Microsoft Photo Story – the Very Best Free Photo Slideshow Maker
Gizmo, the respectable freeware ratings site, announced
the Microsoft Photo Story the winner and the Freeware award holder as the best
product in its class!
Create slideshows using your digital photos. With a
single click, you can touch-up, crop, or rotate pictures. Add stunning special
effects, soundtracks, and your own voice narration to your photo stories. Then,
personalize them with titles and captions. Small file sizes make it easy to
send your photo stories in an e-mail. Watch them on your TV, a computer, or a
Windows Mobile–based portable device.
Review (Softpedia):
If PowerPoint isn't really your cup of tea and you just
want an easy to use yet powerful slideshow creator, Microsoft Photo Story is
one of the best choices. The interface is pretty basic and that's exactly the
way it's supposed to be since the whole thing is actually a wizard, but,
nonetheless, it helps you get the job done flawlessly.
Microsoft Photo Story supports as many photos as you
want, offering a preview window and some basic editing functions straight from
the beginning. You can thus rotate, crop, correct red eye or colors on the fly,
without getting too deep into complicated tasks.
Of course, adding text over photos is a breeze, but the
most important thing is that you can also pick from a wide range of effects to
change the way photos appear and disappear in the video that will be generated.
A special feature that we discovered during our test was
the background music editor that not only lets you use your very own files for
the video, but also create songs on the go. You can choose from a number of
genres and styles and customize them with your own moods, tempo and intensity,
so that the tune will perfectly fit the newly created slideshow.
Microsoft Photo Story will save the resulted file in the
.WMV format, so you might have to resort to some video converter software for
additional formats.
Thanks to its ease of use and given the very good results
in creating slideshows that Microsoft Photo Story offers are attributes that
can turn this tool into a must have app.
Unrestricted Freeware
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