Photo Story 3 for Windows

Microsoft's Photo Story is a cost-free Windows program that allows you produce audiovisual discussions out of your pictures and also pictures. You can rapidly crop, rotate, as well as edit your images; personalize them with captions as well as titles; and add audio effects, narrative, and also history music. Image Story saves your presentations as WMV documents you can play on your PC or convert utilizing a third-party video converter. Finished files can be small adequate to send by e-mail, as well. Numerous Windows individuals already have it; those that do not can download and install and also mount it or repair their present installment, if essential. We took a look at the most recent launch, Photo Story 3.

Photo Story 3 opens up with a wizard offering 3 choices: Begin a new tale, modify a task, or play a story. Without stories to edit or play, we began with the very first option. However, in the reduced left edge of the program's window is a small Aid switch that opens a fairly large Aid file that many customers might like as a beginning factor given that it discusses every step and also provides bonus such as ideas as well as tricks, availability options for people with specials needs, and also a Reference. All the same, the program's wizard made each action very easy even for novices. We imported some pictures as well as arranged them on the movie strip. A main window presents picked pictures and also allow us crop as well as revolve them, proper color degrees as well as red eye, and apply a variety of visual effects from a drop-down checklist. An Automobile Fix attribute automatically fixes shade, contrast, and also red eye, also. Image Tale's wizard supplies great deals of guidance, such as telling us that removing the black boundaries from our images with the Get rid of Black Borders device would certainly improve its on-screen look. A selection device makes sure that the ideal component of your image is kept. We added message, narration, and music, and also saved our job with great deals of playback alternatives.

Presentations developed with Picture Story 3 are great for weddings, birthday celebrations, and also other parties. With a little effort and time, this surprisingly functional tool can tell all kinds of tales. It's a surprise treasure in Windows.

Editors' note: This is an evaluation of the test version of Photo Tale 3 3.0.1115.11.