Easter Photo Slideshow

Easter is coming, it is one of the most important religious events for Christians as well as for non-Christians. Making all kinds of decorations is a fabulous way to welcome Easter, and there are many wonderful Easter decorations that we can create. But it seems to be overlooked for a long time, and I lost most of them.
Create a Easter decoration photo to dvd slideshow is a good way to keep those precious memory and share with our friends. Only few steps needed.

what you'll need:

1. Your favorite photos

2. Photo slideshow Maker

Step 1. Photoset :

Download and install DVD movie makerand launch it. Drag & drop your favorite photos to the Story Board or click “add photo” button to add photos, Click “Add Audio” which is next to “add photo” or double click on the audio board to add background music, You can edit every single picture with the built-in editing tools and effects to match the screen resolution.

Step 2. Choose a Style :

Double click or drag & drop your selected styles to the Story Board. Here I choose “Add random styles”.

Step 3. Burn to DVD :

Preview the Easter decoration slideshow , if you are satisfied with it, then click the "Create" tab and choose the output format as dvd, author the dvd and choose the menu template to burn it on your dvd disc and watch it on TV .

Step 4. Upload to yahoo video :

Select "Create" tab and click "Create MP4" or other formats like "AVI”, “WMV" or "MPEG-2" and easily share the Easter decoration slideshow with families and friends both near and far on upload to yahoo video or many other popular websites.

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Happy Eater1 - History of Easter

History of Easter

Easter is upcoming, a festival of overwhelming joy. The joy that celebrates life. Or, rather, the victory of life over death. But does it have any historic background? Eggs, bunnies, who brought those funny stuffs on the soil of America?

Easter, the principal festival of the Christian church year, celebrates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion. The origins of Easter date to the beginnings of Christianity, and it is probably the oldest Christian observance after the Sabbath which was originally observed on Saturday, later on Sunday.

Meanwhile, many of the cultural historians find, in the celebration of Easter, a convergence of the three traditions - Pagan, Hebrew and Christian. According to St. Bede, an English historian of the early 8th century, Easter owes its origin to the old Teutonic mythology. It was derived from the name Eostre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, to whom the month of April was dedicated. The festival of Eostre was celebrated at the vernal equinox, when the day and night gets an equal share of the day.


But it is pointed out by some that the Easter festival, as celebrated today, is related with the Hebrew tradition, the Jewish Passover. This is being celebrated during Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew lunar year. The Jewish Passover under Moses commemorates Israel's deliverance from about 300 years of bondage in Egypt.



The Feast of Easter was well established by the second century. But there had been dispute over the exact date of the Easter observance between the Eastern and Western Churches. The East wanted to have it on a weekday because early Christians observed Passover every year on the 14th of Nisan, the month based on the lunar calendar. But, the West wanted that Easter should always be a Sunday regardless of the date.

To solve this problem the emperor Constantine called the Council of Nicaea in 325. The question of the date of Easter was one of its main concerns. The council decided that Easter should fall on Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox. But fixing up the date of the Equinox was still a problem. The Alexandrians, noted for their rich knowledge in astronomical calculations were given the task. And March 21 was made out to be the perfect date for spring equinox.

The dating of Easter today follows the same. Accordingly, churches in the West observe it on the first day of the full moon that occurs on or following the Spring equinox on March 21, it became a movable feast between March 21 and April 25.

Still some churches in the East observe Easter according to the date of the Passover festival. The preparation takes off as early as on the Ash Wednesday from which the period of penitence in the Lent begins. The Lent and the Holy week end on the Easter Sunday, the day of resurrection.

Today, with all its joyous customs, Easter is indeed a major popular festival across the United States. A festival that has become more of secular in spirit, though it has religious background. The scars of death and destruction which led people back to the Easter season. They found the story of resurrection as a great source of inspiration and renewed hope. Since then, of course, its joyous customs delight children and adults alike. Easter nowadays is a festival of overwhelming joy. The joy that celebrates life. Or, rather, the victory of life over death.

Start Digital Scrapbooking

Learning the basics of digital scrapbooking is a fun process that takes no special knowledge of computers to accomplish. It saves money because the same supplies can be used again and again and it saves time and energy as well as space since supplies don't need to be stored.

How to Get Started With Digital Scrapbooking

Step 1

Select a photo scrapbooking program. Consider free programs available ( Google Picasa )or commercially well-designed easy-to-use photo scrapbooking creator for digital scrapbooking

Step 2

Install the chosen program on your computer. Take any tutorials offered with the software to familiarize yourself with the options available.

Step 3

Select a photograph from the images on your computer and select a background that goes with the photograph. For a vibrant layout, choose colors that are on opposite ends of the color wheel. For a soft and more natural layout, choose colors that are beside each other on the color wheel.

