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Photo Screensaver Plus

Enhanced screensaver for photographers

This screensaver allows you to present and manage your photos. Screensaver allows you to show selected photos with descriptive informations. But main sense of the screensaver is in a simple administration of your photos. The screen saver is designed for those who spend much time with watching of any photo screensaver and want to be able to copy selected photos to predefined place, mark them for processing, delete, etc. The screensaver offers lot of other features (see below).

The screensaver is free to use!

Main Features

  • You can select one or more folders where photos are stored (all subfolders will be presented also)
  • You can switch presentation modes (even during presentation)
    • Random presentation - presents random photos from all of defined folders
    • Folder presentation - presents sequence of all photos from random selected folder (You can turn on the mode on selected photo and all other photos of its folder will be presented)
  • You can pause, speed up and speed down presentation
  • You can see and edit basic metadata of the photo  (Exif metadata, disk path, etc.)
  • You can manipulate presented photo (delete, rotate and copy photo)
  • You can mark selected photos to selected actions (to print, to postprocessing, etc.)
  • Screensaver starts with a brief history of photos from the previous run
  • You can use the screensaver (using the right mouse button) for a slideshow of images from the selected folder
Press H to display help with list of  keystrokes and basic screensaver settings

Download

You can download installer of the screensaver here: DOWNLOAD

Requirements

Screensaver needs Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 You can download it here.

Installation

In Windows Vista you need administrator rights for installation.
  1. Download installer 
  2. Run installer and follow instructions
Installer copies SCR file of the screensaver to system directory (typically c:\windows\system32) and writes some registry entry (for uninstaller and system logging). It cans also create shortcuts to run screensaver in Windows Start menu and/or user desktop shortcut.

History

1.3 (18. 1. 2010)

  • Fixed problem of incorrect exif date and time

1.2 (28. 5. 2009)

  • new features
    • Slideshow mode - You can use the screensaver (using the right mouse button) for a slideshow of images from the selected folder
    • Added support for images in  formats TIF, GIF and PNG
    • New shortcut T - display the current time, time during which the screensaver is running and the quantity of images presented
    • "go through folder" mode shows count of images in the folder and number of presented image
    • Added ability to exit the screensaver only by press Escape key (can be turned on in the screensaver settings)
    • Added smooth effect of hiding the previous image (you can disable the screen saver settings)
    • Changed the meaning of arrow keys
      • Up arrow - increase speed of presentation (shorter interval)
      • Down arrow - decrease speed of presentation (longer interval)
  • bugfixes
    • fixed problem with detection of EXIF
    • fixed problem with white screen after start
    • fixed support for multiple monitors

1.1 (22. 3. 2009)

  • Enhanced memory management
  • Detailed application log
  • Bugfix:  fixed error of file access

1.0 (14. 3. 2009)

  • New features
    • Screensaver has installer now 
    • Screensaver has new icon 
    • Check for update when screensaver starts (turn off checking in settings)
    • W - new keystroke to visit screensaver web site
    • Alt + tab doesn't stop screensaver
    • You can run screensaver manually (only one instance of the screensaver can run)
    • Settings of interpolation method
    • Show / hide all texts (like exif) immediately
    • Grey text underlay (improve readability of texts)
  • Updates
    • Better memory management
    • Enhanced stability
    • Double buffering  (speed up image show)
    • Cache of last ten images (speed up return to previous image)

Beta 0.9 (15. 1. 2009)

  • MediaScreensaver (it is screensaver original name) renamed to Photo Screensaver Plus

Beta O.8 (15. 1. 2009)

  • Stability issue
    • resolved problems with loading large image folders hierarchy
    • resolved security problems with accessing to particular folders

Beta O.7 (9. 1. 2009)

  • You can save file path of current image to the one of five predefined text files
    • Press F1, F2, F3, F4, F5 to save image file name to different text files
    • Set path and file names of text files in screensaver settings
    • You can use it to simple image management (you can classify images)
  • Screensaver remembers last ten images of previous execution
    • Screensaver starts with last  image of previous execution
  • Screensaver do not repeats images until all of them are shown

Beta 0.6 (6. 1. 2009)

  • Remapped keys!
    • N - file name
    • F - on/off  mode "go through folder"
  • New functions
    • H - show help with key mapping
    • D - show date of the image (you can set default value in screensaver settings)
    • M - edit exif Title, Description, User comment
    • R  - rotate right
    • L - rotate left

Beta 0.5 (3. 1. 2009)

  • D - Special "mode" for screensaver - "go through folder"
    • Screensaver will present all images from folder of current image when you press D
    • You can switch on this mode as a default in screensaver settings - screen saver then selects folders randomly and presents all images of them
  • Support for "user comment" in Exif
  • Support for flash information in Exif

Beta 0.4 (2. 1. 2009)

  • New correctness of Exif
  • New settings
    • you can set multiple image folders
    • you can set font size of exif and filename

Beta 0.3 (29. 12. 2008)

  • EXIF Support
    • you can switch on/off automatic rotation of image by exif in screensaver settings
    • E - show exif information

Beta 0.2 (27. 12. 2008)

  • New controls
    • Del - delete current image
    • C - copy current image to predefined folder (set the folder in screensaver settings)
    • Up arrow - increase speed of presentation (shorter interval)
    • Down arrow - decrease speed of presentation (longer interval)
  • You can set initial value (on/off) for "show file name" parameter in screensaver settings

Beta 0.1 (26. 12. 2008)

  • It shows random jpg files from selected folder and subfolders with control
    • Left arrow - return to previous image
    • Right arrow - show next image
    • Spaceba r - pause/play presentation
    • F - show file name and path of current image  
  • In the screensaver settings you can
    • set root folder of images
    • set time interval between images
    • set background color for images
  exif
Exif of current photo

settings
Date and time of photo capture

settings
Current time, number of presented photos and duration of screensaving

settings
Disk path to current photo

 
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