Review of SoundSlides, a Handy Tool for Photojournalists
The slideshow to see above I produced with SoundSlides, a software program designed for photojournalists who want to tell their stories quickly and easily and publish them on the Web. With SoundSlides producing high quality streaming slideshows couldn’t be easier. You open a folder of .jpeg pictures and an .mp3 sound file in SoundSlides and your show is almost instantly organized in the editing window, the length of the show tailored to the duration of the sound file. You can then move pictures around in the order you want, add captions and impart movement with slider controls (setting the beginning and ending views of each frame). There are several choices for the colors of display frames. Best of all, imho, you can choose from several frame sizes; and the clarity of a show does not diminish when you choose the larger sizes. In fact, with a little tweaking you can display your show full screen. I highly recommend SoundSlides if you want to tell stories with pictures, but don’t want to bother much with production.
June 4th, 2009, posted by TCDavis