Create Slide Show and Slide Show To Go Software for Windows

AquaSoft DiaShow
$0 - AquaSoft GmbH

The AquaSoft "DiaShow" can handle more than 30 Image formats. Images can be placed arbitrary on the screen, Transitions can be set, as well as comments and many more. For every slide show you can play background music as much as you like. Alternativly you can record a comment with the Sound-Wizard by a microphone and play it to the images. The created slide shows can be saved and handed down. If you are owner of a CD-burner you can create self starting Slideshow-CDs, even with more then one slide show. The catalog application shows the images clearly as Thumbnails and keeps order with Keywords and a Search opportunity even in larger image collections. It also enables you to jump to every position of your slide show within DiaShow-Player. You can create a complete Photo Website out of your images. An Import-Wizard enables you to import images from scanners and digital cameras. With the built in Image editing application and the converting-wizard, which is able to convert your images into another file format and to adjust the image size, other graphic programmes become unnecessary. Aditionally you can use the DiaShow to automatically change your Windows background. Use the Screensaver Module to create a normal Windows screensaver out of your slide shows, these you could be handed down to your friends for example. The use of the DiaShow is very simple and logically, and is used even in elementary schools althoug it is a professional application. The detailed Help explaines every possible program setting. Excellent all-round tool to process and manage images from digital cameras!

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DVD PixPlay
$29.5 - Xequte Software

DVD PixPlay allows you to create slide show disks from images, videos and music and write them directly to a CD or DVD for playback on your television using a DVD Player. DVD PixPlay makes it easy to share your images with your friends and family, particularly those who do not have a computer. And they are as easy to use as a normal DVD! Other features include: Add audio tracks as background music or your own voice for a commentary, Supports all common image formats (JPEG, JPEG2000, GIF, BMP, PNG, etc.), raw camera formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, etc.) common sound formats (MP3 and WAV) and video formats (AVI, MPEG, etc.), Burns directly to a blank CD or DVD (for playback in most DVD players, VCD players and computers), Choose from more than 160 image transition effects, Easily create and insert title and other text pages, Can also output video files (AVI, MPEG, etc) to VCD or DVD, Retrieve images directly from a digital camera or scanner, Outputs to DVD, VCD, SVCD, XVCD, XSVCD, MPEG and AVI (Xvid, DivX, Indeo, etc) formats, with NTSC and PAL support, Add shapes and fun objects to your photos (such as Santa hats and speech bubbles), Add custom captions to your images or use the embedded description fields created in Smart Pix, MegaView or Picasa

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Photo Mixer
$26.91 - CCLA Software

With Photo Mixer create easily slide shows and video sequences from your digital photos or images. It is the ideal solution if you wish, for example, to create an original presentation of your holidays photos or to realize animated tutorials from screen shots or from images. You will add transition effects, syncronized background music and comments to create high quality personalized animations. Easy acquisition and organization of photos : Import photos directly from your scanner, webcam, digital camera or camcorder. Numerous formats are supported (BMP, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc.) and the very easy to use interface allows you to organize photos with the help of simple drag and drop. Photos touching up : Photo Mixer proposes multiple filters and effects to retouch your photos (magnifying glass effect, morphing effect, contrasts adjustment, black and white, etc.), as well as all the traditional drawing tools to add texts and decorations. Transition effects : Varied transition effects are available to realize easily original fade in/out between the images. Music and comments : Photo Mixer is the most complete application to create elaborated soundtracks. You can add an unlimited number of audio tracks (musics, sound effects, etc.) and record your voice by synchronizing your comments with the images. Video creation : Export easily your creations in numerous popular formats (AVI, MPEG, WMV, DIVX, etc.), to be able to read them on your computer or your DVD reader.

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ShowMaker
$25 - Dmagix Software

ShowMaker is designed to help you quickly develop great slide shows and photo albums to distribute stand-alone on a disk/cd or on the Internet as html. You can also add advanced features like a thumbnail page, music, texts and more.
ShowMaker comes with a small high-quality royalty free stand-alone replayer for disk or cd-rom distribution - requiring no installation on the client machines. You can even have a slide show on cd start automatically when the cd is inserted!
ShowMaker is also a speed optimised picture browser, with features like 'zoom quality enhancement' and 'include files from subfolders'.

Create slide shows, photo albums and image galleries for web or CD-ROM, from the same one project setup.
Output final results as either HTML or as a stand-alone slide show with high quality replayer.
Powerful standalone replayer that runs on almost any Windows computer. It preloads graphics, and thereby almost eliminates any delay. It also has superior image quality!
Add a Menu/Index/Thumbnail page with customizable layout very easily.
Add complex slides with embedded images and texts or thumbnail pages with just a click.
Show a title on each image very easily.
Add sound and music.
Use an image browser with advanced zoom facilities, zoom quality enhancement and thumbnail cashing for improved browsing speed. Also, listen to midi files.
Include contents from subfolders on-the-fly while browsing multimedia files.
Find a 'super-palette' (best fit for multiple pictures) and convert all pictures in a setup to this palette in one click.
Resize many pictures in one process (Min. max. %, fill empty space, etc.).
Convert many different formats image files to the same format in one single step.
Run a slide show directly from within the browser. Also, see a folder as a slide show.
Very simple, friendly and powerful user-interface makes it very easy to make an impressive result. Drag & drop. 100% keyboard support.

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Slide Show to Go
$24.95 - Nightwatch Software

Create amazing sight and sound presentations! Slide Show to Go makes it easy to create slide shows and screen savers, with over 160 transitions (including a "Ken Burns" effect), captions, scheduled slides, and WAV, WMA, MIDI, OGG, or MP3 sound. Then burn a video disc for DVD players, package to run on another PC or as a screen saver, or AVI or MPEG. Unique features include slide cropping, "spacers," and slide scheduling. *NEW* Burn a Windows CD with multiple shows and have them play in sequence upon load.

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ImageForge PRO for Art, Images, Photos
$28.95 - CursorArts Company

Whether you want to put your company logo up as wallpaper, do something creative with those photos from your new digital camera, or create graphics for your web site, ImageForge PRO is an inexpensive, yet powerful, suite of image editing tools which will have you turning out digital art in no time.

Packed with high-end features, such as support for drawing tablets and Photoshop-style plug-in filters, ImageForge PRO is simple enough for kids, but with the all the power you'll need to produce high-quality artwork. Click a second time on the basic tools in the ImageForge toolbar, and you will find variations on each. Paint with oils or watercolor brushes, create stars and polygons, smudge out wrinkles, clone between images, drag out 3D text and other objects, and much more. You can experiment with creating your own custom brushes, painting with clipart brushes, or even producing your own animations. Once you have created your images, you can generate stand-alone album "Library" programs to give to friends and family. Add special effects transitions between images, or even create slide shows with an audio background. If you prefer, you can turn your slides show into a Windows screen saver.

For the budding webmaster, an Internet layer allows you to split images across HTML tables, create clickable image maps, and add special effects to images for your web pages. HTML code is automatically generated, ready for you to insert into your web documents. Supports most common web image formats: .JPG, .PNG, and .GIF (normal, transparent, animated).

Other options include: conversion of groups of image files, merging layers, printing multiple images per sheet of paper, adding grids to your printouts, image merging and masking tools to combine images seamlessly, scanner and other TWAIN device support, distortable text, etc. ImageForge PRO is a complete digital art studio which almost anyone can afford.

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