Photo 4.1 includes many interface improvements, rewritten OpenGL 3D Gallery code, Audio Player enhancements and many other minor fixes and improvements.  See below for further details:  (Also see Phota 4.1.1, Phota 4.1.2, Phota 4.1.3 and Phota 4.1.4)

• Interface Changes =>  The main Phota window has been redesigned to be more intuitive.  Several of the other screens have been made more functional and easier to use, including the New Album Create, Photo Information, Add Photos and Reformat Pages functions.

  The Phota interface can now be scaled much larger to accomodate the extremely high resolution screens that are becoming common with newer computers.  The Album Appearance screen can be used to choose an Interface Scale.  A reasonable Interface Scale should be set automatically when Phota is initially installed, based upon the resolution of your monitor.
  

• Gallery Improvements =>  The OpenGL rendering of 3D Galleries has been entirely reworked to use more recent OpenGL methods that better utilize the power of modern graphics processors.  By default, the 3D Engine for Galleries is still set to DirectX, but it might be worthwhile to try both DirectX and OpenGL by switching between them with the Gallery Options screen.  Either DirectX or OpenGL might provide noticably better performance and/or quality, depending on your computer and graphics card.

  Also, when a full-screen image is displayed while in Gallery mode, a frame is shown around the enlarged image to match the frame seen in the 3D scene, (depending on available space around the image).  The frame will be sized proportionately to the (usually) larger dimensions of the full-screen image.

• Audio/Video Players =>  The Volume The sliders on the Audio Player and the Video Player have been replaced by sliders that indicate play progress and which allow adjustment of the progress.  Also, keyboard commands have been added for controlling the Audio Player:  Ctrl-Left Arrow and Ctrl-Right Arrow for Previous and Next song/track respectively, and Ctrl-Down Arrow to pause/resume playing.

Phota 4.1.1 

Phota 4.1.1 includes further improvements to Interface Scaling and the Album Appearance screen to accomodate very large screens.  Also, the Video Player has been enhanced to better handle certain types of videos.  Several other fairly important fixes and improvements.

Phota 4.1.2 

Phota 4.1.2 is mostly intended to fix occasional crashes and other glitches while in 3D Gallery mode.  This version was also built with a newer compiler, which might slightly improve performance.

Phota 4.1.3 

Phota 4.1.3 improves the Video features.  The Video Player should be more reliable and capable of playing almost any common video format.  Video Capture can be configured to use more of the available encoding/compression codecs, and it should now be much easier to record Audio along with the visual action (see the Video Options screen).  NOTE:  Most sound cards can provide a Stereo Mix Audio Device, but often it is not enabled, and might not even be visible.  The Sounds Control Panel can usually be used to enable Stereo Mix (right-click the speaker icon in the Taskbar tray).  An internet search for 'enable stereo mix' will quickly find detailed instructions on how to do this.

Phota 4.1.4 

With Phota 4.1.4, a mark is shown at the upper-right corner of a button to indicate that the button can be right-clicked to provide additional functionality.  For example, can be right-clicked to access a popup menu of Gallery options, or right-click to show the Animate Colors Options screen.