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December 2007 Newsletter
Welcome to the Photo to Movie NewsletterDecember 2007Happy Holidays from Photo to Movie! With December finally here the year will soon close, leaving only the photographs you've taken as road maps through your memories. Of course, we hardly need to remind you that there's no better way to enjoy those photos by bringing them to life through Photo to Movie software. You can create year-in-review documents for all your friends and family to enjoy: slideshows of a child's first year at school, or of highlights from spring, summer, and autumn vacations. You can make slideshows encapsulating milestone events such as weddings, graduations, or professional honors. You could even make a party slideshow with you and your friends goofing off! Photo to Movie provides a fun, easy, and creative way to capture all those essential moments throughout the year that defined your family and put them on the screen for distant relatives and close companions alike. And in this newsletter, we'll show you a quick way to do exactly that -- our featured tutorial shows how to write a family newsletter with a link to your very own Photo to Movie slideshow! Photo to Movie makes the perfect gift for home photo enthusiasts, and provides an easy and fun way to prepare your pictures for TV or internet viewing. It's a program that anyone can use, making it an excellent present for hard-to-shop-for family members. Show them how Photo to Movie can bring their family vacations, school events, and holiday traditions to life. In anticipation of the upcoming gift season, we have two great opportunities to buy Photo to Movie at a discounted price for any photo fan in your life! And don't forget that the cross-platform Photo to Movie is also available at Amazon and Apple Stores. Photo to Movie Featured on Mac Santa Deals!On December 15th, Photo to Movie will be a featured item on the website Mac Santa. For those of you still completing your Christmas shopping, this will be the perfect opportunity to purchase Photo to Movie for any loved one -- at a 20% discount! The deal will only last for one day, so don't hesitate to take advantage of the savings. Photo to Movie makes the perfect gift for home photo enthusiasts, and provides an easy and fun way to prepare your pictures for TV or internet viewing. It's a program that anyone can use, making it an excellent present for hard-to-shop-for family members. Show them how Photo to Movie can bring their family vacations, school events, and holiday traditions to life! http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/purchase.php Buy Photo to Movie as a Gift from our Website for $10 off!We've added a new functionality to our website for those wanting to purchase Photo to Movie as a gift. If you add Photo to Movie to your LQ Graphics shopping cart, you'll see a green bar with a link enabling you to "send as a gift". Click on it to send a Photo to Movie license to anyone in your email address book, at a 20% discount! In addition, the recipient of your Photo to Movie gift will receive an email message on your behalf (customizable at the time of purchase), along with instructions on how to download the program. They'll also receive links to Photo to Movie tutorials, so they can start using their brand new software immediately! It'll be a holiday season they'll remember forever as they organize their photos into slideshows! http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/purchase.php Create a Holiday NewsletterShow your family how you've enjoyed the year with a linked slideshow at Youtube, .mac, or Google videos! The holiday newsletter is still a lively art, and one of the most instantly recognizable forms of correspondence. There is no right or wrong way to write one -- it's best when a family, or individual, structures their newsletter in a manner that suits their personality. You might write a newsletter as a funny poem summarizing happenings throughout the year, or as a series of brief blurbs about each family member's recent accomplishments, written from their point of view. Be creative and your family and friends will look forward to reading your newsletters year after year! If, however, you happen to be hard-pressed for ideas this holiday season, we offer these simple tips to creating a short but entertaining email newsletter featuring a Photo to Movie slideshow of the year your family had.
Now that you're done writing and formatting, it's time to link to a slideshow! First, open up the Photo to Movie application and organize a slideshow just as you would do ordinarily. Try to keep it short for file size purposes -- we suggest a total of ten pictures. This will pare down your year to the most crucial moments. Try to imagine your slideshow as a pictorial version of your newsletter, offering viewers a swift update of your family's journey through 2007. Use one picture each from a wedding, a graduation, a vacation, a holiday celebration. Maybe throw in one or two that just show your family having fun. Put the pictures in chronological order, and add a few transitions -- dissolve or wipe from one month to the next, for example. Type in a few captions if you'd like, describing the activity in each photo. Add a brief soundtrack that sums up your family perfectly, fading the music out at the end of the slideshow. And it's time to render. Publishing for .Mac Users.Mac users have it easy. All you need to do is:
Publishing to Video SitesOther users may want to use a flash-based internet site, such as YouTube or Google Video. Since YouTube videos can be viewed on virtually any computer with Flash, this is a safe method for linking, although slightly more complicated than publishing to .Mac. Here are the steps:
Your newsletter is ready to send, and all your YouTube/Google Video buddies can watch it, too! Hopefully this tutorial has given you a few tips to consider when writing this year's family newsletter. Email is not always the preferred form of communication between family members and friends. But elegant fonts and photos, as well as a link to a Photo to Movie slideshow, will justify the use of new technology and make your family seem all the more closer to your newsletter recipients. Slideshows made from your own personal photos present the best and easiest opportunity for you to tell your family's story at the close of each year. We wish you and your family the best through the holidays, and hope you take plenty of pictures for next year's slideshows! Popular video sharing websites: Photo to Movie: Microsoft Vista and Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Compatible2007 has been an exciting year for computer software. Windows users everywhere are updating their operating systems to Vista, while Mac computers have a wealth of new features to enjoy with Leopard. Operating system updates invariably cause compatibility issues, however, rest assured that Photo to Movie will work just as well on your new OS. No downloads or updates needed! Photo to Movie 4.1 (Mac OS) -- There's still time to Beta Test!Beta testing for Photo to Movie Version 4.1 is well underway. The response from our users has been tremendous, but we still want you to give it a try and offer your thoughts. This is your opportunity to participate in an official update that makes this already-user-friendly software even more fun to work with on any project, large or small. A few notable changes and additions to 4.1 include:
If you're interested in participating in the testing of this new update, please visit the Photo to Movie beta web page: http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomoviebeta.php NoticesTo unsubscribe from this list click here. LQ Graphics, Inc., 7172 Regional Street #297, Dublin, CA 94568 |