v3.6.0

• New slide show engine that plays the motion (pan & zoom) effects for the regular slide shows. It can be selected in the View | Options window. The engine works on Windows Vista, 7 or later. MySlideShow uses its classic slide show engine on Windows XP. Read more.

v3.5.5

• Added 'Select All' and 'Slide Settings' buttons at the right of the Slide List.
• Fixed some unicode bugs.

v3.5.4

• The Folder Player allows you to play a slide show from pictures of the selected folder. You can configure the show settings in the Tools | Folder Player window, run the show from there or from the main screen pressing Ctrl+Shift+F.
• Fixed several EXIF/IPTC reader issues.

v3.5.0

• Unicode is supported. Now you can mix international characters.
• Realignments and cosmetic changes in some dialog windows. They look better on systems with large font sizes and DPI. You can also select your own font in the Options window.

v3.4.4

• Changes in the Album Style Editor.
• Slide Caption Editor: ability to select {SlideInfo} variables from the list and insert to the text.

v3.4.3

• Output web galleries support Internet Explorer 9.

v3.4.1

• Added an ability to set the 4:3 or 16:9 proportions for the previews in the Settings window | Motion tab.
• Fixed some File List flicker.

v3.4.0

• New slide previewer displays the caption and other slide properties (background, border, margins). Select the previewer in the View | Options menu.
• The design of the main screen panes is somewhat changed.
• The Search & Fix tool allows you to fix broken links to image and audio files. It's helpful when you move your slide show projects to another computer. Select the SlideShow | Search & Fix menu to open the tool window.
• You can now display the slide and EXIF/IPTC information in the File Info. Use the same insertions as for the captions. For example: {SlideInfo: FileName}, {EXIF: Date/Time}. Read more in the Help file > Slide Information topic.
• The Go to | Slide menu in the slide show popup menu now works correctly.
• The Add All button on the main screen now has a submenu with Add All including Subfolders item.

v3.3.4

• Realignments and cosmetic changes in some dialogs.

v3.3.3

• The common slide background options have been added. By default, each slide has a transparent slide background and the program displays slides over the common background. You can change it by the SlideShow | Common Slide Background menu.
• Cosmetic changes have been made on the Timeline tab of the Slide List and in some dialogs.

v3.3.2

• Displays the Sync Playlist on the Timeline tab of the Slide List. You can synchronizes groups of slides with music tracks entering slide numbers in the list.
• Some dialogs are now resizable (for example, the Slide Caption window).

v3.3.0

• Plays .mpg and .mp4 video clips (install the Video Codec Pack from the download page).
• Minor fixes.

v3.2.0

Added:

• Timeline view improvements:
  - Ability to select a slide (only one!) and drag it holding Alt to push the next slides forward or pull them back.
  - Ability to move the slide show end line.
  - Ability to drag & drop pictures from the File List or Windows Explorer (it won't change the current slide positions).
• Album:
  - When you use the Play All button, the program now closes separate slide shows regardless of their "Repeat" and "Close after finish" options.

Fixed:

• Minor fixes.

v3.1.1

Added:

• A new template (Table) and two new styles to the web gallery; more options are available.
• "Motion effect: Random range" option. This option may be useful for landscape pictures. For portrait image you can define a custom motion effect.
• The Allocate button on the Timeline view of the Slide List now has "All Slides on Item Timeline" and "All Slides on Playlist Timeline" menu items.

v3.1.0

• Now the web galleries (the Tools | Web Gallery menu) have templates (HTML and JavaScript code) and styles (CSS styles and button/background images). The current version contains only one template (slide show with a horizontal thumbnail filmstrip) and three styles. The templates and styles are located in "<program path>\WebGallery2" folder (one subfolder per template and style) and can be added or customized manually.

v3.0.2

• Minor changes and fixes.
• The Volume sliders in the Project Settings window | General tab were moved to a separate window. Now the Sync Playlist and Background Playlist have their own volume sliders.

v3.0.1

Added:

• This version allows you set to the monitor number where you want to play the slide show.
• The Thumbnail Panel can also display the navigation buttons. You can make the Thumbnails Panel floating and display it on another monitor.
• Now you can change the font of the slide show timer.

