1. Digital Story Telling with Frames
Collect images into a folder
Click on the folder button to add the images to the program
Add a new blank frame.
Add a frame from a file.
Add a series of frames from files in a folder.

2. Digital Story Telling with Frames
Click on the folder with your pictures and then click open.
Your images will appear in the frame list.

3. Digital Story Telling with Frames
Preview area
Time line
Control Buttons
Option Window This window will change depending on the button option that’s chosen.

4. Digital Story Telling with Frames
5. Give your book a title by adding a new blank frame. Be sure that you are at the beginning of your time line. Click Frame and then New Blank Frame or click plus button at the bottom of the frames list. A new blank frame will appear in the preview area.

5. Digital Story Telling with Frames
6. Add text to your blank frame by click the text button. Double click the text box in the preview window and type your text. Use the options window to change the font, color, size, and placement of the text. Make the text move by adding text effects. You can also add text to frames with images.

6. Digital Story Telling with Frames
7. Add a transitions between the title frame and the rest of the story. (Transitions are added after the selected frame.) Select the title frame and click on the transition button. Chose the transition and the duration from the options window and hen click apply.

7. Digital Story Telling with Frames
8. Add audio. Click on the frame where the audio will begin. Click audio button and the type of audio to add. The steps follow for recording students voices. The audio is added to the time line. The audio can be moved around on the time line.

8. Digital Story Telling with Frames
9. After you insert the audio you may have to change the length of a single frame or a series of frame. Select the frame(s) to change and click on options. Next click “Change Frame Duration…”. Change the duration and click ok. If you change the frame duration the audio may need to be adjusted.

9. Digital Story Telling with Frames
10. In order to share your book with others you need to export it to a movie file. First save your project. Then click on the Make button. The Export Animation window gives you several export choices. Choose one and click export. Decide where your movie will be saved to continue.

10. Digital Story Telling with Frames
10. Your animation is finished. You can click launch to see the finished book or click ok to return to the project.