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Hi Jill, thank you for your reply. I was kind of suggesting a slightly more radical idea - randomisation of every setting! With an option to deselect those parameters that you want to stay firmly under control. I am a fan of accidental discovery, which can result in beauty or total chaos (!). But sometimes when an accidental collection of settings produces something useful then the goal is to learn how it happened, reverse-engineer it, then be able to recreate it. I find that with computer-based creativity there is sometimes a pattern of tending to use the most common options/settings. It may be the most creative setting is buried 3 or 4 clicks down and gets missed. Oddly, I tend to use very few transitions per se, using my own methods instead.

As a musician I use a lot of music software. It is quite common to have a "randomise parameters" feature within software plugins that allow for ...well, random setting of parameters. This is useful if the parameters number 100+ etc. The inclusion of chance allows for the possibility of accidentally stumbling on a setting that can produce interest and stimulate creativity. I wonder if @Igor you have ever considered this as an option within PTE?

Fantastic!

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Absolutely, I wonder what @Igor would say about this?

Hi Curious if provision could be made to apply LUTS to slides within PTE. I have a large collection and would find a use for this! B

ok. I was reinventing the wheel! lol! Igor has said that JPEG are the only images that work in PTE for IPTC. Appreciate the help though Dave @davegee B

I have just done an experiment creating a blank file in affinity, then loading test IPTC/XMP into it. Seems that the text profiles for pulling IPTC within PTE work with jpeg, but not tiff. Maybe it was mentioned in the manual but I did not see it? EDIT: I used a blank test file in case my IPTC/XMP was corrupt

Hello Dave - thankyou for the quick reply. Actually I had already seen this before. I am actually returning to PTE after a time away so am a little familiar with it. What I am struggling with is that PTE does not seem to be finding my IPTC which is strange. I use Imatch for metadata which is normally very precise. Have attached an example of an IPTC command that is producing nothing - just blank. Very strange!

Hello I am wondering if there are any specific guidelines for using IPTC to populate a text box in the objects and animation section? So far I have not had any success with "caption" which I presume refers to IPTC "description". The metadata exists and can be found by DXO or Imatch but does not seem to pull through from tiff files within PTE. In fact no IPTC seems to show. I use sidecar files - not sure if this is an issue though as the IPTC is embedded anyway. PTE latest version, Windows 10 Any suggestions appreciated. Thank you. B