gPhotoShow Pro Photo SlideShow Maker, Photo Screen Saver Creator

 

Photo Slide Show and Screen Saver Maker for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7

gPhotoShow Pro is an an easy to use slide show maker and screen saver complete with transition effects and Pan and Zoom animations (Ken Burns effect). gPhotoShow Pro enables you to create your personal photo slide shows that can be played as screen saver or shared as standalone .exe slide show. gPhotoShow configuration is quick and easy, in few minutes you can point it to folders (either local or on a network share) containing your photos or video in any of the supported formats and have them displayed to your screen in random order, alphabetically or by date.

There is no limit to the number of photos or video your directories may contain. You have various options for stretching or shrinking photos and to show information like file name or Exif,IPTC,XMP info taken from the photos themselves.

You can also create photo sets, create wallpaper, pause and continue the screen saver during normal operation.

gPhotoShow Pro it's the perfect software for a Digital Photo Frame. It can be easily controlled with a keyboard (or a remote control) and can detect and display newly added photos without restarting the program and without editing the slideshow !

 

Screen Saver on local computer or Screen Saver Creator

gPhotoShow is a very flexible an configurable program, it can used both as screen saver on the computer where it is installed or it can be used as a slide show maker or a screen saver creator to prepare standalone slideshow (or screen savers) for distribution without the need to pay further runtime fees.

In the download page you will find some samples.

gPhotoShow Pro can read raw files generated by digital cameras, click here for more info and for the list of supported cameras

Key Features:

  • Runs on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
  • Pan and Zoom animation also known as Ken Burns effect
  • Shows an unlimited number of photos and other supported files
  • User defined filters based on image size, rating and keywords
  • High quality image resize (bicubic interpolation)
  • User selectable transition effects
  • Adjustable transition speed
  • Can display frames around pictures, simple colored frames or bitmapped frames
  • Image formats : BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF
  • Panorama file formats: JPG, IVR, PAN, MO
  • Video file formats: AVI, MOV, MPG, WMV and others
  • Macromedia Flash Animations: SWF
  • Can display Web Pages
  • Can automatically scroll panoramic images (both rectilinear and spherical)
  • Can use shortcuts to folders
  • Easy subdirectory selection and files exclusion
  • Easy image filtering by keyword or rating
  • Display images randomly or in a sorted sequence (by file name or by file date)
  • Configurable delay between images
  • Automatically resizes your images
  • Displays information about the images (Exif,IPTC,XMP)
  • Can display custom captions with Exif,IPTC,XMP metadata support
  • Automatic wallpaper changer
  • Plays your favorite music during slide show
  • Sound formats: MID, WAV, MP3, WMA
  • Multiple monitor support (up to 32 monitors)
  • Slideshow can be paused and continued
  • Energy Star ! With the MonitorOnOff PlugIn it is possible to automatically power-off attached monitors or switch-off the system.
  • With RssFeeds plugin it is possible to display news from RSS feeds and download photos from most online photo galleries such as Flickr, Picasa, Panoramio, Smugmug and others.
  • Can be used as a screen saver or a slide show creator
  • Lots of configurable Hotkeys during slide show, for example it is possible to copy/move/delete currently displayed photo by simply pressing a key
  • Can display descriptions stored in DESCRIPT.ION files
  • Image Display time, description and text attributes can be set on each image
  • Can create standalone screen savers and slideshows (.scr or .exe files)
  • Can create setup program for easy screen saver distribution
  • Can be used as a simple image viewer
  • Pictures can be divided into categories and category displayed in the screen saver can be changed automatically
  • Can be easily set as logon screen saver
  • Password protection
  • Easy install / uninstall
  • Can be used freely for 30 days, then some advanced features will be disabled

Still not convinced to try gPhotoShow Pro ? Take a look at the gPhotoShow tutorial and see how easy is to configure the screen saver and how many features are available !

