One of the most eye-catching ways to share your photos with family and friends is turning them into a video slideshow. And with Ashampoo Slideshow Studio HD this task is fun and easy!

Ashampoo Slideshow Studio HD doesn't require any special video editing skills. Simply select the photos you want to include in the slideshow and the program will display them in a timeline. The app also includes a built-in player that lets you preview the slideshow before actually producing it.

You can can drag and drop the photos in Ashampoo Slideshow Studio HD to rearrange them in your preferred order, and also preview the selected image on top of the interface. Ashampoo Slideshow Studio HD lets you use your favorite song as background music, add subtitles – with a wide variety in theme designs – and insert nice transition effects between photos as well. Once the slideshow is done, the program can export it to several different formats, including DVD and YouTube-compatible format.

Ashampoo Slideshow Studio HD is clearly oriented at the average user, as you can tell from its ease of use and lack of advanced features. Those of you with higher video editing skills will probably miss having more options to tweak.

Ashampoo Slideshow Studio HD is the perfect tool for quickly creating a video slideshow with your photos – especially if you're not a video editing expert.

Download Ashampoo Slideshow Studio HD 2.2.0.5 in Softonic

*you can get new features and cute videos of My Cute buddy *easy to buy new videos *Can pass to the next level when you fulfill My Cute Buddy needs, you can also download it on your phone

There is no age to play with MyCuteBuddy. Everyone can have fun with it. Just try it!

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You can work both with single images one by one or in batches Preview the final result at all times in the program's interface More than one frame and graphics layer can be added in one step More than 670 filters and effects is supported Light and color adjustment is supported Polaroid frame is supported Save your framed images in popular formats for use on your projects

Professional non professional photographers, you don't have to understand programming or even scripting in order to perform the batch conversion and processing tasks.

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Sweet Home 3D allows your imagination to run wild without you having to lift a finger or costing you a cent. Apart from being a very useful interior design application, it's also a hell of a lot of fun, allowing you to mix and match furniture with ease, take virtual walks around your creations, and indulge yourself in designs you'd probably never be able to do in real life.

Sweet Home 3D offers more than 50 different pieces of furniture, ranging from beds to lamps and desks tables, but you can import even more from the developer's website. To create your rooms, all you need to do is drag and drop elements into the grid view and you'll see them building up 3D in the viewing screen below. Once you've done this, use the virtual visit tool to get a 3D preview of what it looks like and talk a walk around.

The latest version adds a new level of realism to Sweet Home 3D. This includes a new ability to handle rounded walls, the possibility to store points of view, a new compass and even light and sun management to accurately show how your designs react under different conditions. They've also added a much needed auto recovery function if Sweet Home 3D crashes.

These are the basics and Sweet Home 3D is extremely easy to get to grips with. Unfortunately, the graphics on Sweet Home 3D are not great - many pieces of furniture look blocky, but its designed to give an idea of what an arrangement will look like rather than a perfect picture. You can take a photo of your finished design, which you can then send on to friends to view who won't need Sweet Home 3D to view it. The fact that it's based on Java shouldn't put you off either - it works very smoothly with virtually no delays in placing furniture or creating previews.

Sweet Home 3D is an excellent solution for all those that daydream about redesigning their home, or even for professionals that need a basic mock-up.

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Full of features

Photoscape includes just about everything you need to view, optimize, edit, print and have fun with your photos. In fact, it's so complete that many would call it a free Photoshop alternative. Sure, it's not quite up to the level of Photoshop, but it's truly a great alternative to Adobe's big shot - and it makes photo editing a lot more fun!

Easy to use

From the program's main window you can choose what you want to do: view pictures, optimize those that didn't come out so well, print several photos on a single page collage-style or perhaps add any of the dozens of filters and special effects included in the program.

Smart interface

One of the first striking elements in Photoscape is its uncommon interface design. The application is very striking and in many ways it's easier on the eye than Photoshop.

Conclusion

There's really nothing negative to say about Photoscape. Just download it, test it, love it and keep it forever. It's free!

