WOW, are these people crazy? $99.00 for the program and then an aditional $15.00 for templates. LOL, Also, After creating my gallery...the program closes itself out and it doesnt even save the files or creation. Nowhere can I find the files to the directory I chose to save. Thumbs down for me. There is much more better alternatives then this program, Free and Shareware.

Well you really don't need adobe flash player
as some above mention to play flash or swf!
Total Video Player which is one of most useful
video player can also play flash files! I download
flash games and flash videos and used t use only
adobe flash player! I found that can actual play
flash games with Total Video Player and it is better!
I am going to download above program with slow dial
and hope it is good program - thanks!

The underlying point of using Flash for an online photo gallery is to keep people from freely downloading and perhaps using (and taking credit for or getting paid for) your photos, something most people aren't worried about, but which photo pros/serious enthusiasts do worry about. What are they replacing Flash with that does the same thing? Is that part of HTML5, because it hasn't been possible to lock images with earlier versions. Or is it in some other existing or emerging technology?

Thanks #22 airclass, installed free PhotoMeister. and loving it.
Today's GOTD is okay but not enough variety with the templates provided, and I have no plans to by any more.

Thanks for your offer. But for the past three days, I could not activate the programs. I keep getting the message "Failed to connect. Try again later all day long." Please what could be the problem?

I downloaded and gave it a try, to few templates, does save in various formats, basically a vidio editor is as good as this program.
ansvsoft photo flash is a whole lot better with transision effects and more for less.

After scanning some of the comments, I noticed that there is some misinformation in some of them.

There are currently no additional templates for this software.

#35 - the additional templates with which #15 and #25 mention are for the Flash Slideshow Factory (FSF).

Once the program is properly registered you have access to nine templates.

Since the registration information is pre-filled, it would have made more sense to just have the software automatically register itself during the installation process. Also, I agree with the suggestion that the "Buy Now" button should not be a part of the interface once the software is registered.

The price is a bit steep for what you're getting since you cannot create your own templates and it is not flexible it enough to merit the $99 price tag, but it is a pretty good application.

Win XP SP3
I often look at Govanni's suggestions, but today's not only has a terrible GUI, it is hard to understand and doesn't work properly. So, after a restore, I installed the GOTD, much simpler to understand, 1,000 times better GUI, AND It works.
True, it only has 9 templates, but better 9 that work than 50 that don't.
By the way, if the registration form comes up pre filled in, you can change the registered name to your own.
The main "fault" I find, is that the "register" button doesn't go from the main page, even after registering, a little tacky in my opinion.

Thanks for this give-away! This product installed easily and was easy to use. There are a lot of options to add text, photo titles, transitions, music, etc. And you can make an executable file. (There are free templates included - you just select one of the templates that are shown at the bottom of the screen on step 1.) I didn't read the instructions at all as it was rather intuitive. One thing I would improve - the thumbnails are too small and I didn't see a way to enlarge them.

I've also been fooling around with other flash slideshow creators.

I have found some things that need fixing.....

On start up, create new directory. No browse button with create new folder? What the Hell.
The pictures do not scale properly
You cannot use a long name as a picture title.
Program tries to connect to the Internet on start up.......PC Tools Firewall Plus blocks that.

It would be nice to have the additional templates, but it's probably built into the executable.

I feel you can remove the Created by ThunderSoft Flash Gallery Creator.Copyright(C) 2012 ThunderSoft from the resulting html file.

I'm downloading the Thundersoft Flash Slideshow Factory trial to see how that works. If it's good for 30 days, that's all I need.

Chen is right in #29. You need to use Internet Explore to downlaod newest Adobe flash player and that fixes flash.ocx error. Doing this with Firefox doesn't.

I can´t understand that high price as you only get 1 year for your money.

