Difficulty finding a tutorial to animate pictures in slideshow

elizabeth-lBette wrote on 3/22/2026, 7:12 PM

Photostory Deluxe 2026 -- I created a title for the start of my slideshow and it comes up from the bottom of the screen (although I would rather have the option of placing it stationary in the frame -- but only goes in the middle) and it jiggles -- I don't mind the motion yet how do you eliminated the jiggle from side to side -- there are no controls I can find for movement of titles. Also there is an effect of one screen which is an intro effect I imagine yet I changed the intro pic and I cannot identify the effect nor can I copy and paste it to the new beginning frame. The effect cuts the picture in four, making a kind of collage out of the one picture. Where do I find this and how can you identify effects on pictures? Here is pic of frame and then of the actual effect.https://thumbsupproduction.com/effect.jpg https://thumbsupproduction.com/effect-actual.jpg

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browj2 wrote on 3/26/2026, 8:38 AM

@elizabeth-lBette

Hi,

Please upload your images directly to this site using the upwards arrow button near the right of the button bar above your comment. Also, please show the entire Photostory screen, not just parts of it so we can get a better idea as to what you are doing.

It seems that you have used a template for your title. Instead, simply click in the T button in the button bar above the timeline. Make any adjustments to the colour, size, font in the Title editing interface. After you accept the title with the checkmark on the preview monitor, you can drag the title where you want. You can also animate the title using the drop down Animation box in the Title editor. I suggest that you also read about this in the manual.

For further animation, use the Size/Position/Rotation effect under fx, View & Animation. You will need to learn about this and about keyframing. I have several tutorials on this for Magix Movie Studio/Video Deluxe which is the same thing in Photostory. I'll put some links below.

Four your collage, in Timeline mode, scroll downwards to see more tracks. There you'll see the photos and the effects that are on them. You can modify the effects once you learn how. You can also ungroup the images to modify them.

Here is the first tutorial on Size/Position/Rotation:

Look at the other ones, like tutorials 44, 45 and 47.

John CB