Step 4

Drop the photograph on to the background paper you've chosen. Add a frame, a ribbon, a bow and any other embellishments you like to create a layout that's pleasing to you.

Step 5

Save the final layout once you've arranged everything the way you want it.


Tips & Warnings

* Make your layouts 3-D by leaving some of the layout space empty and adding stickers or embellishments to it once it's printed.
* Take advantage of scrapbooking blog sites that offer digital scrapbooking supplies for free.
* Always run an anti virus program on your computer to avoid getting a virus when downloading free digital scrapbooking supplies.

Useful tutorials: 

Make a Picture Collage with Picasa

Start Digi Scrapping with Photo Collage Studio

Printable Family Collage Cards for Kids

Printable Christmas Family Collage Cards for Kids

When Santa's sleigh bells ring, the kids are expecting the presents wrapped in red and green. Fortunately,you manage to get to the toy store and buy a gift for your honey kids before the herald angels singing. But it couldn't be better that you customize a card with your own message and pack up with gifts for your kids on Christmas Eve.

Christmas cards is only as far away as your computer and your printer. Printable kids cards can be made only a few minutes with family picture collage maker. Kid picture cards for print in a number of formats and with a wide variety of images and greeting, and if you have a color printer, you can print cards free in full color at home. If not, print collage cards in black and white and let your kids color it in :)-

Step 1: Install the Family Picture Collage Maker

Here we use the family picture collage maker called photo collage creator as an example, since it offers a bundle of cool theme templates for family, wedding, love, baby, kids, friendship and Christmas,Happy New Year or other holidays to satisfy your any demands. Want to have a glance of these free templates, please check here for free kids digital scrapbooking templates. Applying templates, you can make a fabulous wedding, baby and family picture collage only in three steps, that convenient for the green hands and busy persons. Now let's install the program and start the fun.



Step 2: Select and Download the template

When you start the software, select "Create from Template". If you want to create Christmas cards, pick the first "Christmas(30)". The popup window is just as follow.



Step 3: Import kid-photos into the template

Carefully select the photo which can express and then double-click the center area to add from your computer disk. Or select a path from left of digital scrapbook software, and drag the photo from the left to the center area of printable kids picture cards.

Step 4: Add your own Message for Christmas Cards

Click the Taskbar of "Decorate Collage" button,and choose the "Text" tab. Type out the title in the text box, and select the font,color and text size in the center of printable kids cards. Or you can move it as a whole. What's more, you can set the shadow,halation or texture for your printable cards for kids as Christmas Gift.

Step 5: Save as image or wallpaper

An Christmas card has been simply design out, and save it as image. If you are not satisfied with it, you can decorate the printable kids cards with digital scrapbooking embellishments,such as clipart,stamp or doodle some knickknacks for further embellishment. What'more, you can use free digital scrapbooking kits to adorn your family picture collage.


Step 6: Print Out the family picture cards

If you have a color printer, you can print cards free in full color at home. If not, print the cards in black and white and let your kids color it in. From family picture collage card, you will have a more festival Christmas.

Try it free today!

Create digital scrapbook for desktop using Picasa

Desktop wallpapers are great tools to make your digital workspace a little “homey”. I often use nature desktop wallpapers if I'd like to kickback and relax, and use sports photos if I'm at work and apply Bible verses to soothe and remind me of heavenly things. Every time I need a change of desktop "scenery" I'd go to the internet to search for great desktop wallpapers.

Picasa offers a great way to make personalized desktop wallpapers. It's the COLLAGE tool of Picasa (if you don’t have Picasa2 yet, you can download it here).
Follow these simple steps to make your own desktop wallpaper:

STEP 1: Open your Picasa2 application and browse the folder where your photos are.

STEP 2: Select at least 8 photos that you want to make part of your desktop collage. (Hold down the control or shift key for multiple selections), and press the COLLAGE button below.


STEP 3: From the pop-up window, choose TYPE=COLLAGE, OPTIONS=Your background color, LOCATION=Choose a folder… then press the "create button".



Now you have a desktop wallpaper full of your own photos! Neat eh?


Of cource, you can have other choice. You can use another gorgeous photo collage maker to create your own personalized desktop. And if you are a Mac user, you can select the best Mac collage maker.

Other useful articles:
1. Make scrapbook with Collage Maker
2. Design Collage from Scratch
3. Happy scrapping with Photoshop Elements
4. Create Photo Collage Prints

Merge 2 Pictures with GIMP

The combination of images with a fade effect is obtained very easily by using a layer mask in the photo collage creator.
We want to merge the photo of Asin Thottumkal with that of Panch Mahal,a school in India.

