About The About The About The About The lesson:lesson:lesson:lesson:

Microsoft Photo Story 3 is a type of multimedia authoring

program .It helps you create exciting video stories from your pictures. You could

create a video story that features narrated photographs or a video story that includes

pictures and sounds.

This tutorial will help you to create a video story in a few simple steps. You will learn

how to open the program, import and arrange your pictures, add titles, record narration

and add customize motion, add background music and save your story or project.

Objectives:Objectives:Objectives:Objectives:

The main objective for this tutorial is, that you will be able to create a project using

Microsoft photo story 3.

o You will be able to open new project using Microsoft Photo Story

o You will be able to import and arrange images into program.

o You will be able to add a title into images

o You will be able to add narration and add customize motion by using

Microsoft Photo Story

o You will be able to add background image to the story

o You will be able to save his/her story movie

>>Go to next page to start the lesson

To produce movie story here some steps you should follow:

STEP 1: Opening the program

1. Click start button

2. Select program

3. Choose Photo Story 3 for Windows

STEP 2: Opening the program

1. Open Photostory 3.

2. Select “Begin a &ew Story”

3. Click &ext.

STEP 3: Import and arrange your pictures

1. Click “Import Pictures” for selecting

the picture that you need to create your

story.

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2. Select all images that you want to add, Click OK

3. You can reorder your images, by drag your images in the timeline, or use “Move

back”,”Move foreword”, Delete” button next timeline.

4. Click “remove black boarders”,you can delete black borders in each side of your

image. Click yes.

5. Editing Effects: Click “Edit”, you can rotate and Crop, Auto Fix and Add Effect

on your picture

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You can always add other images by repeating step 2 above.

Timeline

Step 4: Add a title to your picture

1. Click on the slide you wish to add text tool. Type your title into the window and

use the various tools to change the

font, font color and the positioning of

the title on the slide.

2. Click &ext.

STEP 5: &arrate your pictures

1. Select the image you want to

record sound on.

2. Click on the record sound button.

3. Record your narration. Click on

the stop button.

4. Test your voice-over by selecting

the Preview button

STEP 5 :Customizing Motion and Transitions

Customizing Motion

1. Click on the image in the timeline you wish to work with.

2. Click on the Customize motion button

directly below the picture

3. The program defaults to the motion and

duration tab.

4. Click the Specify start and end position of

motion.

5. Preview the effect

6. Save the effect.

&OTE: this is a save function just for this image effect-it does not save the

project.

7. Use the arrows to migrate to the next image.

Transitions:

1. Click the Transition tab across the top.

2. The program displays the previous picture

and the current picture with the effect between

it.

3. Select the transition and preview.

4. Use the arrows below the time display to migrate from picture to picture.

5. Click Save (again, saves the transition effect to the slide and not the file itself)

6. Close if you are done and repeat as necessary.

STEP 6: Add background music

1. Click the Select Music button or the

Create Music button to create your music

yourself.

2. Play to preview the music. If you like it,

click OK.

3. The music will now load into the track

4. Make sure to reduce the volume of the music track

5. Go &ext.

>>Go to the next page to finish your movie.

STEP 7: Save your story

1. Select the location of the completed movie.

2. Click &ext

Photostory builds your movie

3. Click on view your story.

Congratulations!!!

You now have a completed digital story

Go to Activity in next page >>

Activities

1. Microsoft Photo Story 3 is a type of multimedia authoring program

1. True 2.Fules

2. You can creat your own music as background on the picture

1. True 2.Fules

3. You can add sound and …………….... on your picture

4. The images that you add will be appearing in…………..

5. Create movie story using photostory program by import only 7

pictures in the program.

6. match between the number and the name as you see in this picture

(Timeline- Rotate- Reward button-Import picture)

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