Powerblaze your online Photos and Videos

"Powerblaze" is the best place online to put together, edit and create photos, videos and words. Your photo galleries and slideshows come to life with exciting transitions and animation in a web environment previously only available on the desktop. The user-centric interface allows you create dynamic slides rendered to nippy Flash clips. Prior knowledge of Flash is not required since the built-in editor is naturally easy to use and seamlessly integrated on the portal.

"Powerblaze" presents an innovative showcase for your photographs and stories that can be securely shared, and collaborated on. With features abound, you are only limited by your imagination as to what Flash-driven masterpieces you can share. Truly a great application built into a great framework.

Create Dynamic Slides Using Digital Images and Video

• Support for digital photographs in the following formats: jpg, jpeg, gif, png and bmp.
• Support for video formats like: avi, mpg, mpeg, mov and asf.

Photo Layout Tools

Photos can be scaled to fit slide layout.

• The basic tools allow you to scale, rotate, and flip images. Cut, copy, and paste commands make it a breeze to edit images across your whole slideshow.
• Made a mistake? At a click of a button, you can go back in time and: Undo, redo and restore the image back to its original form.
• Simple layout functions permit you to layer photos accordingly. Bring images to front, send to back, etc.

Photo Effects

• Color Effect -- Apply color effects to individual or all images on the slide like sepia, red, green, blue, yellow, light blue and purple.
• Noise -- Created special effects that resemble static on television screen. Noise effect can be applied in three different strengths; light, medium and strong.
• Flash -- Images can be made to "strobe" with three different settings: fast, strong, and a flashing blue tint.
• Overexposure -- Simulated film overexposure.
• Round Edge -- Image can be made to eclipse by a camera's aperture.
• Reveal Effects -- Image can enter slide from the top, bottom, left or right.
• Zoom Effects -- Image comes into slide by a variety of zoom in and out effects.
• Distort -- Images can be made to look like a waving flag.

Text Input and Effects

Make your audience actually read what you have to say with text transitions and effects that truly come alive.

• Five different fonts are available and can be formatted for bold, italics, and color. Left, right and center justification is possible in the text box.
• Text Intro-Effects -- Effects are not only limited to images but text as well. A generous serving of catchy text transitions are available to use like: Breeze, Side-by-Side, zooming, flying upward and downward, rotating, and more.
• Repeating Effects -- Take emphasis to the next level with effects like bouncing, color flashing, elastic, jumping and rolling, rotating and touching.

Slide Effects

Apply animated effects directly to your slide, creating interesting ambient effects like:

• Snowflakes -- Perfect for Christmas themed projects, recreate a white Christmas with generous snowflakes falling from the heavens.
• Confetti -- Lovely bits of colored confetti thrown across the slide giving that party feel.
• Moving Slides -- Transparent lines moving left and right evoking a damaged film projector.
• Film -- Just like watching those old 1970's movies with lots of static and dirt particles moving across the screen. Give you that retro-feel. Sepia colored photos enhanced with this makes interesting antique film effects.
• Color Blaster -- It's as if someone got hold of the airbrush and went mad spraying colors all over.
• Ripple -- Like tender drops of rain on a serene pond.
• Color Variation -- Cycling of different colors for the whole slide.
• Fog -- Allow a dark, ominous fog to drift across your creepy pictures. Perfect for posting your in-law's photograph.
• Raining -- Allow the plants to grow with our favorite form of precipitation.
• Waterdrop -- Realistic beads of water condense and drip along your slide.
• Twinkle -- Make a wish as numerous stars twinkle.
• Snow -- Another white Christmas is possible with our instant snow effect. Complete with a jolly two-segment snowman. Carrot nose and slouched hat not included.
• Money -- Paper bills fly chaotically as the bank robbers' getaway car zooms away. You get the picture.

Slide Transitions

• Cover -- The next slide comes into transition covering the previous one from above, below, left, right or diagonally.
• Reveal -- Previous slide removes itself from view revealing the next: up, down, left, right, diagonal, clockwise and counter-clockwise.
• Press -- Next slide "compresses" the previous in the following directions: up, down, left or right.
• Zoom in -- Next slide zooms into view.
• Zoom out to center screen -- Current slide zooms out of view revealing the next.
• Zoom in transparency -- Next slide zooms into view with a gradual fade.
• Zoom out transparency -- Previous slide zooms out, gradually fading.
• Zoom in swivel -- Next slide zooms in with spinning effect.
• Zoom out swivel -- Current slide zooms out with spinning effect.
• Fade Through -- Next slide fades in with a choice of tint and effects like: black, white, red, green, white, blue, purple, yellow and "dissolve".
• Eraser -- an animated hand holding an eraser rubs across the screen revealing the next slide underneath.
• Silk Screen -- paint roller run from left to right revealing the next slide.
• Zipper -- Zipper closes then opens revealing the next slide.
• Chaos -- Psychedelic colors rotate while transitioning to the next.

Slide Options

• Screen Size and Duration -- Adjust screen width and height and the duration of each slide.
• Background Color -- Select appropriate background color for slides. Can be applied selectively or on the whole project.
• Background Image -- Upload an image for your slides background. Can be applied selectively or on the whole project.

Extras

• Cool Animations -- a library of preset animations like ticking clocks, crawling bugs, flashing cameras and more can be laid over your existing slide for interesting effects.
• Background music -- Your pièce de résistance will not be complete with a little music. Support for MP3 files only.