Fixed:

• The Video Generator plug-in didn't render embedded video clips.

v3.0.0

Added:

• Thumbnails and Timeline views on the main screen in addition to the Details view (the Timeline Editor is available only in MySlideShow Gold).
• The slide captions allow you to use semi-transparent colors, background shape (rounded rectangle) and shadow.
• You can display and use a slide thumbnail panel during the slide show.
• You can add silence intervals to the sound playlists.

Changed:

• The Settings button displays only the project settings (the General and Advanced tabs).
• Now each slide always has its own individual slide settings. The "global" slide settings (editable by the Settings button in v2.x) were removed. However you can change the default slide settings by the SlideShow | Default Slide Settings menu. All new slides you add to the project will use these settings.
• The Sound button changes the Sync Playlist. The slides are synchronized with this playlist (the "Synchronize slides with audio" option is removed). However you can still use the Background Playlist (independent of the slides) and edit it by the SlideShow | Background Playlist menu.
• The Sound column with the slide-specific playlists is hidden by default. Right-click on the slide list header to display it.
• The program uses the new project format (".ssx" file extension). You can open v2 ".ss" projects by the File | Open menu selecting "SlideShow projects v2.x" in the "Files of type" dropdown list.

v2.7.8

Added:

• The Video Generator plug-in can create MPEG-4/AVC video files.

Fixed:

• The program didn't read EXIF info from some JPEG images.
• A problem with MP3 audio files under Windows Vista.

v2.7.7

• Minor changes. Some bug fixes.

v2.7.6

Added:

• Margins for slide captions.

Fixed:

• The Video Generator plug-in didn't display any CD/DVD drives if one of them returned errors during the initialization process. Now you can look at the error messages by clicking on the Recorders label in the Tools | Video CD/DVD window.

v2.7.5

• Now the program uses the font of the current Windows theme for all its windows and forms. Earlier versions used the default Windows GUI font (MS Sans Serif). Usually on Windows XP the theme font is Tahoma 8, on Windows Vista the font is Segoe UI 9. Anyway the View | Options window allows you to select any font.
• Additional Shadow options in the Slide Border and Shadow window.

v2.7.4

Added:

• The "Crop sides to fill" option (the Settings window | Slide tab) that allows you to fill the whole screen by the slide picture even if its sides are not proportional to the screen size.

v2.7.3

Added:

• Ability to burn Autorun CDs directly from the Tools | Album window.

v2.7.2

Added:

• Ability to preview the slide on the full screen in the Slide Editor (the Gold edition).

Fixed:

• Incorrect calculation of WMA audio duration. Incorrect current position detection while playing some MP3 audio.

v2.7.1

Fixed:

• Some bugs with motion effects introduced in v2.7.
• Ability to create output .exe files with size >= 2 GB.

v2.7

Added:

• Margin, Border, Padding and Shadow settings for slide pictures (the Settings window | Slide tab).

v2.6.5

Improved:

• Web galleries with the "Slide Show (IE Transition)" style can be displayed by FireFox and Opera. Transition effects are supported only by Internet Explorer.

Added:

• An ability to save control properties in the Slide Editor as default. When you place a new control (for example, a text box) on a slide, the control will use the default properties.

v2.6.4

Added:

• "Auto rotate JPEG images according to EXIF orientation" option (the View | Options window).
• Now you can create a random list of motion effects and use custom motion duration (the Motion tab in the Settings window).
• Text boxes in the Slide Editor window allow you to use the fade in/out effect and add shadows. Also they support the WordWrap option (set AutoSize = False if you use WordWrap).

v2.6.3

Added:

• An ability to copy/paste slides (the Copy/Paste items in the slide list right-click popup menu) and controls (text, image boxes) in the Slide Editor window.

v2.6.2

Added:

• You can place plug-in buttons on the toolbar and change their order in the Tools menu and the toolbar. Use the Help | Plug-ins menu.

v2.6.1

Improved:

• Now the Caption and Info Text font options in the (Slide) Settings window | Slide tab allow you to change the background color and transparency. The Transparent text option on the General tab is removed.

