Editor's review
gPhotoShow Pro is an easy to use make-your-own photo slide show or screen saver. It can display an unlimited number of JPEG, PNG, TIFF, AVI, MOV, MPG with transition effects, captions, EXIF info and music. It can also create standalone screen savers.
Features: gPhotoShow Pro is tool to produce photo shows. You can create a slide show quite easily or create a wallpaper if you like. The slideshow can have a unlimited number of images in it of formats JPEG, PNG, TIFF, AVI, MOV, MPG, panorama, flash animations (SWF files) and web pages. Standalone executables also can be created that will run on machines that do not have this application. The show can be used to drive a digital photo frame too. There are several plug-ins available that enhances functionality of the program.
Some of the main features include picture sorting, stretching and shrinking of images, adding captions etc. While choosing files you can apply your own customized filters. You could use filenames, date and EXIF, IPTC, XMP information. Background music can be added to the shows created. The music files could be MP3, WMA, WAV and MIDI. It can display frames around pictures, simple colored frames or bitmapped frames. Adding transitions and specifying the time for the transition is easy to apply to the slideshow. Support for multiple monitors can be added. Plug-ins can add functionalities such as ImgFilters is useful to enhance images, MonitorOnOff can automatically switch-off monitor or the computer. A range of formats are supported including image formats BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, Panorama file formats JPG, IVR, PAN, MO, Video file formats AVI, MOV, MPG, WMV, Macromedia Flash Animations SWF. It supports a range of RAW formats for cameras from Canon (.crw, .cr2), Casio (.bay, .raw), Kodak (.kdc, .dcr), Konica (.kqp), Leica (.raw), Minolta (.mrw), Nikon (.nef), Olympus (.orf), Panasonic (.raw), Pentax (.pef), Sigma (.x3f), and Sony (.srf).
Overall: Nice features, wide range of format support, particularly the RAW images support makes this program quite useful. The user interface is quite simple and intuitive too.
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