IFunia Photo Slideshow: how to create a slideshow on OS X for five minutes

How to make an original gift to his relatives for the holiday? Flowers, candy - this is certainly good, but banal. Agree, much nicer to receive a gift that would be done with his own hands. No, I'm not talking about burning out on a whiteboard or drawing in oil on canvas. In today's world, do something with your hands, you can not get up from the computer, for example, beautiful slideshow for the grandmother of the photographs of her grandchildren or a nice presentation on the life of a family on my mother anniversary. And all we need is a little editor that helps all "to glue."

iFunia Photo Slideshow - just one of the tools which easily transform your photos set in beautiful slide shows with animations and sound effects.

The program interface looks a bit like the well-known video editor FinalCut X from Apple. In the left window of the library available from your iPhoto and iTunes media files, as well as with a variety of animation effects and manually added the files. The middle window displays the contents of these sections and allows you to upload photos, audio and video from your computer hard drive. The third window on the right - an embedded player where you can view your slideshow before you have finished working on it in real time. And the last window, located on the bottom, is designed to manage your selected media files, which exhibited a sequence of photos, animation effects and sounds.

It works much easier than you think. If the description of the interface seems too tricky, it's not for long. All you need to do to create a slide show, it is necessary to choose from the library of your media files (or add them to your hard drive) and drag them into the bottom panel. Once you have decided on the number of photos and their location, you can move on to adding effects. To do this in the same window, select the "Effects" library and select the appropriate. In the embedded player, you can immediately view the animation, to be sure of his choice. Further, the same drag the desired effect on the photo in the bottom window and it will automatically be added to it. Clicking on the icon with a wrench, you can edit the selected photo a little: open, add effects (almost like Instagram), applied over the text or clip.

Once you put pictures in the right order and approved the transition of the animation from one photo to the another, the final touch to your slide show, likely to add sound effects, and / or music. They are just out of your set overtighten the panel with pictures and effects, only just below the slide. The sound settings you can make small adjustments, such as to appoint a "damping" sound for a few seconds before it is final. In addition, you can add your own words if you want to comment on some slides. To do this, right under the left window is an icon with a microphone, you can use it to record your voice, who would later appear in the library of sounds. Voice can also be added to your slide show.

It is time to put it all together into a single file. To do this, the player under the window are two options available: Burn your slideshow to disk and export the video to your local computer.
In the first case iFunia Photo Slideshow offer before recording to create interactive DVD menu in the second, immediately prompts you to select the source file settings (quality, resolution, bit rate, etc.).

And now for the bad news - about the price. For all its simplicity, iFunia Photo Slideshow is quite meager number of different effects, animations and sounds. And, frankly, they themselves are not the best quality. In the same Keynote Apple's much more variety. At a price of about $ 40 - this is a very sad (considering that Keynote became absolutely free of charge). However, this price tag is only hanging on website developers (Ibid, and a trial version), with all of that in the App Store program costs only 169 rubles. The different versions, the details I did not go, but in any case, 169 rubles - "red" this kind of price program.