Photo Story Creating your own!

What is Photo Story? Photo Story is a way to create slideshows with added narration, effects, transitions and background music. Why use Photo Story? What you create can be viewed on a computer or from a DVD, or can be posted and easily accessed from your blog, wiki or website. It is a whole new way to present projects and oral/visual reports and you don’t even need a still or video camera and yet you can have the same effects!

What you need to get started… 1.Here at school it is already on the computer, or it is a free online download if you want to use it at home. 2.You will need either digital photos or slides that you have saved as a picture, such as a JPEG or GIF. 3.A microphone to add narration.

Let’s get started - Open the program and choose “begin a new story” and then click next

Click the “Import Pictures….” button

Use the drop down menu to select the ones you want. ~ remember to select “image files” on the bottom

Your pictures will line up in the timeline on the bottom ~ if you want to change the order just click and drag them to the correct spot

If you have a picture with a black border, you can click to have it removed

These buttons will correct color levels, correct red eye, and rotate the picture If you want to add effects (like black and white or sepia or others) you can click this “edit” button or simply hit “next”

Using this drop down menu you can also add effects These checks under the pictures tells you which ones have effects added If you would like to add a title or text to any slide you can type it here

The next part is the fun one……. …animation! Click here to add

Alter the size of these boxes to display where you want the picture frame to start and where to end. And make sure you check the box at the top to show you have done that If you would like to set a time for the animation make sure you click those boxes. Preview, and if you like what you see click “save”. If not, try again until you do.

When you have the animation done, toggle to the “transition” tab to add what you would like there. Make your choices about the transition and time duration and preview and save when done.

Ready to add some narration? 1. Click the red button to record. 2. Click the middle button to stop. 3. Preview. 4. If you want to erase it and start over click the arrow button. Continue on the another slide and repeat steps 1-4 to narrate the whole story.

When you have all the narration you want, click “next”….

….add some music saved on your computer (or create some!)…… ….click “next”….

….& one last time, click “next”…. ….choose your settings….

revised kelly colvin. hillgrove hs