Photo+Story+Tutorial

On the **Welcome to Photo Story 3 for Windows** page, click one of the following options, and then click **Next**. *To be able to edit a story, you must have saved the project file before quitting Photo Story.
 * ** Begin a new story ** ||< Step through the Photo Story pages to create and save a new video story ||
 * ** Edit a project ** ||< Edit a story.* ||
 * ** Play a story ** ||< Choose a story that you want to play. ||

**To Begin a New Story:** If you are creating a new video story, first select the pictures you want to use. You can import pictures from your computer, a network folder, or an MSN® Groups Web site. For each story, you can import up to 300 pictures, which can be files with .bmp, .dib, .eps, .gif, .jhif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .pcd, .pcx, .png, .psd, .rle, .tga, and .tif file name extensions.
 * To import and arrange your pictures**
 * 1) On the **Import and arrange your pictures** page, click **Import Pictures**.
 * 2) In the **File Browser** dialog box, do one of the following:
 * On the **All** **Files** tab, click the folder in which your pictures are located. Select one or more pictures, and then click **OK**.
 * Click the **MSN** **Groups** tab. If required, sign in by using your Microsoft .NET Passport. Locate the MSN Groups Web site that contains your pictures, and then click **OK**.
 * 1) Your pictures appear in the film strip at the bottom of the page. Import more pictures & Photo Story adds them at end of the film strip.
 * 2) If you want Photo Story to remove black borders from your pictures by automatically cropping them, click the **Remove black borders** button . (The button is available if Photo Story detects that some pictures in your story do not have a 4:3 aspect ratio, which is the relation of the width to the height of the picture.)
 * 3) After you click the Remove black borders button, Photo Story displays each picture with the black border removed in the Removing Black Borders dialog box. Do one of the following:
 * 4) If you want to use the automatically cropped picture shown in the After box in your story, click Yes
 * 5) If you want to crop the picture differently, in the Before box, drag a handle of the rectangle to the area of the picture that you want to appear, and then click Yes
 * 6) If you want to use all the automatically cropped pictures without previewing them first, click Yes to All
 * 7) If you do not want to use the cropped picture shown in the After box and you want to move to the next picture in your story, click No
 * 8) To view the pictures in the film strip, use the scroll bar located below the strip.
 * 9) To view your pictures individually in the picture preview area, click a picture in the film strip, or click the Previous Picture button or the Next Picture button.
 * 10) If you want to enhance the appearance of a picture, click on the buttons at the bottom of the picture preview area.
 * 11) To make additional changes such as correcting contrast or adding an effect to your picture, click the Edit button.
 * 12) To change the order of the pictures in the film strip, click a picture, and then drag it to a new location. Photo Story marks the currently selected picture on the film strip with a dark border. If you drag the picture to a location that is already occupied by another picture, Photo Story inserts the picture you are dragging after the location if you are dragging the picture to the right and before the location if you are dragging the picture to the left.
 * 13) To delete any of the pictures you imported, click the picture, and then click the Delete button or press the DELETE key.

**Narrating your pictures and customizing motion** On the **Narrate your pictures and customize motion** page, you can do one or more of the following:
 * You can add text on a picture to create a title for your story.**
 * **Record** up to five minutes of narration **for each picture** in your video story. You can narrate pictures in any order you want.
 * If you do not like the narration for a picture, you can delete the narration and record it again. Deleting the narration does not delete any of the other enhancements made to your story, such as changing a transition.
 * Type notes for each picture to aid your memory as you narrate.
 * If you do not want Photo Story to determine the panning and zooming effects automatically for pictures in your story, click **Customize** **Motion** to edit the effects.

** Adding background music to your story ** >
 * You can add background music that plays during your story. A different piece of music can play for each picture or for a group of pictures. You can add as many pieces of music to a story as there are pictures in the story.
 * You can add background music that plays during your story. A different piece of music can play for each picture or for a group of pictures. You can add as many pieces of music to a story as there are pictures in the story.
 * You can use music from your computer and the Photo Story custom music in your story. The **Select Music** option lets you choose a piece of music from your computer, a network folder, or the Internet. The **Create Music** option lets you customize prerecorded pieces and styles of music by selecting the genre, style, bands, mood, tempo, and intensity of the music.
 * To select the music for your story, select a picture. Then select a piece of music to start playing when the picture is displayed in your story.
 * The picture you select is the //anchor image//, and indicates where you want the music to start playing. The anchor image is indicated by a musical note displayed beneath the picture in the film strip.
 * Saving your story**
 * Select the activity for your story. If you want to view on you computer or others, you select "Save your story for playback on your computer".
 * If your story contains a lot of pictures and Photo Story prerecorded music, it may take several minutes to build your story.
 * When Photo Story saves the story to the location you specify, it also automatically adds a link to your story in your library in Windows Media Player.
 * You can save a project for your story at any time while working on the story by clicking the Save Project button. In the Save As dialog box, type a name for the project. You must save a project for your story to be able to edit it later.