![]() The app then does the rest, even randomizing the transitions if you ask it to. What you end up with is a montage of your photos floating across a background of your choice while a jaunty tune plays - it’s fun to watch, but perhaps a little soulless. It’s certainly fast, however, but it’s worth noting that the free trial - which lasts seven days - will put a huge watermark across your final video file. Manual mode, on the other hand, gives you the keys to the whole castle and steps back to see what you do with them. There’s a light tutorial each time you open a section you’ve not been in before, but these are quickly out of the way. Luckily, the tooltips that appear when you hover your mouse over an icon are nicely descriptive, and it’s simple enough to drop down the Help menu and find the complete online user manual. The workflow in manual mode is broadly the same as in automatic, except you have control over every aspect. So you import your files - choosing not only images but also background items, music, and effects packages that can be downloaded or bought separately - then you move down the toolbar, adding filters to images to transform them, then dragging transitions in between images, and a dedicated tool for adding beginning and end titles. There are stickers you can slap on for enhancement of particular images or moods, and then hidden behind the unassuming ‘More Tools’ button, there’s a complete editing suite, featuring color correction, cropping, the overlay of images on top of one another, chroma-keying so chosen colors become transparent, pan and zoom so you can Ken Burns to your heart’s content, the ability to add logos and animations to your slideshow. (Image credit: Movavi Slideshow Maker 7) Movavi Slideshow Maker 7: Ease of Use it’s exhausting just how many tools you’re given. With that many tools at your disposal, the app that seemed so simple in automatic mode suddenly becomes more complex.
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