1) The two images to merge
2) Add a layer mask Click on the layer of the image on the right. With the right mouse button, click the "Add layer mask" and the dialog box below appears. Choose white to initialize the mask. White corresponds to opaque. Now you get this in the layers box:
3) Create a partial transparency Choose from the tool box: - A black foreground color . - A white background color. Take the Gradient tool. Make a gradient from right to left, starting from the edge of the image and stopping in the middle of it, to maintain a visible part. 4) Merge the layers
In the layers window click on "Merge Layers". Now only one layer is visible in the window.
5) Superpimpose the two images
Click on the image of the model, and "Select All" then "Copy." Go to the landscape image, in selection mode, and click "Paste." Move the image to fit as you want. Save.

What's Collage?

“Collage” is a French word that means the act of gluing or sticking, so anything that you can glue together to form a piece of art can be called a collage.

The beauty of creating a collage is that anything goes. Since you decide how you want your collage to look, no two collages need ever be the same. If you’re looking for symmetry, you might want to make two collages that are exactly the same and use them to frame both sides of a window or a bulletin board, or you can use them as the front and back cover of a photo album.

Photo Collages

The most popular form of collage, of course, is a collage that’s composed of photos. The photos don’t have to be in any particular order, don’t have to tell a particular story and don’t have to be all in color or all black and white. However, if the collage will be composed of photos, search for close-up photos that are crisp and clear.

For instance, if a teenager is creating a collage for her bedroom wall, the first order of business would probably be to round up all the great, fun photos the teen has. Find photos of the teen alone as well as with friends, pets and family members. The photos can then be overlapped, turned sideways or placed upside down, depending how your teen would like them, or placed in a manner that allows the artists to create a picture, such as a flower pattern or a sunburst.

Other Fun Collage Items

Displaying photos alone is the most typical form of collage, but you can also add other materials. A collage can be made even more fun by adding bits of ribbon, stickers, word bubbles, candy and gum wrappers and borders with stencil or rubber stamping decorations. If using candy and gum wrappers, use wrappers that are from your favorite candy and gum. For example, if your name is Clark or Joy, use Clark or Almond Joy wrappers, respectively. Maybe you want to add the labels from your favorite snack foods, such as chips, popcorn, pretzels, cereal names and soda pop.

If the collage is intended to be a portrait or outline of who you are, you might want to add words from newspapers, magazines and food labels. The word Cool, taken from a Cool Whip container, can be added to the collage to signify that you are cool or that you use that word a lot. Or, you can create words with stencils and rubber stamping techniques. Large bold letters or numbers signifying the names of friends, the date and other important events in your life would add to the collage by making it both interesting and timely.

Collage Border

Not only does a border give a collage a definite edge, but it also can be used to define the person the collage is being made for. Create this look by choosing items that say something about the person. A border for a collage that is being made for a teenager or by a teenager can be created out of strips of her last exam paper, strips of ribbon, movie ticket stubs, sashes from pageants she’s won or blue ribbons she’s won over the years in sporting events. Words or messages can also be used as the border.

Collages are generally mismatched bits from a person’s life. Because pictures often tell a story, even when you didn’t engineer the collage in that manner, you’ll be surprised by what other people see or get from your collage upon seeing it for the first time.

How to Make a Collage

It’s very easy to make a collage; you are only limited by your imagination and the things you have around the house. The first thing you will want to do is pick out a background for your collage. You can make a collage on a piece of posterboard, cardboard, even a large piece of paper or sheet of yesterday’s newspaper.

There are no rules that dictate how to make a collage. If you’re doing this project with kids, watch what they do and try to bring the same sense of play to your collage work. If you haven’t done something this unstructured in awhile, you might find it difficult. There’s no right or wrong way to do it; every result is perfect. That can either be freeing or scary, depending on your personality.


A great way to remember your travel adventures is to make a collage of pictures and other mementos. Start with color copies of your favorite travel snapshots, then add things like your airplane boarding passes, tickets from shows, a matchbook from that great Italian restaurant, the lucky penny you picked up on the boardwalk or the perfect shell you found on the beach. This is a perfect way to keep all your memories together and to be able to see those things every day.

It is great fun to make a collage with your children, but even if you don’t have kids you can have fun with collage. Use it as a therapeutic art when you feel burned out on other projects or have had a bad day at work. It brings a wonderful sense of play to your crafts and can make you feel more creative as well.

If you’re at a loss for where to begin, open a software, and take use of the premade templates built-in application to create your own collages in a minute.

Related tutorial:
 
Make a Picture Collage with Picasa  picasa is free, easy, but the effect is not good.

Make a Collage with Collage Maker easy and quick, no skills and the effect is excellent.

Make a Scrapbooking with Photoshop complicated skills are needed, but the effect may arrive to perfect!