SlideShowPro News

05.23.05 | onesheetdesign.com

Hollywood movie poster designer Jon C. Allen rebuilt his entire portfolio of posters in SlideShowPro. He resized SSP to a vertical-orientation, changed the colors to fit his existing site design, and added his own sound effects. For movie fans, Allen also provided interesting insight into the creative direction of each movie he worked on, which you can read in the captions by rolling over each image. | View example

05.21.05 | Spot On Creative

Jonathan Green needed a portfolio site up, and fast. Using SlideShowPro and the iPhoto plugin, Green created an appealing photo album style presentation for his portfolio, and - in addition to creating all the other assets - had his whole site up and running within three hours. | View example

05.20.05 | Quo Consulting

Quo Consulting is using SlideShowPro to display their portfolio of web design work. The colors of SlideShowPro were thoroughly modified to match the existing style of the site and corporate identity, which includes soft browns and a bright pink for the active color. Very attractive. | View example

05.19.05 | Adam Finley

Photographer / web designer Adam Finley customized SSP with a light gray and white color palette, and expanded its size to accommodate large, eye-popping photos. He also added a drop shadow frame around the component for extra style. | View example

05.18.05 | Photos.com

Stock-photography site Photos.com is using SlideShowPro in a stripped-down, no-frills manner on their home page. No navigation or preloader -- just the simple cross-fading of imagery and some creative masking on top to give it a unique look. | View example

05.17.05 | Underwater photography by JoFan

Photographers Stefan Liden and Johanna Ahlberg built a beautiful gallery of underwater images in SlideShowPro. By setting the background of the navigation and gallery to the same color as their web page, and by removing the border around the component, they achieve a minimal look that focuses all attention on their photos. They also set the "Start Mode" property to "Open" to begin their slide show with the gallery interface. The custom help window is a nice touch as well. | View example

05.15.05 | SlideShowPro 1.0.8 Released

Version 1.0.8 of SlideShowPro is now available and is a free update for all 1.0 purchasers. New features include the optional looping of MP3s, more control over the pausing of MP3s when a slide show stops and starts, a completely revised property for how SlideShowPro behaves when reaching the final image in an album, and a solution for one of the most popular user requests -- third party buttons.

Lots of people have asked if it was possible to replace the navigational icons in SlideShowPro with their own, or modify the navigation layout in countless different ways. Because this would have added all kinds of complexity to the component (and thus a larger file size) I decided it was best to simply offer the programatic hooks to make custom interfaces possible. I created a "Custom navigation" demo that shows this at work. The buttons are simply movie clips in the parent movie containing SlideShowPro, and they operate completely outside of the component space. "Show Navigation" has been set to "False," but the gallery window is now available independently.

For information on how to setup your own buttons, see the new "Enhancements - Custom Navigation" section in the updated User Guide that's part of the download or by itself here.

For more detailed information about what's new in 1.0.8, read the updated version history. Enjoy!

[X]Press Online

San Francisco State University is using SSP for editorial imagery on the home page of their online newspaper. They changed the icon and navigational colors to perfectly match the existing color palette of their site, and even created a cool help layer in their movie. | View example

05.14.05 | Gentle Fawn

Clothing label Gentle Fawn is using SSP to present their Spring 2005 collection. Colors were changed to match the existing look of their (very attractive) site. | View example

05.10.05 | Dr. Brown's Image Processor

Stumbling around Google looking for Photoshop scripts, I ran across Dr. Brown's Image Processor, which despite the goofy image is actually a fantastic JavaScript utility that can batch export photos using custom compression, size, and even unsharp masking. You can either download it from the link above, or visit his web site (scroll down a little) where you can also see QuickTime tutorials on how to use it. Very handy, especially for batch processing photos for SlideShowPro. Requires Photoshop CS (doesn't work in CS 2).