Added:

• The program can use EXIF & IPTC tags in the slide captions. For example {EXIF: Date/Time Original} will be converted to the original date/time placed to the JPEG image by the digital photo camera. The EXIF Inspector plug-in displays all EXIF and IPTC meta tags embedded into JPEG image files. Note: if you use the "Resize slide images" options for output slide shows, EXIF and IPTC information in output slide images is removed by MySlideShow.

v2.6

Added:

• Transparency for SWF/Flash animation files (the Gold edition).
• Word Wrap option for captions in the Settings window | Slide tab.
• OGG/Vorbis audio support.
• Ability to set slide duration in the Timeline Editor. Select a slide or a group of slides and use right-click popup menu (the Gold edition).

Improved:

• Timeline Editor's performance for large slide shows (the Gold edition).

Fixed:

• Problems with VBR(Variable Bit Rate)-encoded MP3 files.

v2.5

MySlideShow is now available in the Standard and Gold editions.

The Gold edition includes the Slide Editor add-in, a Timeline editor and Motion (Pan & Zoom) effects for output video files. The Motion effects are supported by the Video Generator plug-in v2.6.5 or later. The Slide Editor is no longer available as a separate product.

Customers of the Slide Editor can use their Slide Editor's registration code for MySlideShow Gold.

Added (both editions):

• Projects panel that can contain a quick-list of your projects. Add them by the File | Add to Projects menu.
• Integrated Autorun CD burning option under Windows XP SP2.

v2.4

Added:

• Supports thumbnail caching (the View | Options menu).
• Saves dates and long file names for slide images in output slide shows.
• Allows you to use a list of frequently used folders (the Favorites menu and panel).

Fixed:

• Minor fixes.

v2.3.4

Added:

• Now you can adjust the background sound volume that will be used during slide-specific sound playback. It may be useful if you want to decrease the background volume during slide voice-over comments.

v2.3.3

Added:

• This update allows you to embed TrueType fonts to output slide shows.
  Your output slide shows will use embedded fonts on computers where they are played.
  This will work only on Windows 2000/XP or later. You can find the option in
  the Create Output Slide Show dialog | Advanced tab.
• New Web Gallery style: Slide Show (IE Transitions). It plays web slide show with
  transition effects on Internet Explorer (other browsers don't support such feature).

v2.3.2

Added:

• Two Ribbon Effects and Mosaic effect to Checkerboard Effects.

v2.3.1

Added:

• Several new transition effects which can be used by the Video Generator plug-in. These effects are slow for real-time full screen slide shows. MySlideShow doesn't use them for the Random mode. You can still select them for the Custom mode (not recommended). The effects are marked by the special "video" icon. The "Far to Near" and "Near to Far" Zoom Effects look cool!

Fixed:

• The program shut down trying to read some TIFF files.

v2.3

Added:

• New mini-player and settings in the Playlist dialog: Volume, Fade In, Fade Out, Start Time, End Time. The End Time and Fade Out settings are useful if you want to synchronize your slides with the background playlist. If the playlist duration is long and your slide show contains few slides, the slide interval may be very long. Shorten the playlist by the End Time edit box and set the Fade Out interval not to cut music playback abruptly. The mini-player allows you to play audio files and test their settings.
• Now the Playlist dialog and the synchronization toolbar panel calculate length of MIDI files.

v2.2

Added:

• Add Empty Slide menu item (hold CTRL to insert a new empty slide before the selected slide).
• Gradient fill and tile image options for slide background.
• Background playlist for Albums.
• Ability to print images (the File / Print menu).
• Ability to print the current slide during a slide show.
• Volume slider in the slide show toolbar and right-click popup menu.
• "Expires after N runs" and password options for the Trial Functionality.

v2.1.4

Added:

• Ability to play slide shows in window mode.
• Plug-in version information dialog.
• Slide/file information can be inserted in captions.
• Quick reading of thumbnails for JPEG images containing EXIF information.

