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Create Father's Day Ecard

Tired of mass production and want to send some homemade father's day gift? Why not personalize a father's day ecard by yourself? With Photo Flash Maker, you can create father's day ecard with not only the preset theme templates but also personalize template that created by yourself. Follow this tutorial you can make an unique father's day ecard with your own family photo. Apart from the video tutorial, we also provide you with father's day ecard creating tips, father's day songs idea and other father's day gift idea.

Photo Flash Maker provides you with lots of beautiful flash templates and complete customization options for creating gorgeous Father's Day ecard. With Photo Flash Maker Platinum version, you can even add flv video clips to create Father's Day slideshow, father's day album, father's photo gallery.

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Key Features

Support adding photos, FLV videos & music.
Provides numerous transitions effects.
Provides hundreds of amazing templates devided in 6 categories.
Support adding hyperlink to photos & videos.
Output standalone & XML-driven father's day video slideshow.
Burn to auto-run CD/DVD.
Upload to Go2Album, social websites and your own website.
And more...

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Create Father's Day Slideshow with photo, video, music and whatever you want!

Photo Flash Maker supports adding photos, text, decorations, and songs in popular music formats, then you may edit them and apply the transitions and effects that you like. There are 200+ templates preset templates for building a perfect father's day ecard. The templates are divided into 5 categories: Basic, Professional, Web Album, 3D, and Premium flash templates. Photo Flash Maker Platinum even includes a set of video theme templates that supports adding flv video clips. If you wish to create a standalone father's day photo slideshow, you can choose from Basic, Premium themes. Select 3D templates if you want to create a 3D father's day slideshow. Choose one video slideshow from the Video template if you'd like to create a wonderful father's day video ecard. If you know some flash editing skill and wish to create ecard with your self-designed theme, you can create flash components for your own theme with Adobe Flash Professional CS5, then import to Template Editor under Premium theme to make your own template.

Father's Day Ecard - The best father's day gift

Every year on father's day, you spent a good time with your father by cooking him a dinner, taking him to watch his favorite sporting event, giving him fathers day presents you carefully chose. And all these will create memorable moment. In fact, a touching father's day ecard you made with memorable photos and video clips would surprise him and make it special! It is definitely the best father's day gift.

Photo scrapbook is also a good choice but it may damage over time. Try to scan all your father's favorite photos and make a father's day ecard with the photo copy. You can also burn your father's day ecard on disc which could be preserved forever. A nice father's day ecard with self-created theme would be a creative and unique father's day present.

Personalize Father's Day Ecard Background with Your Own Photo

You can follow this step-by-step tutorial on how to create background for father's day ecard and how to import flash background files to Photo Flash Maker for making fathers day ecard. Before starting, you need to choose a favorite photo for editing.

Step 1 Create father's day ecard background SWF file with Adobe Flash Professional CS5.

Open Adobe Flash Professional CS5 to create a new file, go to "PROPERTIES > PROPERTIES > Size > Edit" in the properties panel on the right and set a proper stage size you want, like "720*540". Click to "File > import > import to stage" to import background image then set the image size same as stage. Right click on image, select "convert to symbol" and type a symbol name to convert image to "Movie Clip". Please note that you need to type a instance name "background" in "PROPERTIES" on the right for this symbol. Otherwise, it will results in error when applying background. This is very important.

how to create background-instance name

If you want to create animated background then you need to create animation layer for the background. You can double click on the background image and go to the inner layer, convert the inner component to "Movie Clip" symbol, name the layer as "animation" for your own future reference. If you would like to create a simple animation, such as the background show up slowly from transparent to clear, you can click to "PROPERTIES > COLOR EFFECT", select style as "Alpha", set alpha amount as "10%" and click on enter, add keyframe to the last frame. And then right click on timeline to create classic tween. Now, create another layer named "as" which you need to insert a keyframe and type the stop action script[ stop(); ] to let the movie stop at the last frame. After clicking "control > test movie" and check it is made as you want, you can export the .fla to .swf file. You may also need to save file as .fla for future editing.

Step 2 Create JPEG image file.

This is an easy step for creating thumbnail image for your background in Photo Flash Maker. You can open Paint in windows or other image editing program to edit the background image file. Resize background image file as 80x60 pixels and save as JPEG file.

Step 3 Import father's day ecard background files to Photo Flash Maker

The last but not least important step is importing the .swf and .jpg file to Photo Flash Maker. If you are going to import background files to Photo Flash Maker Platinum, then you should put the background files under path as below
"C:\Program Files\AnvSoft\Photo Flash Maker Platinum\template\premium\templateEditor\material\background"

The .swf and .jpg files are needed to be renamed. If there are 16 backgrounds in this folder (as you can see the last file is named as "bg016"), then the new created background should be the NO.17 and both of the .swf and .jpg files should be named as "bg017".

After renaming, close folder and launch Template Editor in Photo Flash Maker Platinum, you will find your background under Background tab. Now, you can apply your new created background to custom slideshow theme as you like!