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Windows 8 offers tons of user customization but the included backgrounds can become boring very quickly. Chameleon for Windows 8 keeps your lock screen background interesting by cycling through new photos at a set interval. You can set it to change anywhere between 15 minutes and two days. Chameleon for Windows 8 provides a great way to be greeted with a different, interesting photo every time you log in.

Beyond setting lock screen backgrounds, Chameleon for Windows 8 doesn't really do much else. There's no way to change the background image for the Windows 8 start menu. You'll be stuck with the default themes that Microsoft included.

While the quality of the photography in Chameleon for Windows 8 is great, the resolution left much to be desired. Photos loaded quickly but that's because they were compressed. Pictures look fuzzy and weren't displayed at the native resolution of our monitors. We wish that Chameleon for Windows 8 had a way to automatically download backgrounds at the native resolution of the screen.

Overall, Chameleon for Windows 8 provides a fun way to get fresh, interesting backgrounds for your lock screen but leaves much to be desired for the quality of the photographs.

Download Chameleon for Windows 8 1.0.3.14 in Softonic

Edit and Enhance to Personalize Your Media Files With Cendarsoft Video Converter Pro, trimming and clipping the perfect video is just easy. More editing power under the hood lets you edit and personalize video using classic features including cut, merge, crop, trim, rotate, add watermark, adjust duration, etc. Touch up video with up to ten effects, making audio/video editing fun. Add text, photos, and stitch together all types of media including videos, audio, images and color slides. Now it's easy to make the perfect home movie. With an ultra-intuitive user experience, anyone can easily convert video to 158 formats, including MOV, M4V, MP4, WMV, MKV, AVI, XviD,MPEG, DVD-Video, FLV, 3GP and load more--perfect to fit your devices.

Featuring a rich program that lets you edit and convert video, audio, and animated images. Supports over 158 video formats. High Definition Supports converting HD videos (H.264/AVC, TS, AVCHD, MKV). Save time by converting in batches and faster conversion. Customize Video Output Crop video, apply artistic effects (old film, gray, etc), merge files and add transitions, split video, adjust video file size, and much more

Cendarsoft Video Converter is easy, fast, reliable, and loaded with features. Besides capable of converting standard videos of all popular formats.Now you can convert video, audio, and animated images to play on your iPod, iPhone and other devices.

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If you're new to a city or just can't decide what to eat, Urbanspoon for Windows 8 will help. The app has been on other platform like iOS and Android for years but now it's on Windows 8. If you're expecting the same experience with Urbanspoon for Windows 8, you'll be disappointed.

One of the things that made Urbanspoon so popular was its ability to randomize restaurants for you based on cuisine, price, and neighborhood. Unfortunately, Urbanspoon for Windows 8 doesn't have that feature. It still retains the ability to look up restaurants near by but you can only filter by one criteria at a time and there's no fun, slot machine-like randomization.

What Urbanspoon for Windows 8 does offer is a map of all the restaurants near by as well as detailed information pages that give photos, likes/dislikes, pricing info, restaurant hours, and more. There's a ton of information in Urbanspoon for Windows 8 but user reviews and articles about the restaurants are limited. There are a great number of critics reviews for restaurants though.

Urbanspoon for Windows 8 definitely needs some work expanding its database. Many restaurant pages are spartan and lack photos and reviews. Yelp still leads in the amount of information it gathers but there isn't an official Yelp app for Windows 8 yet.

Overall, Urbanspoon for Windows 8 is a good for looking at restaurants around you but doesn't offer as much information as competitors.

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Support both Photo mode and Name or Number mode Multi skin User-define background picture User-define background music Show photo full screen Show winner name in photo mode Automatic generate lists in Name or Number mode Can load lists from a text file user-define font user-define prize class every one can be drew only once Automatic save Winner lists can be export or print Support full screen mode 10 can be drew at the same time in word mode Scroll draw completely random sequence

This software is suitable for use at party to make a photo lucky draw, if you are a party organizer, you will find it is very interesting!

