This application allows applying the Ken Burns effect on your images. You can add images into the application simply by selecting them on your hard drive and then dropping inside the main canvas of the application. Then in order to start the effect you can press one of the key combinations mentioned below. It's that easy!

You may wonder what the Ken Burns effect actually is. If so, here is what Wikipedia says about it: " The Ken Burns effect is a type of panning and zooming effect used in film and video production from non-consecutive still images. " and also: " The feature enables a widely used technique of embedding still photographs in motion pictures, displayed with slow zooming and panning effects, and fading transitions between frames. "

The application is very simple to use because it makes use of three key keyboard shortcuts:
- use the LEFT CTRL key + W key on an image in the canvas (you must first click the image and then press this key combination). The effect in this case is applies on all images found on the canvas and the effect is rendered in the actual image container which was clicked last, that is the one you click before pressing the LEFT CTRL key + W key keyboard shortcut. - if you press the same LEFT CTRL key + W key combination on an image container in which the Ken Burns effect is applied, it will make the effect stop and that image container will show the image it had initially. - the LEFT CTRL key + F key keyboard shortcut applies the effect only on the image of that image container however at the top right of the image container there will be an area on which you can drop either a set of individual images or entire folders containing images. - if you use the LEFT CTRL key + I key on an image in the canvas, the Ken Burns effect is applied only on the image of that image container.

Pressing any of these key combinations on an image container in which the Ken Burns effect is currently active will cause the effect to stop.

You can also tweak the way the effect is rendered on images by using several sliders which appear right above the image container which renders the images, to see the sliders right click the image container while the effect is rendering and select "Show/Hide Sliders". This means you can modify the settings meaning the actual values of the sliders and see the modifications in real time.

Here you can see some of the full screen transitions applied on different images: