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Screen Saver Creator Deluxe Edition 5:--Easy to Learn and Fun to Use
by Reviewed by Lee Ammons, January 2001 Blue Chips Magazine, Utah Computer Society www.ucs.org - February 22, 2001 at 14:11:39:
Screen Saver Creator Deluxe is a delightful new utility for Windows that assists you in making your own screen savers. The exciting thing about creating your own screen savers is that you can add whatever you like to them, music, slide shows, random running or more. You can import most of the popular graphic formats (AVI, BMP, CUR, EPS, GIF, ICO, JPG, PSD, TIF, TGA, WMF, WPG and more).After you have created your screen savers, you can share them with family and friends without having to give them your program, which of course is illegal. You just give them the file and it can be run from the .EXE on their computers.
If you want to create screen savers to sell for profit then you must purchase a Commercial License Version which costs close to $300.00. If you are interested in the Commercial Version, you can reach them at their web address or by telephone.
This is an easy program to use from children to adults and also advanced customers who might enjoy being creative in a quick and easy way. I was going to say that if a child could use this program easily, then it should be a cinch for an adult but I actually think it is the other way around as children are becoming more computer literate than the adults in many cases.
Screen Saver Creator Deluxe is a segment-based screen saver creator program meaning that one page is a segment which can consist of various elements, graphics, sounds, background, motion and bounce and more. You can use photos of all sorts to create your screen saver, family, pets or whatever you choose, then add sound, and animation.
The Logo Wizard and Slide Show Wizard make it even easier to create, saving time. They do the work for you and you will only need to fill in the blanks. Sounds easy enough, and it really is that easy. There is a 3D Wizard which allows you to create screen savers with graphics wrapped around three dimensional objects.
The Menu bar, Tool Bar, Command Bar and Status Bars are all Windows friendly and familiar. A few different things are there that are needed to make the program even more user friendly.
Before you start trying to create a Screen Saver, you should have an idea in your mind of what you want to do. Then create the files that you will need to complete your screen saver, such as graphic, music, sound, animation or whatever you have decided to do with your creation. After that it is just a matter of putting it together. The sound files can be either .WAV or .MIDI files. You can also use .mpg or mp3 and .MOV files. Text files can be of any type. That was one thing that I forgot to mention earlie,r you can add text to personalize your screen saver even more. You can create fading and looping of your screen saver (Looping = repeating which most screen savers do).
Once you have the idea in mind and have created the files you want to use, you are ready to begin creating your screen saver using Screen Saver Deluxe 5. The rest can be done very easily using the Wizards that I mentioned earlier. Another item of interest is that you can save your bmp and other files to JPG making them smaller so that they do not take up so much space on your hard drive or wherever you keep them. You must tell the program to do this at the beginning or it will only do certain types of graphic files. This is called compressing graphics for those of us who are not that familiar with it.
Editing is very simple to do and changing your screen saver is also easy with the editing part of the program. Individual Software has even thrown in an extra program, free of charge to help you called the Icon Editor that allows you to create icons.
Bit mapped and various vector graphics can be used. The program takes them and converts them into a standard format for you to use in your Screen Saver.
There are many more exciting ways to create your screen savers, but I haven’t gotten into all of them yet. I would say this is a very easy to learn and fun program to use. I would definitely recommend it.
Manufacturer: Individual Software, Inc., 4255 Hopyard Road, #2, Pleasanton, CA 94588-9900, Tel: (925) 734-6767
Web:http://www.individualsoftware.com
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