gPhotoShow Pro

Photo Slide Show and Screen Saver Maker for Windows

gPhotoShow Pro is an an easy to use slide show maker and screen saver complete with transition effects and Pan and Zoom animations (Ken Burns effect). gPhotoShow Pro enables you to create your personal photo slide shows that can be played as screen saver or shared as standalone .exe slide show. gPhotoShow configuration is quick and easy, in few minutes you can point it to folders (either local or on a network share) containing your photos or video in any of the supported formats and have them displayed to your screen in random order, alphabetically or by date.

There is no limit to the number of photos or video your directories may contain. You have various options for stretching or shrinking photos and to show information like file name or Exif,IPTC,XMP info taken from the photos themselves.

You can also create photo sets, create wallpaper, pause and continue the screen saver during normal operation.

gPhotoShow Pro it's the perfect software for a Digital Photo Frame. It can be easily controlled with a keyboard or a smartphone and can detect and display newly added photos without restarting the program and without editing the slideshow ! With the MQTT plugin is can be integrated in your home automation framework.

New Release ! gPhotoShow Pro version 8 includes an improved PhotoWall mode, 64 bit version and lots of improvements, here is the full list.

Screen Saver on local computer or Screen Saver Creator

gPhotoShow is a very flexible an configurable program, it can used both as screen saver on the computer where it is installed or it can be used as a slide show maker or a screen saver creator to prepare standalone slideshow (or screen savers) for distribution without the need to pay further runtime fees.

In the download page you will find some samples.

A great utility for tethered shooting !
gPhotoShow Pro together with the NewPhotos is a great utility for photographers that connects their camera to the computer and directly get the photos on their computer. With gPhotoShow you can have a slideshow running on your computer then when new photos come they are displayed as soon as possible.

Key Features:

Runs on Windows 7, 8, 10, Windows 11 (x86 and x64)
Native 64 bit version for 64 bit versions of Windows
Pan and Zoom animation also known as Ken Burns effect
Scrapbook mode. When Scrapbook mode is enabled several small pictures are overlapped over a background image.
PhotoWall mode. When PhotoWall mode is enabled gPhotoShow displays a mosaic of small pictures, when the screen is full it will start to scroll.
Shows an unlimited number of photos and other supported files
User defined filters based on image size, rating and keywords
High quality image resize (bicubic interpolation)
User selectable transition effects
2D and 3D transition effects
Adjustable transition speed
Can display frames around pictures, simple colored frames or bitmapped frames
Image formats : BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF (including animated GIF), TIFF
Panorama file formats: JPG, IVR, PAN, MOV
Video file formats: AVI, MOV, MPG, WMV and others
Macromedia Flash Animations: SWF
Can display Web Pages
Can automatically scroll panoramic images (both rectilinear and spherical)
Can use shortcuts to folders
Easy subdirectory selection and files exclusion
Easy image filtering by keyword or rating
Display images randomly or in a sorted sequence. Several random modes are available including a weighted randomization that allows you display some picture more often that others.
Configurable delay between images
Automatically resizes your images
Displays information about the images (Exif,IPTC,XMP)
Can display custom captions with Exif,IPTC,XMP metadata support
Automatic wallpaper changer
Plays your favorite music during slide show
Sound formats: MID, WAV, MP3, WMA
Multiple monitor support (up to 32 monitors)
Slideshow can be paused and continued
Energy Star ! With the MonitorOnOff PlugIn it is possible to automatically power-off attached monitors or switch-off the system.
With RssFeeds plugin it is possible to display news from RSS feeds and download images from RSS feeds used by most online photo galleries (Flickr, Google Photo Library, Google Drive)
Full Flickr integration ! The Flickr plugins allows to download public and private photos from Flickr Photostreams, Groups and Sets (How to create a Flickr screen saver)
Can be used as a screen saver or a slide show creator
Lots of configurable Hotkeys during slide show, for example it is possible to copy/move/delete currently displayed photo by simply pressing a key
Can display descriptions stored in DESCRIPT.ION files
Image Display time, description and text attributes can be set on each image
Can create standalone screen savers and slideshows (.scr or .exe files)
Can create setup program for easy screen saver distribution
Can be used as a simple image viewer
Pictures can be divided into categories and category displayed in the screen saver can be changed automatically
Can be easily set as logon screen saver
Digital camera RAW files support
Color Management. gPhotoShow can read and use embedded ICC color profiles and AdobeRGB exif tag
Password protection
Easy install / uninstall
Can be used freely for 30 days, then some advanced features will be disabled

Still not convinced to try gPhotoShow Pro ? Take a look at the gPhotoShow tutorial and see how easy is to configure the screen saver and how many features are available !

