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FAQ 1. How do I create a slide show that I can send to a friend or family member? 3. The Wallpaper Slide Show program is not working correctly. What can I do? 5. How do I create a CD-ROM with my photos that starts automatically? 7. How do I add music to my slide show. 8. My photos display slowly on some computers. What can I do? 10. How do I remove the Wallpaper Slide Show? 12. What is that sound I hear periodically that sounds like a camera shutter and how do I stop it? 14. How do I control the default transitions that are used to display my photos? 15. How do I add captions to my slide show? 16. How do I control how long a specific photo is displayed? 17. How do I choose a specific transition for a specific photo? 18. How do I access the controls? 19. How do I set the order of slides? 21. How do I make the slide show end after all the slides are shown. 23. The music plays on the Autorun CD I created but it sounds garbled and skips. What is the problem 24. How can I display my slide show on a TV? 25. How do I copy my Web Slide Show to my Web Server? 1. How do I create a slide show that I can send to a friend or family member? There are two ways you can share photos with others using Digital Photo Slide Show. The first way is to create a single file SETUP.EXE file that you can e-mail or send on CD-ROM. The recipient can install your slide show on his or her PC simply by running SETUP.EXE just as they would install any program on their PC. See paragraph 4 for additional instructions. The second way to share photos is to create an autorun CD-ROM that displays your slide show automatically when the CD-ROM is inserted in the recipient's CD drive. Creating an autorun CD-ROM is a simple step by step process. See paragraph 5 of for additional instructions. 2. How can I save the locations of my Desktop Icons so that I can better view the Wallpaper Slide Show? Click here for a great tip on this subject. 3. The Wallpaper Slide Show program is not working correctly. What can I do? Make sure you have your active desktop turned off. To do this, right click on the desktop and select properties. Next click on the Web tab at the top of the Desktop Properties window. Finally, uncheck the box that says "Show web content on my active desktop" and click OK to exit. 4. How do I create a SETUP.EXE program that I can send to friends and family that will install both my screen saver and slide show? Creating a single file SETUP.EXE slide show is a simple 4 step process.
5. How do I create a CD-ROM with my photos that starts automatically? Use the Autorun Producer utility to create an autorun CD-ROM that displays your slide show automatically when the CD-ROM is inserted in the recipient's CD drive. This utility creates the four files necessary for your slide show to start automatically when the CD-ROM is inserted into the end-user's CD-ROM drive. Creating an autorun CD-ROM is a simple process.
Now when the recipient of your CD-ROM inserts it into their CD Drive, your slide show will start automatically 6. If I create a CD-ROM slide show with my photos and send it to my friends and family, will the shareware notice be displayed when they try to view the slide show? If you use the Autorun Producer utility to create your slide show, no shareware notice will be displayed when your friends and family run the slide show, even if they are not registered users of Digital Photo Slide Show. 7. How do I add music to my slide show?
Music files are played in alphabetical order which includes the full path to the file name. For example: d:\AugustPhotos\Z.mp3 will play before d:\SeptemberPhotos\A.mp3. The mp3 files will play one after another. When the last mp3 has played, the whole sequence will be restarted with the first mp3. To display the Configuration Window, right-click anywhere on the
main screen and select configure or click the configuration icon. Slide Show supports the following music formats: .mp3, .wma, .wav and .mid. It should be noted that Windows Media Player may refuse to play a .wma file on another PC if the License for that music is not transferred to that PC. There are no such license checks for .mp3 or .wav files. 8. My photos display slowly on some computers. What can I do? Try using Digital Photo Resizer to resize your images to something close to your screen resolution. This makes the images display faster because the software does not have to resize the image each time it is displayed. For example, if you have a 3.1 mega pixel image it will be approximately 7 times larger than a typical 800x600 screen resolution. Use Digital Photo Resizer to optimize your photos for 800x600 and they will display much more quickly on all computer systems.
10. How do I remove the Wallpaper Slide Show?
To prevent the Wallpaper Slide Show from starting automatically every time you restart your computer, uncheck the check box labeled "Start with Windows" and click the "Exit" button. To remove the Wallpaper Slide Show program from your system, double click on the Wallpaper icon in the lower right hand corner of the task bar. Uncheck the check box labeled "Start with Windows" and click the "Exit" button. Then uninstall as usual. If the software has already been uninstalled, use Windows Explorer to delete "\Program Files\SlideShow\wpchng.exe". Restore your original wallpaper by right clicking anywhere on your desktop and select properties. Next select the background tab at the top of the window and select the desired wallpaper. Finish by clicking OK. 11. How can I save the organization of my icons on my desktop so that I can always see the desktop wallpaper? Click here for additional information about layout.dll which can be used to save your icon layout. Please report dead links to Jim Voelker 12. What is that sound I hear periodically that sounds like a camera shutter and how do I stop it?
13. Is it possible to create an autorun side show with music on a CD, and also on the same CD put more photos that they can view separately? I do not want these extra photos to be shown in the autorun side show. You could do this but it would require that you manually edit the Autorun.inf file that is created by Autorun Producer. Create one main folder on the CD off the root that will store your photos and Digital Photo Slide Show. For example, create a folder named \Photos and place the DSSAR.EXE and DSSAR.ICO in that folder along with all the photos you want to display. You may place your photos in sub-folders below \Photos. Edit the Autorun.inf file with Notepad. The second and third line of the Autorun.inf file look something like this: open=dssar.exe /HC /SB /HG /NTG /NST /NPM /SM /NSF /RI /1S /RO
/PL #16711935 After the "=" sign in each line add "\Photos\" so the autorun.inf file will look something like this: [autorun] Then place the photos you do not want displayed in the slide show in some other folder i.e. \Other Photos. Do not place the photos you do not want displayed in \Photos or any sub-folder under \Photos. 14. How do I control the default transitions that are used to display my photos? If you want your slide show to display only a few of the numerous transitions,
you need to change the default transitions. To change the default transitions
for the current slide show, click the transitions button 15. How do I add captions to my slide show?
