bripat

I have loaded a brief show on Beechbrook, titled Just for a laugh, in which the intention is to draw some humour from some pics I have accumulated over time. It would be interesting to see if it generates a chuckle.

Thanks, Bill, I think I've got it - I have added links to both shows. Regards, Brian

Dave, thanks for this response. As you probably know, the music is Pachabel's Canon. The pics are mine using a Canon EOS400 with EFS 17-80mm lens and were literally made as we walked and canal-cruised during the limited time we were liberated from the cruise ship (in Oct 2008). There are more faces in my original show, but many are my wife and she doesn't want publication. Just for the record, you may notice in the slide just after the flower market, Bill Clinton was seen cycling with flowers, presumably for Hillary! I find zooming the most difficult to judge and object to the inevitable shimmering. Point taken. On my earlier post, photographing in London, it was more discreet to use my compact Panasonic DMC-TZ7 which includes an effective long lens stabilizer. Regards, Brian

Hi, Antbrewer. The music is En Bateau by Debussy

Thankyou to all above for your comment and compliments. I have just uploaded another show to Beechbrook and have asked for assistance in the procedure for providing a direct link from here to my particular items on Beechbrook. If you can help, I would appreciate it.

Amsterdam I am on an ego trip, having just uploaded my first PTE show. There is, or will be shortly, on Beechbrook a sequence of shots during a day in Amsterdam. Comments/ critique would be appreciated

British museum Mar 2010I have viewed this site for many years but I have not published shows because mine are almost always personal records of family and holidays. But here is a starter of an afternoon at the British Museum. Like others before me, would appreciate comments and advice to develop the art further. This can be located as British museum Mar 2010

Anyone reading my previous post, please ignore it. The old images I used for version 6 trial were previously bordered and I had just forgotten that significant point. Just goes to show why I am categorised as a junior member! Sorry to bother you. bripat

I have just downloaded version 6 beta 20 and am delighted with the potential of 3D effects. But the images open, by default, with a border/stroke. I searched intuitively for the means to cancel this without success. Could someone please provide instruction to do so. Is there yet a user guide from Lin or others specific to version 6? Thanks, bripat

Thanks for that Al, you have confirmed what I suspected. I shal try to stick to .exe files straight onto my LCD TV. Brian

I have been using this excellent program for 4 years and always displayed results directly from a laptop to either my LCD TV or to my digital projector/screen. The image clarity is excellent. I recently had need to produce a DVD, for distribution to family, a family event .exe show. I used ROXIO My DVD software. I followed recommended settings such as interlacing, but the picture quality from the DVD on TV and Projection was noticeably inferior to that directly from my laptop. I had believed that the digital process would give effectively a cloned image quality.. What is the experience of forum members in this respect? Am I expecting too much? Would it ever be possible to achieve equivalent quality on DVD? Brian

Am now fully converted to V5 with its challenging features and opportunities. I use PTE for family and holiday pic slideshows and have always set up the 'control slideshow' feature to pause on left click,exit on right click, mousewheel to go forward/back. This is to cater for requests by viewers to linger on a pic of latest grandchild or great vacation view. But this control feature is not yet operational in V5,beta6. Could admin give an indication when this feature can be activated. Thanks

Am now fully converted to V5 with its challenging features and opportunities. I use PTE for family and holiday pic slideshows and have always set up the 'control slideshow' feature to pause on left click,exit on right click, mousewheel to go forward/back. This is to cater for requests by viewers to linger on a pic of latest grandchild or great vacation view. But this control feature is not yet operational in V5,beta6. Could admin give an indication when this feature can be activated.

Thankyou ADB and Ken Cox for prompt response. This indeed is the link I was referring to. I did initially use the search facility but typed "photostitch" and so got negative response.

I'm pretty sure that while browsing this forum a little while ago, I came across a link to a site run by college students offering a free download of photostitch software. This being particularly pertinent with the intro of v5 beta. I would like to take advantage of this . Can anyone help to provide the link please.

Ok sorry to be so dumb. I'm now better educated, Brian

Thanks again for this tip Ken. I have just created a Zip file of latest project, saved it to my audio visuals folder, but when I click to open it I just get the option OPEN without any recourse to opening from v5. So I get same notice as before and end up opening v4.48 apparently with no alternative, thus not able to extract my show. I'm reasonably competent otherwise, but this has me stumped. Can you spare the time to help further? Brian.

Many thanks Ken for prompt reply. I have now retrieved my beta 5 first exercise and have moved the beta 5 download to my Program Files. Brian

I recently downloaded v5 beta 3 and positioned it on my desktop leaving v4.48 independently installed. I have used v5 for my most recent vacation slideshow but when I select "save as" for the pte file I get a warning notice "project files created with Pics to Exe v1.00-v1.60 are not supported now OK" I press OK to get rid of warning (there being no other option) but find on trying subsequently to open the file ( for second thoughts improvement to the slideshow) that my hard work has disappeared. ie the pics are no longer shown on the work panel. Fortunately I created an .exe file so I have my first effort but nothing to return to. Has anybody else experienced this and how can I securely save my work. Help please you expert guys and gals!

P to X supports gif files and I have used Adobe Image Ready to create an animated gif. file which displays the intended movement when opened as a stand- alone file, but when imported into a P to X project,just displays a static image. What can I do to achieve the movement seen on the excellent Granot productions. Brian Brasier