Slideshow Expressions (Version 2)

by Individual Software, Inc.

Product Features

• Create slide show movies complete with transitions, music, and text.
• Add professional "Pan & Zoom" effects to your slides.
• Automatically time background music to your presentation.
• Touch up, crop and text to the photos in your slide shows.
• Simple, easy-to-use, step-by-step design for users of all levels.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001UHMVKE
• Item model number: 8037711
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 25, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #797 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #51 in Software > Graphics > Photo Editing

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

SlideShow Expressions 2.0

Everything You Need to Create Entertaining Slide Shows!

Do more with your memorable pictures and favorite music! Create entertaining photo slide shows and share with friends and family - complete with slide transitions, picture captions, and pan and zoom effects - all perfectly timed to your favorite music! Then, play with DVD players, iPod, Sony PSP, and the Web.

Simply drag and drop to add or arrange photos.

Get Creative! Produce Amazing Slide Shows Quickly & Easily!

• Photo Slide Shows: Bring your favorite photos, music & videos together. Preserve your memories as a themed slide show to share with friends and family.
• Professional Pan & Zoom: Effortlessly bring still images to life by panning across pictures and zooming in and out.
• Special Effects: Complete with slide transitions, picture captions, text, and voice over annotations.
• Publish to the Web: Share slide shows with friends and family online at MySpace, YouTube, and others.
• CD & DVD Labels: Design and print CD labels and DVD inserts, personalized with your photos and captions.
• Convert Media: Convert photo, video, and music files to optimized formats for your favorite device.
• Play on Mobile Devices: Take your slide shows with you on popular cellular phones and mobile PDA devices. Play on Video Players Apple iPod, Sony PSP players, SanDisk Sansa™, and other portable video players. Supports all major audio, video & portable device file formats.
• Onscreen DVD Menus: Create your own DVD, complete with DVD movie menus, including chapters.
• Home Videos: Easily burn home movies to a DVD - even trim video for perfect results.

Turn Your Photos & Music Into Impressive Slide Shows!

Do more with your memorable pictures and favorite music! Create entertaining photo slide shows and share with friends and family - complete with slide transitions, picture captions, and pan and zoom effects - all perfectly timed to your favorite music!

Sharing the Memories of Any Occasion Has Never Been Easier!

Perfect for Weddings, Birthdays, Holidays, Vacations, Baby Showers, Graduations, Anniversaries, Family Reunions, Fundraisers, School Projects, Religious Functions, Company Picnics, and Sports Tournaments.

Archive a year's worth of pictures and create everlasting memories.

Share Your Photo Slide Shows With Friends, Family & Customers!

Produce a CD or DVD of slide shows and home videos you can play in your living room. It's a great way to archive all your photos and music. Design on-screen menus, trim video, and burn discs to share at home or send to friends and customers.

Convert Slide Show & Home Movie Formats to Play Anywhere!

Automatically convert photos slide shows and home movies into optimized formats for Apple iPod®, Sony PSP® players, PDA's, media-enabled Cellular Phones and other popular devices - even publish to Web Sites such as MySpace and YouTube.

Create a DVD & Watch Slide Shows on TV at Home!

Watch your entertaining slide shows on TV with any DVD player in the comfort of your home. Simply use your CD or DVD burner to place photo shows and home videos on CD-R or DVD-R discs for viewing on the big screen in your living room.

Play on Your iPod, Sony PSP, PDA & Cell Phone!

Create and take your memorable slide shows with you anywhere! Easily convert movies, photos, and music into optimized formats for Apple Video iPod, Sony PSP players, SanDisk Sansa™ and other portable video players as well as popular cellular phones and mobile PDA devices. Play on Treo, Motorola & video enabled cell phones & PDA's.*

Combine photos, music, and videos into movies for DVD, iPod, PSP, and the Web.

Convert Media Into Portable Formats - Fast, High-Quality Conversions!

Quickly and easily convert any photo, video, and music files into an optimized format for playback on your favorite portable device. To save time, convert multiple files to any device simultaneously, regardless of their original format.

Easily Create On-Screen DVD Menus & Add Home Movies!

All the tools you need to create eye-catching DVD shows are included: add background music, captions and titling, voice narration, menu thumbnail selections, slide intervals, and much more.

