[pulsar124]

Thanks for the quick reply. I just added the log link to my previous post.

So what should be the correct behavior: slideshow starts with low contrast (when foreground elements are still present), then should become bright and high contrast after the foreground is gone?

Also, what is the purpose of the "background diffusion" setting in your mod? I don't see any changes when I set it to different values.

Here is an idea - is it possible to make the skin AS using to post pictures the most foreground one? Then all potential foreground image issues will be dealt with.

EDIT: I found the following lines from my log file suspicious or potentially relevant (they all come from the log section when AS slideshow has already started):

2020-01-04 16:10:04.754 T:7074   ERROR: EXCEPTION: Invalid setting type
2020-01-04 16:10:04.757 T:7074   DEBUG: [Artist Slideshow] ArtistSlideshow.Image set to /storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.xbmc.kodi/files/.kodi/addons/script.artistslideshow/resources/images/black-hd.png
2020-01-04 16:10:04.795 T:7049   DEBUG: ffmpeg[7F781970]: [swscaler] No accelerated colorspace conversion found from yuv420p to bgra.
2020-01-04 16:10:06.713 T:7047   DEBUG: Caching image 'smb://192.168.0.2/E/PHOTOS-LILY/IMG_9541.jpg' to '3/3be9a0a3.jpg':
2020-01-04 16:10:06.849 T:7047   DEBUG: cached image 'special://masterprofile/Thumbnails/3/3be9a0a3.jpg' size 727x720
2020-01-04 16:10:14.543 T:7015   DEBUG: ------ Window Deinit (Custom_1109_TopBarOverlay.xml) ------

The ERROR message is important I think - I wonder what's causing it?

Then the image black-hd.png - what does it do? Can it be masking my images somehow?

Not sure why I get the message "colorspace conversion found from yuv420p to bgra" for each of my images. All my images regular RGB jpeg files.

And then again this weird downscaling report, for each of my images being cached (scaled down to 720p).