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Wow Fred! How can I repay you for that response? Don't you realize that I spent all my money on the 1ds???? I'll tell the kids that we don't have to panhandle tomorrow because I'm going to make some money!!! HA HA HA! Seriously, you really gave me a lot of great advice. Thanks. I want to use Proshots eventually. Millers, my lab, gives a lab credit for it (250.00?). I agree about the learning curve. I remember that WPPI or PPA gave classes for it. I just wanted to keep a little "mystery" with my clients and not have them watch the retouch or cropping proceedures. Doesn't Proshots have a slideshow too? How would you campare it to PTE? When you say to manually run the show, how do you show the files? I guess I only know how to create a slideshow by making a .exe file (create file as) under the file menu. How do you make the autorun.inf file? Also, I timed the show under customized synchronization and set up the timing points along the line, trying not to make the grey transition points within .5 seconds of each other...did I read that right in the old forum notes? I think that was where the "blinking" was coming from. I can't figure out why the duration of each slide would change and some, not all slides needed a mouse click to transition while others moved fine. I thought I chose to keep the mouse off! Is this nuts or what??? Thanks again, Michelle

Thanks for the response! Everyone has been so welcoming in this forum!!! That sounds like something that I'll have to spend a bit of time on. I'm trying to spearhead these presentations through (get them ready) by tomorrow. I just bought the Canon 1ds and used it while I had the guts...without thinking of the presentation side of things!!! Now I need to present slideshows and be able to sell frame-by-frame where I once used a slideshow projector(...so much quicker before). I have to look forward though! Is there a photographer out there with advice on using this software for a sales tool? I used to run the slides in the slideshow and then one-by-one take out the ones that my client didn't want and then compare the remaining. Any techniques for "tagging" or comparing one with another? Also, any advice on the slideshow changing after I burned it to cd? It ran so perfectly before burning!!!!!! Should I throw it against the wall??? Thanks, Michelle

It worked! It worked! Thanks Ron! Michelle

Is it possible to start background music on the second or third slide? I'm trying to get my title slides including transition fades in before the first portrait that my client sees, so the words to the music can come in as the photo arrives. Up to that point silence is good. Also, when a new song plays, I want to shorten the gap between the two songs. I've been placing my own timing points and I realize that they can't be placed too close together because strange things happen! I'm also having a problem with the transitions after I burn it to a cd. On the actual slideshow, before burning, it has perfect timing and fades...as many times as I want to play it. However, as soon as I burn a copy for another computer, that new copy is different! Even when played on the same computer! Two slides (consecutive) keep re-playing twice and my timings are different when the slides appear. What's up with that?

Thanks everyone...now I can see why just saving doesn't do the whole job! Okay, now that I've selected "create" and the program did it's work...Does anyone have the time to tell me how to actually get it on the cd and make it so that people don't see the "guts" of the program and just the actual presentation? I pushed "create" and "save slideshow as" and there it sits (after it's done with the work) I've tried to copy it onto 5 different disks, each using a different method. I must not be isolating the actual show because I'm not given the chance to put it into an actual file to copy it with my cd copier. I know that this is super basic stuff! When I get really good at this, I plan to answer other people's bonehead questions to return the favor!!!!! Thanks! Michelle

Thanks David...you're awesome!!! I really appreciate your reply. I will take your advice! I've spent all day on this. Thanks for saving me!

I'm a brand new pic to exe person(as of today)! I thought that I would be able to make a slideshow on one computer and copy it to disk (C.D.); then play it on my laptop. It works fine on the computer that created it when I play it from the same disk. My laptop seems to need to have all the music and image files previously loaded to run the slidesshow. What if I want to make a disk as a gift to a friend...do they also need all the files previously loaded? Am I crazy or what? It says"Pictures not found"and "Sound files not found" Can anyone help?