Improved:

• New toolbar and button icons.

v2.1.3 and v2.1.2

Fixed:

• Disappearing taskbar under Windows 98.
• v2.1.2 didn't display button images under Windows XP with themes.

v2.1.1

Added:

• New synchronization mode (with the Background Playlist).
• The toolbar displays Slide Show and Background Playlist durations at the right.
• You can also synchronize slides with the Background Playlist by the button there. The button duplicates the Synchronize option in the Settings dialog / General tab.
• New "Additional anti-aliasing processing" option in the Output dialogs. It improves quality of output resized images, but slows down the process.
• New "Trial Functionality" options in the Settings dialog / Advanced tab allow you to make your output slide shows time limited. Useful for professional photographers.

Changed:

• The folder, file, preview and slide list panels display captions. The first three can be now
  hidden by the small close button and restored through the View menu or the toolbar.

v2.1

Added:

• The Playlist dialog now displays length of .mp3, .wma and .wav files.
• New Effect Duration edit box in the Settings / Effects tab.
• New effects: Radial and Bitmap Mask groups (you can add your own bitmap masks!).
• Customizable actions for left and right mouse clicks.
• Now if you're moving your slide images to another folder, you can select a group of slides, right-click and use the Slide Folder dialog to change the folder path for the selected slides.

Changed:

• Interval seconds and milliseconds edit boxes in the Settings dialog / Slide tab
  are combined into one seconds edit box.

v2.0

Added:

• New thumbnail column for the slide list.
• New option for synchronization slides with their playlists.
• New StartScreen feature which allows you to view your slides in the Filmstrip and Previews thumbnail modes and run the slide show.
• Customizable slide show Navigation Bar and Pop-up menu.
• New slide show commands: Pause/Play, Save, Mute.
• Now the current slide show and album project settings can be saved as the default settings.
• Now slides can wait for slide playlists to finish.
• New Title area color button is now included to the Album settings.
• Windows XP theme support.

 
v1.7

Added:

• Now the program can create output or CD slide shows and albums as 
  standalone executable files that's easier to manage, burn to a CD or
  send via e-mail.
• Ability to reduce pixel resolution of output slide images. The program 
  converts output slide images to JPEGs in this case.
• Web Galleries with thumbnails for publishing on the web.
• Ability to align multi-line captions (Left, Center and Right alignment).
• Random Order for sound play lists.
• Visual timer option.

Changed:

• By default the program plays transition effects for 1.5 second. Some
  effects (for example: Fade) may require more time. 

Fixed:

• The previous version lost individual slide settings for slides 
  linked to one and the same image file.

v1.6

Added:

• Albums: now you can collect several slide shows into an album
  and place it on a CD. Albums offer a menu that allows you to run
  separate slide shows.
• Volume sliders for the background and slide-specific sounds.
• Ability to disable separate effects for the Random mode.
• A new menu (Slide Image) allows you to change or rename the image file
  of the selected slide.
• A new effect: Spiral.

Fixed:

• The program removed leading and trailing spaces and empty lines from
  the captions in the slide show project files.

v1.5.1

Added: 

• Ability to play from the selected slide (use the menu item or click 
  the Play button holding SHIFT).
• Slide number indicator at the status bar.
• A new option allows you to include time for image loading and transition effect to the interval between slides (the Settings dialog / Slide tab).
• A new 'Go to Slide' item in the slide show context menu.
• A Mute toggle key (press M).
• AutoRepeating feature for the Move Up/Down arrow buttons.
• A new effect: Iris.

Changed:

• This version shows a confirmation message if you click on the Remove button or press DEL to remove the selected slides. Hold SHIFT to avoid the message.

Fixed:

• Missed .PSD format support in the player.
   

v1.5

Added:

• Transition Effects.
• Slide-specific settings.
• New Sound option for individual slides.
• Multiline captions.
• Status Bar with image info.
• File info text template.

Fixed:

• Disappearance of the Slide controls on some computers.

v1.1

Added:

• Web Slide Shows: the program can generate HTML files that will allow 
  you to browse through the slides using a web browser.
• A thumbnail view for the File List.
• Drag&drop images from the File List to the Slide List.
• A "seconds/milliseconds" selector for the Settings dialog.

Fixed:

• MySlideShow couldn't save large slide show (.ss) files (more 64 kb).
  

v1.0

    Initial Release.