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How to Make Your Own Videos for FREE Part 2b

The first thing you will need to do is get Google’s Picasa – it is a free photo program that works well with any type of picture not just photos.
Download it at http://picasa.google.com/intl/en/
You can easily load photographs from your camera to Picasa or import saved files to view. My favorite part of acquiring photos from my camera is that Picasa gives you the option to erase from your camera all the photos you are putting on you computer. This saves me time having to delete photos from my camera. There is an area where you can make collages which is one of the things I do for parts of my photo videos. You can make a mosaic, a picture pile, a framed mosaic, a grid or a contact sheet, so your options are pretty good.


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PART 2b

In this article I will help you get familiar with the movie maker menu and we will go over adding a title page. This is what mine looks like so far.




Below is a close up of the ‘Movie Maker‘ menu bar.
The first option we will use is “slide”. This option will allow you to add a title page and choose how you want it to look. When you click on slide you will see the same image that is currently in your display window. If I do not change my title page it will remain as seen above.
You are currently in Movie Maker

  •  Now click on slide – #1






The next image is the ‘Slide’ menu bar. This is where you set up the title and credit pages.

  • In the box below template (#1)
    type in what you want to use for a title.
  • Choose your font (#2)
    it is best to do this after you type the text in because you can easily see what each font  style will look like in your finished page. Once you click on the down arrow a menu shows up. You can see what each font looks like by using the down arrow on your keyboard.
  • Choose your font size (#3)
    This works the same as the font by using the arrow of your keyboard
  • Choose a background color and text color (#4)
  • Finally you want to pick a template (#5)
    You have 11 options to choose from including ‘I feel lucky’ which will choose one for you. This is one of the areas that you can experiment with. For the title page I stuck with Centered but a couple others will make a nice title page.
    Unlike the font and size options you will have to click on each of these to see a change.
    FYI: The third button next to B(bold) I(indent) is automatic outline – this will outline your text

To save your work click on ‘close’ – a window will come up asking if you want to save as a draft. To work on your movie again go to your albums and right click on the image of your draft. Click on ‘View and Edit’ in menu bar that comes up. When your draft opens click on ‘Edit Movie’ at the top of the menu bar at left.




The next area is the ‘Clip’ menu bar where you will find your images and have the ability to add or delete them
When you first open this after making the album all the images in your album will show up where the 5 photos are below. You can add images one at a time by clicking on them / highlighting them like the first one below or highlighting them all.
To highlight more than one click on the first one and then hold down ‘shift’ while clicking on more.
You then just click on the green + (plus) sign to add. If you have a photo you do not want in your selections highlight it and click on the red x to delete.





The following image is of your ‘timeline’ – you will find your frames and images here and be able to do the editing. I will go over all the sections and their functions.

  • #1 – the green arrow is the play button
  • #2 – is to add a new text slide – this will add a blank frame to your time line where you can add text.
           Text and styles are done in the same way you made the title page.
  • #3 – this red X is to delete the frame you are currently on
  • #4 – the volume control
  • #5 – shows the time as your video runs, this will help when adding audio
  • #6 – shows the information about each frame and also shows how many and which you are currently
            seeing or editing.
  • #7 – will allow you to play video in full screen
  • #8 – will allow you to show the actual size without stretching




Next I will work on the actual video, adding audio and saving to YouTube.
If you have any questions or want to see something not shown here just let me know.


Marisa Horn
a/k/a kashmier


Youtube videos done with Picasa and windows movie maker
http://www.youtube.com/user/lthrwood

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Unusual Dwellings

 

Cavernous but wide open, dark and heavy but bright and spacious, this incredible undergound house is the ultimate expression of architectural opposites fused into a single spectacular earthen living structure buried in the mountainous ground of the Swiss Alps.

This dazzling house design by Senosiain Arquitectos was patterned after a shell – as if you could not tell.

This design by Atelier Tekuto bears a strong resemblance to Frank Gehry’s first piece of more avante garde architecture – and arguably has Frank Lloyd Wright-esque elements of spatial progression.