Publish Slide Shows Directly to the Web!

Share your photo slide shows with friends and family online at MySpace, YouTube, and other Web Sites- no additional fees. Optimize videos for any size. You control the quality level and privacy settings.

Publish slide shows directly to the Web at MySpace, YouTube, and more!

Award-Winning Pan & Zoom Effects for Professional Slide Shows

Effortlessly bring still images to life by panning across pictures and zooming in and out. Set the effects for each picture individually or quickly apply random effects to the entire presentation.

Design & Print Personalized CD Labels & DVD Case Inserts!

Design and print disc labels and CD/ DVD cover sheets — it's fast, easy, and fun. Personalize with your photos, captions, video stills, and music playlist. Supports label paper templates by Avery®, Memorex®, Neato®, CD Stomper®, and direct to CD/DVD printing with Epson® and other printers.

*Supports video enabled Windows Mobile SmartPhones and 3GP/MP4 ready cellular phones and mobile PDA devices. Performance on other devices may vary.

Product Description

Everything you need to create entertaining slide shows! Quickly and easily produce professional-looking slide shows with your digital photos, music, and home videos. Play on handheld devices and the Web or burn DVD’s to share with friends and family.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Be a Genius in 5 Minutes or Less, July 13, 2010

By 

Dr. Elaine O. Chaika "book, movie, tech lover" (Eastern New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slideshow Expressions (Version 2) (CD-ROM)

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I am such a klutz that I can't even get redeye out of a picture. I wanted to make a catchy slide show for our Golden Anniversary Party, but every program I looked at involved taking many hours to learn plus a steady hand with a mouse, all way beyond me. I would have hired a pro to do it, if I could have all my pictures of the past century scanned into my computer with enough lead time so she could do it. However, life intervened and I still have cartons of pictures to be scanned.

Browsing though Amazon late one night, I found Slideshow Expressions (Version 2) annd figured, "What the Heck? For so little money and the good reviews, I'll try it." When it came, I approached it with trepidation. Installing it, of course, was easy, but as soon as it was installed, just by looking at the opening screen, I added my pictures from my Pictures Library. As soon as I did, I just chose a set of transitions, previewed the resulting slide show, tried another set of transitons, previewed it, then saved it. Voila! A great slide show in 5 minutes or so. You can take aother minute and add music from your library and check off "sync music to slideshow." Done immediately.

If you don't want to use automatic transitons, you can choose each transition between slides manually from a drop-down list of I'd guess a hundred or more effects. You can choose to record audio comments on your slides. You can also label pictures with text or put in blank slides on which you've typed comments using a variety of fonts
and colors.

Nothing could be easier or have more options to choose from. It even has a simple picture editor if you want it. If you really care about editing pictures, however, you would need a more advanced program, but you could put your edited pictures into Slideshow.

My only complaint is that it allows you to save your slide show as a document but you can't use that for playback by hooking your computer to a TV. To play your slideshow, you have to burn it. You can't save a playable version on a thumb drive, either, or at least I can't see how. When you're ready for the final step, Produce, the only option is to burn to DVD.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great value for your bucks, April 18, 2010

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Patricia (Countryside, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Slideshow Expressions (Version 2) (CD-ROM)

Considering you would pay much more for a more sophisticated program and get the same results, this is a terrific little bargain. Easy to use. The best part is the conversion program. Since I've had it, I've made two DVDs as gifts for people. But, best of all I could convert them into a format for my IPod Touch, so I have the videos at hand and can share them with others or review them for my own enjoyment. Someday I may graduate to a program with more "bells and whistles" but for beginners and those who don't have a lot of time to spend on the fine details of putting pictures into a video program, this is the most practical and cost efficient way to go. I have Windows 7. This program was advertised to work with it and it does.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bought for Dad's 80th birthday - worked Great!, July 31, 2009

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TJ Smith - See all my reviews

This review is from: Slideshow Expressions (Version 2) (CD-ROM)

I bought this program for my father's 80th birthday. we weanted to do a big slideshow. I am not the most computer savy person, and this program is really easy! The picture show was great. The best part was I put it on a DVD and played it at the party - and then my father when home with the DVD. He watches it every day.