To add a caption to a photo, first pause the slide show and then
click the photo property button Captions and other photo properties are stored in files with the same name as the image but with .dss as the file extension. Thus, a photo named PHOTO1.JPG would have its caption stored in PHOTO1.DSS. Make sure to copy all of the .dss files to your CD-ROM if you want the captions to be displayed on your CD-ROM. 16. How do I control how long a specific photo is displayed? To specify how long a particular image will be displayed, first
pause the slide show and then click the photo property button 17. How do I choose a specific transition for a specific photo? To specify how long a particular transition for an individual photo,
first pause the slide show and then click the photo property button
18. How do I access the controls?
To display the controls with the keyboard, simply press the F2 key as indicated on the pop-up menu. 19. How do set the order of slides? Slides are ordered randomly or alphabetically. Alphabetical sorting includes the entire path so that c:\zzz\apple.jpg will play AFTER c:\aaa\zebra.jpg. If you are ordering slides numerically, use multiple zeros in front of the number i.e. 001.jpg, 002.jpg, 003..jpg etc. 20. I have done everything and cannot hear the background music I added to my slide show. Please help. If you are having problems hearing music with your slide show please do the following:
21. How do I make the slide show end after all the slides are shown. Starting with version 2002.7, you simply select the option "Pause at The End" from either the Configuration Window or Autorun Producer. It is no longer necessary to use a separate file named "The End.jpg". This function works even if the photos are being displayed in Random Mode. 22. I would like to distribute
my graphics etc. via an autorun CD in the form of a webpage with
clickable thumbnails. Try using Web Slide Show which allows you to create html thumbnail pages that link to the full size images. Create a file named autorun.inf with notepad that contains the following text: [autorun] Copy autorun.inf and the .htm files created with Web Slide Show
to the root of the CD and copy the images and thumbnails folders
to the CD in their entirety. This will create the desired autorun
thumbnail view of your images. 23. The music plays on the Autorun CD I created but it sounds garbled and skips. What is the problem? First, try resizing all of your images to a resolution close to that of your monitor. For example, if your monotor is displaying photos at 800 by 600 then resize the photos to that resolution so the software does not have to spend processing time resizing the photos when the slide show plays. You might also have a problem with your CD-ROM drive. Mp3 files can be played on most CD-ROM drives, however, if the drive is not set in DMA mode (Direct Memory Access) the quality of the playback may be garbled or the music may cut in and out. Please read the following FAQ on Microsoft's web site for additional information about how to change your CD-ROM configuration to DMA mode. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q260229 You may also need a firmware update from the CD-ROM manufacturer. 24. How can I display my slide show on a TV?
25. How do I copy my Web Slide Show to my Web Server? After you prepare a Web Slide Show, you can view it on your PC immediately simply by clicking on index.htm. If you want to place the web slide show on a web server, you need to copy the files to the web server with an FTP program or with whatever utility the web server supports. Copy all the files created with Web Slide Show including all the .htm files, subfolders and images. A good free FTP program is WS-FTP LE. 26. My camera produces Quick Time .mov video files. How can I play those movies with Digital Photos Slide Show? Digital Photo Slide Show does not support Quick Time files with a .mov file extension. However, you can convert .mov file to a .avi or .mpeg file, both of which are supported by Digital Photo Slide Show. Click here to learn how to convert your .mov Quick Time file. |
Start
the Installation Producer program by clicking the icon (displayed
to the right) on your Desktop or click Start, Programs, Slide
Show, Installation Producer;
Start
the Autorun Producer program to create the four files that will
be copied to your CD burner..
Click
the Create button to create the following files: AUTORUN.INF,
DSS.INI, DSSAR.ICO, DSSAR.EXE. A message will be displayed telling
you where the files are located.
Adding
music to your slide show is simple. Add .mp3 files to the folders where
your images are locate and follow the steps outlined in 
9.
How do I create a CD-ROM that automatically plays my photos but also
gives the user a choice of which folder of photos on the CD to display?
The
Wallpaper Slide Show installed with the program changes your desktop
wallpaper at a specified interval. When the software is installed, it
displays the images distributed with the software. To display your own
images, double click on the Wallpaper Slide Show icon in the lower left
hand corner of your task bar. Click the folder icon to the right of
the text box labeled "Picture Folder Path" and select the
folder where the images reside that you want displayed as wallpaper
on your desktop.
if the controls are showing, or right-click and select the same icon
from the pop-up menu. At that point, place a check next to the transitions
you want to use and then click OK. It is that simple.
Captions
and other photo properties must be added to photos before you create
your CD-ROM with Autorun Producer or SETUP.EXE with Installation Producer.
,
if the controls are showing, or right-click and select the same
icon from the pop-up menu. From there you can edit the properties
of each photo including the caption. See the photo property window
to the right of this paragraph. Type the caption in the space indicated,
select the background and font colors, specify whether you want
the caption to have a border, select the translucency (zero is solid
and 200 is clear), select the transition of the caption and the
transition speed in milliseconds (600 is recommended).
If
you right-click anywhere during the slide show, a pop-up menu is
displayed. It controls or provides access to all the features of
Digital Photo Slide Show. Simply move the mouse cursor to the desired
menu item an click. As shown on the pop-up menu several hot-keys
can also be used. The up-arrow key is equivalent to pressing the
"Play" button. The down-arrow key pauses the slide show.
The right-arrow key moves the slide show forward one slide and the
left-arrow key moves the slide show back one slide. The other hot-keys
are described on the pop-up menu displayed to the left.