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More Street Art – Tracy Lee Stum and Eduardo Relero

Tracy Lee Stum is widely considered to be one of today’s finest street painters. She has traveled the world to be a featured artist in many festivals and events, and she currently holds the Guinness World Record for the largest street painting by an individual, which she completed in 2006. Tracy’s work contains many themes, from Biblical to exotic to the mundane.
Eduardo Relero is a street artist working primarily in Spain. He has a surreal style and each of his anamorphic sidewalk chalk drawings seems to have a story behind it.
Again I want to thank Web Urbanist for the information and to see more of these amazing works of art visit their site.
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How to Make Your Own Videos for FREE Part 2a

The first thing you will need to do is get Google’s Picasa – it is a free photo program that works well with any type of picture not just photos.
You can easily load photographs from your camera to Picasa or import saved files to view. My favorite part of acquiring photos from my camera is Picasa gives you the option to erase from your camera all the photos you are putting on you computer. This saves me time having to delete photos from my camera. There is an area where you can make collages which is one of the things I do for parts of my photo videos. You can make a mosaic, a picture pile, a framed mosaic, a grid or a contact sheet, so your options are pretty good.
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PART 2a
This article will cover how to set up your program files to make your video.
– What you will want to do is start a new album for your video. Since I have photos already in my program that I am using the easiest way to start this album is to locate where many of the photos are. In my case they are in the “Spring photos for frame” file. You will see this in the next image.
– Next click on the icon at the top of the page to create a new album. You should have no trouble finding these icons because when your cursor hoovers over them the text for each shows up. Below I added an arrow to show you exactly where this icon is. When you click on the icon a small window will come up. I was not able to make a copy of this window. There are a few boxes you can fill in:
The name you want to use ( I used ‘How to Movie’ )
Today’s date will be there automatically
There are a few other things like description and music choice but all can be done later.
start
– After you finish with creating the album go back to where your photos are located. Find a photo you want to include and right click on it. A menu will appear with a long assortment of options. Hoover over the second one ‘add to album’ another menu will open with any albums you already have. Click on the album you just made for your movie. Repeat this for all the photos you want to use or go to the next step. I recommend not putting in many photos just yet.
– Find your album (‘How to Movie’ in my case) in the left menu bar. It should be at the top above your photos listed. High litght it and the photos you have already saved to it will show in the display area. As you can see in the image below I saved three photos in mine.
Now you are ready to start making a movie.
– Above the photos in the display area click on the ‘create movie presentation icon’ shown in the next image.
The next screen that opens is where you will be creating your movie. The name of your album will show up as the title and the photos you have already entered into your album will show in the time line.
You can start a movie from any file you already have in Picasa but then you will have to change more in the next area. I was going to start with the file holding all the ‘Spring photos for frame’ photos but then I would have to delete over 100 of them from the time line.
Below is an image of the menu bar you will now be working with.
Movie Maker
I will discuss the movie maker further, starting with how to add and design your title in the next article.
If you have downloaded this program and are working along with these articles please message me with any questions I have not covered.
Marisa Horn
a/k/a kashmier
Youtube videos done with Picasa and windows movie maker
http://www.youtube.com/user/lthrwood
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How to Make Your Own Videos for FREE Part 1c

The first thing you will need to do is get Google’s Picasa – it is a free photo program that works well with any type of picture not just photos.
Download it at http://picasa.google.com/intl/en/
You can easily load photographs from your camera to Picasa or import saved files to view. My favorite part of acquiring photos from my camera is Picasa gives you the option to erase from your camera all the photos you are putting on you computer. This saves me time having to delete photos from my camera. There is an area where you can make collages which is one of the things I do for parts of my photo videos. You can make a mosaic, a picture pile, a framed mosaic, a grid or a contact sheet, so your options are pretty good.
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PART 1c
This article will cover those last available options working with collage in Picasa. If you read part one and two you should be quite familiar with this part of the program. Once you are working with it all of these parts will come rather easy to you. The best part of it now is that you can experiment with your own photos and have some fun.
First is Grid: Arrange pictures into regular rows and columns
Below is the menu bar you will see
grid menu
In the next image I used the following settings – grid spacing (just a little) if you use no spacing at all the photos lack individuality. They run into each other but with a tiny bit of a grid you get each to stand out. The grid is set at a solid color and that color is black.
I used draw shadows because that adds just the slightest bit of depth to the images. You can try with it on and off to see the difference and choose which you prefer.
grid 1
In the next image I scrambled the photos and used a bigger grid.
Everything else is set the same.
grid 2
After you are happy with your creation hit save collage. Remember you can always edit at a later time.
The last of the options under collage is
Contact Sheet: Thumbnails with an informative header
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In the image below the following settings were used.
There are three options for frames – I used the center one to add small frames. The frame color can not be changed it is always white.
With this option the amount of space between your photos is done automatically by the program. The more photos you add the less space. I used a photo for the background but you can set it to be a solid color of your choice. There is a color picker so you can choose a color in one of the photos and by holding it over the color you want and clicking it you will get that color instantly. No guessing. Again I added the Draw Shadows option for debth, you can play with this to see if you want it on or off. There is not a big difference when you use this but it does add to the image.
cs 1
In the next image I used the third option for the photo frames – polaroid. I set the background to a solid color – in this case I use the color picker over the grass of the photo with the bunny rabbit. The draw shadows is on.

