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worldtraveler1
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December 27, 2020
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I want to talk to someone at Adobe about my 1000s of photos in Flash.

  • December 27, 2020
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What do I do? What is your replacement?

 

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    Correct answer jeromiec83223024

    Oddly enough, my job before coming to Adobe to work on Flash was at Simple Star, making PhotoShow (which later got acquired by Roxio). 

     

    It's been about 15 years since I've worked on it, so I imagine stuff has changed.  The way that PhotoShow worked when I was there, was that when you loaded an HTML page with your "show", we would deliver a .swf file that interpreted an XML file with the details about your photos, transitions, stickers, etc... and put it all together as a rendered slideshow, an .xml file that actually had the data about the show you designed, and then we served all of the images as discrete .jpgs, and audio as discrete .mp3 files. 

     

    Assuming you have a working Flash Player and you opened the developer tools in your browser, opened the network tab, then loaded one of your shows, you should see all of those images load.  You could then click on each one and save it into a folder.  It's annoying, but it would work.

     

    You might also contact PhotoShow support to see if they have a newer version that's removed the Flash dependency, or if they have a better data export option.  It wouldn't be that hard to rebuild the core player in HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript.  If they still have sufficient paying customers, I imagine they'd have made the investment to keep the revenue stream going.

     

    Also, to be clear, we're not replacing Flash.  We announced (in tandem with all of our browser partners) back in 2017 that Flash Player, and browser support for plug-ins in general, were going away at the end of 2020.  We gave the industry three years of lead time to migrate to modern technologies.

     

    Here's the original announcement fron 2017, with background: 

    https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/


    Here's the consumer FAQ: 

    https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

     

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    jeromiec83223024
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    jeromiec83223024Community ManagerCorrect answer
    Community Manager
    January 4, 2021

    Oddly enough, my job before coming to Adobe to work on Flash was at Simple Star, making PhotoShow (which later got acquired by Roxio). 

     

    It's been about 15 years since I've worked on it, so I imagine stuff has changed.  The way that PhotoShow worked when I was there, was that when you loaded an HTML page with your "show", we would deliver a .swf file that interpreted an XML file with the details about your photos, transitions, stickers, etc... and put it all together as a rendered slideshow, an .xml file that actually had the data about the show you designed, and then we served all of the images as discrete .jpgs, and audio as discrete .mp3 files. 

     

    Assuming you have a working Flash Player and you opened the developer tools in your browser, opened the network tab, then loaded one of your shows, you should see all of those images load.  You could then click on each one and save it into a folder.  It's annoying, but it would work.

     

    You might also contact PhotoShow support to see if they have a newer version that's removed the Flash dependency, or if they have a better data export option.  It wouldn't be that hard to rebuild the core player in HTML5 Canvas and JavaScript.  If they still have sufficient paying customers, I imagine they'd have made the investment to keep the revenue stream going.

     

    Also, to be clear, we're not replacing Flash.  We announced (in tandem with all of our browser partners) back in 2017 that Flash Player, and browser support for plug-ins in general, were going away at the end of 2020.  We gave the industry three years of lead time to migrate to modern technologies.

     

    Here's the original announcement fron 2017, with background: 

    https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/


    Here's the consumer FAQ: 

    https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

     

    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 27, 2020

    1. This is a user-to-user forum with very little staff participation.  Adobe employees are on winter break until after the new year. 

     

    2. There is no replacement for Flash Player.  When Flash Player ends in a couple of weeks, that's the end of Flash content. See the official Adobe announcement below.

    https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

     

    3. Images in JPG, PNG, GIF, SVG, etc... can be viewed in any browser. No special players needed.  And there are lots and lots of free image viewers online that can handle other image file types.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
    worldtraveler1
    Participant
    December 27, 2020
    Thanks, but what program will work in Photoshow?
    Gary
    Nancy OShea
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    December 27, 2020

    Sorry, I have no idea what Photoshow is.

     

    I assume you have the native image files stored somewhere, right?  And hopefully you backed them up in multiple places just in case. As long as you have your native image files, you can create new slideshows with ordinary HTML5 and JavaScript.  Wow Slider is a slick slideshow widget for websites.  WOW contains many   fx and templates to choose from.

    https://wowslider.com/

     

    A Google search will reveal others.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert