FujiFilm E500 - Manual (Page 5)

Scrapbooking in a
Multimedia World
Recordings of your grandfather’s
gravelly voice or video clips of a
toddler’s first, wobbly steps preserve
memories that can’t be duplicated
with photography alone. And, in our
digital world, capturing and storing
this information has never been
easier—you have your choice of digital
video, digital camera movie bursts,
mp3 music, web pages, DVDs, .wav
files and many, many more.
Are there any products you can use to
scrapbook these multimedia memories
in easy-to-share ways? Expect to see
multimedia scrapbooking software
boom in the months to come, but here
are a few suggestions from currently
available products.
PowerPoint
If you have Microsoft PowerPoint on
your PC, you already have a natural
scrapbooking and viewing tool.
PowerPoint allows you to place your
own previously prepared images on
the presentation page, add your
favorite songs or sound clips, and
record a narration. IBM/Lotus Freelance
Graphics, Software Publishing
Corporation’s Harvard Graphics and
many other presentation programs can
do the same.
A growing number of websites offer
scrapbooking-themed PowerPoint
graphics and tutorials to help jump-
start your project. To find them, search
for “PowerPoint scrapbook” in your
internet search engine. Robin suggests
powerpointart.com. When your project
is finished, you can change your
presentation page to a format that can
be displayed on any other PC,
including one without PowerPoint, by
using the “Pack and Go” option.
Check out these pages that Robin Cecil
has scrapbooked in PowerPoint. You
can see how she has built a scrapbook-
style presentation. What you can’t see
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