ShowMaker is designed to help you quickly develop great slide shows and photo albums to distribute stand-alone on a disk/cd or on the Internet as html. You can also add advanced features like a thumbnail page, music, texts and more. ShowMaker comes with a small high-quality royalty free stand-alone replayer for disk or cd-rom distribution - requiring no installation on the client machines. You can even have a slide show on cd start automatically when the cd is inserted! ShowMaker is also a speed optimised picture browser, with features like 'zoom quality enhancement' and 'include files from subfolders'. Create slide shows, photo albums and image galleries for web or CD-ROM, from the same one project setup. Output final results as either HTML or as a stand-alone slide show with high quality replayer. Powerful standalone replayer that runs on almost any Windows computer. It preloads graphics, and thereby almost eliminates any delay. It also has superior image quality! Add a Menu/Index/Thumbnail page with customizable layout very easily. Add complex slides with embedded images and texts or thumbnail pages with just a click. Show a title on each image very easily. Add sound and music. Use an image browser with advanced zoom facilities, zoom quality enhancement and thumbnail cashing for improved browsing speed. Also, listen to midi files. Include contents from subfolders on-the-fly while browsing multimedia files. Find a 'super-palette' (best fit for multiple pictures) and convert all pictures in a setup to this palette in one click. Resize many pictures in one process (Min. max. %, fill empty space, etc.). Convert many different formats image files to the same format in one single step. Run a slide show directly from within the browser. Also, see a folder as a slide show. Very simple, friendly and powerful user-interface makes it very easy to make an impressive result. Drag & drop. 100% keyboard support.