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Microsoft Photo Story – Completing your project

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Over the past couple of days we have been discussing the creation of digital photo slideshows using Microsoft Photo Story 3. This blog will finish the series by discussing the final steps of creating your very own slideshow. If you missed any of the other blogs in this series, just click on one of the topics below to go directly to that blog. Photo Story 3 introduction Organizing your pictures Importing pictures Arranging pictures Editing pictures Titles, effects, and narration Motion and transition effects Background music Completing your project Once you have selected your pictures, added any effects, and included … Continue reading →

Microsoft Photo Story – Adding music

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One important aspect of digital slideshows is the background music you use (or don’t use). Adding music to a slideshow created by Microsoft Photo Story 3 is a relatively easy process to do. I’ll cover this task in this blog and Background Music Adding music to your slideshow will really liven up the whole production and make it more enjoyable for all to watch. If you have some music in mind, you can easily add it to your slideshow. If you don’t have any music of your own to add, you can use the music generator included with Photo Story. … Continue reading →

Microsoft Photo Story – Titles, effects, and narration

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We’ve been walking through creating digital slideshows using Microsoft Photo Story 3. Today, we’ll discuss adding titles to your pictures, using picture effects, and recording your own personal narration. You can find the first blog in this series here. Adding titles to pictures Adding titles to pictures can be helpful for viewers and is easy to do for you. Use the text box next to each picture to type a title (see screenshot below). You can select different fonts or change the position of the title. I usually only use titles to either indicate where or when the picture was … Continue reading →

Microsoft Photo Story – Editing your pictures

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Creating a digital slideshow can be a fun experience. One part of doing so may include using simple editing procedures to make your pictures look more bright and colorful. Microsoft Photo Story 3, a digital slideshow creator, allows you to make minor corrections to individual pictures in your slideshow. Other blogs in this series have discussed organizing, importing, and arranging pictures for your slideshow. Editing pictures On the “Import and arrange your photos” screen (see screenshot near the end of this blog), you will see five little buttons below the picture display window. They look like this: Here’s a brief … Continue reading →

Microsoft Photo Story – Arranging your pictures

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Now that you have organized and selected the pictures you want to use in your digital slideshow, you are ready to arrange and edit your pictures. If you missed the beginning of this series on creating a slideshow of your digital pictures, you can find it here. Arranging your pictures After selecting the pictures you want to use, they will appear in the timeline across the bottom of the program window. You can see in the screenshot below, I have selected five photos for my slideshow. Unless you took the time to order your pictures beforehand, you may want to … Continue reading →

Microsoft Photo Story – Importing Photos

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Using a photo slideshow can be a convenient and fun way to show off all of your digital photos. There are numerous software programs that allow you to organize, edit, and publish your photos to a digital slideshow. One such program is Microsoft Photo Story 3, which is free to all Windows XP users. Earlier blogs introduced Photo Story 3 and discussed organizing your photos before creating your slideshow. This blog will begin the walkthrough of using Photo Story 3 to create a simple, but entertaining slideshow. Selecting a Task Photo Story 3 uses a simple, non-flashy interface that is … Continue reading →

Microsoft Photo Story – Getting Organized

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So you’ve downloaded a free copy of Microsoft Photo Story 3, as talked about in an earlier blog, and are ready to begin making your slideshow. Where do you start? The purpose of this blog is to help you get started organizing your photos before you start importing them into Photo Story. Select a topic It is always a good idea to have a topic in mind of the type of slideshow you want to create. Maybe the slideshow will be about your vacation last year to Mt. Rushmore or the latest family birthday party. Selecting a topic will make … Continue reading →

Digital photo slideshows – Microsoft Photo Story 3

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What do you do with all of the digital photos you’ve taken? It is easy to let them sit on your computer’s hard drive for months without a single human eye ever seeing them. You could run down to your local convenience store or photo shop and get prints made. You could even print them out at home using a color inkjet printer. If you really want to show your friends that you are tech savvy (of course you are after regularly reading this blog), might I suggest putting your photos into a digital slideshow. You can easily make a … Continue reading →