PhotoStory Your First Story

Click “Begin a new story” button and then click next

Assembled by Donna Christiansen

Importing Your Still Pictures

• Click Import button to select pictures from a drive or disk.

• Navigate to the picture location.

• To select more than one picture at a time, hold down the control key as you click. To get all in the folder press Control-A.

• If you have more pictures in another folder repeat this process.

Working with Imported Pictures

Remove Black Border

This feature will crop the imported pictures to get rid of empty space around the edges. Useful to avoid empty space around pictures not proportional to the final movie.

PhotoStory will suggest a cropping. You can say yes to that crop or adjust the crop yourself. If you say yes to all it will take every photo in your timeline that it feels needs cropping and cut it. You can, if you only click yes and no, selectively pick which photos get cropped. When this finishes, you are done with the import and arranging screen. Click Next.

Titles and Picture Effects/ Narration

Arrow buttons change picture order. X deletes picture. To put a title on another picture, click/select the picture.

The next screen allows voice narration. Select the picture to narrate. Click the red record button to begin. Click the stop. Select another picture if needed and repeat. To delete from a picture, click the delete button

Customize Motion PhotoStory will automatically make pictures pan and zoom, however you can customize pan and zoom yourself.

This is how PhotoStory sets the pan and zoom effect for this picture, but we want to start with a closeup of the baby face and then zoom out to the entire picture.

More Customize Motion

Transitions

The second tab on customize motion is transitions.

Background Music

Click on picture on which you want the music to start. The music file from a disk can be in Windows Media Audio (WMA), MP3, or WAV format.

Customized Music

If you want to change music at a certain picture: Click on that picture then either select music from a computer file or create music. To delete music, click on picture at which music starts and press DELETE.

Saving the Finished Movie

Samples of other settings Most of time you would pick “Profile for computers…” 1-3.

Saving the Finished Movie

When you click NEXT, the program begins assembling and saving the finished movie. When it finishes you have the option of going ahead and viewing the movie, starting a new movie, or (by clicking back button) editing the current movie.