1. Keeping Images Relevant and Consistent.

2. To enhance your message in your video, create or select images that are consistent and relevant. Relevancy: Use images to emphasize key concepts and grab attention. When selecting images, make sure they are related to your topic. Consistency: Unifying your movie/video with appropriate selection or treatment of images is essential. Giving your images a uniform look makes your video visually appealing. Size is one of the most important ways you can maintain consistency in your movie. Select images with the same sizes and orientation ( vertical or horizontal). You can change the size of the images that you add, usually with good results ( especially if you select images from Creative Commons from Flikr). But sometimes an image can't be reduced or enlarged enough to fit your needs. Avoid scaling images from one side to fit the rest of the image sizes. Before starting your video, it is significant to know what your topic is, how many images to use, and what is the best match. The following images are examples of sample images with the same image sizes and orientations. Appropriate Image Selection

3. Image size: 308 (W) by 223(H) Image Orientation: Horizontal Sample-1

4. Sample-2 Image Size: 214(W) by 281(H) Image Orientation: Vertical

5. Correctly Scaled Image Incorrectly Scaled Image

6. Example and Non-Example of Appropriate Image Selection The following two videos demonstrate how your images will appear in the Preview Window of Windows Live Movie Maker.