Molten Photo Play

Molten Photo Play is a lightweight software application built specifically for helping you generate image slideshows with various photo effects and transition modes.

The GUI looks simple so you won’t spend a lot of time wondering where to get started. A full screen mode can be used for running the slideshows. You can employ playback controls for jumping to the next or previous picture in the slideshow.

You can pick the folder that contains the target pictures. Molten Photo Play is able to automatically retrieve images from the selected directory and allows you to process subfolders as well.

General configuration settings help you include subfolders when you drag and drop directories in the main panel, index dragged-and-dropped files, index the selected folder, show progress bar, date, time, and filename, as well as run the tool at Windows startup.

Molten Photo Play gives you the possibility to apply all sorts of image effects, such as rounded corners or photos, fading edges, and grayscale. You may adjust the transparency level and insert colorful frames.

When it comes to slideshow tweaking parameters, you are allowed to set the time interval of the slideshow, adjust the background color, zoom smaller photos to windows, as well as apply different transitions, like Random, Box, Fade, Flip, Spin, and Stretch.

You can add custom audio files from your personal collection and play them in the background while running slideshows. You can create a playlist, adjust the volume, seek for a positon in the audio streams, go to the next or previous track, as well as start, stop, or pause the current audio selection.

We have tested Molten Photo Play on Windows 8.1 Pro and noticed that it is not a resource hog so you do not have to worry that it burdens the overall performance of the computer. However, we came across several crashes while trying to set the source folders.

To sum things up, Molten Photo Play accommodates several handy features under its hood but it still needs functionality improvement until it becomes a reliable image slideshow creator.