Hello,

I'm looking for a free software that will let me create a photos slideshow cdrom.

Any suggestions ?

http://picasa.google.com/

It does exactly what you want... And more!

It really depends what you want. There are many types of slideshows.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of Picasa at all... I much prefer paying 150$ for Photoshop (upgrade price). I didn''t know picasa could create slideshows though. No idea what format it uses though (a video file? flash? and windows executable? plain web pages with javascript? ... no idea)

What I personally do when I share photos like that with others is either:

-give 'em a CD or DVD with just photos (not what you want seemingly) - almost everybody has a viewer with a slideshow feature nowadays (from the built-in XP preview thingy when you press F11 IIRC, to freeware apps and what not)

-or same thing, but also with screen-res versions and thumbnails on web pages (like an offline gallery, sort of) - the big advantage being that any system (no matter what OS or anything) can read web pages and images

-or if I really want it to be a slideshow, I use S5. It even works better than even powerpoint for some presentation purposes.

For the main part I just ship full DVDs (Taiyo Yuden media) to my dad as "offline backups" in case of fire or such, and just let friends/family access them online. Not an option if some don't have internet access though.

Edited September 23, 200619 yr by crahak

Irfanview Click on the link below to see some of what it can do.

DL

Edited September 27, 200619 yr by DL