I never did find a way to change the title and/or information on the contact sheet. The program chooses what you see. I will start with the ‘Create Movie Presentation’ in my next article. I discovered while putting together a video “The Beauty of Nature” that this is not the only program I have used.
I do hope to cover the Picasa program and then try and give some pointers on ‘Windows Movie Maker’ program.

If there are any questions regarding this program you would like me to cover just message me.
Marisa Horn

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How to Make Your Own Videos for FREE Part 1b

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The first thing you will need to do is get Google’s Picasa – it is a free photo program that works well with any type of picture not just photos.
You can easily load photographs from your camera to Picasa or import saved files to view. My favorite part of acquiring photos from my camera is Picasa gives you the option to erase from your camera all the photos you are putting on you computer. This saves me time having to delete photos from my camera. There is an area where you can make collages which is one of the things I do for parts of my photo videos. You can make a mosaic, a picture pile, a framed mosaic, a grid or a contact sheet, so your options are pretty good.
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PART 1b
This part of the article covers the second option in collage when using Picasa.
Picture Pile  – it makes your photos or images look like a scattered pile of pictures
Just like with the mosaic you have a host of neat options to choose from to make it look exactly like you want.
This is the menu for Picture Pile under Collage in Picasa. Using the different options you have the ability to do a whole host of great things in order to make a fine looking image.
I am using many of the same photos as I did in part 1.
  • select the picture borders – I have it set at none or just a picture without a border.
  • select background option – I have chosen white.
  • set the page format to what you currently need – in this case it is 8.5 x 11
  • you can also set how you want you page to lie – landscape or portrait – this is landscape
The Draw Shadows and Show Captions will be discussed at a later time and the last four buttons are what you choose after you have completed your work.
Important to know – once you save the collage you are always able to edit it.  🙂
There is also an option to custom set the page size to whatever you like. I am not sure of what size will be best for a video presentation because I never actually thought about it. My thoughts are square.
If you look at this video I made you will see that the black is not solid in some of the frames and I am not sure if I had the background set at a dark gray or it is because the size of the images were not square. I will let you know at a later date my findings about the sizes.
The following image has only one change and that is the background color. You can choose from colors on the graph or use the dropper to choose a color from the photos on the collage. In this case the color was taken from the pumpkin in the elephants mouth.
Changes in the next image include
  • select the picture borders – I have it set at none
  • select background option – I have chosen picture – you can select anyone of the photos to use as your background
  • set the page format to what you currently need – in this case it is 8.5 x 11
  • you can also set how you want you page to lie – landscape or portrait
  • Drop Shadow is set
  • I have shuffled the pictures
In the next image note you can not see the photo used for the background that is because after setting it for the background I moved it to the back of the pile. In order to be used as a background it has to be in the collage so you have to bury it under the pile and if it still shows use the manual features to make it as small as needed.
I just figured this out, if you want to resize, angle or re-position all the photos at one time select all and the too appears on top of the photos to do any or all of these..
Changes in the next image include
  • select the picture borders – I have it set at plain white border
  • select background option – I have chosen black
  • set the page format to what you currently need – in this case it is 8.5 x 11
  • you can also set how you want you page to lie – landscape or portrait
Changes in the next image include
  • select the picture borders – I have it set at instant camera
  • select background option – I have chosen white
  • set the page format to what you currently need – in this case it is 8.5 x 11
  • you can also set how you want you page to lie – landscape or portrait
I also scrambled the collage and shuffled the pictures. You can also change the position, size and angle of each photo manually. There are excellent and user friendly tools that can be used by simply clicking on the photo. There is also a drop down menu when you click on an image that allows you to bring the photo to the front of the pile or to the back. This way if you like where a photo is but it is covered by part of another one you can just bring it to the front. This is very easy to do but beware, once you start doing it you may find that you are a perfectionist. Before you know it you have been up all night … 🙂
When you are satisfied with your creation just click on ‘create colloge’ and it will be saved into your picasa library. You can also click on ‘desktoop background’ to make it your newest desktop image.
I will discuss the other parts of the collage maker next in our adventure on how to make or set up free videos.
If you have downloaded this program and are working along with these articles please message me with any questions I have not covered.
Marisa Horn
Youtube videos done with Picasa and windows movie maker
http://www.youtube.com/user/lthrwood
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