please check Making a Gift Disc, and choose your CD/ DVD recorder and set the recording speed, Then click Start Burn to burn your slideshow onto a DVD/VCD at once. If you want to share your slideshow with friends, you can check Creating Flash Files and Upload to Go2Album.



Click Publish Now to publish your slideshow at once. After the slideshow published into flash, it will be automatically uploaded to the Go2Album if you have logged in. If not, please just create your Go2Album ID and share your slideshow online. You can choose to View Upload Log and you will see the URL link of your uploaded slideshow at once. Click the link and you can enjoy your flash slideshow on Go2Album immediately. After you uploading the flash file to Go2Album, you will get the code to embedding the swf file to your website, blogger, myspace, etc.

After the photo slideshow is processed into swf file, you can use Flash to Video Converter to open it, and convert it for sharing on the iPod, iPhone, PSPetc.