What's new:

Version 8.5.5 - March 15, 2023

Minor bug fixes and improvements

Version 8.5.4 - November 4, 2022

Fixed: The option "When scrapbook is enabled navigation to next image doesn't reset scrapbook" is not saved
Fixed: In "Panoramic Images" page if "Delay after scrolling" is set to 0 images are not displayed

Version 8.5.3 - January 18, 2022

Fixed: Cosmetic bugs on Windows 11
New: On high dpi monitors text over images is now resized according to windows settings

Version 8.5.2 - October 12, 2021

Fixed: Sometimes new scrapbook photos are added behind existing ones

Version 8.5.1 - September 6, 2021

Fixed: Program crashes when started as logon screen saver (64 bit only)

Version 8.5.0 - June 3, 2021

New: Sharpen option added to Images Display Options
New: Automatically detect (and play) 360 degrees pano images using keywords

Version 8.4.2 - March 11, 2021

Fixed: Trailing and ending spaces are removed from keywords delimiters configured in Filters page
New: Transition time added to Image Properties
Minor bug fixes and improvements

Version 8.4.1 - December 1, 2020

Minor bug fixes and improvements

Version 8.4.0 - November 4, 2020

New: Added options for slideshow window when used as slideshow maker
Fixed: Filters, if images are not excluded if Panoramic Images are also excluded
Fixed: On some systems when DirectX transitions are used gPhotoShow takes a long time to start

Version 8.3.1 - October 14, 2020

New: Added LensInfo and LensModel to Exif tags in Advanced Information page
Fixed: Program crashes when displaying the preview in control panel display applet

Version 8.3.0 - October 2, 2020

New: Improved DirectX rendering to reduce cpu usage (and power) when displaying static images
New: Permanent logging of errors during slideshow
New: Added new features for plugins
New: Added a command to automatically start a slideshow on windows startup
New: Minor bug fixes and improvements

Version 8.2.0 - July 31, 2020

Fixed: Improved animated gif performances when played full screen
Fixed: Keyword filter using wildcards doesn't work correctly
New: Added Photowall option. During normal slideshow it is possible to display a photowall image with the last viewed pictures

Version 8.1.1 - July 7, 2020

Fixed: When using multiple monitors and one monitor is excluded the option to fill unused monitor doesn't work as expected

Version 8.1.0 - June 25, 2020

New: Added a button to easily identify monitors

Version 8.0.11 - March 16, 2020

Fixed: Slideshow Options page, an error message is displayed is Mouse Button + Ctrl or Mouse Wheel are the only exit options selected
New: Added an item to Tools menu of Slideshow Maker to restore .gss file type association to its default value

Version 8.0.10 - February 20, 2020

Fixed: When monitor is powered off by Windows PM sometimes last picture is not set as wallpaper

Version 8.0.9 - December 24, 2019

Fixed: Folders configured in "Global Exclusions" page sometimes are not excluded

Version 8.0.8 - November 8, 2019

Fixed: on multiple monitors when the option to display some images spanned on all monitors is set panoramic image detection may occasionally fail

Version 8.0.7 - October 4, 2019

Fixed: when images are displayed grouped by folders and images list finishes a division by zero exception may be throwed
Fixed: on multiple monitors when the option to display some images spanned on all monitors is set a false mouse movement may cause the slideshow to close

Version 8.0.6 - September 4, 2019

Fixed: Monitor positions in Filters page are wrong when using custom layout

Version 8.0.5 - June 20, 2019

Fixed: On some system with multiple high dpi monitors image size is not correct

Version 8.0.4 - June 5, 2019

Fixed: Touch gestures cause multiple event activation
Fixed: In some cases while gPhotoShow is preloading next image hotkeys to change image are ignored

Version 8.0.3 - May 9, 2019

Fixed: 64bit version can't set logon screen saver from screen saver settings window

Version 8.0.2 - April 24, 2019

Fixed: Unrecoverable errors caused by video clips shorter than 1 second or when gPhotoShow can't get video duration

Version 8.0.1 - March 11, 2019

Fixed: Custom monitor delay window causes an "Out of memory" error on 64 bit version

Version 8.0.0 - March 7, 2019

New: It is now possible to configure a custom layout for the slideshow windows, in this way it is possible to have a window spanned across several monitors and others on a single monitor
New: Files and folders can be excluded from slideshow by using a hotkey or a configuration window
New: Added max. number of images for each folder when files are displayed in random order but grouped by folder
New: Keywords can be extracted from filename or file path
New: For images smaller than screen it is possible to fill background using the same image blurred instead of a solid color
New: Touch screen gestures handling: Pan (left,right,top,bottom),Zoom (in,out),Two finger tap,Press and Tap
New: Hotkey to toggle audio from video
New: Added an option to scrapbook to allow pictures to pile up until max number is reached
New: Multiple monitors, instead of displaying images on all secondary monitor now it is possible to exclude a specific monitor
New: multiple monitors, now it is possible to configure image display time for each monitor
New: Filters, added "contain"/"don't contain" operators for keywords (with or without wildcard characters)
New: Photowall scroll direction upward or downward
New: Basic support to play video with MPC-HC player
New: Removed panoramic images size limit when using DirectX
New: Do not disturb: automatically mute music and audio from video during a period of the day
New: Automatically repeat video clips shorter than a preset time
New: Image display time can now be configured using hours,minutes,seconds
New: Added an option to repeat images with weight greater than 1