This year, I've just had a summer vacation with my family in Greece. Greece is a wonderful place that I left my heart there. I'm eager to share these summer holiday photos with others when I came back. To tell a story in a "non-traditional" sense, to keep my summer fun memories, let's start to create a photo movie with summer vacation photos and songs. This guide will show you how to make it step by step.

Here's what we'll need:

• 1. Wondershare Photo Story Platinum;
  
• 2. Photos of summer vacations;
• 3. Background music.

Step 1. Add photos to tell your summer vacation story

Run the program Photo Story Platinum and add photos from your local harddisk. Also you're able to add multiple music soundtrack on the "StoryBoard" for your summer holiday photo movie.


Step 2. Add audio.

Choose your favorite music as background, record your own narrations for movie or add some funny sounds. It's all up to you.


Step 3. Edit photos & music .

Retouch your photos with the built-in editing tool. You are able to add text, rotate, crop and add effects for photos. Try it yourself and get fun! Also, double click audio soundtrack on StoryBoard to edit your audio.


Step 4. Select from movie styles.

Four types of movie styles are available for you to use: "A_Simple", "B_Advanced", "C_Theme" and "D_Photo_Qty". What's the difference of them? "A_Simple" and "B_Advanced" styles turns your photo into an amazing photo slideshow. And "C_Theme" and "D_Photo_Qty" styles makes your content more similar to a photo movie.


Step 5. Add Intro/Credit for summer vacation photo movie.

Now it's time for decorating your photo movie. Click "Intro/Credit" button and then select your favorite one and make it personlized.

Step 6. Decorate summer fun movie.

Add texts/ cliparts/ effects for your slideshow movie. It's easily to modify the displaying position on the Timeline. You just need to drag it to anywhere you want.


Step 7. Output your content.

This piece of software gives you all output formats. The best way is to burn your photo movie to DVDs for watching on TV with family and friends and you can send the copies to anyone who live far away from you. Or you can convert photo movie to video for mobile devices, like iPhone 3G, iPod, etc. Watching personlized photo movie on iPhone 3G, so cool? Isn't it? Don't forget one more thing that uploading the video to YouTube is now most popular on the Internet. :-)


Step 8. Watch my summer vacation slideshow movie on YouTube.

I've just upload photo movie on Youtube for share to the world. How do you think about it? If you like it, just get Photo Story Platinum and make your own photo movies now.

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