Any GOOD slide show (maker) screensavers?

[André Gulliksen]

I recently saw a screensaver on a Mac, which showed a bunch of pretty
landscapes in a slide show. Yeah yeah, I know, slide show screensavers are
13 a dozen. However, this one had a couple of nice features I liked, and I
have never seen on a Windows screensaver. First of all, there was always a
subtle movement to the pictures, making them come alive. A slight zoom, a
rotation, a pan, just enough to make the picture more than a still. Second,
there was a crossfade transition, much better than the 90s PowerPoint-style
wipes that seem to be the standard on all other slide show savers I have
seen. And of course everything from the pans and zooms to the crossfades
were silky smooth.

Does anything similar exist for Windows?

 

[Son Of Spy]

I recently saw a screensaver on a Mac, which showed a bunch of pretty
landscapes in a slide show. Yeah yeah, I know, slide show screensavers are
13 a dozen. However, this one had a couple of nice features I liked, and I
have never seen on a Windows screensaver. First of all, there was always a
subtle movement to the pictures, making them come alive. A slight zoom, a
rotation, a pan, just enough to make the picture more than a still. Second,
there was a crossfade transition, much better than the 90s PowerPoint-style
wipes that seem to be the standard on all other slide show savers I have
seen. And of course everything from the pans and zooms to the crossfades
were silky smooth.

Does anything similar exist for Windows?

Not combined, two different applications

2flyer screensaver/slideshow maker. on my Multimedia 1 page.

...tool which lets you make your own screensavers. Collects up to 1000
JPG/JPEG, GIF, BMP or WMF, EMF images and 2flyer will merge them into a
Screensaver Adds MP3, WAV or MID sound and music files to your
screensavers to be played while the images are displayed Displays images
with 240 transition effects - as many as you can imagine Creates a
single .exe screen saver installation file - email and share the
screensaver with your friends at any time.
Exclusive on my site courtesy of acf.

http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/SOS/fsaver.zip ~1.5Mb

GTRipple On my Desktop2 page.
Now you can have a virtual pond on your Desktop without experiencing
water damage. This is an amazing toy; for its first version, GTRipple is
quite configurable and equally as stable. Your background image will be
set in motion indefinitely.

http://www.pnc.com.au/~garethth/download/GTRippleSetup.exe ~994Kb

cheers

Son Of Spy



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[Michael Laplante]

I looked for one of these myself but couldn't find anything except for
commercial products. One workaround would be to get a freeware called
Rostrum Camera, make an AVI of the pans and zooms then use a freeware
screensaver that displays AVI. I believe Slideshow Movie Maker also has the
ability to create this Ken Burns effect. It's a lot of effort for just a
screensaver, but you may want to convert them to DVD slideshows for archival
purposes.

Rostrum Camera:
http://www.price-media.demon.co.uk/rostrum.html

Slideshow movie maker:
http://www.joern-thiemann.de/subpage/index.htm?/tools/ssmm/

M

 

[bob]

I recently saw a screensaver on a Mac, which showed a bunch of pretty

landscapes in a slide show. Yeah yeah, I know, slide show screensavers are
13 a dozen. However, this one had a couple of nice features I liked, and I
have never seen on a Windows screensaver. First of all, there was always a
subtle movement to the pictures, making them come alive. A slight zoom, a
rotation, a pan, just enough to make the picture more than a still. Second,
there was a crossfade transition, much better than the 90s PowerPoint-style
wipes that seem to be the standard on all other slide show savers I have
seen. And of course everything from the pans and zooms to the crossfades
were silky smooth.

Does anything similar exist for Windows?

http://www.greggman.com/nostalgic/ has exactly what you want.

 

[André Gulliksen]

http://www.greggman.com/nostalgic/ has exactly what you want.

Indeed it does. Thank you.

 

[q_dise]

Is this you want? please have a look at this page for the slide show
effects:
www.photo-to-dvd.com/feature/ photo-to-dvd-feature-ken.html

 

[André Gulliksen]

www.photo-to-dvd.com/feature/ photo-to-dvd-feature-ken.html [sic]

"Free trial" and "buy now"?

 

[yang572033]

For Photo2DVD.
Wondershare Software guys provide an up to 15 trial time for user to do
a complete evaluation.
Just download the trial version and test it ,until it's up to your
expectation,then a possible purchasing decision can be made.
Regards