Photo Slideshow Screensaver

Photo Slideshow Screensaver is an application created for generating slideshows as screensavers. It has a user-friendly interface and many options to choose for personalizing the desktop animation.

Resize images, set the time delay and use arrow keys

The time delay can be set in seconds, and the pictures can be displayed sequentially, reversed or random. You can use the arrow keys for moving through the images and the spacebar for pausing the animation.
Resizing is important because enlarging small pictures to fit the screen leads to pixelated, low quality and unclear photos. Photo Slideshow Screensaver gives three options in this regard: quick, good quality, and best quality.
You can choose the number of images to display per screen (multiple monitors are supported) if you’re interested in playing a collage slideshow, enlarge the screen size, and crop borders. The name of the file can be shown, as well as path, folder and extension.

Add folders and subfolders, filter pictures and use effects

Images can be added either by folder or by selecting each one. The formats accepted are: JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG, RAW and PPM. Subfolders can also be included, and files can be filtered by hiding small pictures after specifying the width and height (pixels).
If you’ve included photos from your vacation, obtained from digital cameras, and some of them are a bit crooked, you can ask the tool to automatically rotate them using the EXIF orientation tag.
An important part of any slideshow application are the effects offered, and you can find many here, like mosaic, fade, grayscale, chess, stamp and diving. We should also mention the D3D option, which enables hardware acceleration. It’s also possible to preview the slideshow but, sadly, there is no feature integrated for applying music.

Our thoughts

In conclusion, Photo Slideshow Screensaver is a great little program which turns your simple screensaver into a personalized slideshow, and there are plenty of options and effects to choose from. The resizing quality is quite good, and the tool ran well during our tests.