The 50,000-Foot View

Before we get started, let's make sure we're on the same page. What I call a slide show, Photo Story calls a story. Similarly, what I call a digital image, Photo Story calls a picture. To avoid any confusion between my description and terms in the Photo Story interface, I'll use Photo Story's terminology for this appendix.

Photo Story is a wizard-driven tool that logically walks you through the production workflow. You start by adding and sequencing picture slides to the production; the slides can be in a number of formats, including JPG, BMP, GIF, and TIF.

You can output the finished story at a resolution of 320x240 or 640x480, or even larger if you download some custom profiles. For optimal picture quality, you should use ...

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