Editing Added Photos

You can edit added photos using several methods. Double-click the photo and you can see pop-up Photo Configuration window. This section covers how to edit photos in Photo Configuration window.

• Selecting transition effects
• Customizing Pan and Zoom
• Adding text and art clips
• Adding sound annotation to the slide

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-Selecting transition effects

With Photo DVD Slideshow, you can customize transition effect of single slide, apply no transition to the album and randomize selected transition to selected slides or the whole album as well.

1. Double-click the slide and you can see Photo Configuration window.

2. Click Transition tab and then check Custom option.

3. Choose desired effect in drop-down list and click Preview to preview the final effect of selected effect.

4. Change Photo and Transition duration. This setting is only applied to the current slide not the whole album.

5. Click Next button to change settings of the next slide.

6. Click Done to finish your settings.

You can apply desired transition to the slide simply by right-clicking on the transition icon and choose Apply to selected photo or dragging and dropping the icon onto the slide.

-Applly No Transition to the Album

Simply click N/A button in Transition and Music tab window.

-Apply Same Transition Effects to the Album

Right-click on desired transition icon and choose Apply to all photos of current album.

-Randomize Selected Transition to Selected Slides or the Whole Album

1. Click Subset button in Transition and Music tab and you will see a pop-up window.

2. Click Add to add desired transition from the left Unselected Transition Effect panel. Your added effects will be shown in the right panel.

3. Click Remove to delete unsatisfied one.

4. Click Add All or Remove All to add or remove all the built-in transition effects.

5. Check the Default setting for next new album option to apply the same transition effects randomly to the next album in the slideshow.

6. Click Randomize to finish setting.

-If you need to change photo or transition duration overall, you can click Transition&Music tab and then you will find an Album Settings panel and you can input your desired duration time here.

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-Customizing Pan and Zoom

By using Photo DVD Slideshow, you can pan, zoom and rotate content to create a variety of dramatic effects.

1. Double-click the slide and you can see Photo Configuration window.

2. Click Pan and Zoom tab and then check Custom option.

3. Choose desired effect in drop-down list and click Play to preview the final effect of selected effect.

4. Change pan, zoom and rotation settings. If you would like to copy this effect to other slides, click Copy Position button.

5. Click Next button or click the slide in the right panel of the window to change settings of the next slide. If you just want to apply copied settings to the slide, just click Paste Position.

6. Click Done to finish your settings.

If you do not need pan and zoom effect, just uncheck Pan and Zoom option in Album Settings panel of Transition and Music tab.

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-Adding text and art clips

This feature can help you add customized text and art clips to selected slide or all slides.

-Add Text to a Slide

1. Double-click the slide you want to customize and you can see Photo Configuration window. You can also access this feature by clicking Text tab in Slide Toolbar.

2. Click Text tab and then double-click on the slide to enter desired text.

3. Drag and drop the text to change its position.

4. Change text font, size and color in the bottom panel after you click the text.

5. Click Done to apply the settings.

-Add Macro Text to a Slide

1. Double-click any slide in the album and then come to Photo Configuration window.

2. Click Add Macro Text button in bottom panel and then choose the specified macro text from the drop-down list.

-Add Art Clips to a Slide

1. Double-click any slide in the album and then come to Photo Configuration window.

2. Click Artclip tab and then simply select art clips from the built-in art clips by double-clicking the desired one in bottom panel.

3. Drag and drop art clip to change its position.

4. Click More to select art clip from your hard drive.

-Add Same Text/ Art Clips to the Album

1. Double-click any slide in the album and then come to Photo Configuration window.

2. Click Text/ Artclip tab and then double-click on the slide to input desired text.

3. After you finish inputting/selection, click the input text/selected art clip and then click Apply Select to All button in bottom panel. Your selected text will be applied to each slide in current album.

4. If you would like to edit text again, you can just edit it on one of the slides. The changes will be applied to all slides.

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-Adding sound annotation to the slide

You can also add your own narration to individual slide. Click the duration time marked on the slide and you will see a pop-up window.

1. Check Enable Sound Annotation option.

2. Click Browse to select readied audio file in WAV, WMA and MP3 format from your hard drive.

3. Click Record to input your sound resource at once.

4. Click Trim to trim added audio.

4. Check Same as Sound Annoatation option to make the slide duration match with the duration of added sound.

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