Working with Photo Story 3Working with Photo Story 3To create our Morning AnnouncementsTo create our Morning Announcements

Sheep Harney Elementary School

November 2007

Import Pictures

Customize Motion

Add Transitions

Add Background

Music

Narrating Images

Getting Started

OverviewOverview

So you were invited to apply to be a part of the So you were invited to apply to be a part of the morning announcement club?morning announcement club?

Now what? Now what?

During this tutorial, we will learn several of the most basic tasks During this tutorial, we will learn several of the most basic tasks used to create a photo story.used to create a photo story.

Completing this tutorial:Completing this tutorial:

Photo Story 3 and this slideshow must be open simultaneously. You will toggle (minimize & maximize) between the two programs to complete these five lessons:

Getting Started

Importing Pictures for your morning announcement movie

Customizing Motion and Adding Transitions to your images

Narrating Images (using external or internal microphone)

Adding Background Music

Import Pictures

Customize Motion

Add Transitions

Add Background

Music EndShow

Narrating Images

Getting Started

******You will read the screens for One lesson at a time, minimize the tutorial, and then complete the “task” that the lesson has taught you.

Click on the word toggle after listening to this slide.

Lesson 1 Getting Started

Open Photo Story 3 Steps to look in Apps on Eagles (p:)

to get to the M.A. folder

After reading the slides from Lesson1,

you will be ready to Open Photo Story 3.

From the desktop, click on the Photo Story 3 icon to open the program to get started creating your morning announcement movie.

Make sure the green bullet is on Begin a new story and click Next

If you are unable to finish your photo story in one setting, save the project and the next time you will open Photo Story to work on the project, make

sure the bullet is next to Edit a project so it will open the project you saved so you can make changes and won’t have to start over.

This is the screen where you can import and arrange your pictures (pictures and/or clipart) Click on Import Pictures… Look in apps on eagles (p:) to find and import the pictures you’d like to use for your designated morning

announcements day.

You can click back to return to this screen at any time throughout creating your photo story to add and/or rearrange your pictures.

Look in: appsoneagles’(P:) drive and select the SHARED folder, and once inside the shared folder, select the M.A. Materials folder and

browse the folders within this folder to select your pictures!

I am going to find a birthday picture.

Press esc. And minimize this tutorial to open up photo story 3 and complete the getting started lesson.

Look in: appsoneagles’(P:)appsoneagles’(P:) drive and select the SHARED folder, within the shared folder, select the M.A. Materials folder and browse

the folders within this folder to select your pictures!

Lesson 2 Importing all of your images to your photo

story.Task 1: Looking in the M.A. Materials folder on the shared drive, select all of the images that you would like to include in your morning announcements for your designated day.

Extra Help:

Click on learn more

about editing your pictures.

This screen will only

allow you to import the images for

your movie.

This is your timeline of pictures.

Task 1: Importing all of your images!

Add a title to your pictures screen.

The first task is to import all of your images that you will use on your morning announcements. This screen shows how you can add a title to your image.

When you are ready to add voice to your pictures, click Next to go to the Narrate your pictures and customize motion screen.

This screen will only

allow you to add an

effect to your image and add a

title to your

image.

Lesson 3 Customizing Motion and Adding Transitions

Task 2: Customizing motion allow you to designate how the pictures come in and how the go out. Also, add transitions to each image allows for creativity in your photo story and a more unique movie.

Customizing motion is especially important when you have a lot of text on the image. You want to make sure that the entire text remains on the screen the

entire time. So you will need to enlarge the screen for the start position so that it will show all of the words. Then click Save, and then add a transition by

clicking on the Transition tab Again, click Save and Close.

The duration for the image to show may vary as well. If set

duration automatically is bulleted, it will

automatically adjust the time the image is

displayed to the length of the narration (voice). Other times, you may want to bullet Number of seconds to display the picture and select

the time yourself. Most images with no

narration, I set the duration to 3 seconds for just images and no

narration. Usually I determine this after

previewing the project before publishing it as a movie. Click Save.

Selecting a transition for each image, also enhances and makes a better “movie”. To do this, click the Transition tab and scroll down to see all of your transition options and select one. The images will give you a preview as to how the transition will look. Make sure you click

Save after selecting your transition and then click Close.

It is important to customize motion for each image! Click on the customize motion underneath the picture and then place a check mark

in the box that says specify start and end position of motion

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2nd

Lesson 4 Narrating Images

After you’ve customized the motion and added a transition to each image, now you need to narrate the images that need narration. You will record your voice to the images that need narration by either using the external or internal microphone.

Make sure you use your mouse to select the image that you want to narrate. Then click the red record button and begin talking either into the microphone if you are using a desktop computer or the built in recorder on the laptops. Click the square to stop your narration and then click preview to hear it. If you do not like what you recorded, simply click the backwards

arrow and this will delete it and you can try recording again!

Lesson 5 Adding Background Music

Click next on your Photo Story screen to go to the Adding Background Music screen.

This is the screen that will allow you to add background

music to your images. You can

click on create Music which allows you to select from the music in photo story, or you can click on Select

Music, which allows you to import your own music/voice

files or others saved in the M.A.

folder in the shared drive. Adjust the

volume so that it is not too loud if you

have voice (narration) on the image as well.

Once you’re finished click

NEXT.

Once you click on Select Music, you may look in the Songs folder of the Voice Recordings Folder for the .wma, .mp3, or .wav files needed for your image. This screen shows you how to look in the Songs folder to select a song that has been saved to our M.A. Materials folder.

For the pre-recorded narrations, you need to look in the voice recordings folder. See your checklist spreadsheet to identify which pictures need pre-recorded narration.

First, make sure you have saved your project by

clicking on SAVE PROJECT at the bottom left of the screen. Name it

the date for which you are creating the

announcements. (example:

November 15th) Preview the project one final time from beginning to end making sure all

transitions are good and that the sound is right. Once you

approve the project, you need to click

Next to begin saving your project

as a movie file!

Make sure you Save your story for playback on your computer.

Also, specify the location and file name of your story similar to the example below:

Appsoneagles/shared/announcements_November/November8.wma

Once you’ve named it correctly and saved to the Announcements November folder then click Next!

If your photo story is not finished, click on save project below.

**If you have previewed your photo story and it is ready to be published into a movie file, then click Next below and make sure you browse and save it to the November announcements folder on the apps drive in the shared folder!

ConclusionHopefully, you’ve become a bit more comfortable working with Photo Story 3.

Can you think of other ways you could integrate Photo Story 3 into your education?

You can use Photo Story 3 for any project that your teachers assigns to you.

You can use Photo Story 3 to create a movie about your likes, interests, and hobbies so that your teacher and your class can get to know you at the beginning of the school year.

You could use Photo Story 3 for as a part of your portfolio that will use images showcasing your learning throughout the year.

Click the “home” button to return to the Lesson Home Page slide, or click the “next” button to end this tutorial.

#1. After reading each lesson, you will be asked to complete the lesson and tasks. At that time, you will press Esc on the top left of your keyboard, and minimize this power point tutorial by clicking on the minus sign in the upper right hand corner of the screen.

#2 Then, it will be located in the bottom left hand corner of your desktop screen so you can maximize it later when you begin to toggle between this tutorial and the Photo Story 3 program while you are creating your morning announcements.

***Now, Click the back arrow to return to the previous slide