Importing and arranging your pictures
If you are creating a new video story, first select the pictures you want to use. You can import pictures from your computer, network, or MSN Groups Web site. For each story, you can import up to 150 pictures, which can be files with .bmp, .esp, .gif, .jpeg, .pcd, .pcx, .png, .psd, .tga, and .tif file name extensions. After you import your pictures, you can arrange them on the Photo Story film strip in the order you want them.
Although the film strip appears on other Photo Story pages, you must use the Import and arrange your pictures page to add, reorder, and delete the pictures on the film strip. If you decide later that you want to change or reorder the pictures in your video story, you can return to this page by clicking Back.
To import and arrange your pictures
- On the Import and arrange your pictures page, click Import Pictures.
- 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 Group site that contains your pictures, and then click OK. For more information about using MSN groups, see Importing pictures from MSN Groups.
Your pictures appear in the film strip at the bottom of the page. If you import more pictures, Photo Story adds them at the end of the film strip.
- To view the pictures in the film strip, use the scroll bar located below the strip.
- 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
.
- 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 green rectangle. 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.
- To delete any of the pictures you imported, click the picture, and then click the Delete button
or press the DELETE key.
Photo Story also deletes any narration and advanced options associated with the picture.
- Click Next.
If you want to return to the previous page, click Back.
Notes
- Rather than clicking Import Pictures, you can open the folder where your pictures are located, click the pictures you want to import, and then drag them to the Import and arrange your pictures page. You cannot, however, drag picture files with the following file name extensions to the Import and arrange your pictures page: .tga, .psd, .esp, .pcd, and .pcx. You must click the Import Pictures button to import those files.
- To help you select the pictures you want to import in the File Browser dialog box, you may want to change the view to thumbnails so that you can see a small image of each picture. To do this, in the File Browser dialog box, click the View Menu button, and then click Thumbnail.
- You can also import pictures from your Digital Image Library if Microsoft Picture It!® Library 9 (installed as part of Microsoft Picture It! Express 9) or Microsoft Digital Image Library 9 (installed as part of Microsoft Digital Image Pro 9) are installed on your computer and you have accepted the end-user license agreement (EULA) for either product. To import pictures from your Digital Image Library, in the File Browser dialog box, click the Digital Image Library tab.
- You can select and move only one picture at a time in the film strip. In addition to dragging a picture to a new location, you can click a picture, and move it by clicking either the Move Forward button
or the Move Back button
on the right side of the film strip.
- If you return to this page after narrating your story or selecting advanced options for the pictures, pictures with narration or advanced settings appear dimmed in the film strip. A narration symbol is displayed in the lower-left corner of pictures that include narration. An effects symbol is displayed in the lower-right corner of pictures for which you set advanced options. Pictures with narration or advanced options also show the length of time a picture will be displayed when the final story is played.
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