Photo Greeting Cards Help

Table of Contents

Welcome

Introduction

Functions

Example

License agreement


Welcome to Photo Greeting Cards

Thank you for using Photo Greeting Cards.

In the world of multimedia, photos play a very important role in delivering messages. A photo is worth a thousand words. Therefore, to convey complex information by electronic media in an efficient way, you need to use images. You can use a digital camera or PC-camera to grab the images, but it still takes a long time to put everything together. If there were many well-designed photos ready for use, you could get the job done beyond expectation and save a lot of time. Photo Greeting Cards is designed to be an easy tool for PC-camera users to make their own images in seconds. It will help you live much easier in the multimedia world. Enjoy using Photo Greeting Cards.


Introduction

Photo Greeting Cards contains hundreds of subtle graphics and photos designed by professional artists. All Greeting Cards are sorted into 20 groups for easy access. After you have selected a card, customize it to your needs.  Capture and add a photo. Add some text. Add music or record a voice message. Use the editing tools to personalize your card. Once your finished, save it to a file. Now, you can print it and mail it to a friend.  Or create an Executable File from your card and email it to a friend.

Once Photo Greeting Cards starts, you will see all the categories. To make your own card, follow the steps below:

1.Select a category.

2.Select a specific card.

3.Now, you will be in the working area. Here, you personalize your card.  Start by adding an image file or a captured photo.

4.Next, add greeting text or your name.

5.Add background music and record your voice.

6.Finally, save your completed card.

7.Print your card or created an Executable File to email.


Functions

Help

Get help on Photo Greeting Cards.

Exit

Close Photo Greeting Cards.

Previous Page

Go to previous screen.

Next page

Go to next page in the current card category.

Previous page

Go to previous page in the current card category.

Add image

Open an image file and put it into the frame of card. This image will be placed on top of the frame. Each card has predefined frame shape; circular, ellipse, rectangle or irregular.

Save card

Save the card to a file. You can select file type as a Windows bitmap format, JPEG compression format, PCX format, TIFF format, etc. The output image size can be scaled down. Please see scale output function in Settings.

Print card

Print your card. The printed size can be scaled down. Please see

scale output function in Settings.

Input photo

This dialog box activates PC-camera device. A photo can be captured and automatically placed into the frame of the card.

Record sound

Add background music and record your voice into the card

Email

Send the card with photo and audio compressed. To email the card, you require a MAPI compliant email server, like Outlook.

Mirror photo

Flip the photo from side to side

Scale input

The scroll bar is located at the bottom left side of the screen. The scroll bar shows the scale ratio for the photo to the card. The range is from 0 to 100%. Drag the red dot to the left to scale the photo down. Use this feature to scale the photo to match the size of the card.

Opacity

Opacity scroll bar is located at the bottom center of the screen. The scroll bar shows the opacity of the photo to the card. In other words, the colors of the photo are blended with the background colors of the frame. The range is from 0 to 100%. Drag the red dot to the left to reduce the photo opacity. You get a full, clear photo with the opacity set to 100%. There are two styles of blending colors: uniform and gradually. See Settings

Add text

To add text to your card, use the Enter Text dialog box. You can access this dialog by double clicking the left mouse button anywhere inside the card. In the dialog box, you can do the following:

1. Enter the text to add onto the card.

2. Select the color of the text as black, white or invert. Invert is the inverted color of the background that the text overlay.

3. Select the font.

4. Press the OK button to add your text on the card.

Popup menu

Click the right mouse button anywhere inside the card, you will access the popup menu to change the settings or to undo text. The popup menu has three options.

1. Undo text 	Remove text from the card.

2. Settings 	Change Photo Greeting Cards setting.

3. About 	Show copyright information.

Settings

Settings can be changed from the Photo Greeting Cards Setting dialog box.

Scale output

Scale Output adjusts the size of output image for storage or printing. The range is from 0% to 100%. The sizes of original Greeting Cards can be 1024x768, 1024x1024 and 768x1024.

Executable File

1. Program title: The text to be shown in the title of the executable file.

2. Email address: Your email address for the recipient of your card to reply   to.

Executable FileThe executable file packages your compressed video and audio into a standalone executable file. This executable file can be run independent of Photo Greeting Cards. Thus, the recipient of your card will not require any software to be able to view your card. The following features are packaged into the executable:

Save – save the video and audio data into an AVI file

Enlarge view – change to large view

Shrink view – change to small view

Print – print the card image to the printer

Replay e-mail – send a reply email to the sender

Play – play the audio playback

Pause – pause the audio playback

Stop – stop the audio playback

Exit – exit the card


Example

To make a birthday card, follow the steps as:

Step 1: At the first screen, pick the first category from the second row.

Step 2: Choose one card you like. If you want to choose more, press the Next page arrow.

Step 3: At the third screen, press  “Input photo”  and take a snapshot of yourself.

Step 4:Use the “Scale Input scroll bar” to adjust size of your photo.

Step 5:Use the “Opacity scroll bar” to adjust the appearance of your photo on the background.

Step 6:Click “Save card” to save your work.


License agreement

          License of usage

You can only use Photo Greeting Cards on a single computer.

Photo Greeting Cards can not be put on a network for others to use.

The CD disk can not be duplicated for any purpose. You can use all the accompanying photos to make Greeting Cards for non-commercial usage. You must not use this program or the photos on the CD disk in or for other products.

Termination

This license agreement is terminated automatically at the time you destroy the program and the accompanying document on the hard disk or storage media.