HOW TO USE ~SMILEBOX~ By: Beth Shaw
WHAT IS SMILEBOX? Smilebox makes it easy to celebrate, share and preserve the magic in life s moments. Surround your photos and videos with animated designs to make digital creations you can share with others or save for yourself. Choose from over 850 greeting, slideshow and scrapbook designs for every occasion. New designs are released weekly. Personalize and share your Smilebox creation for free via email & blog or select premium options for print, DVD burning, expanded music choices and no advertisements.
WHY USE SMILEBOX?
Want to scrapbook? Combine your photos and music with hundreds of digital scrapbooking designs created by top scrapbook artists. Want to express a sentiment? Make a truly personal ecard using your photos, videos, music, and message. Want to share photos fast? Choose one of our clean and simple slideshows or postcards and share your photos with a few clicks.
Want to make a photo album? Make one that is just right for you clean and simple, contemporary, or traditional. Once you personalize any design, you can email it, post or blog it, burn it to DVD, or print any page. If you ve got a few minutes, you can create something others will cherish.
SMILEBOX IDEAS!!! Use your photos and videos to create slideshows, ecards, animated scrapbooks, photo albums or postcards at Smilebox. Choose from a variety of designs Add your photos, videos, words and music E-mail, blog or print it It's FREE and easy with step-by-step instructions www.smilebox.com
WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO GET STARTED USING SMILEBOX. A Computer Internet Photos A Smilebox Account
LET S GET STARTED 1. Open the Internet 2. Go to www.smilebox.com 3. Click on
Step 1: Drag and drop your photos into the design. To add more photos, click on the Get Photos button. Step 2: Crop your photos~ Click on the photo to center or rotate it. Step 3: Add your words ~ Click Add your text to add your message.
SIGN UP FOR A FREE SMILEBOX ACCOUNT. Follow the steps to download Click It will automatically download A box appears Thank you for using Smilebox Go to your Downloads Click RUN Agree to terms Open Smilebox
WELCOME TO SMILEBOX!
TABS TO FOLLOW 1. CHOOSE 2. PERSONALIZE 3. PREVIEW 4. SHARE, PRINT, OR DVD
DESIGN CATEGORIES TO CHOOSE FROM
LIST OF ALL CATEGORIES AVAILABLE ON SMILEBOX. SMILEBOX CATEGORIES ~ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES~
Choose the category you would like to create. Pick the design you want. After you click on the design you want, another set of categories will appear. All category designs will appear
Click on the category you want. If you click on the specific category, greeting, slideshow, collages, or scrapbook, the design will show how many pictures it will hold.
YOU ARE NOW READY TO PERSONALIZE YOUR SLIDESHOW.
Click on the bottom left to Get Photos CHOOSE THE PICTURES YOU WANT TO ADD TO YOUR SLIDESHOW FROM YOUR FILE OR WHERE YOUR PICTURES ARE STORED. Add a video clip or you can remove all the pictures and start over.
ADDING YOUR PICTURES Click the picture you want. An add icon will appear under the picture. Once you have added your picture, it will appear on the left side bar. This is what it will look like.
Follow the directions that appear on your screen Click on the picture you want to ADD Click ADD in the top right corner of your screen When you have added all your pictures--- Click DONE
DRAG YOUR PICTURES FROM THE LEFT SIDE TOOL BAR.
Use this cool tool bar to add captions or arrows to church up your pictures. THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AFTER YOU DRAG YOUR PICTURE.
Click page 2 at the bottom of the screen. Add text to describe your picture or add a caption!!! Page 2 Click page 3 to add another picture and text.
PAGE 2 WITH ADDED PICTURE AND TEXT.
ADD TWO PICTURES ON THIS PAGE AND SOME TEXT. Page 3
DRAG TWO MORE PICTURES AND ADD SOME TEXT!!
YOU CAN ADD AND REMOVE THE PICTURES IF YOU ACCIDENTLY ADD THE WRONG ONE. CLICK ON THE PICTURE IF YOU WANT TO ADD A DIFFERENT PICTURE OR REMOVE THE ONE YOU SELECTED. THIS ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO ZOOM IN ON THE PICTURE.
FINAL PAGE!!
ADDING THE FINISHING TOUCHES. Choose your music. With the FREE option you don t get many music options. If you want to pay, you can download your own music.
CLICK SAVE IN THE TOP RIGHT. NAME YOUR CREATION. IF YOU ARE NOT FINISHED, CHECK THE REMIND BOX AND YOU CAN FINISH AT ANOTHER TIME.
REMEMBER. Always know where you are saving your work and what you named your creation.
~PREVIEW~ ~Share, Print, or DVD~ ~ENJOY~
This is an example of a collage.