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What's new:

Version 5.2.2

  • Fixed: Sometimes gPhotoShow does not comply with maximum display time set for videos when DirectX transitions are enabled
  • Fixed: Videos may not be displayed correctly when video is larger than the screen and option "Play movies at Full Screen" is not selected
  • Fixed: Images are not displayed correctly on Windows 7 systems when text size is set to 150% and DirectX transitions are used

Version 5.2.1

  • Fixed: In some rare circumstances windows is not able to use the wallpaper created by gPhotoShow Pro and displays a black desktop
  • Fixed: Sometimes when using DirectX transition the created wallpaper is empty

Version 5.2.0

  • Fixed: Wallpaper In some rare circumstances windows is not able to use the wallpaper created by gPhotoShow Pro and displays a black desktop
  • Fixed: Sometimes when using DirectX transition the created wallpaper is empty

Version 5.2.0

  • New: Improved DirectX rendering on Windows Vista and 7 with Aero enabled. Now on systems with Aero interface Pan&Zoom should be much smoother with higher frame rate
  • Fixed: When monitor is turned off by windows power management DirectX rendering is stopped
  • Fixed: Video files containing accented or non-ASCII letters are not played by VLC

Version 5.1.0

  • New: Color Management
  • New: RAW files codecs support. Now gPhotoShow can use RAW codecs installed in the system to load digital cameras raw files
  • New: Added an option to ignore swf playing status and display them for a specified time
  • Fixed: When DirectX cross fade transition is selected on some multiple monitors systems images are not resized correctly

Version 5.0.2

  • New: Flash and WhiteBalance exif tags

Version 5.0.1

  • Fixed: When error log is enabled in the logon screen saver it may crash on startup
  • Fixed: standalone screen savers and slideshows require dx9 dlls even if directx is not used
  • Fixed: files listed in "Web and 360 panoramas" are not counted correctly

Version 5.0.0

  • New: Pan and Zoom animation using DirectX
  • New: Cross Fade transition using DirectX
  • New: When DirectX is used images are preloaded by a background task improving delay accuracy
  • New: Stretch and Crop to fit screen for video played with VLC
  • New: Synchronized image change on multiple monitors when DirectX is used
  • New: Hotkey to create shortcuts to favorite images
  • New: Confirmation message after hotekey is pressed
  • New: Improved display of audio files info, now they can have their own settings, position and display time
  • Fixed: Several minor bugs have been fixed

Version 4.8.7

  • Fixed: gPhotoShow may stop working when an image contains broken exif date/time fields

Version 4.8.6

  • Fixed: Improved compatibility with UltraMon

Version 4.8.5

  • Fixed: Improved compatibility with UltraMon
  • New: Automatic updates check

Version 4.8.4

  • Fixed: VLC doesn't load its default configuration

Version 4.8.3

  • Fixed: Sometimes when background synchronization is active gPhotoShow stops working with a fatal error

Version 4.8.2

  • Fixed: Installer for v4.8.1 didn't create some registry key correctly, this prevented installation of plugins

Version 4.8.1

  • Fixed: When sort by date/time is selected videos are not played
  • Fixed: When clicking on the browse for file button to enter the name of an external editor or utility the program displays an error or crashes
  • Fixed: gPhotoShow is now compatible with VLC 1.1.0 and newer
  • Fixed: Confirmation window on image deletion is not displayed
  • New: on Windows 7 mp4 file type is added to video mpeg file types

All changes

Requirements:

Pan and Zoom animation requires DirectX 9.0 and a compatible display adapter

To play MP3 files gPhotoShow requires Microsoft Media Player 6.0 or later. You can download Media Player freely from the Microsoft web site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/download

To show Panoramas, Videos or Web Pages gPhotoShow requires Microsoft Internet Explorer. Moreover to show Panoramas files you need the appropriate plugins or ActiveX correctly installed.

Some features needs Microsoft GDI+, this component is part of Windows XP and can be installed also in Windows 2000. You can download the runtime files of GDI+ from the Microsoft web site or you can download it from this web site: gdiplus.exe

XMP tags can be displayed for Jpeg and TIFF files if Windows Imaging Component (WIC) is installed. WIC is already installed on Windows Vista and is included in .NET frameworks starting from v3.0. WIC can also be downloaded from the Microsoft Download Center and installed on any computer running Windows XP SP2 or later

 

gPhotoShow Pro - Screen Saver Creator and Photo SlideShow Maker