New features on PhotoShow.com make it easier then ever to create PhotoShows!

1. A new fold-out panel in the PhotoShow editor shows you Tips for each tab to help you get started making great shows.

2. When you click on Preview Mode when making a show, it will now play from the currently selected photo instead of from the beginning, making it easier to view your changes as you go!

3. All your photo enhancements will now appear in each tab! For example, when you are in the Captions tab, any stickers, borders, and bubbles you added will still be visible on the photo. This makes it easier to see your final result without using preview mode (and prevents you from adding a bubble over a caption, etc).

4. Photo thumbnails now appear faster when going to make or edit a show.

If you haven't already updated to build 787 of PhotoShow 6, you can get this on your account page. PhotoShow 6 is fully compatible with Windows 7!

Other changes and fixes include:

• You can set a photo duration for up to 20 seconds (instead of 10)
• RSS feed icon now appears for channel pages in the browser, indicating a valid RSS feed link is available from that page
• The share email message field now properly limits text entry to 256 characters (and displays the number you have left).
• Internet Explorer 6 does not support all features on PhotoShow, and now informs you of that at the top of the page.
• PhotoShows embedded in other web sites no longer display the "Loading" graphic in the show cover photo.
• Music content will be loaded even when you go to the music picker before the show is finished loading.

Enjoy!

The PhotoShow Team

Over the last couple weeks we released some excellent new features on PhotoShow.com and in PhotoShow 6. To get the latest version of PhotoShow 6 select "Check for Updates" from the Help menu in the application.

You'll love the new channel themes for your PhotoShow galleries, featuring over a dozen beautiful themes you can apply to your collections of PhotoShows with a single click. (Former Comcast and PhotoShow.net users will appreciate the return of this popular feature).

Here's an example of the Air theme applied to a channel page: http://www.photoshow.com/members/PhotoShow-Fanatic/all

Just go to your My PhotoShows page or any channel you've created, click on a theme to preview it, then click "Done" to apply the theme. If you want to use the same theme for all your channels, check the box for "Apply to all my channels" before you click "Done." Or, set a different theme for each channel!

This feature is available for PREMIUM subscribers only. (Themes will not appear if you are using Internet Explorer 6. Upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or 8, or Firefox, Safari, etc).

There's a new Spooky Halloween style with fun music for sharing those Halloween night pics.

We've also added new Emoticon stickers (Premium users only) for fun expressions on any photo.

And finally, when making a PhotoShow on PhotoShow.com, you'll notice that the editor now automatically expands to fill your browser window, for a much richer and enjoyable authoring experience. To change the size of the editor, just adjust the size of your browser window (grab the lower right hand corner of the window).

Enjoy!

The PhotoShow Team

Here's a quick tutorial on using the music features in the "Music & Photos" tab. These features are available on PhotoShow.com and in PhotoShow 6, which can be downloaded on your account page.

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Clicking on the music notes will open the Music picker.

Your music selection is applied to your PhotoShow at the photo you designated. Now you can change where the song starts and ends if you like.

Today we released an update to PhotoShow.com! New features include:

• Over 70 new music tracks to choose from, and new Alternative, Soundtrack, and Spiritual categories.
• A new "Suggested for this Style" category for quickly switching between songs that work for your selected style.
• Instrumental tracks are now marked with a special icon to help you find songs without vocals. (Sometimes song lyrics can be distracting when they don't match the photos in your show.)
• Support for MPEG-2 video clips when creating a show on PhotoShow.com.

This release also fixes a problem with the syntax (a missing tag) of the flash code for pasting into Blogger. 

Enjoy!

The PhotoShow Team

The latest version of PhotoShow 6 is now available for Premium members on your account page.

This version includes all the features and styles recently released on PhotoShow.com:

• Add up to 50 songs per show!
• New Summer Fun and Back to School Styles
• Playback slider control in authoring and preview
• All the other changes and fixes from the online show maker (see prior blog posts)

If you are using a prior version of PhotoShow 6 your software will auto-update sometime over the next week, but feel free to download and install the application from your account page at any time.

Enjoy!

The PhotoShow Team