A Guide to Microsoft Photo Story.
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Contents Starting Out With Photo Story ...…………………………………………………………… 2 Import and Arrange Pictures .………..…………………………………………………….. 3 Add Titles .…………………………………………………………………………………… 4 Narration and Motion .…………….………………………………………………………… 5 Background Music ………….………………………………………………………………. 7 Save .………………………….………………………………………………………………. 8
If you need to download Microsoft Photo Story 3 for Windows to install at home, you can get it from: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx (Windows XP only)
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Starting Out With Photo Story Photo Story helps you to create exciting video stories by adding panning and zooming effects to your pictures. Use Photo Story to record narration for your pictures, and add titles and background music to your story. To create a Photo Story: Start Microsoft Photo Story 3 Select ‘Begin a new story’ Click Next
There are 5 steps to create your story: Import and Arrange Pictures, Add Titles, Narration and Motion, Background Music, and Save.
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Import and Arrange Pictures Click ‘Import Pictures…’ Select the pictures you want to use in your story
Use the arrow buttons to change the picture order You can return to this step at any time and import more pictures as necessary. Learning Services Education ICT Support Team
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Add Titles Click on a picture and type any text you want to appear as a title Use the buttons to change the size, colour, style and position of the text
Use the ‘Effect’ list to apply an effect to a picture
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Narration and Motion Record a voice-over narration for a picture using the recording tools
Click ‘Customize Motion…’ to specify motion, duration and transition settings Click ‘Preview…’ to see how the video looks with the current settings
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Tick ‘Specify start and end position of motion’ to change the default setting Set a manual duration for the motion if required Click the ‘Transition’ tab to specify a transition effect for a picture
Select a transition effect and set a manual duration for the transition if required Click ‘Save’ to keep the Motion and Duration, and Transition settings
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Background Music Click ‘Select Music…’ to add a pre-saved .wma, .mp3 or .wav file Click ‘Create Music…’ to add customised music using the music creator
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Save Click ‘Browse…’ to specify a file name and location to save the video Click ‘Next >’ to create the video file
Click ‘Save Project…’ to save the Photo Story 3 project file for future editing Click ‘View your story’ to see the created video file Click ‘Exit’ to close Photo Story 3
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