If you own a website or a blog, and you would like to make a professional looking flash slideshow for sharing with your visitors, Photo Flash Maker is your best choice. Photo Flash Maker helps you create flash slideshows with photos and music, burn slideshows to gift CD/DVD, build dynamic photo flash gallery, and share photo flash in MySpace, Blogger, and many social websites.

If you can afford to pay $49.95 dollars for the full version, don’t worry, you can also use it for free since all features in the evaluation version are the same with the professional version except for the last template which has the company logo on it.

It’s a lot more interesting and simple to create a slideshow with Photo Flash Maker. You can upload your slideshow to Go2Album.Com which is set up to provide a completely new experience to share your great moments with your family and friends. It is a free web space for people to share, comment on, and view slideshows created by Photo Flash Maker.

Now, I will show you how to make professional looking flash slideshow with Photo Flash Maker Evaluation version.

1.    Organizing and Editing Photos

Click Add button to add Photos from your hard drive. Click Edit tab, then there will be a popup menu as shownbelow. Here, you can change the photo Info, add Text and Artclip to photo.

2.    Setting transition effect and duration

Simply drag and drop your desired transition effect from the Transition Effects panel to the photo thumbnails at the bottom. In version 4.86, there are 68 built-in transition effects.
Click to increase or decrease the Transition Duration and Photo Show Duration. The maximum duration time for transition and photo is 10seconds and 15senconds respectively.

3.    Choosing theme template

There are two theme categories, Basic and Advanced, available to choose.

Using Basic Theme Template:

More than 57 professional-looking slideshow themes are available. Most of the basic theme templates are designed for different festivals, such as Christmas, Easter, New Year, etc. If you would like to add background music to slideshow, simply click Add button or Get Music From CD.

Using Advanced Theme Template:

There are more professional-looking theme templates under Advanced tab. 
Click to choose your favorite one from the Category list:

Click Customize Properties button to modify the theme template to meet your expectation. Remember to click Save as.. button to save the changes.

4.    Publish Slideshow

There are three output options under the Publish window. You can choose any of them to create slideshow for sharing. If you want to share you slideshow right away, simply choose Create Flash Files and Upload to Go2Album option and Click Publish Now to upload slideshow to Go2Album automatically. If don’t have a Go2Album account, please visit Go2Album.com to create your own ID first.

Once your slideshow is uploaded to Go2Album, you can invite your friends and family to watch your stunning slideshow by providing them the ID. You can also copy and paste the Embed code to your to your website, blogger, myspace, etc.

5.    Embed slideshow to Myspace blog

After publishing the slideshow to Go2Album, you will be prompted to the slideshow page, in which you can find detailed information of the flash slideshow as showed bellow. Copy the HTML code for embedding the slideshow to other websites or blogs.

Paste the HTML code to the desired area of the blog editing field. You can preview if the flash slideshow is properly inserted. You could add several slideshows in the same page, just repeat the above procedures.

Have fun!