“With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could t ickle the crystal with a

cat's whisker and pick up anything.”- Theodore H. White

AUDACITY

AUDACITY

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and

multilingual audio editor and recorder

Open Adobe Photoshop.Choose File > Open.

Browse until you find your fi rst alphabet photo .jpg image. Click OK.

CREATING A PROJECT

Open Audacity to begin. Select File>Open.

Browse to find your audio file.Click Open.

EDITING THE AUDIO

Hit the play button to listen to your recording. Pause the audio where you would like to begin your cut.

Select the cut tool and click and drag over the section you want to delete.Click the delete key on your keyboard.

Play

Cut Tool

INSERTING SOUND BITES

Choose File>Import>Audio.Select a sound bite from the stock audio file.

Click Open.

INSERTING SOUND BITES

Press the play button to listen to the two audio files together.Adjust the volume of the sound bite so the audio recording can be heard.

The volume of the audio file may need to be adjusted also.

Sound bite Volume Control

ADDING EFFECTS

Decide which track you would like to add an effect to.Make sure the spot you want to add the effect to is selected on that track.

Choose the desired effect from the drop down menu.

Choose Image > Mode > CMYK Color.

SAVING YOUR PODCAST

When finished select File > Export. Select WAV as the file type, save your recording as

Podcast_Title_Final. Click save.