Photo Screen Saver Reviews by Alan Lilly
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I did this research to help me competitively price my screen saver.
I hope you find value in this research, even if you decide to
purchase one of my competitors products.

I downloaded and tested all of these programs and was surprised
to find that many of them had quality problems.  I do not recommend
the programs with quality problems.  Only 4 programs were acceptable.

 Program Name    	Author			Cost	Recommendation
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 FotoShow v2.0		Sad Elephant Software	$11.95	The Best
 PICSaver v2.0		Pegasus Imaging Corp	$12.00	acceptable
 GTI JPEGSaver v1.1	GTI Software		$15.00  acceptable
 MyPictureShow32 v1.0	Carleton Graphics	$16.00	NO
 Amazing Images v1.5	Esm Software		$16.95	acceptable
 Slides Shower95 v4.08	Chris Doan		$19.00	NO
 WWSaver32 v3.21       	Arcata Pet		$29.95	NO
 PhotoOp v1.73		Jeffrey Menish		$29.95	NO

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FotoShow v2.0
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- An elegant, well thought out, high quality, bug free program,
  with a great price.  Of course... I am a bit biased.

Recommendation: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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PhotoOp v1.73
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- On start or close of settings panel the mouse cursor is annoyingly moved.
- Settings picture preview colors are severely distorted in 256 color mode.
- Settings panel is cluttered, clumsy and confusing.
- Settings panel crashed occasionally when I tried to add a JPG file!
- Tedious photo album configuration.
- Previewer must load all images at once... this makes it appear slow.
- The settings panel does not repaint correctly if you move it!
- If you like bells and whistles, then this screen saver is for you.

Recommendation: NOT RECOMMENDED - confusing to use.. and has several bugs.

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Amazing Images v1.5
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- Image stretch does not fill entire screen.
- Transition effects are slow.
- Nag message appears in top left corner of screen.
- Settings layout is a little haphazard and sometimes unclear.

Recommendation: Acceptable

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MyPictureShow32 v1.0
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- Cannot close settings panel until you select a file... very annoying!
- Images do not stretch to fit entire screen.
- Demo program runs only 20 times. Not enough for a thorough evaluation!
- The settings panel crashed and I could not get out without shutting off
  my computer!
- I could not get the program to run again without crashing!

Recommendation: NOT RECOMMENDED- program crashed severely

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WWSaver32 v3.21
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- The settings panel crashed when I selected the view image
  thumbnails option.
- I could not get out without shutting off my computer!

Recommendation: NOT RECOMMENDED - program crashed severely and high priced.

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Slides Shower95	v4.08
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- Unable to review due to crash... could not load FXIMG432.OCX even though
  it did exist in systems folder.

Recommendation: NOT RECOMMENDED - program crashed

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GTI JPEGSaver v1.1
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- Transition effects are jerky and slow.
- Cannot turn off transition effects.
- Full Size imaging does not maintain original photo proportions.
- Author is located in Scotland... therefore registration and support
  could be difficult.

Recommendation: Acceptable - not as nice as FotoShow but similar.

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PICSaver v2.0
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- Does not support GIF, BMP, WMF or ICO images.
- Does not support Windows 95/NT password protection.
- Does not have the standard Windows 95 look and feel.
- Transition effects have inconsistent timing.

Recommendation: Acceptable.
