Mike

Thank you for your responses. By "shrinking" my picture size I mean that I took them at Large resolution and superfine compression with my Canon powershot s 40. (GREAT camera by the way), so I can print them and frame them. All files are jpg format My file sizes are HUGE! So what I mean is that I want a picture which will fill my whole screen, look sharp and be a very small file size. So by shrinking, I mean to make my final show size smaller. Any suggestions or tips? Is 800x600 what is recommended? Does XATSHOW have as good a music synchronization as does pictures2exe? Is it possible to have a cd disk that will play on BOTH comptuers and DVDS? And finally, I looked at media show...that saves it as mpegs, correct? wouldn't the file sizes be enormous? And is the picture quality as good when you play full screen? THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone and thanks for taking the time to read this. I am new...like you all were at once...so bear with me please. #1 I am a scuba diver with about 250 beautiful underwater shots that I want to put to synchroizied music, some of the files are pretty big. Does anyone know a way that I can "shrinK" the file sizes down with photoshop at once, to a reasonable size? What would a good size be for a sharp pic and not too big for a slide show, and is there a way to do them all at once rather then resize all 25O pics at a time? #2 My cam takes short mpeg videos too which would be beautiful if I included them. Can I do that with this p2exe, or do I need something like ULEAD's video studio? Which I did NOT like cause I can't get my pics to play full screen without looking blurry. The clips would be very impressive. #3 Can these play on dvd's as well. That is it for now. and thanks again to you for reading my post. Mike

I have been searching for a software program that would sync my music to the slide shows and was recommended pictures2exe. I downloaded the trial but I can't install due to an error that says: ! C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\apr.zip: CRC failed in SETUP.EXE. The file is corrupt ! Cannot execute "c:\windows\TEMP\Rar$EX00.242\SETUP.EXE" I was looking forward to trying out the program, but no lucK! Any suggestions? ( I did try to download the prog about 6 times!!) Thank you!!!