2006 -- The Year of Video Holiday Card.Webshots Offers Tips on Best Ways To Create and Send Jolly -- or Jaded jad·ed adj. 1. Worn out; wearied: "My father's words had left me jaded and depressed" William Styron. 2. -- Greetings to Friends and Family This Holiday Season SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden -- Plain holiday e-cards are so 2005. 2006 is the year of the holiday video card, proclaims Webshots (www.webshots.com), a leading photo- and video-sharing community and property of CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET)(www.cnetnetworks.com). Webshots is the first of the major photo sharing sites A Web site used to store and share photos. Users upload their pictures to the site, which are stored on the server and made available to friends and family via personal Web pages. Prints and other accessories can be ordered, which is the motivation for publishing the site. that lets users publicly share both photos and videos in a single online album for free. The professionals at Webshots offer these tips for warm-and-fuzzy -- or hip-and-edgy -- holiday greetings “Merry Christmas” redirects here. For other uses, see Merry Christmas (disambiguation). “Happy Hanukkah” redirects here. For the Holiday, see Hanukkah. "Happy Christmas" redirects here, for the BEC holiday compilation see Happy Christmas (album). that let your family tell it like it really is: Tips for Creating a Video Holiday Card * One-Stop -- Choose a free service that will let you send a holiday greeting to friends and family and also let you share photo highlights from throughout the year in the same album, like Webshots.com. * Length of video -- Keep it to under three minutes "Three Minutes" is the 46th episode of Lost. It is the twenty-second episode of the second season. The episode was directed by Stephen Williams, and written by Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz. It first aired on May 17, 2006 on ABC. . * Lighting -- Whether you shoot the video outdoors or indoors, avoid shadows and fluorescent lighting. Don't use a window as your background unless you're shooting from the side. Avoid shooting in direct sunlight. * Costumes -- Go campy with Santa hats or costumes. Add reindeer reindeer, ruminant mammal, genus Rangifer, of the deer family, found in arctic and subarctic regions of Eurasia and North America. It is the only deer in which both sexes have antlers. antlers antlers metaphorical decoration for deceived husband. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 395] See : Cuckoldry to your pet. Or go classy-but-festive and dress the family in a matching color with an understated holiday backdrop like the tree or your front door decorated in a holiday wreath. Be mindful of what's in the background and wear contrasting colors (don't wear a dark green sweater in front of a Christmas tree Christmas tree Evergreen tree, usually decorated with lights and ornaments, to celebrate the Christmas season. The use of evergreen trees, wreaths, and garlands as symbols of eternal life was common among the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, and Hebrews. !) * Show off a little -- Maybe your family has a rendition of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" that really must be seen, or mom made an award-winning gingerbread gingerbread In architecture and design, elaborately detailed embellishment, either lavish or superfluous. Though the term is occasionally applied to such highly detailed and decorative styles as the Rococo, it usually refers to the hand-carved and -sawn wood ornamentation of house. This is your chance to show off a little, so do it up big! * Unexpected settings -- Instead of shooting in front of a blazing fire in the fireplace, consider shooting the holiday missive in front of a local landmark. Also, take advantage of those early holiday decorations at malls as a backdrop for holiday antics, but go off-hours to avoid noise and human interference. * Avoid shaky footage -- Use a mono or tripod, or set your digital camera on a bookshelf at eye-level. * Tell the whole story -- Use your holiday video card as an invitation to friends and family to view the other photos and videos in your Webshots Holiday Album and tell the story of the whole year. DIY DIY abbr. do-it-yourself DIY or d.i.y. Brit, Austral & NZ do-it-yourself DIY abbr DIY do it yourself a DIY shop/job. : How to Share Your Holiday Video Card with Friends and Family for Free 1. Go to Webshots.com and sign in or register for a free account. Create an album in which to store your photos and videos and name it something festive 2. Select the items you'd like to upload. Upload other photos and videos from your computer into the same album, if you'd like 3. Arrange your photos and videos in a timeline and add captions. You can place your holiday greeting card first and photos and videos from throughout the year chronologically after. 4. After your video has been uploaded, click on the video and click "Share this File" 5. Enter emails of family and friends and Webshots lets them know they've been sent a card. They do not have to register or give any information to view the photo or video, and their email will not be used or shared Get email alerts as your friends and family leave comments on your videos and photos 6. For a step-by-step video tutorial for uploading photos, visit: http://webshots.com/user/WebshotsHoliday About Webshots Webshots (www.webshots.com) is one of the internet's largest photo and video sharing See video sharing site. communities where users connect over shared interests spanning 10 channels and thousands of sub-categories. Webshots enables "social theatre" by providing stages for users to present content that ranges in scope from personal events to events of worldwide significance with message boards, "favorite user" capabilities, comment features and more. AllYouCanUpload.com provides free unlimited photo hosting on the proven Webshots backbone without the need to register. About CNET Networks CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET)(www.cnetnetworks.com) is an interactive media company that builds brands for people and the things they are passionate about, such as gaming, music, entertainment, technology, business, food and parenting. The Company's leading brands include CNET, GameSpot, TV.com, MP3.com, Webshots, CHOW, ZDNet and TechRepublic. Founded in 1993, CNET Networks has a strong presence in the US, Asia and Europe.. |
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