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Gogs, Probably your video card is not enough powerful to handle blur feature and observe reduced FPS during animation?

Urmas, I mainly agree with you. But to help new users color management should be enabled by default? JPEG images with profiles should be transformed to sRGB by default. jt, It seems that Windows 8 has some difference with Windows 7. We'll check up. Thanks. Remove .icm file from the test app's folder. Choose 3rd variant. Will it work and shows correct colors?

Please try the new Test Color Management 3 https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27544810/pte/Test-Color-Management-3.zip You see 3 options: 1. No color management. 2. Transformation of JPEG images with color profiles to sRGB. 3. Transformation of ANY JPEG images to current color profile of your display. Notes to option #3: if your default color profile is sRGB you will not see any difference between options 2 and 3. If you have display which support Adobe RGB and you installed Adobe RGB profile in Windows, this test application will show correct colors. So we can do same color management in future PicturesToExe.

jt, Please wait, this code is not finished. We'll prepare the new test soon. Please send me screenshot of our the test application (with two picture) and screenshot of same image in Photoshop. I'll look.

You can create ISO image and then use VideoBuilder to burn several copies of DVD. See this screenshot.

Hallo Cèlou, In theory it should work. 1. Does this problem occur with previous versions of PicturesToExe? 2. Please can you ask other French users of PicturesToExe - do they have same problem?

Gogs, Please send me a test show with only this slide. I'll check up. I admit that moire may occur with blurred objects with certain combination of animation.

Yes, we can do color management in future PicturesToExe as you see in this test application. If it's OK, we start this work.

Thanks for your responses! Honestly I'm not expert in color management yet. My understanding of this subject regarding monitors: 1. In desktop mode of Windows all applications can send only images in sRGB formats. Because Windows Vista/7/8/8.1 uses DirectX 3D technology to render the user interface. And Windows use sRGB textures to render interface of applications. So we can perform only transformation of Adobe RGB / ProPhoto RGB to sRGB color space. This test utility works this way. 2. The most likely it's possible to use more wide color space natively if use exclusive fullscreen mode of Direct3D. You'll get true wide colors of your pictures, but only in fullscreen mode (preview or EXE show), not when you work in the main window of PicturesToExe. This is suitable for professional monitors capable to display more wide space than sRGB. I'll explore this subject. P.S. Please take into account that images in JPEG in Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB color space have some issue with gradients, because JPEG is only 8 bit per channel.

jt49, Please look same JPEG with color profile in Photoshop. Compare opened image with right image in this test application. Do you see the difference? This test application should load two color profiles - embedded ICM in JPEG file and color profile of default monitor. Probably in your case the second profile was not loaded correctly.

Left image shows same colors as in EXE shows. Right image - with applied ICM color profile. Please compare colors with Photoshop.

Thanks, we'll try to add the color management in future version(s) of PicturesToExe. Please see my question here:

Regarding this topic Please download this test application: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/27544810/pte/Test-Color-Management-2.zip Click the Open button and load your JPEG image with a embedded color profile. The ZIP archive includes one sample JPEG image with a color profile. Try with this and with your files. You'll see two variants on the screen: 1. Without color management on the left side (like PicturesToExe - all versions). 2. With color management on the right side. Is it what you need?

I'm configuring the online help system right now. We need authors who could help to write selected chapters.

Right now we're working on the new online help system for PicturesToExe on English language. It will allow to download documentation as PDF file. Please wait a little.

Dave, Yes, on images 4:3 the effect looks wrong. Probably it's better to set fixed aspect ratio (16:9) for main image in the style? PTE can automatically crop the image.

Hi Dave! Very interesting! I'll test it on various images tomorrow. Thanks!

Dave, I understand that on the attached samples the mask effects were created manually according visual objects on images. But I think that several fixed variants of a mask also should give the nice result.

Who can create a mask for image and make a slide style to achieve this effect?

Vincent, Thanks for the test project! I couldn't reproduce this error message, but I see that 3rd slide consumes too much memory. I recommend to reduce a size of all pictures. If you plan your show for displays up to 1920 x 1080, you neeed to optimize size of images according their visual size of the screen. You have 4 large images (5184 x 3456 = 71 MB) on a slide and several medium size images. Masks includes very large images. Replace PNG images in masks by grayscale JPEG images and it will allow PTE to optimize this scene at least for mini-player and for playback of EXE show. Also reduce pixel size of masks images in 2 times. You should not see any visible difference.

Andrew, Colin, The PNG text on the last slide has a small size (405 x 272). To solve this small issue it will be enough to re-create this text image at 1280 x 860.

Vincent, Please can you send me this project (source files) in a ZIP archive? I'll try to reproduce this problem and then we'll able to fix it. If it possible, please upload ZIP file to Dropbox or Mediafire and give me a link via personal message.

I already replied you in two different topics that PicturesToExe 8 requires at least 128 MB of video memory and video card should support DirectX 9: System Requirements: http://www.wnsoft.com/picturestoexe/requirements/ With new features we can't provide support for video cards older than 10 years.

Richard, What video card installed in your PC?

Eric, Please look on the attached screenshot. Did you fill all text fields? What web browser you use? Try in another - Chrome or latest Firefox.