How to Extract Photos Out of a Photo Story
Photo Story is a freeware program produced by Microsoft that is used to create slide-show-like presentations of user photographs. These slide shows can have narration, music and editing effects like fading transitions. The videos are then exported in the standard Windows Media Video format. If you have a slide show that you would like to extract an image from (either one that someone has sent to you or one that you made yourself but you have lost the original files for it) there is a way to do this (at least to an extent) using the functions built into Windows.
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Instructions
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Load the WMV file onto your computer and save it to your desktop.
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Open Windows Media Player. Select "File" from the menu and click "Open." In the dialog, go to your desktop and open the file you loaded. Let it play until you come to the image you'd like to extract.
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Click "Pause" in the player. Now click on the "Print Screen" key on your keyboard. This will store the current contents of the screen on your computer's clipboard. If you have a printer connected the computer might try to print the page. If so, cancel the print job.
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Open the Microsoft Paint program found under the "Accessories." Select "Edit" from the menu and from the options choose "Paste." Everything that was on the screen in Step 3 has now been pasted into the canvas.
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Select the "Rectangular" tool from the panel on the left and select only the "image" part of the canvas, leaving out the player controls and other elements of the desktop that were captured. Then select "Edit" and click "Cut."
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Select "File" and click "New." When the program asks if you want to save the current document click "No."
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Select "Edit" and click "Paste." Select "File" and click "Save." In the dialog name your file and save it. You now have extracted your image from the WMV file.
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