# Magic Lantern

### Introduction

Magic Lantern is a tool for putting together and displaying your photos and movies in the form of a slideshow. The main window is shown above.

You construct your show by dragging the image files onto the thumbnail panel at the bottom. This list can be edited in various ways and saved as a simple text file.

When your list is complete, you can use the program to display the images with a preset delay between each slide. Each slide can pan and zoom automatically. Alternatively, you can interrupt the preset show and pan and zoom the pictures manually.

The images are displayed in full-screen mode with an uncluttered black background and without captions to maximise the impact of your photos. The captions can be displayed manually at any time.

Magic Lantern also has limited support for movie files (.MOV and .AVI files principally).

Magic Lantern was written by J.O.Linton and is distributed under the terms of the Open Content license which can be viewed at http://opencontent.org/opl.shtml

Basically what this means is that you can do anything you like with the software except sell it for a profit. In addition the author cannot be held responsible for any damage it might cause to either your computer or your sanity.

Constructive comment would be welcomed by the author who can be contacted at jolinton@btinternet.com