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Thing 37 Photo Tales

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Thing 37. Photo Tales

Your Flickr account--or your digital camera card--is filled with great photos. This Thing will introduce tools that help you tell a story with those photos. 

 

Learn 

 

In the original 23 Things On a Stick we spent some time exploring Flickr and other photo sites. Now, we want you to use those photos the photos you have in your Flickr account. Use your photos to tell a story with only pictures, maybe some music, and a few words or so. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words or so they say.

 

The Web is full of tools that make presentations using images easy to create and share. Here are few to get you started, but feel free to use other tools you have discovered.

 

Slide Shows

*Animoto-Animated Slide Show with Music.

*One True Media is a way to create a "Montage" of your photos, video clips, and music.

Slide-Create slideshows easily and embed them on your site or social networking profile.
 RockYou-Offers several free services, including slideshow creation, photo hosting, photo enhancement and more.

Flektor-Tools for adding transitions, text, stickers, effects, and overlays into movies made out of your photos and online videos. Another service that has gone to that great Web 2.0 graveyard.

PictoBrowser-Create a horizontal sliding slide show.

BubbleShare-Create slide show and add audio or video captions, frames, & clip art.

Collagr creates a collage of Flickr photos.

SlideRocket-Sophisticated presentation software.

 

Add Captions

Captioner 

rolfbot

*CaptionBubble

 

Create mosaics from your pictures

Flickr mosaics

*Image Mosaic Generator

 

Flickr Slideshows

Flappr-A gallery like presentation of your pics or others from Flickr.

*FlickrSlidr-Embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website or blog. 

*Slideoo-Create a horizontal slide show with Flickr photos.

Create Comics

*Bubblr

Comeeko

Manipulate Your Photos

Tiltshift makes your photos look like model miniatures.

*Picnik is a photo editor that has many ways to modify your photos.

Splashup photo editing tool.

iPhoto, Picasa, etc. all have editing tools, too.

 

Need Photos?

Don't have or don't want to share personal photos? Try these sources.

*FlickrrCC searches Flickr for Creative Commons Licensed photos you can use in your projects.

Copyright-Friendly Sources

FreeDigitalPhotos-Read Terms of Use for attribution

Stockvault

A list of sources from VirtualHosting

 

* Recommended tools & resources.

 

 

Do

 

  1. If you haven't done so, set up a Flickr account and upload your photos. For faster uploads, install Flickr Uploadr (download). You can use another photohosting service (Picasa, Photobucket, or any of dozens of other ones) if you prefer.
  2. Organize your photos into Sets or Albums or whatever your hosting service calls them.
  3. Create a story using one or more of the tools in the Learn section. You can use one of the tools that are part of Flickr or Picasa, too.
  4. Embed the story in your blog.

 

 

Blog Prompts


  1. Which of the services did you use? Did it work smoothly?
  2. Can you see a use for this in your library? At home?

 

 

 

For the Curious  (optional)

 

Try more of the tools and share your stories in your blog.

 

 

 

 

Comments (1)

Laura Miller said

at 8:13 pm on Mar 26, 2009

The Flektor link should be removed. Flektor stopped its service in January 2009.

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