A second monitor spends most of its life half-used. A spare laptop screen, an old display on a stand, a TV mounted on the wall — any of them can show your photo archive instead of an empty desktop, and unlike a bought digital photo frame there is nothing to copy onto an SD card and no storage limit to work around.
There are two ways to put photos on a display, and the difference matters. The idle screensaver takes over when you step away. Live Presentation Mode keeps photos on screen while you carry on working — that is the one this page is about.
Why the screensaver alone will not do it
A classic screensaver only appears once the machine has been idle long enough, and it takes over every display at once. That is exactly right for an overnight photo wall and exactly wrong for a workday: the moment you touch the keyboard it disappears. To keep memories on a second monitor while the first one stays busy, you need something that runs alongside your session instead of replacing it.
Both modes read the same folders and the same settings, so you are not configuring two separate things. Many people run presentation frames during the day and let the idle screensaver take over after hours.
Put a slideshow on one chosen display
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Add your photo folders
On the Media Files tab, drag in the folders you want in rotation and turn on Include subfolders. Filter by file type, and choose random or sequential order.
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Pick the monitor
Open the Presentation Mode tab and select which displays to use. The rest of your screens are left completely alone.
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Choose a floating frame or full screen
A floating frame sits in a corner or along a sidebar and can be moved and resized. Full screen covers the chosen display edge to edge, which suits a wall-mounted TV or a dedicated photo monitor.
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Launch it
Start from the Settings button, a desktop or Start Menu shortcut, or run with the
/lflag to go straight to live presentation instead of idle screensaver mode. Works the same on Windows and Mac.
A digital photo frame on your desk
Start with one to six independent windows. Drag a frame to any monitor, resize it to fit a corner or a narrow strip, and turn on borderless so nothing but the photo shows. Add another window at any time from the right-click menu, or close one the same way — closing the last frame ends the session.
Still images can also be given picture frames: drawn mats, or your own transparent PNG or WebP overlays matched to the image's aspect ratio. It is the difference between a photo on a screen and something that reads as a framed print on the wall.
Soft Effects add Ken Burns motion and collage layouts while a still is showing, and 29 transition effects handle the change between one photo and the next — so a static frame never feels static.
Say what is on screen
Optional filename overlays can show the full path, the path relative to your media folder, or just the file name, with your own choice of font, colour and background. On a shared or family display this is often what turns "nice photo" into "that was Corfu, 2011".
Step back to the photo you just missed
Every frame keeps its own playback history. Glance up a second too late and you can step back through that frame's recent photos without rewinding any of the others — each window browses independently. Keyboard shortcuts for pausing, skipping and closing are listed on the About tab inside Settings.
More than one display
Every connected screen runs on its own timing, so two monitors showing photos never change in lockstep. If you want the whole desk covered rather than a single frame, the Windows multi-monitor guide covers per-display layouts.
Living-room TV or wall display
Full-screen presentation on a wall-mounted TV turns a family archive into ambient decoration during a gathering, while the host machine stays completely usable for music, video calls or anything else. Nothing sleeps, nothing locks, and no one has to stop what they are doing to keep the photos running.
Everything stays local. Frames read only the folders you choose, on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, streamed, or sent anywhere — and after install the app needs no internet connection at all.