Adding Titles and Effects

Photo Story allows you to dress up your photos a bit by supplying Effects that can be applied to the images.  For example, you might want to theme your story as an Old West story.  Using an effect can also make a title on a picture stand out more. This can be done to each slide individually with little effort.  One the "Add a title to your pictures" dialog, select the slide that you wish to apply an effect on, and select the effect from the dropdown.

Many times, you'd like to describe the pictures in your story by overlaying words on them.  Fortunately, Photo Story makes this process fairly simple.  Type the text that you wish to appear in the caption of your picture in the box on the right.  Notice the icons above.  You can change the position of the text using these buttons.  Font face and color (something that you will likely need to change to make sure the text is easily visible) can be changed with the Font button.

By default, when you add a title to a picture, the picture is static. No motion, or panning and zooming effects are applied to pictures with titles. To add panning and zooming effects to pictures with titles, you must customize the motion for the picture.

To add a title to a picture

1. On the Add a title to your pictures page, click a picture, and then type the title.
2. If you want to change the appearance or location of the title, do the following:
   • To change the font, click the Select Font button, and then select the font type, style, size, effects, color, and script you want to use.
   • To change the horizontal alignment of the text, click the Align Left button, Center Horizontally button, or Align Right button.
   • To move the title up or down on the page, click the Align Top button, Center Vertically button, or Align Bottom button. By default, the title appears in the center of the picture.

   As you make changes, you can view them in the preview area on the left side of the page.

3. Click Next.

   If you want to return to the previous page, click Back.

Other Notes

• You can click Next without adding titles to any of your pictures.
• The title can have a maximum of 1,024 characters. The text wraps in the picture preview area.
• If you want to manually control which text appears on each line, separate lines by pressing the ENTER key.
• You can edit your pictures on any page in Photo Story on which the film strip appears by right-clicking a picture, pointing to Edit, and then clicking the option you want.
• 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. Projects created by using Photo Story 3 for Windows must use a .wp3 file name extension. Otherwise, Photo Story will not be able to open the file. By default, the project for your story is saved in your My Videos folder.