Photo Story

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Photo Story 3 for Windows

Microsoft Photo Story is a freeware that allows you to create a show and tell presentation using your digital photos. Once a photo story has been made it can be played on Windows Media Player or burned to a DVD or CD. Version 2 which was a part of Microsoft Plus! Digital Media Edition supported exporting the photo story as a Video CD. Version 3.0, although freely downloadable from Microsoft, removed Video CD burning and supported an add-on from Sonic Solutions for exporting and burning the photo story to DVD.

The current version is Photo Story 3.1, included with Microsoft Digital Image Suite 2006. It includes some additional transitions.

Photo Story 3's music page

Photo Story 3 on RollerCoaster Tycoon 3

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Photo Story originally was based on a research project in photo sharing. A main finding of that research was that people tell better stories when they point at their images. Early Photo Story prototypes actually encouraged people to point at their images using the mouse, as the pointing would affect the alogorithm that generated the pans and zooms.

The same research showed that users don't like the sound of their voice and tended to record their narration over and over again. This made the narration less spontaneous and the resulting stories less interesting. However, if there was no support for editing, users would feel too much pressure. Therefore the early prototype had only one button, called "Oops!". The research showed that if there was an OOPS! button available, people would be assured by its presence but would not press it unless they really made a big mistake.