In Depth with IrfanView - #7 - Creating a Slideshow

Hi this is Mike Callahan, Dr. File Finder and welcome back to part seven of our 10-part special series on IrfanView. Today I’m going to show you how to do a slide show in IrfanView.

So with IrfanView open we’ll just click file, slide show, you se a dialogue comes up and you have lots of options to really customize the way your slideshow works. So here you can say that the transition is after five seconds. You can have it be based on keyboard input. You can have it be random. You can loop an MP3 file against background music if you like. You can hide the mouse cursor. You can have it go full screen for other purposes having it go smaller. You can load names from a text file, so you can prepare a text file full of picture names and load up from there so you can have slideshows already prepared. You can save a slideshow as an EXC or a screensaver. You can burn it to CD.

This option here will display the date, the file name and the file index in the slideshow so I don’t mind to have that. We want to see a preview image. Now over here are some pictures, I’m going to say add all and then we’ll come over here and click play slideshow and our slideshow will play and every five seconds it will automatically change pictures. Again, if I want it I could have music playing on the background, I could save this slideshow of my 25th anniversary trip to Ireland with my wife Carol. I could save it make it a new screen saver. I could do lots of things with it.

So this is a handy and powerful feature in IrfanView and that’s all there is to it.


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