Review: PhotoSnack lets you build photo slideshows on the Web - torresglin1958

At a Glance

Practiced's Rating

Pros

Easy to use
Micropayment options appeal to infrequent users

Cons

Only a handful of templates
Few templates support autoplay

Our Verdict

Web-based app PhotoSnack lets you create and share slick slideshows, but brands them all with a watermark unless you pay.

PhotoSnack is an entirely Web-based slideshow creator, nobelium software downloads required. To get going, you simply check in with your Facebook, Google, or Twitter account or your email come up to. Like Smilebox, Photosnack offers a detached but limited edition; it brands your slideshows with a watermark if you'd like to publish them. If you'd comparable to publish your slideshow without this mark, you have two choices: You can make up $14 per calendar month for a Dignitary membership operating room you seat buy points, which you purchase A requisite to publish slideshows. Points range in price from $1.90 to .86 each, depending on how many you buy. You want six points to remove the watermark and have a code to embed your slideshow elsewhere; buying just six points testament price you $11.40.

While the points micropayment arrangement Crataegus laevigata sound slightly confusing, it's actually quite easy erst you begin using information technology. And so, also, is creating a slideshow using PhotoSnack. The Web-based app guides you to upload photos, letting you select from those stored on your figurer operating theater in various online sites, including Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Photobucket, Instagram, and to a greater extent.

You can pay to make PhotoSnack's easy-to-useslideshows either in micropayments or with a monthly membership

Once your photos are uploaded, you choose the guide for your slideshow. There are fewer than 10 templates free, which is far fewer than Smilebox offers, but Photosnack's templates are focused happening your photos. Smilebox offers templates that are more design-focused—an autumn template features leaves falling in the background and a monument templet features a burning candle, for example, while PhotoSnack's templates cente the way your photos are displayed. The Simple Pas design, for example, fades from one and only photo to another, while the Photo Slide slides your snapshots along. I like that you can change over between the templates easily, to see how from each one one looks with your photos, and you can set the background colors, the sized of the photos, and the audio frequency track (you can choose one of PhotoSnack's tunes or upload your own MP3).

The one downside to PhotoSnack's templates is that only a few of them support autoplay. If the template doesn't support it, your viewers volition have to manually click done your photos in plac to see whol of them. It would beryllium respectable if all of the templates gave the viewer the choice, or else.

PhotoSnack offers a nice balance of customizable features and ease of use. It lacks just about of the mulct-tuned controls that Wondershare's DVD Slideshow Builder includes, just offers more restraint than many of Smilebox's templates allow. And its points-based payment system will appeal to casual users.

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Liane Cassavoy is a veteran technology and occupation journalist. She contributes regularly to PCWorld and has written about business issues and products for Entrepreneur Magazine and separate publications. She is the author of two business start-up guides published by Entrepreneur Press.