Many thanks for your suggestions and remark about my slideshow. Here you can download the slideshow win exe (64 MB): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QV9RBPG8 Dom,(by the way, my compliments for your amazing tutorials ;=)) What do you mean "you should try to add backgrounds for slides with portrait pictures." Can you give me an example? Admiral, I saw your web site: congratulations on the work you've done! P.S. Sorry for my bad English...