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Flash Slideshow Maker for Mac OS X

No matter you want to create a flash slideshow, flash banner, photo gallery or other flash components for embedding into your own website, Flash Slideshow Maker for Mac is a good choice.  You do not need to know Flash Action Script coding or any other flash making skills, just add your images into the flash maker, then a terrific XML+SWF Slideshows with transitions, pan / zoom effects, background music and stylish theme is ready to publish.

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Key features of Mac Flash Slideshow Maker

1. Easy-to-use: 3 steps to create a professional flash slideshow – add photos, select a Flash slideshow template and publish. It has a clear and user-friendly interface.

2. Various flash theme templates: There are over 60 preset theme templates for choosing. You can find one you like for your flash banner, photo gallery, web albums and more. After selecting a theme, you can customize it, such as  Flash widths, heights, background color, font size, etc.

3. Easily embed a flash into your own website: After publishing a flash, you just need to copy and paste all the generated files into your website folder, then paste the specified code into your page  in Dreamweaver.

3 Steps to make a flash slideshow on Mac

Step1. Add images

Click Photo tab, then drag images from your Mac hard drive into the main screen, or you can click the “+” button to locate and add images. You can arrange photos by dragging and dropping.

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add images

Step2. Select a flash theme

Go to Theme tab, you can select a theme for your flash slideshow or web album.  The themes are divided into three categories: General, 3D and Web Album.  Select a theme  you like, then customize it, such as Flash widths, heights, background color, font size, etc.

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select and customize theme

Step3. Publish a flash slideshow

Switch to Publish tab, in the pop-up window, you can set name for SWF , HTML and XML file and specify the output folder. Then click OK to begin creating the flash slideshow.

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publish a flash

When the flash slideshow files are created successfully, you can find the output files by clicking the folder button next to Output Folder box(locate-flash-files). There are 3 folders, 1 xml file, 1 html file and 1 swf file in the output folder.

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output folder

At the same time, a Success window will pop up,  offering tips on how to add the flash into your own website. To embed a flash into your own web pages, just move all the files in the output folder into the same folder with your web page, copy and paste the generated code for the flash object into your page HTML in Dreamweaver.

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Tips on embedding

 

How to build a flash photo gallery with Flash Slideshow Maker

Flash Slideshow Maker enables you to create Flash galleries, photo web albums, flash banners and musical flash slideshows from pictures. To turn your pictures into a flash gallery, you do not need to know any code or professional skills. In this article, I will show you how to convert photos to SWF flash galleries with dynamic transitions, pan /zoom and theme templates.

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Make Flash Galleries from Photos

1.  Organize Photos in Flash Slideshow Maker

Click Photo tab,  From the File Explorer area, find the photo folder and open it, then drag photos to photo area(lower part). Or you can click the Add and Add All button to import photos. After adding photos,  you can rotate photos. Click the Edit button, you can edit titles, add descriptions and URL for photos.

Flash Slideshow Maker can apply random transitions between photos, also you can change transitions in Transition Effect area. There are kinds of transitions for choosing. In this area, you can set time for transitions and slides according to your needs.

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Import photos

2. Choose a flash gallery theme template

Switch to Theme, you have Basic themes and Advanced themes for choosing.  If you just want to create single SWF  fills with background music, it is better to choose Basic themes. If you want to display photos on websites as a flash gallery, you should choose Advanced themes.  Advanced Themes are XML driven, it will create a SWF file with HTML file and XML file.

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choose theme for flash gallery

3. Publish a Flash Photo Gallery

Now  you can publish the flash slideshow. Click Publish tab and you see three output options: 1. Create Flash File Only 2. Make a Gift /Presentation CD/DVD 3. Create Flash Files and Upload to SkyAlbum. Com

Besides a SWF flash, a HTML page and XML file will be generated. After publishing , you can share the flash with friends via email, or embed it into your websites, blogs. To insert the flash gallery into your websites, you can upload it to SkyAlbum first, then copy the embed code into your websites in Dreamweaver or into your blogs. Also you can copy the HTML code into your websites in Dreamweaver .

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A simple flash gallery made by Flash Slideshow Maker.

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Create SWF flash slideshows with Flash Slideshow Maker

Flash Slideshow Maker is a professional software which can create Flash SWF slide shows with your photos in minutes. With it , you can turn photos into a dynamic SWF files and upload it to website for sharing or using in your own blog or websites.

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What can Flash Slideshow Maker do?

1. Build Photo Flash Gallery

It can convert your digital photos to professional slideshow galleries with kinds of templates.

2. Create Flash Banner

It can help make dynamic Flash banners, Flash intros and put them on your web sites easily.

3. Make Music Flash Slideshow

With it, you can build wonderful XML photo slideshows and tell your stories with background audio.

4. Create web albums

It can turn your photos into web albums for playing on Facebook, WordPress, Blogger or your web site. It is an ideal images presentation tool for photographers.

Three Steps to use Flash Slideshow Maker Professional on Windows:

Step1. Organize Flash Slideshow Photos

Flash Slideshow Maker enables you to import photos by dragging photos and dropping them to the app. Or you can use “Add All” to import all photos in a folder. Then you can arrange photos order by dragging, add subtitles, art clips, rotate photos.

Also you can choose transitions effects and set transitions and slides time.

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Step 2. Customize Flash Slideshow Theme

Click “Theme” tab, you can choose a theme from the Category drop-down list. There are kinds of themes are available, including 3 D themes. Flash Slideshow Maker for Mac 1.2.0 integrates more than 60 preset Flash templates, the Windows version Flash Slideshow Maker Professional 5.10 includes more than 100 Flash templates.

After choosing a theme, you can customize it to meet your needs.

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Step 3. Publish Flash Slideshow

Switch to “Publish” to create the flash slideshow.  The flash maker will generate a SWF flash, a HTML file and XML file.  Also you can directly publish the swf flash slideshow to SkyAlbum.com, then share it with friends, or copy and  embed code to your website or blog for demonstrate the flash slideshows.

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