Photos Slideshow CD

[army20]

Hello,

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

Any suggestions ?

[gamehead200]

http://picasa.google.com/

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

[CoffeeFiend]

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, 2006 by crahak

[mark]

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

DL

Edited September 27, 2006 by DL