


This is good enough to get you an overall impression of how things work, and the rest of the app does its best to be user-friendly. When the app first opens, you’re presented with a screen that points out the various parts of the app. (Image credit: Future) PhotoStage Slideshow 8: Ease of Use You can choose to randomize the transitions, some of which are very George Lucas, but otherwise you don’t have much control over how it comes out. Set this going, and it zips through your images, displaying each for a few seconds before changing. There’s an automatic mode that will do all this for you, provided all your images are in the same folder, and there’s a choice of copyright-free music you can download, plus themes that place an appropriate backdrop behind your images. NCH Software PhotoStage Slideshow (Download) at Amazon for $34.99 (opens in new tab)Īs with many other apps in this particular niche, PhotoStage Slideshow 8 takes the form of an apparent video editing app, with a timeline at the bottom of the interface onto which images, music tracks, transitions and the like can be dragged.It lacks a few features you might find elsewhere, especially on Movavi Slideshow Maker 7 (opens in new tab), which has more tools and options than you’ll ever use, but the tools it does have work well, and you’ll certainly be able to create a fine slideshow using this software.
