Sadly, a mediocre exercise from a developer seemingly little interested in its own product: not only has no User Manual has been compiled for this, the developer's website "video tutorials" are, by and large, incomprehensible.

What's missing from the engineering of this software is any awareness of the fact that photo slideshows fundamentally exist to give life to images by animating pictures that would otherwise be still: a gentle tracking from left to right of a broad river, a slow close-up of a townscape.

All that "Photo Slide Show Time" offers are transitions, between-scene intervals which are most usefully (and sensibly) given over to fades but which here reprise all the usual suspects from inferior slideshow software, what with wipes and shuttering and fly-outs (though thankfully, no pyrotechnics.)

Misleadingly, there is something called "Zoom In", but it's nothing of the sort: the software doesn't progressively enlarge a targeted image area or element but instead whisks the entire image away in a transitional narrowing vortex.

Competent photo slideshow software takes each image as something not merely to be viewed but to be explored, transforming it from a static picture into one which seems to be a moving picture. This, by contrast, majors only in whole-image manipulation.

The developer really needs to re-think this product and its price, because the $49.95 quoted on this page is frankly laughable. Obviously, pcwinsoft isn't aiming to compete in the ProShow Gold market, but it might at least take note of offerings from other developers in this sector, amongst them Ashampoo, which has progressively refined its own slideshow software to the point that it's now a very acceptable offering indeed (and often at a bargain basement price to those who register with Ashampoo.)

Thanks then, GOTD, and thanks pcwinsoft, but if I want to shuffle a pack of images and throw a few of 'em here, there and everywhere, I'll mis-deal the next hand in tonight's Saturday game of poker with the boys.

MikeR  –  7 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+28)

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Download and registration went smoothly. Followed instructions to add pictures which I did with 18 pictures. The instructions to add sound say:"To add an audio track simply drag the audio file over the control and drop it. The audio track is then displayed."
There's no such thing as a "control". What we do have is a "Timeline" and there you may drop the audio file but...... you don't get an acknowledgement that the file was received. In my case and after trying a dozen of times, I gave up. The final product came out very nice but, of course, without audio. Product defective, uninstalled.

Purrete  –  7 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+17)

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