xatshow slide show and screensaver maker for PCs, DVD players, web sites, digital cameras and TVs, Windows^® 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP

xatshow is a 4 in 1 slideshow maker product, use it to:

• create your own slideshow applications for PC
• make slideshows for your DVD player (Standard Edition)
• make slideshows for your web pages
• create slideshows on your TV using most digital cameras

Within minutes of downloading xatshow you could:

• be watching your holiday pictures on your large screen TV through your DVD player or Digital Camera
• create your own compact slideshow application of a birthday party and e-mail it to distant friends or relatives
• create a screensaver of your wedding or other special event
• create a professional business presentation on a CD-R that potential customers can view on a DVD player or PC
• enhance your web page with a dynamic slideshow
• create a corporate screensaver for use around the office

xatshow is available in freeware, standard and professional editions. Download now.

* Transitions are available for PC, Web and DVD slideshows.

xatshow freeware edition

The Freeware Edition includes everything you need to compress your existing photos to make stunning slide shows and screen savers.

Features:

Make single file screen saver & slide shows (.EXE) - no viewer needed

Make slideshows for your web pages (using a choce of Flash or Java)

Screen Saver & Slide Show are the same file -

 the user can decide to view as a slideshow or install as a screensaver

Ideal for email or web download

Use it to send your photos to friends, family and colleagues

Give away your screen saver on your web site as a promotion tool

Select the quality level

Compress a complete folder / slide show in one go

Support for many cameras

Advanced options

Export images from the slide show

MagiCompression Technology

Examples:

The pictures below show some of the page transitions available with PC slide shows.

The table below shows how images will look after they have been processed by xatshow.

xatshow standard edition

The Standard Edition includes the ability to make DVD slideshows. You can also make VideoCDs that will play in many DVD and VCD players. If your DVD players supports the VideoCD standard and can read CD-R or CD-RW disks  you can make a VCD slide show CD in minutes.

You can also place an auto-run PC slideshow on the CD so that CD will also work and play automatically when inserted into both a PC and DVD player.

You can often improve the look of your photos a great deal by cropping down into the image. xatshow standard edition gives you the ability to adjust each image to your taste and to choose the best format for displaying portrait images on a TV or monitor. You can also use an image editor to do additional work such as red-eye removal or to change brightness contrast etc.

Features:

Create DVD and VideoCD slideshows for DVD playback

Include background music

Make autorun CDs that will work on both a PC and DVD

All the tools and facilities of the Freeware Edition

Make larger web slideshows

Turn off the link to xat.com in web slideshows

Display PC slideshows and screensavers in random order

Crop down into any image at will

Add text and images to slides

Rotate any image at will

Enhance images

Convert  non-camera images for use with camera e.g. scans, PowerPoint

Example:

The image below shows how a tricky portrait image can be cropped so that it will look good on a TV or monitor. In this case a crop towards the top of the image has been selected. Note that two thin black margins have been left to avoid cropping down too much into the image.

The resulting display will be:

xatshow professional edition

The PC slide show/screen saver that you make with xatshow and distribute to your customers contains a configuration menu that allows the user to set how the slide show screen saver works (e.g. page transition effect, page delay etc.). The Professional Edition allows you to customize the graphics (logos) and text that appear on this menu. You can even configure a button to link back to your web site. See screen shots below.

In VideoCD mode the Professional Edition allows you to customize the CD by adding additional files e.g. you can add SETUP.EXE, FILES.ZIP, ICON.ICO and AUTORUN.INF.

Features:

All the tools and facilities of the Standard Edition

Change the link button link to your web page (PC slide show)

Change the text, icon and graphics that accompany the PC slide show and screen saver

Change screensaver menu colors

Disable the Export button if you wish to avoid your images being used for other purposes

Configure a button to link to your web page

Option to turn off the export button

Add custom files SETUP.EXE, FILES.ZIP and/or AUTORUN.INF to VideoCD, DVDs

Download

Download - freeware and all editions of xatshow

Contact us

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Purchase

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Latest version 8.0:

• Menus for VideoCD and PC slideshows (with multiple slideshows)
• Slideshows can have more than one music track
• Sequencer tab added for organising slideshows
• Text and Image captioning
• Save and restore of slideshow settings
• Each transition can be programmed - type and duration
• Sync to music improved with 1ms resolution
• Images can be sorted on name, date or EXIF date

Screen Shots

The screen shot below shows the Settings screen. For simple slideshows all you have to do is fill in the boxes and press the Create button. 

The screen shot below shows the Sequencer tab. This allows you to fine tune how your slideshow will look and many other actions, e.g. add images & music, re-order, re-name. (Standard and Professional Edition)

The screen shot below shows the Slide tab. This allows you to fine tune how each picture will look  e.g. add text, captions, enhance, crop, rotate. (Standard and Professional Edition)

The screen shot below shows an example Settings screen for a screensaver/slideshow created with the Professional Edition of xatshow screensaver creator. The Professional Edition allows you to use your own Graphics/logos, text and color scheme. You can also have a link to your web page.