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Ever wonder how planes work? How about how lying works? If you have a question about how something works, HowStuffWorks will most likely have an answer for you. Search for specific topics or browse the app's different categories to learn more. Like the Wikipedia app, HowStuffWorks is a great app for looking up useful information.

HowStuffWorks is a pleasure to use. Tap on individual articles or videos to read or watch them. There are beautiful image galleries that you can access from the header image of an article. Each photo is captioned with useful information, which makes learning fun and easy.

There are a ton of great video series from the editors at HowStuffWorks. Videos play back smoothly but are quite pixelated. It would be nice if HowStuffWorks could incorporate some HD video into their app. Videos are informative and play in full screen.

Overall, HowStuffWorks is a great application to research or browse how things work.

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There are a lot of great pictures online, from memes to gorgeous professional photography. You can opt to save the ones you like to your computer or maybe even post them to Tumblr, although if you're a frequent poster they might soon get lost in the chatter. Pinterest is an alternative that lets you organize all your favorite photos and show them off to others.

Traditionally, you could only access Pinterest via its web app platform. Now it's available on your desktop thanks to Pokki. By creating folders to organize the content you find online into pinboards, you'll be able to tailor your interests and even organize them into more specific sub-categories to make them searchable to other users on Pinterest. You can add an image to your Pinterest pinboard by uploading images saved on your computer directly to the app.

Pinterest also offers a feature that lets you "Repin" an image and add it directly to the pinboard of your choice. This is a nice option if you're following a lot of other site users and find things you like on their pinboards.

Pinterest is a visually appealing way to organize the photos you find and want to keep track of.

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- Restricted access to content by User Roles - Ability to work with huge size media archives (up to 500K-1M files per catalog) - Version Control (Check in/out). Avoid work being redone because you've lost your original versions! - Powered by free, reliable and widely adopted PostgreSQL database engine - Import more than 100 formats including - Super simple and clean interface - Focused on cataloguing (no built-in fancy image editors and publishing tools) with excellent bridge to external photo editors like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign. - Quickly classify and filter your content by tags using AND, OR operations

- Provides True multi-user access - Affordable price for small teams - No need to hire a system administrator, and no specialist knowledge necessary to install and administer the Server. - Much more secure than web-solutions all your content remains inside your firewall - Focus on image cataloging and multi-user access - Automatic Metadata (XMP,IPTC) syncing - Support for unlimited hierarchical tag structure

Small companies, who need to create a centralized photo library in the following industries: Manufacturing, Engineering, Architect and interior design, Landscape design, Non-profit organizations Plus home users with a large number of photos

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1 Powerful and cool dynamic Flash effect makes your album more vivid. 2. Rich built-in templates greatly simplify your making process. 3. Clean and Clear user interface make the this album maker more easy to use.

Photopixar allows you to make photo albums in steps. Create a stunning album with rich built-in resources. Personalize it by adding various cool effect, text, backgrounds and music. Share photo album with your friends via email and Facebook.

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Choose from a variety of templates Create your own pages of any size, or choose from a variety of ready-made themed templates. High quality, photo-realistic content Decorate your pages using a variety of realistic embellishments, including ribbons, buttons, background and material papers, plus intelligent photo frames which will automatically snap to fit your photos. Outstanding effects Freehand brushes let you add glitter and stitches to your page. Decorate any edge with a brush stroke and use fun digital stencils that work just like the ones you’ll find in a craft store. Upload designs to DaisyTrail Join the DaisyTrail community and share your designs with friends and family for free. Share design tips with other member

CraftArtist Compact can be used for all crafting and print projects. It is an easy-to-use yet powerful alternative to other complex design programs that are not purpose built for crafting. CraftArtist contains many unique crafting tools like stencils and scissors, plus competent photo editing capabilities. DSA Compact combines photorealistic, digital content with powerful tools and effects to create results that look as lifelike as traditional handcrafted scrapbooks.

CraftArtis Compact is ideal for home computers users as well as traditional scrapbookers that want to create photobooks, scrapbooks, greeting cards, invitations, and keepsakes without having to spend a penny on physical materials.

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Ever get bored with unimaginative icons? Icon Craft can change all that.

