What slideshow software do you use?

What slideshow software do you use?

I've got to send a selection of photos to a gallery in Paris who are interested in exhibiting some of my work - I'm just at a loss on how best to present it. Basically, what I want to do is knock together a flash-based presentation with indexed thumbnails against a black background - with the option to run them as a full frame slide show.

If anyone has any ideas about relatively easy to use software packages (preferably free!) that can output to CD it'd much appreciated!

I would just send the pics. Can't bear slide-shows. Too fussy.

G

Pictures To Exe is a superb program that costs very little. A trial of free and if you like it you can pay the modest license fee for a lifetime of updates.

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I know what you mean - perhaps rather than a fixed slideshow, it would be nice to present (as a CD) a menu with the option to play as a slideshow or select individual images from indexed thumbs - pretty key to all this is to have them appear against a dark background.


OK I gave it a go but found (aside from irritating limitations of the trial version) that the IQ was seriously compromised with either blurring ie loss of sharpness or perculiar artefacts such as cross hatching in sky areas etc

hmmm

Google's Picasa can create a "Gift CD" which includes auto-loading slideshow software.
It's very simple to use, and the slideshow is pretty basic with a straight fade transition (and the option of stopping and moving forwards/backwards).

One major plus is it just stores the images "as-is" in a directory on the CD (although you can choose to resize when you create the CD) - so the recipient can still do what they want with the images.

Matt

Pictures To Exe suffers from none of these - images just appear as you would expect them. It is wise to use a screen sized image (1024x768 perhaps) to make the slide show.