Settings

Slide Show Settings

To change the settings of the current slide show, select the SlideShow menu, then click Settings or click on the Settings button at the right of the Slide List. The slide show settings are placed on General, Advanced, Slide and Effects pages of the dialog.

The settings are individual for each slide show. If you save your slide show, the program will also save the settings. When you create a new slide show, the settings revert to the original (default) state. To save the current project settings as the default settings, click on the Default button. The program will use them for each new project you create.

Individual Slide Settings

To change the settings of an individual slide, select this slide, select the SlideShow menu, then click the Slide Settings item or right-click on the slide and click Slide Settings in the context menu. The slide settings are entered on the Slide and Effects pages of the dialog.

Note
The Settings dialog displays which settings it contains in the Title Bar or the dialog window. The Title Bar caption may be "Settings - Slide Show" for the current slide show project or, for example, "Settings - MyPicture1.jpg" - for a MyPicture1.jpg slide.
 

For the slides having individual settings the program displays a small indicator (check mark) at the leftmost column of the Slide List.

General settings (available only for slide shows)

To repeat the slide show after the last slide has been shown, select the Repeat checkbox.

To close the slide show after the last slide has been shown, select Close after finish.

To shuffle the slides during the show and ignore the order you set, select Random order.

To display a timer at the top-left corner during the slide show, select Show timer.

Click here to open a picture demonstrating the effect of the selected Transparent text checkbox (the top part).


To hide the mouse pointer, select the Hide mouse pointer checkbox.

To display the Start Screen, which allows you to view the slide images as Previews and Filmstrip, select Show Start Screen.  

To synchronize slide timing with the background playlist or slide playlists, select Synchronize slides with audio: Background playlist or Slide playlists. Read more in the Sound topic.

To change the sound volume, use the Background and Slide-specific sound sliders

Advanced settings (available only for slide shows)

To display the navigation bar during the slide show, select the Show Navigation Bar checkbox. To hide/show the separate bar buttons and to change the bar screen position, click on the Customize button. To hide/show the separate items of the slide show pop-up menu, click on the corresponding Customize button.

To display the file name, size, date and the current slide number at the bottom of the screen, select the Show file information... checkbox. 

To open the Help window with the File info parameters, click on the ? button. The program uses the File info text template to display the information text during the slide show.

To customize actions for left and right mouse clicks, click on the Mouse Click Actions button.

To make your output slide shows time limited (that is useful for professional photographers), click on the Trial Functionality button. You can use a plain HTML file (without images) for the expiration dialog. See ExpirationInfoSample.html in the program folder.

Slide settings

To change the background color and font of the captions and information messages, use the corresponding controls. The program also uses the background color for the Full Screen mode. Click the Border & Shadow button to change the Margin, Border, Padding and Shadow options for the slide picture. The Margin options allows you to define the minimum margins around the picture border. If you select the In percent option, the value will be calculated as a percent of the width (for the Left and Right margins) and height (for the Top and Bottom margins) of the slide show window. The Border options defines the slide picture border size and color. The padding is the internal space between the slide picture and its border. Select the Drop Shadow option to display a shadow that falls behind the slide picture border. To make the shadow visible, set some margins around the slide picture.

By default, the Fit image option is selected. In this case, the program fits large slide images to the screen size. The Stretch image option can be useful for small slide image to stretch them to the slide show window size.

To change the caption position on the screen use the Horizontal and Vertical combo boxes. You can align text inside the caption box selecting the Align Left, Right, Center and Word Wrap buttons.

The Manual mode allows you to go to the next slide using the keyboard (DOWN ARROW or SPACE) or the mouse wheel. Under Advance, click Manually to set this mode.

In the Automatic mode the program goes to the next slide after the pause that you set in the dialog. Click Automatically after, Interval and then enter the number of seconds/milliseconds you want the slides to stay on the screen. To make the slides wait for the playlist to finish, select Slide playlist finish.

It's required some time for loading slide images and playing transition effects. By default, the program starts the interval timer after complete loading and transition effect. To calculate the length of your slide show or synchronize it with the background music more carefully, mark the Start timer before image loading checkbox.
 

Effects settings

This page allows you to set transition effects for the slide show or separate slides.

To change the effect type use the Effect selector. By default its value is None. Click on the Random to make the program use a random effect from the list. If you select the Custom option, you can define a specific effect.

	You can disable some of the effects for the Random mode. Right-click on an effect or group item and use the popup menu. During the slide show disabled effects won't be used by the program for the slides having the Random option.
	MySlideShow doesn't use some of the effects in the Random mode. These effects are slow for real-time full screen slide shows but can be used by the Video Generator plug-in for creating video files. The effects are marked by the icon. You can still select them in the Custom mode (not recommended).

Click OK when you finish changing the slide show settings.