Roxio PhotoShow News

Contextual Help, Preview from current photo, Windows 7 support

New features on PhotoShow.com make it easier then ever to create PhotoShows!

1. A new fold-out panel in the PhotoShow editor shows you Tips for each tab to help you get started making great shows.

 

2. When you click on Preview Mode when making a show, it will now play from the currently selected photo instead of from the beginning, making it easier to view your changes as you go!

3. All your photo enhancements will now appear in each tab! For example, when you are in the Captions tab, any stickers, borders, and bubbles you added will still be visible on the photo. This makes it easier to see your final result without using preview mode (and prevents you from adding a bubble over a caption, etc).

4. Photo thumbnails now appear faster when going to make or edit a show.

If you haven't already updated to build 787 of PhotoShow 6, you can get this on your account page. PhotoShow 6 is fully compatible with Windows 7!

Other changes and fixes include:

• You can set a photo duration for up to 20 seconds (instead of 10)
• RSS feed icon now appears for channel pages in the browser, indicating a valid RSS feed link is available from that page
• The share email message field now properly limits text entry to 256 characters (and displays the number you have left).
• Internet Explorer 6 does not support all features on PhotoShow, and now informs you of that at the top of the page.
• PhotoShows embedded in other web sites no longer display the "Loading" graphic in the show cover photo.
• Music content will be loaded even when you go to the music picker before the show is finished loading.

Enjoy!

The PhotoShow Team

Beautiful channel themes, resizable editor, Halloween style, and Emoticons

Over the last couple weeks we released some excellent new features on PhotoShow.com and in PhotoShow 6. To get the latest version of PhotoShow 6 select "Check for Updates" from the Help menu in the application.

You'll love the new channel themes for your PhotoShow galleries, featuring over a dozen beautiful themes you can apply to your collections of PhotoShows with a single click. (Former Comcast and PhotoShow.net users will appreciate the return of this popular feature).

Here's an example of the Air theme applied to a channel page: http://www.photoshow.com/members/PhotoShow-Fanatic/all

Just go to your My PhotoShows page or any channel you've created, click on a theme to preview it, then click "Done" to apply the theme. If you want to use the same theme for all your channels, check the box for "Apply to all my channels" before you click "Done." Or, set a different theme for each channel!

This feature is available for PREMIUM subscribers only. (Themes will not appear if you are using Internet Explorer 6. Upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8, or Firefox, Safari, etc).

 

There's a new Spooky Halloween style with fun music for sharing those Halloween night pics.

 

We've also added new Emoticon stickers (Premium users only) for fun expressions on any photo.

 

And finally, when making a PhotoShow on PhotoShow.com, you'll notice that the editor now automatically expands to fill your browser window, for a much richer and enjoyable authoring experience. To change the size of the editor, just adjust the size of your browser window (grab the lower right hand corner of the window).

 

Enjoy!

The PhotoShow Team