Ken Burns Slideshow

Create instant & real-time full-screen slideshow with the Ken Burns effect for a set of images.

Motivation

This idea came to me while watching a slideshow on iPad. How nice would it be if we can create instant slideshows on a Windows machine with only a single executable and a folder of images.

Screenshot

Language & Requirement

• WPF application written in VB.net
• .Net framework 4.5 or above.
• Config.xml file at application root.

Features

• Create instant full-screen slideshow with an imitation of the Ken Burns effect for a set of folders that contains images. Images will be looped.
• Support displaying date for the images. Date value is parsed from the file name with format yyyy-MM-dd. Please rename the image files to the format for this to work. A valid example: 2015-12-02.jpg
• Support audio files to be played in loop at background. Please specify a folder path containing audio files in config.xml.

Note

• The config.xml file serves as a configuration that is loaded at program start. Paths need to be changed to local / relative path according to the location of the folders on your system.