A Guideto Microsoft Photo Story.

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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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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.

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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Starting Out With Photo Story

To create a Photo Story:

Start Microsoft Photo Story 3Select ‘Begin a new story’Click Next

You can return to this step at any time and import more pictures as necessary.

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Import and Arrange Pictures

Use the arrow buttons to change the picture order

Click ‘Import Pictures…’Select the pictures you want to use in your story

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Add Titles

Click on a picture and type any text you want to appear as a titleUse 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 settingsClick ‘Preview…’ to see how the video looks with the current settings

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Select a transition effect and set a manual duration for the transition if requiredClick ‘Save’ to keep the Motion and Duration, and Transition settings

Tick ‘Specify start and end position of motion’ to change the default settingSet a manual duration for the motion if requiredClick the ‘Transition’ tab to specify a transition effect for a picture

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Background Music

Click ‘Select Music…’ to add a pre-saved .wma, .mp3 or .wav fileClick ‘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 videoClick ‘Next >’ to create the video file

Click ‘Save Project…’ to save the Photo Story 3 project file for future editingClick ‘View your story’ to see the created video fileClick ‘Exit’ to close Photo Story 3