No clue for a graduation gift? What new idea for gruaduation party? Create your graduation photo slideshow

on DVD is a great way to share those special moments of your life. You can make a graduation DVD album music slideshow of your graduate that you can show over and over at the graduation open house. Imagine all of your friends and family watching favorite photos of your graduate playing on a DVD player

with your favorite songs.
You may think this is too hard, but I am telling you it has never been so easy to create a graduation DVD album music slideshow with hundreds of transition effects ,styles and music.Even a baby can do that with Photo Story Platinum,lol.
Follow me with just three simple steps to create a graduation DVD photo album or we can call it DVD music slideshow.
You need to download a slideshow software which can burn DVDs,here I choose Wondershare Photo story platinum,which is easy and powerful to make DVD albums and slideshows.
Step 1. Choose photos and add background music When you run photo story platinum, it will automatically open a new project and lets you start creating a DVD slideshow. Browse and select your favorite photos,double click or simply drag & drop to add them to the “Story Board”. Adjust photos of your graduation DVD album, DVD slideshow with the built-in editing tools and effects. Customize the graduation DVD album by adding, deleting photos, arranging the order of photos. If you are not satisfied with your photo selection for graduation DVD music slideshow,choose the one you want to remove from the slideshow, but do not worry, when you delete a photo the original photo will not be deleted physically from your hard drive. Double click to add background music to your graduation DVD album music slideshow,here I suggest "Auld Lang Syne" for graduation DVD album music slideshow

Step 2. Choose transition effects and styles:
Select your favorite transition effects and styles from more than 200 amazing transition effects and special movie styles. It allows you to add styles and effects to several photos or just to single photo in the graduation DVD album .So with different transition effect and style you can make totally different graduation DVD slideshow with the same photos.The Preview window gives you ideas of how your graduation DVD slideshow will show on TV with DVD player.With 200+ build-in animated movie styles, you can make your graduation DVD album music slideshow to impress everyone.

Step 3. Burn to DVD :
Click the "Create" tab and Preview the video ,choose “Create DVD”, Select the story you want to create to DVD ,author the DVD Menu and choose the menu template, then burn the graduation DVD album on your DVD disc and display it on TV .

Extra Tips:
You can also choose other video format like "AVI”, “WMV" or "MPEG-2" which are supported on YouTube ,MySpace, Google Video and other websites, and share it on the web.

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By the CNN Wire Staff

August 1, 2010 -- Updated 1002 GMT (1802 HKT)


(CNN) -- New documents released by a congressional subcommittee indicate that Coast Guard officials allowed BP to use excessive amounts of chemical dispersants in the Gulf of Mexico.
BP used the chemicals to break up oil after the April 20 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion sent millions of gallons of crude gushing into the Gulf.
Despite a federal directive restricting their use, the Coast Guard routinely granted exemptions, said Rep. Edward J. Markey, chairman of the House Energy and Environment Subcommittee.
"BP carpet bombed the ocean with these chemicals, and the Coast Guard allowed them to do it," Markey said in a statement Saturday. "After we discovered how toxic these chemicals really are, they had no business being spread across the Gulf in this manner."

The exemptions granted "were in no way rare," Markey said in a letter to retired Adm. Thad Allen, the former commandant of the Coast Guard who is now overseeing the federal response to the oil spill.
The Coast Guard approved more than 74 exemptions in 48 days, Markey said. In one instance, Coast Guard officials allowed the oil giant to use a larger volume of dispersants than it had applied for, he said.
Dispersants are "a toxic stew of chemicals, oil and gas, with impacts that are not well understood," Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, said in the letter to Allen.
In May, the Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Coast Guard, ordered the oil giant to stop surface application of the chemicals during the oil spill except in rare occasions, according to a House subcommittee on energy and environment.
In rare cases, exemptions had to be requested, documents show.
Markey said the findings are based on an analysis by the Energy and Environment Subcommittee.
Calls to a BP press office and the Joint Information Center were not immediately returned.
The EPA said in May that it believes the oil giant's total use of dispersants can be reduced by as much as 80 percent. While the dispersants were breaking up much of the oil being spilled into the Gulf, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said, "we are making environmental tradeoffs" and are "deeply concerned" about potential side effects.
Markey said the subcommittee also found contradictions on how much chemical dispersant was being used. On other occasions, BP used more than the amount approved by the Coast Guard, Markey said in his letter.
The report brings into question the total amount of dispersants used in the Gulf. BP says it has used 1.8 million gallons to break up oil flowing from the Deepwater Horizon's ruptured well.

"The validity of those numbers are now in question," Markey said.