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During the process of crafting your slides, Photo Story 3 allows you to seamlessly integrate music or provide personal narration for each image using a computer microphone or headphones. Photo Story 3 for Windows supports a wide range of image formats such as jpg, pdg, eps, as well as audio formats like wma, mp3, wav. The output file format is default to WMV, facilitating easy sharing with friends or uploading to Youtube without the need for format conversion. Follow along in this article on Mastering Photo Story 3 for Windows.
Exploring Photo Story 3 for Windows
Step 1: After successfully installing Photo Story 3 for Windows, launch the software. Set the default to Begin a new story and click Next.
Step 2: Click on Import Pictures... and browse to the location of your photos. Select all the desired images and click Open to add them to the slideshow.
Step 3: You will see the 4 added images; you can rearrange their order by dragging them left or right. Use the arrow button to adjust the sequence. The X button is for removing added images. If you want to eliminate black borders on the slides, click Remove black border.... Finally, click Next to proceed.
Step 4: The system will ask if you want to continue without removing black borders; in this example, Mytour will keep the black borders and select
Step 5: Feel free to add text to each image at this stage.
- Choose the AA icon to adjust text size, font, color, and use the adjacent buttons to control the text position.
- You can also alter the effects for the image, such as Black and White or Colored Pencil.
Finally, click Next to proceed.
Step 6: This step guides you to record narration for each image.
- 1 - Record Narration: Begin recording
- 2 - Stop Recording: Halt the recording
- 3 - Delete Narration: Remove the just-created recording
- 4 - Configure Microphone: Set up the microphone and volume for recording
- 5 - Notes: Add notes for the recorded segment
- 6 - Preview: Preview the recording
Click Next to proceed.
Step 7: Additionally, in the previous step, you can also click Customize Motion... to continue with other settings. You will find two sections: Motion and Duration and Transition
- Motion and Duration: Set the display time for the images. The default mode is 5 seconds; you can modify this time by checking Number of seconds to display the picture and entering the desired time (in seconds).
- Transition: Configure how the images appear. You'll find a library with numerous ways for your images to appear. You can leave the default time to start displaying the entire image or customize the time by clicking Number of seconds to display the transition and selecting the time (in seconds).
Finally, click Save to save the completed settings.
Step 8: Here, you can add music to this image slide. You can choose from available music by clicking Select Music or create your own music by clicking Create Music.
Click Preview if you want to take a sneak peek. Click Next to move on to the next step.
Step 9: Final step, Save your accomplished masterpiece.
- Activities: Select the action you want to take, such as saving the video slide file on your computer (Save your story for playback on your computer) or sending it to friends via email (send the story in an email message),...
- File Name: Name your creation and choose a location to save your image slide.
- Quality Settings: Customize the quality for the image slide video.
Click Next to initiate the saving process.
Step 10: The process of saving the image slide video is complete. Before clicking Exit to conclude, it's advisable to save the entire project for this slide by clicking Save Project... for convenient future edits.
That wraps up the entire process of using Photo Story 3 for Windows to create an image slide video. Wishing you success in your endeavors.
