This tab allows controlling the type of effects applied to the images during the Slideshow. It also allows configuring some other details such the duration of each image, margins etc.
In the top left half there is a list of the families of effects. You can set the program to use one or many different families by checking the little box at the left of each one. Pressing Alt while clicking the box will activate only the current style and deactivate the others.
When there is more than one family ticked, the program will choose one of them randomly but you can control the likelihood of each of them to happen: The field Priority give to the current family somehow a "weight" at the time of choosing randomly which one to run so the families with higher priority will be more likely chosen. Once the program selects one style it will use it during a number of photos. The fields next to Priority allow setting how many images will be shown with that style. This number is made of a fixed quantity: what you type in Repeat, and you can also add some randomness entering some value in the next input Random: The program will add to Repeat a random number up to what you type here.
The different families of effects are:
Simple Slideshow: The program will show each original image with no or little transformation. The slider photo transforms when higher than 0 allows choosing a moderate constant effect applied to the images.
BW variations: Will build the show converting the images to black and white using different techniques.
BW to Colorized: Will show the images first black and white and fading to the image with the color recovered.
Photo processing: Will apply assorted effects used usually to enhance photographs.
Photo to artistic: Here the images will morph from a photographic effect to some more artistic, resembling paintings drawings or other results with a corresponding real world technique. Randomness plays a lot here and can produce unique results especially during the time fading from one effect to the other in the same image.
Artistic variations: Will apply to the images two artistic effects. This is the most extreme type of transformations and produces many surprising results. Randomness plays here a lot so the results are very surprising.
Each style has specific settings. Clicking on a style (not the check box but the name of the style) activates it so at the right side are the parameters used when the program uses it:
Photo duration is the number of seconds each image will stay in the screen.
Repeat effect is the number of consecutive photos that will have the same effect applied once the program has picked one.
Photo transform / and or Art radicality allow filtering what type of the effects of the current style are used based on the degree of transformation applied to the images. The higher the setting can produce spectacular results but at the risk of producing also some bizarre ones. Just experiment. Remember that you can save a configuration so you can run with aggressive or more calm settings with little effort.
Margin allows choosing if the images will not occupy all the screen. The option is useful for aesthetic purposes and also if your computer is slow or the screen too big.
Avoid zooming will show the images without motion. Again it's a matter of taste, you may like some styles with motion and others without it.
Background color, allows choosing the color of the margins. Random will be swapping the background color randomly during the display.
In the lower half of the window you can control the transitions, the modes how the program goes from one image to the next one.