PictureSaver 4.2.5 Now Available!
PictureSaver 4.2 - a screen saver to turn your pictures into a slide show! Ideal for digital camera enthusiasts. Select the pictures you'd like to see, and let the PictureSaving begin! Pictures not included.
Features include:
- Configurable to show just the pictures you want - specify individual pictures, or specify folders and show all the pictures in those folders;
- Group pictures together for even more variety, and individually control which groups are displayed;
- Share your pictures by creating standalone screen savers you can share with friends and family;
- Control the way you want your pictures to be displayed:
- Choose a solid-colored background or use a gradient background that smoothly transitions between up to eight colors;
- Frame your pictures with solid or 3D-style frames;
- Size and position your images over all or just part of the screen;
- Display one or many pictures at a time with the multi-picture feature;
- Choose from over 200 attractive transition effects in 27 groups;
- Integrated search lets you find pictures anywhere on your hard drive(s);
- Set display time and ordering for pictures and picture groups;
- Display picture descriptions in your choice of font, color, and shadowing;
- Configurable on-screen clock;
- And more!
For registered users, there's still more:
- Select your favorite .mp3 and .mid files as background music for your saver;
- Configure .wav files to play with every picture;
- Register today for only $10!
Screen Shots of PictureSaver In Action
Changes since Version 4.2.0:
- New! The configuration file format and location were changed, to pave the way for multi-user support. Individual users on the same computer can now have their own picture lists, but other options are still shared (that’s coming).
- New! When a picture isn’t found, it is now logged to the Windows error log (instead of to the PictureSaver.err file).
- New! PictureSaver will now add the My Pictures foler as a default PicFolder when it's installed for the first time, so it can now be installed and run with NO configuration.
- New! PicFolders can now be exported to standalone screen savers just like groups can.
- Enhanced Users now have more control over exported screen savers. You can now specify which transitions to use, whether to display the clock and description text, and whether to use filenames, picture descriptions, or sequential numbers for the exported picture descriptions.
- Enhanced The Pictures tab now recognizes when you use PicFolders rather than Groups, and defaults to displaying the PicFolders list in that case. The PicFolders list is selected whenever you have only one group and that group is disabled.
- Enhanced Updated help to HTML Help format.
- Enhanced Updated the gradient drawing routines to use built-in Windows functions wherever possible. Unfortunately they weren't built in until Win98, so Win95 can no longer be supported.
- Fixed Users can now play sounds from either the browser or the picture list side of the configuration box.
- Fixed Loading images is now much more CPU-friendly (no more 100% utilization spikes).
- Fixed The preview window (in Windows screen-saver properties) is now more CPU-friendly (no more 100% utilization spikes).
- Fixed When exporting groups (or PicFolders) that contained spaces, PS would sometimes crash and never get around to exporting the saver. This has been fixed.
- Fixed Description and sound fields were getting swapped around on some systems when pictures were added; this has been fixed.
- Other Several optimizations and miscellaneous other tweaks and changes (as usual).
A complete revision history can be found
here.