You can download video tutorial and see more detailed instructions on how to make your own template.

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Tips For Making Touching father's Day Ecard.

Before creating a slideshow for your father effectively, you need to do some preparations. You can first gather photos that taken at the best moments you spent together with your father, they could be the memorable photos of the whole family, then choose the best one to create an ecard background. If you want to do it more creatively, you can gather up all your other family to record their voice for inserting to the slideshow. To create a warm atmosphere, a touching song is necessary. Also, you can make a draft of the special thing you want to say or find a father's day poem, then insert text to your slideshow.

And then you just need to follow three simple steps below:

Step 1. Add your father's favorite photos, videos and music.

You can add:

Image: JPG, TIFF, BMP and PNG image
Video: FLV video
Music: MP3, WMA, WAV and CD sound track

Step 2. Choose transition effects and apply template to display the father's day ecard, insert text.

Now you can apply your new created template with your own photo as background, then choose transition effects to make a special father's day ecard. And, you must have something that you want to say to your father. You can add text to show some kindly reminders in the ecard.

Step 3. Publish father's day ecard

Besides publishing the father's day ecard on your own computer, you can also:

Upload to our free web album Go2Album
Upload to social websites like MySpaces, Live Spaces, Blogger, etc.
Insert to your personal website

Father's Day Songs Idea

Papa Was A Rolling Stone - Temptations
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown
Daddy's Little Girl - Mills Brothers
Oh My Papa - Eddie Fisher
That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine - Gene Autry
My Heart Belongs To Daddy - Mary Martin
Dance With My Father - Luther Vandross
Daddy's Home - Shep & The Limelights
Big Poppa - Notorious B.I.G.
Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line - Waylon Jennings
Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
Father Figure - George Michael
Don't Cry Daddy - Elvis Presley
Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar - Will Bradley
Daddy Sang Bass - Johnny Cash
My Father's Eyes - Eric Clapton
Mom and Dad's Waltz - Lefty Frizzell
Papa Loves Mambo - Perry Como
Song For My Father - Horace Silver
Papa Loved Mama - Garth Brooks
Father Christmas - Kinks
I'm a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas - Louis Armstrong
Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow - Rivingtons
Santa Looked A Lot Like Daddy - Buck Owens
Papa Don't Take No Mess - James Brown
Son of My Father - Giorgio Moroder
Color Him Father - Winstons
Daddy's Money - Ricochet
Hello Muddah Hello Faddah - Allen Sherman
Drive (For Daddy Gene) - Alan Jackson
Daddy Don't You Walk So Fast - Wayne Newton
I Believe In Father Christmas - Greg Lake
Papa, Can You Hear Me - Barbra Streisand
My Old Man's A Dustman - Lonnie Donegan
Gone Daddy Gone - Violent Femmes
Daddy Frank (The Guitar Man) - Merle Haggard
To Daddy - Emmylou Harris
Diddley Daddy - Bo Diddley
(Down At) Papa Joe's - Dixiebelles
I'm A Long Gone Daddy - Hank Williams
Sugar Daddy - Jackson Five
Father & Son - Cat Stevens
Daddy Daddy - Ruth Brown
Daddy Come Around - Paul Overstreet
Papa, Won't You Dance With Me - Doris Day
Papa Gene's Blues - Monkees
Father of Mine - Everclear

Personalized Father's Day Gift With Something You Might Want To Say

You can add text to personalize your father's day slideshow with something beneath your heart but rarely to say. Here are some collection of words that may help you to express your love to your father!

Thanks for holding my hand when I need it.
I own all of my skills of fatherhood to you Dad. Happy Father's Day.
I didn't realize that being a father would be so difficult. It makes me appreciate you all the more.
Now that I am a father, I can see what a good job you did in raising us.
I didn't see what a good father you were to us before, but I do now.
Your experience and guidance have always been appreciated.
I hope you know how proud I am of you, father. Happy Father's Day! Happiness always!
Words can't tell how much you mean to us. We wish you happiness on this special day.
On this special day, I want to say I'm proud of you, appreciate all you've done for me and I love you.
Your eyes show sternness, but more kindness and care. Thank you for making me feel important.
Happy Father's Day to an extraordinary father! I love you so much!
You've been father, friend, adviser, all of these and more.
I made a present for you. I hope you like it.
To father--from your favorite string bean.
You are a little different from the rest of us, but that's OK. You are still my Dad.
You are the best, Dad
I will flatter you today.
I think of you often.

Photo Flash Maker Platinum enables you to create homemade fathers day gifts with plenty of amazing templates. You can create father's day ecard with photos, songs, FLV videos, text of father's day poems, decorations, and transitions, then output SWF flash file to save to your computer, upload to social websites like MySpace, Live Spaces, blog, etc., upload to our free web album Go2Album, or insert to your personal website to show your father this great father's day gift you made.

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