
By default, IrfanView is set to automatically show next image every 5 seconds.
Now select how you want images to progress in the slideshow from the top-left corner (‘Slide advancement’). The position of remaining audio files is unimportant but order them in the way you want them to play - IrfanView will play one after another.
If you added audio files, make sure the first audio file is on top of the list.
(OPTIONAL) Once you have loaded the images you want, order them the way you want them to display from the bottom-right corner using the ‘Move up’, ‘Move down’, and ‘Sort files’ buttons. If you want background audio to play in your slideshow, add MP3 audio files to the ‘Slideshow files’ list the same way you added images. Take note IrfanView supports videos but, as per my tests, IrfanView does not support videos in slideshows. You can add any image format supported by IrfanView, including JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, PSD, and more. Alternatively, if you want to add all the images in a particular folder, browser to that folder and click ‘All all’. From the top-right corner of this window, browse to the images you want to include, highlight them (hold SHIFT and left-click with your mouse button on all the images you want), and then click on ‘Add’. Once you have IrfanView installed, run it and go to ‘File’ -> ‘Slideshow…’. If you want to include MP3 background audio in your slideshow(s), download and install IrfanView plugins. If you don’t want to, you don’t have to - just skip past this screen. If you want to use IrfanView as your default image viewer, you can - select the formats you want to set IrfanView as the default for.
Take note during installation you will be asked if you want to use IrfanView as your default image viewer on Windows.
Download and install IrfanView, if you don’t already have it. To create custom and standalone screensavers (SCR) or slideshows (EXE), do the following: HOW TO CREATE CUSTOM SCREENSAVERS OR IMAGE/PHOTO SLIDESHOWS WITH IRFANVIEW In this article I want to focus on one particular feature of IrfanView - the ability to create custom screensavers (SCR format - can be used as screensaver in Windows) and image slideshows (EXE format - standalone and can be viewed on any computer, regardless of if IrfanView is installed or not). However, some people may not know IrfanView is not just an image viewer - it can do things beyond displaying images. I’m sure, by now, most dotTechies have heard of IrfanView, a popular freeware image viewer and Windows Photo Viewer alternative we featured in our list of 12 free image viewers on Windows.