GAOTD version
No free technical support, No free upgrades to future versions,
Strictly personal usage, No additional templates in future


Payed version
Lifetime usage, free upgarde within one year.
Personal License $99.95 (today $19.95)
Commercial License $179.95 (today $39.95)

It do annoys me that commercial license is close to twice the price of personal license, because I would never buy anything this expencive as long there is free alternatives. Personal use mean that you can only show it to your friends when you pay for it. Todays version can only you look at...

CoffeeCup Photo Gallery software is 1/3 the price, easier to design and edit slideshow and the displayed pages are prettier.

Make this software similiar but add FILE TYPES (more options) input & outputs to include PNG (photo_ files as PNG files don't degrade in color and size when editing or saving but JPG files do.

Both softwares do let you add MUSIC (file) to page but CoffeeCup Photo Gallery software is way easier to manuever and use and has way more options.

Frankly, only flash sites made by artists are worthwhile projects.

All studies show it: flash is against usability (the paper is more than 10 year old but still present!). Other than that, flash sites are among the ugliest (the templates say it all), useless, and dumbest. When I stumble upon of of those, I skip it because I know I'll lose my time reading unreadable information and not getting it.

The worst flash page being the infamous "Skip intro". Why, but why one makes me click 2 times to get in ? I have absolutely NO respect to such stupid behavior.

Another concern is the LSO cookies left by Adobe flash applications. If you don't know what they are, then you have a privacy problem.

There are many reasons why flash technology has no future. Some posters have given one or two.

Please, make the world a favor: do not download such software. Do not make flash sites.

to #25 and #15:
The templates pack you mentioned is for ThunderSoft Flash Slideshow Factory:
http://www.easyflashtools.com/flash-slideshow-factory.html

Maybe you can wait for its GOTD promotion.

Please, would someone answer questions #15 and #25 (identical questions). Thank You.

A reminder: that good English sells more product than bad English. Find an editor who actually speaks English fluently.
Pricing is from LaLa Land; product is marginally useful at best, at the trailing edge of technology.
Passing for many reasons; thanks GOTD.

apart from that I don't need it and that it is old-school stuff
100 bucks is way over the top!

You get better value for money if you buy Sothink SWF-Quicker
And I use it and it's for Flash beginners like me perfect and does slideshows as well as other things.

all thumbs down for today's offer

WHAT does this do that IrfanView or XnView doesn't do? ...
granted for today this is free, but for $100 I would think this could do more and maybe use less computer bytes.

For instance, how about forgetting the silly pre-designed templates to allow the user to create their own? or forgetting only using the SWF and allowing for any extension? ...

this would of been a good giveaway if they even gave 1 free template to use but all templates you have to pay almost 15$ each
i can make one myself cheaper
give some better templates away and include them in the software it self no one likes to download lots of things

I am a web professional and I have to say that today's giveaway ThunderSoft Flash Gallery Creator is a great freebie. From a designers stand point it has all the features that would help the beginner to an expert. Sometimes I build galleries out of flash and most of the time I build them using jQuery, it all depends on the client.

I have never tried any of Thundersoft's software, everyone has their own personal favorite of what software to use and I have been using Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory Deluxe for years. Just my $0.02 worth.

Thanks GOTD for looking out for us designers.
Have a great day everyone!!
Kev

More about ocx error:
You need install the latest adobe flash player via "Internet Explorer":
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer

Flash player innstalled via "Firefox" will not work.

Only the software is free, however there are no free templates. To use this, you would have to buy a template of your choice and each on costs $14.99...
This is ridulous, you can get so many free plugins on Joomla or wordpress, which do the same for absolutely free.. there are plugins for HTML5 as well for free...

So why would anyone get this software and pay $14.99 to use it, by purchasing the template...

#25 and #15 I think what you downloaded is for the slideshow creator program the also sell, not the Gallery.

It gives me flash error.
It says that i should install flash.

Now it is done three times.
Same error still.

I give up. I don't relly need this so much.

Thumbs down to this.

Just like Dan, #15, it downloaded and installed just fine but I can't get the program to recognize the templates that are available for download, which is free for registered users ( http://www.easyflashtools.com/fsf-templates.html )
Tried leaving them in the default directory and moving them to the Thundersoft template directory. They just won't show up in the program. Anyone know how to get this to work?

Interesting. Seems to do a good job in creating a flash gallery, but as many have said, Adobe is phasing out Flash as a depreciated technology, so asking $100 is insane. This is a 32-bit app, and the ocx error occurs with 64-bit systems - FGC relies on 32-bit Adobe Flash Player components, and the ocx calls are not being transferred from 32-bit to 64-bit. The solution is for the developer to create a 64-bit version of the program (or at least a translating 64-bit dll to handle external calls). This kind of issue happens with many 32-bit programs running on 64-bit Vista / 7.

#11 Teddy1167 - I would suspect that you are accessing the files directly from the ZIP file (using the Windows built-in ability to click into a ZIP), and your anti-virus cannot see the file directly and it is blocking access. Always extract all files from archives (try installing 7-Zip) first before trying to use. If a file is otherwise being denied access, CCoulomb's Unlocker is almost always able to "unlock" the restriction, or tell you what other program has restricted access to the file. I also suspect that English is not your native tongue and you may not be reading instructions carefully.

Hi. I am very grateful for this giveaway. Only yesterday my pc died and with it went Aneesofts 3D Flash gallery program from GOTD which I love and use frequently. I was hoping to find a free flash gallery here but never expected it so quickly. BTW I'd love to have Aneesofts 3D Flash back as a freebie - its a top program for what I do but Im grateful for this program, and all the offers, even if I dont need them. Im sure someone will need whatever is on offer daily. So, many many thanks to all who provide progams and participate positively. Cheers.

Free program that does these additional things
Using PhotoMeister you can...

Import the photos from most digital cameras directly into your PC
Sort, arrange, filter and crop your photos and even remove red eyes
Convert your photos into web pages, emails or screensavers
Create Photo Albums to print or export as PDF files
Create VCDs for your DVD player to show your photos on your TV

#13 Giovanni - You´re wrong about the price... DVD Slideshows GUI is like 1001 bucks, not 1 cent more... the software is slow when it prepare images...
I wouldn´t pay a cent for todays offer as there´s a lot of known developers, who give away better version than todays offer !

To Giovanni, #13:

Your GUI Slideshow needs an installer. Today's makes executable files you can send to your friends.

To some, that makes all the difference.

I don't like improvement ideas that criticize the price of a product! If the software is unique enough, people are willing to spent more money on it. If the software is like one-in-a-dozen, the high price will turn off potential customers and thus won't sale and thus might be lowered.

I have WIndows 7 64bit and Adobe flash player up to date. The Flash Gallery CReator won't run and wants flash.ocx which is not a part of this version of Windows.

Unlike drWoo (#10), I could NOT get past the "missing flash.ocx" error on my WPro-64. I installed the latest Adobe Flash - still got the error. Removed ALL of Adobe Flash (using Adobe's free uninstall tool), re-booted, installed the latest Flash again - still no go.
I gave up.

I have downloaded and installed without problem (Win7x64 SP1). There's a pack of additional templates available for download, which is free for registered users ( http://www.easyflashtools.com/fsf-templates.html ). So I downloaded and installed into Template subdir ( default filepath provided by installer wasn't correct ) but I can't use them. How to get them working?

Well it is pretty easy to creat a photo book; but I have to disagree the phrase "don't need to know anything about html". There are no directions or help for embedding the created swf file into a web page. So I guess you have to know something about html. This installed easily to my xpsp3 system. Registered flawlessy.

Just 3 words today:

DVD Slideshows GUI ===> FREE & far better than this GAOTD !!!!!!


* DVD Slideshow GUI

http://download.videohelp.com/tin2tin/


Question of the day: if today's giveaway is worth 100 $ (are you joking folks?? LOL!!), then how much should "DVD Slideshows GUI" cost??

1000 bucks?? Maybe more?? LOL!!

I believe that the developer of this program should first get himself immersed in humility!!!

Enjoy!!!

Believing Adobe's official statement a while back, that they pulled the plug for Flash, I can't see a bright future for Flash. Yet, still lot of Flash content on the web. I guess it will take a long time for Flash to vanish entirely from the web space.

HTML 5 is the way to go, so they say. I'm not a HTML coder and neither a Flash expert.

Having a look at their website, the gallery examples are old school at best what you can do with the program. I'm not excited about trying Flash Gallery Creator, because my design taste and expectations are extremely high compared to the average user (I'm a designer). But saying that, it's a matter of taste of cause. I'm sure some folks might like it.

...

GOTD why all your free when want to install, receive the message:
The process cannot acces the file because it is being used by another process.

What can I do to solve this situation?

I have installed without any problem on my Windows 7 Pro 64bit PC.
I like this program and is a keeper for me.
It DOES make executable files from the created projects. Please try the program first and then post suggestions like "Allow program to make executable file for sharing with friends".
Thanks GAOTD and ThunderSoft for this giveaway!

Hi,

I want to know if I can use this GAOTD version in an Educational Institution and post the resulting flash files on school's website:
"With ThunderSoft Flash Gallery Creator it is easy to create flash gallery for both personal and commercial use, no HTML or Flash knowledge is required."

Thanks!

Agree with Mara above, thank you GOTD. They should all be like this, easy to download and register!!

For ocx error, You need install the latest adobe flash player.
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer

Though nicely designed, this is at best a toy that even the most photo-enthusiast web user will use once or twice and then forget about. Once you get past the initially confusing interface, you find that it comes with 9 relatively fancy gallery-like layout that you can use to create photo galleries, of which all the elements -- from the choice of the background image to the size and font family of the text for each button -- are configurable. Because it takes way too long to fully customize a layout (unless you're already an experienced Flash user) and because of the lack of pre-configured sets of options for each template, it's unlikely that it will appeal much to the casual user. And if you are anything but a casual user, you're probably better off using Adobe Flash directly if you don't already.

It's probably worth keeping in mind that despite being flashy, the Flash format is rapidly losing ground on the market. Developers, including Adobe, are scrambling to come up with replacement technologies while you sleep ;-) There are tons of alternatives for this product out there: a simple search for "free photo gallery templates" will keep you busy for a day. The original asking price for this product ($99) is definitively way too high, given their target market, specially if you consider that the application also tries to sell you additional templates (at $14.95 each). On the other end... it's free today on GOTD, so if you anticipate the need to build a photo gallery in Flash format in the near future, you might as well grab it.

Hi

Okay try again Here is the link to the error.

http://tinypic.com/r/2cxyt0h/6

Thanks.

Hi Thanks for the program but it does not work.



I get a ocx error in xp adding pictures

How to proceed?

This keeps hanging at the activation note, & does not finish activating. I've tried re-downloading and tried to get it to work about 10 + times now. New download did the same.

Thank You GOAD & ThunderSoft Co.

I have Been looking for a Program like this, and this one seems like it will do what I was Looking for,

Download, Installation, and registration went fine on my Computer windows 7 64,

tried it out and other than wishing there was different Templates for this it is a fun little program and will do just fine for me

Thank You Again 8=)

I zipped right over to the website and read, "no HTML or Flash knowledge is required" - vital to someone like me that has no experience whatsoever with HTML or Flash, for that matter!

It downloaded, installed and registered very easily (the registration number was already in the box and one simply has to click 'ok').

As I said, I don't know anything about 'Flash' but it was easy to add a group of photos and create a mini-slideshow and I suspect the other options may be easy to learn, as well.

Thank you once again to our site for finding these freebies and thanks to ThunderSoft for todays offer (including making it so easy to install and register ... no hoops to go through and no unwanted 'extras' to watch for when installing).