Animated photo slideshow screensaver: Random Photo Screensaver 3.0
With an increasing number of people owning digital cameras there are an even bigger number of photos stuck on computers without ever being seen. abScreensavers.com's Random Photo Screensaver is here to help: it dusts off those pictures and puts them back on your screen!
Features & Benefits
RPS 3.0 has been completely rewritten providing better performance under the hood and some exciting new features:- Transition effects: 10+ different animated transition effects, making the screen saver more entertaining to look at.
- Dual screen / Mutliple monitor support: multi monitor support is provided making full use of all dual monitor, triple monitor and larger setups. See the multiple monitors screensaver page for more information.
- Wallpaper: In addition to changing your computers wallpaper daily or after each screen saver run, it's now possible to specify a separate folder used for wallpapers.
- Random or sequential display: In version 3 you can still display all images randomly, but there now is also an option to display your images sequentially in the order they appear on your computer. The screensaver remembers the last image shown and continues where it left off the next time it starts.
- Quicker startup and better performance Even with a large number (10,000+) of images, the Random Photo Screensaver still displays the first image within seconds. The rewrite also resulted in a significant reduction of the processing power required.
- More and better supported file types: jpeg, gif, bmp and png.
- Plug-n-play installation
The screen saver is easy to install and the default settings make it ready for a slideshow of your own photo's straight after installation.
In the off change you don't like it, it comes with a full uninstaller too. - Did you miss a photo? You can browse back and forwards using the arrow keys.
- Photograph names The name of the photograph can be displayed in the corner of the screen.
- Clock View a clock with the current time or screensaver running time to tell how long you've been away from your computer. The clock can also be disabled.
- Hidden photos It doesn't show any photographs from folders or images which are hidden using the system attribute. Of course you can disable this feature if you prefer.
- Exclude subfolders You can exclude any subfolders such as thumbnail folders.
- Fit to full screen Default all photos are displayed full screen. This can be disabled this for small photos.
- Full control / completely configurable Customize most of the settings exactly to your liking.
Windows Versions
The Random Photo Screensaver is tested in Windows XP and Windows Vista. It most likely also works in Windows 2000, but this hasn't been tested. If you successfully (or unsuccessfully) get the Random Photo Screensaver to work on other versions of Windows, please drop me a line.To Do
I still have a number of things on my to do list. Hopefully I'll be adding these features in the near future. Let me know whether you like these or other features, the greater the demand for a feature, the more likely I'm going to implement it.- EXIF & PICT Add the ability to show different photo metadata.
- Animated effects Make it possible to add your own effects + Add ability to choose effects to use.
License
The random photo screensaver is donationware with free 30 day trail. Try it for 30 days, after 30 days either make a donation or remove it from your computer.Download Random Photo Screensaver 3.0.1 (127kB)
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