Have you ever wanted to turn your photos into a dynamic presentation. If so, try Pictures Slideshow Maker. In just a few minutes you can make a professional-grade slideshow presentation for sending it out to all of your friends and family. You can make MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4 video files, standalone executable files and screensavers and then burn them on CD or DVD. Created slideshow can be viewed on DVD video player and computers. You can create a digital slideshow of your old family photos. This is a great way to document your family history. All of your pictures and music files are included in your single .EXE or .SCR file. No other programs nor files are required to view your pictures. Pictures Slideshow Maker uses a lot of special 2D and 3D fade effects to make your pictures come to life. You can use pictures from any format including JPEG2000. You can do all kinds of things to make your presentations more compelling. You can define text labels, logo images, background images or flat background color, distance to the background for each slide or for entire slideshow. You can select music to accompany your digital photo album and synchronize it with pictures. This program uses the latest DirectX 3D technology to make your presentation looks very impressive. And you don't have to be an expert to do it. You can use this slideshow creator for business and educational purposes as well. Try it for free.

Main features :

Create MPEG1 (VideoCD), MPEG2 (Video DVD), MPEG4 video files using your pictures and music
Converts graphic and audio files to standalone executable files and to the screensaver files (*.EXE & *.SCR).
Create screensaver installation files
Burn autorun CD and DVD discs without any burning utility like Nero or Easy CD creator.
Export pictures and music files from standalone executable file and screensaver file.
Uses hardware 3D accelerator. This allows to improve performance and output quality.
Supports picture formats: bmp, jpg, jpeg, jpe, jp2, jpc, hips, hip, mng, pnm, pgm, ppm, png, ras, tif, tiff, cur, wmf, emf, pcx, gif, fax, bw, rgb, rgba, sgi, cel, pic, tga, vst, icb, vda, win, pcc, scr, pcd, pbm, cut, pal, rla, rpf, rle, dib, psd, pdd, psp
Supports audio formats: *.WAV,*.MID,*.MIDI,*.MP3.
Also support WinAmp playlists (*.m3u).
More than 150 transition fade in and fade out effects.
Effect names and descriptions.
Previewing for effects, slides, slideshow and screensaver in design time.
Each slide can be customized (stretch mode, fade in effect, fade out effect, pause, notes).
Flat background color or background image, distance to the background for each slide
Logo image for each slide.
Clock, slides counter and notes for each slide. You can define theirs font size, font color and tranparency.
Customize options and hot keys during pictures presentation (for executable file).
Working with presentation projects. Save/open/reopen projects. Merge projects, export to Excel.
Pictures search on the local PC.
Requires DirectX 9.0 or above.
Works under Windows 95-OSR, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP.
Multi-monitor support.
Zoom and View on pause mode
Multilingual support. You can translate it to any language. English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Romanian, Portuguese and Hungarian are included.