Computersight -

Ever dream to create your own sophisticated multimedia project to stun the audience; ever been suffocated by your IT teacher’s toils. This guide introduce a simple piece of magic that would assist you to eradicate all the obstacles alone the way to ace, so grab a pen and don’t miss it!

HyperStudio4 is a software used to create multimedia projects. The HyperStudio4 project contains hyperlinks, sounds, pictures, animations, videos, etc. The project is made up by many pages, each page will have buttons to go to the designated page. Hyperstudio4 have a numerous of powerful tools to create and present the information to the audiences in an innovative way, and it is as simple as you snap your fingers.

So, now, I will introduce how to create a Hyperstudio project.

1. After you have ran the Hyperstudio4 program, you will see a main page where you would find 3 option buttons: New stack – to create a new stack; Open stack- to open a stack that you already edited and saved; Go to home stack.- to visit the help of HyperStudio4. At this time, we chose new stack.
2. After you have clicked on the New stack button, you will receive a dialogue box. This dialogue box contains options of the size of stack and quality of colors. You need choose those options upon your desires. For example: I always choice Hi quality colors and 700 by 600 because it is easy to edit.
3. After you have chose those options, click on OK, you will see the first page of your stack. This stack would always be your cover page of you stack, the home page, than you can create many new pages if you wish. You can go to edit menu to create new card, or just press Ctrl + N, then you can go to Move menu to order your cards.
4. Now, you can edit your cards now. First, you need put a background to your stack. You can implement backgrounds by using following two ways: -Go to object and click on graphic option, then you will receive a dialogue box, then click on disc file, then chose your graphic file. Second way is you go to your file and copy the graphic and paste you’re the graphic on your Hyperstuido page. Photos and graphs can also be added by those two ways.
5. After the background is added with perfection, you may add text by using following two ways: go to Tool menu and click on the big “T” icon, then click on the page of where you need to enter the text. You also can chose the color from Color menu, and the format on Format menu. Note that you cannot re- edit this kind of text once you have pressed on “enter”. If you wish to enter a long text object, you can go to Object menu, then click on Text Object, then you need to adjust the size of the text field and enter you text. The text field is re-editable. You also can add sounds and movies by click the “add” icon in the shortcut menu.
6. Now you have finished your cards, all you need to do for the touching is to add button and make connections to your cards, like the hyperlinks, so the readers can press the buttons and go to the page that you wish they to go. To make your dream come true, you can go to “object” menu and click on “Add a button”.

This is a brief instruction of how to create a HyperStudio4 project. Like other multimedia software, you could always embellish your project with innovative things to make it unique, the tools are there and it is up to you to use them well.