Is there anyway to make a picture slide show on your PC?

[MaDHaVoK]

I would like to make a picture slide show so that i can send it to someone and they can show it at their party... The only problem is....

What program could i make it in?
What program could they view it in? I don't think they have much software so they would have to view in in internet explorer or something!


Thanks..
Mad.

 

[Anubis]

i dont know but i want to.

ALSO is there one where you can add sound to it. like a mp3 playing in teh background

 

[dighn]

www.download.com

i saw some thing like that

 

[fell8]

Win ME comes w/a slide show screen saver. Just put pictures in "My Pictures" folder.

 

[dighn]

windows xp comes with an image viewer that has slideshow capability but it's not customizable at all

 

[nitsuj3580]

Can't powerpoint do this?

 

[Analog]

A good free one I use is : Text

btw, it makes an executable, uses jpegs, and is true freeware.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
A good free one I use is : Text

link doesent work

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
A good free one I use is : Text

link doesent work

are you sure? I tried it again and it worked fine for me.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero

Originally posted by: TheEvil1

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
A good free one I use is : Text

link doesent work

are you sure? I tried it again and it worked fine for me.

linkie no werkie

 

[Analog]

can you get to it from here: link?

its the first one under "Tools You Can Download for Digital Photos"

 

[Anubis]

link works now

 

[MaDHaVoK]

Soo.. it looks like its pretty impossible to setup a picture slide show that could run in internet explorer?

 

[dman]

You can make slideshows using freeware irfanview.

Homepage

You can run the slideshow from within irfanview, have it save all the files into a (largish) .exe file to run on a cd or another pc, or make a .SCR (screensaver) file.

The size of the pictures will correlate to the size of the screenshow. However, you CAN use irfanview to batch resize your pictures before making a screenshow.

It works pretty well, I did notice that if you leave the screensaver running for a while it'll eventually GPF but it doesn't cause any other application problems, just kills itself.

NOTE: If it matters, you can NOT set it to timeout to the next picture AND accept keyboard input. If you set it to manually scroll through the pictures it won't auto-scroll. (At least from what I've seen in my trials). I'd like to have like a 25-30s timeout and be able to manually skip pictures by hitting a key, but, it doesn't work like that. It also doesn't have any fancy wipe routines (transitions from one picture to the next).

 

[AbsolutZero]

Better late than never, freeware app that makes slide shows with music. Just tried it out, pretty d@mn cool.

http://techtv.com/callforhelp/freefile/story/0,24330,3427344,00.html

 

[wfbberzerker]

i'd use powerpoint.

 

[AbsolutZero]

Powerpoint 2k only does one music file per slide unless someone knows how. Haven't tried XP or newer versions. I'm trying to add music to a timed slideshow and compile to a .exe, VCD, or .scr.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: dman
You can make slideshows using freeware irfanview.

Homepage

You can run the slideshow from within irfanview, have it save all the files into a (largish) .exe file to run on a cd or another pc, or make a .SCR (screensaver) file.

The size of the pictures will correlate to the size of the screenshow. However, you CAN use irfanview to batch resize your pictures before making a screenshow.

It works pretty well, I did notice that if you leave the screensaver running for a while it'll eventually GPF but it doesn't cause any other application problems, just kills itself.

NOTE: If it matters, you can NOT set it to timeout to the next picture AND accept keyboard input. If you set it to manually scroll through the pictures it won't auto-scroll. (At least from what I've seen in my trials). I'd like to have like a 25-30s timeout and be able to manually skip pictures by hitting a key, but, it doesn't work like that. It also doesn't have any fancy wipe routines (transitions from one picture to the next).

I was going to say IrfanView, but you beat me to it. I've used the slideshow before and it works pretty well.

 

[trek]

Originally posted by: Encryptic

Originally posted by: dman
You can make slideshows using freeware irfanview.

Homepage

You can run the slideshow from within irfanview, have it save all the files into a (largish) .exe file to run on a cd or another pc, or make a .SCR (screensaver) file.

The size of the pictures will correlate to the size of the screenshow. However, you CAN use irfanview to batch resize your pictures before making a screenshow.

It works pretty well, I did notice that if you leave the screensaver running for a while it'll eventually GPF but it doesn't cause any other application problems, just kills itself.

NOTE: If it matters, you can NOT set it to timeout to the next picture AND accept keyboard input. If you set it to manually scroll through the pictures it won't auto-scroll. (At least from what I've seen in my trials). I'd like to have like a 25-30s timeout and be able to manually skip pictures by hitting a key, but, it doesn't work like that. It also doesn't have any fancy wipe routines (transitions from one picture to the next).

I was going to say IrfanView, but you beat me to it. I've used the slideshow before and it works pretty well.

This is what I was going to suggest as well