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Digital Storytelling Denise Barrett Olson A Moultrie Creek Guide Picture Books

Digital Storytelling: Picture Books

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Using standard presentation features, you can create a delightful photo book to share with family and friends. This guide shows you some easy tricks.

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DigitalStorytelling

Denise Barrett Olson

A Moultrie Creek Guide

Picture Books

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If you’re like me, you grew up reading National Geographic magazines. Those amazing photos caught your eye and the captions drew you further in to read the written story. Young and old alike are fascinated with picture books so it’s a great format for a family history project.

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I love scrapbooking, but my style is more minimalist than most. Instead of heavily embellished pages, I prefer to keep my pages simple.

Keynote is a great scrapbooking platform allowing you to layer elements like the photos layered on top of the ribbon graphics shown here and it provides tools like shapes, opacity and and grouping to add interest to your project.

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You can also use photos as design elements. In this case I did not have any “period” photos to support this part of the story so I used a current photo.

I then used the SketchMee app [Mac - $7.99] to turn it into a pencil sketch. I did this not only to give it a nostalgic look but because all the color in the photograph made it difficult to read the overlaid text.

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Fonts are fabulous design elements and often free. Here the Aquiline Two font is perfect for the text but its ampersand character left a bit to be desired. No problem - the ampersand in the Elegant font works perfectly. The two colored discs are layered Keynote shapes which give the ampersand presence - and hide a nasty flaw in the photo too.

Keynote allows you to “fill” its standard photo frames with an image so you can use background papers from digital scrapbook kits for more character. (More on that in the resources section.)

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This simple little doodle adds some movement to the slide without being a distraction. I’ve used it in different places on several slides to provide continuity.

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Another project whose content is dated in the late 19th century uses a theme more appropriate to the time. This photo was badly damaged so I used a Keynote frame that exaggerated the effect. I reduced the opacity of the school photo in the bottom corner to give the commencement booklet more attention.

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On this slide the schoolhouse was a grainy black and white photocopy found in some family papers. Keynote has a feature called Image Alpha that can remove areas of color from an image. I used it to remove the white copy background and reduced the opacity enough so that it looks like it’s printed on the background “parchment”. Notice the photograph overlaps just enough to cover the hard edge at the left side of the schoolhouse image.

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For more information regarding this publication contact me at http://moultriecreek.us or by email at [email protected].

ResourcesHere are several sources for more help on using Keynote.

~ Keynote Scrapbooking - Playing with Papers

~ Digital Storytelling - Templates

~ Ephemera Graphics from Family Treasures

CreditsThemes used in these examples are the basic White theme and the Parchment theme - both included with Keynote.

Scrapbook design elements are from paislee press and One Little Bird Designs.

Fonts used in these examples include Mistral, Papyrus, Techno, Elegant and Aquiline Two.

Photos are from the author’s personal collection.

Cover photo - Onawumi Jean Moss of Amherst, Ma. Photo by Dennis Vandal at Flickr.