Icon Craft is a full-featured icon creation and editing tool. It allows you to design and modify icons and cursors, both animated and static. You can also create icon libraries, download existing icons to modify and even make icons from photos and images.

Icon Craft starts by asking you to choose what task you want to perform. If you choose to create a new icon (rather than modifying an existing one), you’ll be able to select the precise measurements and color depth you need, ranging from 16x16 to 256x256 pixels, and from monochrome to True Color + Alpha (32 bits).

You will then be taken to an editing screen that allows you to control almost every aspect of icon creation. There is an extensive toolbar with drawing and text tools, effects, color options and pre-made shapes, among many other options. The editing window is nice and large for ease of use, and there are hotkeys available for almost every option.

Unfortunately, the Icon Craft trial version allows you to save only seven icons and irritatingly urges you to register at every opportunity.

Icon Craft is a comprehensive and fun tool for creating your own icons; it’s just a pity its trial version limitations are so obvious.

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Photoshop is an incredibly powerful and popular graphic design tool. Plugins like Hue and Cry only serve to enhance your design experience.

From Flaming Pear Software, developers of other plugins like Flexify and LunarCell, Hue and Cry gives you a lot of different options to explore your creativity.

With Hue and Cry you can create unique and sometimes quirky regions of color. These look great on their own since they can be pretty abstract, although those with some graphic design chops might be able to figure out how to incorporate these regions into digital photos as well.

From imagery that's vivid to pallid, structured to diffuse, the possibilities for unique designs are virtually endless with Hue and Cry.

Hue and Cry is a fun way to create abstract regions of color in Photoshop.

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Let's face it. Everyone's received a terrible haircut at some point in their lives. Virtual Hairstudio is a tool that helps you avoid such fashion fiascoes.

Marketed for hair salons, but usable by pretty much anyone, Virtual Hairstudio works a bit like a photo editing program, with preset hairstyles available to paste on a model, or even a picture of yourself. In this way, you can check out potential new looks before going under the knife -- or scissors, as it were!

Virtual Hairstudio provides hundreds of hairstyles to choose from. Each hairstyle also comes with additional information, such as a preview, identification number and description. Pick and choose the hairstyles you like, and even add the best ones to your favorites list so you can easily return to them again before your next trip to the hair stylist.

In addition, Virtual Hairstudio offers some other nice perks, like make-up advice, the ability to import your own hairstyles, and color adjustments.

The graphics could be a little better in Virtual Hairstudio. Learning how to use the program to its fullest will also pose a bit of a challenge for new users.

The demo version of Virtual Hairstudio limits users from uploading their own pictures, and only offers 20 different hairstyles to try out.

Virtual Hairstudio is a fun way to preview different hairstyles before visiting the salon.

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Sending personalized cards through the mail can be expensive and time consuming. Personal eCards helps create and send personalized cards for a number of different occasions. You can import your own photos, choose a design, and edit text for your custom cards. After you're done you can save, email or share your creation on Facebook and Twitter.

The interface of Personal eCards is very snappy and allows drag and drop importing of photos. There aren't many options, however, and the card design selection is very limited. The designs that are available, meanwhile, are decent but bland. There are no options to adjust anything other than your picture and text, which is a bummer. It would have been nice to at least rotate a photo for some fun angles.

Overall, Personal eCards is a very basic card creation program but it works well. We just wish there were more personalization options and card designs.

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If you've ever used Photo Booth on a Mac, the interface of Video Booth will be very similar. Photos and videos output in the strip on the bottom of the app and clicking effects will bring up a 3 x 3 grid of different effects. There are a surprising number of effects to choose from, even in the trial application.

The effects that included are fun! There are color filters, fun hour mirror, and faux green-screen effects. They work well and produce some silly photos and videos for you to share with your friends and family, though I can see the novelty of Video Booth wearing off quickly.

Speaking of sharing, you can upload your Video Booth videos directly to YouTube. Unfortunately saving your photos and videos is not possible in the trial version, which is a bummer.

Overall, Video Booth is a good application to take fun photos or videos, but they really want you to buy the full version to experience all the features.

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