Photo Slideshow Creator

Photo Slideshow Creator is a comprehensive application that you can use to put together slideshows from your favorite images and create lifelong memories. It contains a lot of features to help you achieve the best results, and it is quite intuitive overall.

The setup procedure is fast and uneventful. Thanks to the Explorer-based folder structure, you can easily locate images to import into projects in this professional-looking interface. The tool supports many popular file types, including EMF, GIF, ICO, JPG, PNG and TIF.

They can be added to the slideshow timeline by dragging them. Each slide can be edited when it comes to slide and transition duration, image format (e.g. stretch, fit to screen) and background (solid color, gradient or image). Moreover, you can enter title clips, add text and edit format settings (e.g. font name, size), as well as apply various image effects (e.g. rotate, color hue, mosaic).

As far as transitions are concerned, Photo Slideshow Creator supplies users with may options to choose from, or it can just apply random transitions to the entire project. Similarly there are many applicable themes, such as the ones made for greeting cards. The project can be previewed in the main frame before turning it into a slideshow, as well as saved to file and resumed at a later time.

Several slideshow templates are supported by the app, letting users quickly put something together without worrying about configuration. Another notable feature of the program is that it is capable of creating video slideshows by basically converting the image project into AVI, HD video, clips supported by mobile devices (e.g. BlackBerry, Apple), video ready for online publishing (e.g. YoUTube, Facebook), in addition to DVDs, screensavers, or self-extracting slideshows (EXE format).

Photo Slideshow Creator clearly bundles a rich amount of features dedicated to designing and building slideshows in multiple formats and compatible with various platforms. It has a good response time and uses a decent amount of CPU and RAM. There were no issues in our tests. Thanks to its wide array of intuitive options and customization features, Photo Slideshow Creator should meet the requirements of most users.