Slideshow Software Photo Album Program
Software for Slideshows on PC, TV, CD-ROM, VCD, SVCD, DVD and Websites
Slideshow pro helps you edit photos and create beautiful slideshows. Produce very easy and fast slideshows, select a directory with pictures. Add afterwards your favourite song of your CD - finished!
Some features:
>> Slideshow for PC, self-starting CD-ROM, DVD, VCD, SVCD.
>> Unlimited number of pictures
>> Scanning of pictures
>> More than 125 slide effects for slideshows
>> Over 50 effects for pictures
>> Build Screensavers with your own photos
>> Build HTML sides
Professional applications shouldn't be something extremely complex, hard to use, with a cluttered interface and that can't get enough of your system's resources unless you have a basement mainframe worth few millions or so. Today I got a small, nice, easy to use yet powerful program designed to accomplish an easy task – the creation of slideshows.
The target is called Slideshow Pro, its latest version is labeled 9.8.18 and what I have here is a trial version that displays a message on the slideshows you save until you register it for the price of 35.00$. The installation kit weighs 4.4MB and the setup process is as easy and quick as possible.
When starting up the program, the first thing that you get to see is a nag screen that allows you to register the program, find out more about the benefits you get from it and, of course, the button that helps you go further, named Test/Trial Version. Once you press it, you're in!
Slideshow Pro has a minimalist interface that won't let you go wrong. It doesn't have a toolbar, because it doesn't need one. Once you're in, you have four options - open the example, create a new slideshow, open or delete an existing one. When opening or deleting a slideshow, I’ve noticed that you are not given the freedom to choose its location, so this program saves the files to a data folder that you don't have to worry about, which is pretty good, in this case. For beginners, this is excellent, because it takes away the remember-where-you-save-your-files problem and lets you work undisturbed.
I will leave the example to you, and choose the New Slideshow way instead. This path is as easy as one-two-three-four, because there are exactly four steps that you have to complete in order to finish creating your first slideshow. Obviously, the other slideshows you'll create using Slideshow Pro will require the same number of steps...
Before making the first step, you have to give your future slideshow a name. Once you’ve typed in the desired name and the OK button is pressed, you find yourself inside the first area that you have to pass through - Select Pictures. This should be as easy as it sounds, but in fact it's a bit more than just that.
Once you have selected the pictures, you can
adjust them and also apply a wide range of filters using the Picture Manipulation tool. There is only one little problem here that may arise - be careful to select pictures from the target window and not from the source window, because if you don't do it this way and try to adjust pictures that can be found inside the source window, you'll get an error.
The second step to be taken is adding audio to your slideshow (the mute film era is dead and gone, get over it!). There are two ways of adding audio - using files from your hard drive or ripping tracks from audio CDs. There aren't many formats supported, but MP3 and WAV should be enough for most people.
We have images, we have sound, so the next ingredient needed are the spices...well, they're called "Settings" here, but they're all about making your slideshow a pleasure for the eye. I am talking about transition effects, and the only problem I had here is that they are only numbered, and you don't see their descriptions anywhere. No matter what you would say, browsing through a very large number of transition effects can't be much fun, especially once the first three have passed...
Now, the last glorious step - publishing! Here, you can pick one of the five output methods - slideshow for PC, CD, DVD, Webpage and screensaver. I guess this should cover all your possible requests, because I can't think of another way of delivering a slideshow that isn't covered by Slideshow Pro!
This is it for now, so off to the conclusions we go!
Features:
* Slideshow for PC, autostarting CD-ROM, DVD, VCD, SVCD
* unlimited number of pictures
* adding Audios directly from your Audio-CD, also MP3's
* including a comfortable picture manipulation
* direct scanning of pictures
* import of digital cameras or of any TWAIN equipment (TV-Card, Capturecard etc..)
* more than 125 different slideeffects
* over 50 effects for pictures
* print of photo albums
* manage several slideshows
* the easiest way for archiving your pictures together with your personal notes (e.g. holiday1, holiday2...)
* very easy handling, optimal for beginners!
* build your own screensaver out of your photos
* create HTML webpages out of your pictures and upload them to the internet
Size: 5,53 MB
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