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Troubled by how to arrange the photos in an apple-pie order, or how to share it in a convenient way? Use the photo album feature of PowerPoint 2007 to resolve it.

Use the photo album feature of PowerPoint 2007. Just four mouse clicks to burn the PPT to DVD. Create a memorable DVD Photo album for party using PowerPoint.

Create a DVD photo album for party
Learn how to create your own DVD photo album using PowerPoint

Dozens of memorable photographs come from Birthday Party, Christmas Party, Wedding Party and etc. We touched by the memories. But troubled by how to create a photo album arranging the photos in an apple-pie order, or how to share the photo album in a convenient way?

From now on, with the powerful function of widespread PowerPoint, we easily archive hundreds of our favorite high-resolution photos to create a photo album. After convert PPT to DVD, we throw ourselves in a sofa. Let memorable yesterdays flow out from the big screen TV with a remote in our hand. The bride can send DVD photo album to each of the party goers with a thank you note. The mother can memorialize your baby’s first birthday
permanently. Between the food, the guests, and the entertainment, a DVD photo album makes it never to end!

All these can be done in a few minutes. Just use the photo album feature of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. Just four mouse clicks to burn the PPT to DVD. Let’s start to create a memorable DVD Photo album.
1. On the Insert menu, click Photo Album. And in the drop-down list, click New Photo Album option.

2. Click on the ‘File/Disk…’ option and choose the photos. Importing multiple pictures at a time is available. You can preview each photo by clicking it in the Picture in album list. Below the preview window, there is a photo editing area. You can use these buttons to adjust the rotation, contrast and brightness of each picture.

3. In the drop-down list of Picture layout, you can choose the layout format you like. And in the drop-down list of Frame Shape, you can choose the frame you want to add to your photos. Click the Browse button. Locate the template in the Choose Theme box that allows you to navigate to the folder where we have stored the downloaded templates. Or you can use the operating system’s own theme templates.

4. Clicked Create button. If necessary, click the title placeholder, and then type the title for your photos.

5. If you want to give your album captions, click the Photo Album arrow on the Insert tab. And then click Edit Photo Album. Select Captions below All pictures box, then click Update.

That’s how your own PowerPoint photo album got out. Isn’t this easy?

Want to store the photo album permanently? Want to share the photo album efficiently? Want to create DVD menus to play on TV with a DVD remote control?

So, let’s convert our valuable photo album to DVD. Try to Google”PPT2DVD” to start the process of burning PPT to DVD easily.

Imagine that you and your family watch the photo album on TV after years, you all bring back the good old days. Imagine that your friends view the photo album DVD disc when you are separated by distance. So, when are you going to create your next DVD photo album? Very soon, I presume, like this happy person–“I love PPT2DVD, I created a Family Reunion album viewed on our TV’s for a BBQ we had with several generations of the family. It’s fantastic! Work on a bigger one for Christmas this year!”

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For those of you not familiar with what a photo-canvas is, let me explain.

Photos to canvas are a relatively new way to display your favorite photographs. Unlike a standard photo enlargement that is matted and framed, canvas photos are actually printed directly on canvas and stretched over an internal wood frame, ready to hang. At PhotoArt People our artists take your photo and enhance it to make it “canvas-worthy”. The image is then printed on museum quality canvas using a special printer, and sprayed with a protective laminate to make it last 100 years. Finally the canvas is stretched by hand over a wood frame “gallery-wrap” style, meaning the imaged canvas covers the edges to provide a nice finished look. Photo canvas prints make great gifts and are a great way to show off your favorite photos. “Out of the photo album and onto the wall” is what we say.

So what are the most popular types of photos people choose?

1. Wedding photos – This is the single most popular type of photo we get. Most are professionally posed but we also see informal shots of the happy couple. Great wedding gift idea.
2. Children – Photos of kids is a close second. These can be portraits or simple snapshots. The snapshots usually make the best canvas prints because they catch the child doing something spontaneous. And the grandparents love to get these as gifts.
3. Group family photos – This is also a popular type photo, and is usually printed in the larger sizes. Most people like these over the fireplace or in a prominent spot in the living room.
4. Special events – Graduation, anniversaries, special awards, family reunions – all make great opportunities for canvas prints. People like to memorialize these milestone events with a special photo to capture it for posterity.
5. Pets – We get a lot of pet photos as well. These make particularly great digital
paintings (BrushTouch) because the fur provides a beautiful texture for the artists to work with.
6. Vacation/Travel – We have received photos taken all over the world. One of my favorites was one taken at Machu Picchu in Peru with a llama in the foreground. Vacation photo-canvases are a great way to rekindle memories from past adventures.

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Great photos come with experience, but there are a few tips and tricks you can learn from the experience of others to help you improve your photographing experience. Listed below are eleven of them:

1. Use the tripod and self-timer of your digital camera. These two things will give you better chances to take sharper and clearer photos.

2. Keep the background tidy and clean. Before taking the photo, remove all things that you don’t want to include in it from the area. This will also help you focus on the subject without having your eyes distracted by the surroundings.

3. Place the camera as close as you can. Look into the screen of the camera and make sure that the things you want in the photo almost fill it. Using the macro function can really help. Look into the manufacturer’s manual to see how to use it and which distances are appropriate.

4. Make sure that the subject of the photo is in focus. A de-focused picture is unpleasant to look at and almost impossible to improve afterwards. If your photo is not focused, take a new one.

5. Stay away from dark shadows. Indirect sunlight and flash are much better for photographing than artificial or direct sunlight.

