Review
Screensaver Factory 4 Enterprise is a friendly program that will allow you to create your own screensavers in a fast and easy manner, with no limits to your imagination. With this program you’ll be able to create shocking screensavers starting from images, videos and flash animations. Also you are able to add music, other sound effects and background effects to your screensavers, and customize the images transitions. If you want to share your screensavers with family and friends, you can create an installer to distribute them easily. Finally, you’ll be able to use this application with sponsorship purposes, including banners and web links into the screensavers, or by creating shareware screensavers with trial periods. It works on Windows 98, Me, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista.
You may be wondering how you can do all this stuff, aren’t you? Well, just in a few steps.
Creating a project:
It’s important to create a project before you start working on your screensavers, in order to organize your work and achieve a better compilation on creation. This will allow you to put all your resources together, with the advantage that the project file will have references to all the image and multimedia files you’ve used and which will be needed on compilation.
Adding images and multimedia resources:
Using the main window you’ll be able to load images, videos, flash animations and sound files. You can use images in JPG, BMP, PNG and GIF formats; videos in AVI, MPG and WMV formats; flash animations in SWF format; and sound files in MP3, WAV, MID and WMA formats.
Editing images and multimedia files:
When you load in an image, you’ll be able to add a legend that will be shown together with the image. Also, you’ll be able to edit its size and position, add mask effects and transitions, and adjust the exposure time. For videos, you’ll be able to edit their size and position. For animations, besides these two items, you’ll be able to edit its duration. Finally, you’ll be able to configure your screensavers in such a way that others will be able to change the music you chose to other music lists of their own taste.
Editing background:
If your images are not displayed at full screen, you’ll want to edit the background which they are shown at. Screensaver Factory allows you to choose backgrounds of several colors and solids as well as loading a background image from a file and adjusting its visualization.
Creating an installer for distribution:
In order to install the screensaver in your computer, you only need to save the file you’ve edited. However, to share it with others, you’ll have to create an installer from the project that will include not only the .scr file, but all the resources you’ve used to create the screensaver.
The program will allow you to do it easily in few steps, generate an installer that you can burn into a CD for distribution. This way, other people will only have to double-click the .exe file and follow the assistant to start enjoying your work!
Creating promotional screensavers:
You’ll be able to add such functions to your screensavers as to show banners or launch web sites.
Creating shareware screensavers:
If you want to create a business out of this application, you’ll be able to create trial screensavers, for other users to use them for a trial period. You can add a registration key and a buy link. In this version, you can choose between using common registration key and unique registration key. You’ll be able to set the duration of the trial period and the amount of shown images, and also add nag-screens and nag-banners on each screen. |
