The workbench program

It is a powerful image viewer and sound player. You will browse your computer's directories, and preview/listen the contents of any media file with a single mouse click. Several directories may be previewed at the same time. Creating a slide show is so easy that a 7 years old child can do it.

You can build a slide show simply by dragging your picture from the preview window and dropping them over the slide tray window. All popular file image formats are supported: jpg, gif, tiff, bmp, etc.

For each picture, you can record the date it was taken, and a few lines of comments. This data will be displayed by the projector, if you want. You can also set a rotation angle in order to have the projector program staighten some pictures.

The projector has many possible ways to display your pictures: we call them "transitions". Each new picture can just overwrite the previous one, or you can choose among 18 different amazing transitions (shutters, sliders, mosaic, etc).

A sound file (mp3, wma or wav) or a music file (.mid, .rmi) can be played with any picture: you can build your own multimedia slide shows.
 

The projector program

Once you have built your slide show, you can view your pictures simply by double-cliking the slide trays icons on your Windows desktop: this will run the projector program.

The show does not require any manual intervention. It automatically stops after the last picture, or it loops back to the first picture, depending on your settings.

If you move the mouse cursor to the lower part of the screen while the show is running, a remote control is displayed, and you can gain manual control of the show, just like you would with a "real" projector.

If your digital camera takes 640x480 pictures and if your screen supports 800x600 resolution, then the projector program can enlarge your pictures to fit exactly your screen's dimensions. The resizing algorithm is particularly accurate and your pictures will almost look the same as if they had been taken with a 800x600 camera.

Slide trays

When you build a slide show, your media files (picture and sound files) are not actually moved: they stay in their original directory; a pointer to their actual location is recorded in the slide tray file.

Our programs perform read-only access to your media files: there is no risk to damage them by mistake. For example, when you set a rotation angle for a given picture with the workbench program, the image is actually rotated on screen by the projector program, but the picture file is unchanged.

The program provides smart support for removable disks or CD-Roms. A slide show stored on a removable disk will work fine on other computers, even if drive letters are not identical.