“Make a flash slideshow with your pictures in seconds”

You may know nothing about Flash and yet if you use BannerZest you'll be able to create really snazzy flash presentations with your pictures. Designed in the spirit of the latest software built for Mac, BannerZest is fitted with a smooth dark grey, semi-transparent interface and really makes full use of Leopard's graphical improvements.

Making your presentation is as easy as pie. Drag and drop pictures from your images folder to the timeline into the order you want them to appear. Using the settings window you'll be able to add all sorts of effects, themes and animations. Although the application is pretty basic, you can still tweak these around, thanks to sliders and pixel boxes. Remember to add a title, subtitles and borders to make your presentation look good. Once it's prepared, you'll be able to upload it to FTP (to put it on your site or blog) or to the .Mac service.

BannerZest is a beautiful and intuitive tool to make good looking flash slideshows in seconds.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in BannerZest:

new version of the ConnectionKit improves the FTP publishing and fixes some bugs on some servers, where the destination folders would appear empty.
fixes an issue with hyperlinks in the MovingGrid theme
fixes a few issues with the book theme
add support for authentificatin when uploading to a server area secured by a .htaccess.

OS requirements for BannerZest:

OS: Mac OS X

Minimum requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Flash Player 9.0.48 or later

Pros

Makes cool Flash presentations
Loads of settings
Export to FTP or .Mac

Cons

Very basic

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From the publisher of BannerZest

Turn your pictures into a flash slideshow with a few simple clicks and share it on your website. BannerZest doesn't require you to know or even possess Flash! BannerZest uses the concept of themes, that work like templates. You don't have to spend hours in Flash for a beautiful animation. Our designers have done it for you!

Paste your photos, choose the colors , Done! Whether you are using Apple iWeb, RapidWeaver, Dreamweaver or any other tool, BannerZest will let you put your banners online in no time. Uploading your work via FTP or to your .Mac account is fully supported from within BannerZest. Integrating a banner on a page is as simple as pasting a code snippet prepared for you.

What more ? Your upload settings are saved with your document. So if you need to change your banner, it is as easy as hiting the upload button once more, and let bannerZest replace the old files with the new one. Your site will reflect the change without needing any change in your HTML.