6. Take some time to think about what you want to photograph before setting up the camera equipment.

7. Improve the final result by rotating, cropping, resizing, sharpening and compressing if necessary. However, take your photo in such a way as to reduce the amount of necessary editing to a minimum. For example, removing unwanted objects from the picture is not something you should need to do.

8. Read the manufacturer’s manual to get to know all the features your camera has and be able to use them. Some of the most important things to learn about the camera before starting to use it are the self-timer, how to take pictures using the macro and manual focus settings, how to set the white balance and exposure levels, how to zoom in and out from the subject you want to photograph and how to adjust the resolution for your photos.

9. Don’t be shy to try experimenting. Try to put the techniques you read about into practice to see for yourself how they work. Change the angle of the photo, rotate the object you are focusing on, use different lighting, try out various background colors and exposure levels. You may be surprised of how much a certain technique can improve your photo.

10. Set your expectations right. You shouldn’t expect to get the perfect photo from the first shot. This rarely happens. Two or three shots are not enough either, you generally need at least five before deciding you couldn’t have done it any better.

11. If you are using the camera’s built-in flash for craft and jewelry photography, you should also use the power cord which comes along with the camera to generate as much light as possible out of the flash unit for each photo. As you are using the camera, even if you don’t use flash, the batteries will discharge and the output from the flash unit will also decrease. If you are using all of these tips you should see an instant improvement in your photographing. You may have them printed if you want and refer to them any time you are taking a new photo.

source:Fast Cash Photograph

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A Fun Way to Watch Your Little One Grow

Step 1: Have a baby or find someone who does and is willing for you to harass them with your camera

Step 2: Pick a fun stuffed animal that will be easy to take places

Step 3: Take a photo once a week for the first month, then once a month for the first year, then yearly until they move out and won’t come home/spend their birthday with you

Step 4: Every now and then get the photos printed, either as a collage, prints, or in a photo book

I may have mentioned this type of project before since we started doing this when Aya was born but I thought it’d be fun to post it as a “Tips & Tricks”, I’m hoping to add this as a category and share things that may be useful to others.

This is a fun way to see how your kid grows. It’s great to see how they start to interact with the stuff animal at different stages as well. This has also been fun for me to see how I’ve grown as a photographer!

And of course, here is a true to life example of this project… Amara’s first two weeks of photos and Aya’s first year and second year photos!

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In our photography forums we’ve got a creative group of photographers – many who set themselves all kinds of photographic projects and then share how they took the shots. Here’s 21 from our ‘How I took It‘ section. Click pictures to read the story and techniques used behind the shots. 1. Light Sugar Cube 2. Dart Shot 3. Know When to Fold’em 4. How I Shoot the Moon 5. Bubble World 6. Digital Unmasking | Ripping one’s face 7. Bottles on Fire 8. Light + Clothes dryer 9. Partial Solar Eclipse on Feb 7 in New Zealand

10. Parabolas

12. Long Exposure While Driving

13. Light Painting “Love”

14. Master Chief’s Bad Day

15. Splash of Color

16. Make Your Own Cadillac Commercial

17. Chuck Norris Eyedrops

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by Christina N Dickson

Every on-location portraitist is faced with the challenge of paying attention to the details regarding his or her subject, such as posing, lighting, composition etc. Perhaps the greatest mistake made by amateur on-location portrait photographers is the lack of emphasis placed on a portrait’s background surroundings.

Photographers who do not closely examine the surroundings within the frame of their image are those who come away with images that have great distractions. No high school senior or bride will purchase a portrait in which a tree limb is sticking out of her head. Such distracting elements take emphasis off the subject, and are detrimental to the portraitist’s sales. There is nothing more painful for a portraitist than taking a portrait that is beautifully posed, gorgeously lit, and absolutely unusable … simply because no attention was given to background composition!

Posing and lighting both play enormous roles in the creation of a dynamic portrait. However, background composition is a forgotten component that requires an equal amount of time and thought.

Some things to consider when creating a perfectly composed portrait:
1. Fill the frame with your subject

A portrait is about the person, so don’t be afraid to zoom in close! Remember that zooming in does not mean capturing only face shots. You can also capture “tight”, close up shots of your subject sitting on a stool or leaning into a tree.

2. Keep eyes in the upper third

This is the most natural spacing for a portrait. Try not to divert from this rule unless you are deliberately creating tension. Another exception of this rule is when a subject is full-bodied in the bottom third of the frame.

3. Use framing to concentrate all attention on your subject

Rather than eliminate the environment, use it! Doorways, arches, windows, gazebos are all creative solutions that allow for maximum subject focus and heightened visual interest.

4. Create texture

Once again, if you can’t eliminate a distracting background, use it to your advantage! By pulling the subject away from the background and shooting on Aperture priority (f4.0), you will create a small depth of field to blur the backdrop and allow for artistic texture. Your subject will stand out of the background without completely removing all creative interest in the shot.

5. Use lines

Brick is the perfect background for a portrait! The lines add creative interest, but they also draw attention to your subject. Keep in mind that any “line” used in a portrait is strongest when it comes outside the frame and leads to the subject.
6. Change your angles

Sometimes eliminating a distraction is simply a matter of moving the camera to another position. To make the best use of perspective, work to change your camera-to-subject angle. Often by moving a little to the right or left, or getting higher or lower, you can completely abolish that distracting tree branch or telephone pole.

You will be guaranteed to sell your portrait creations when you concentrate on background details, make your subject stand out, and invest creative interest in the portrait’s composition.

Read more from our Portrait Photography Category.

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