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==================== Peter, How cool it is that you had the same problem!!! So I am not toooo crazy. But, I know for sure that I have not hit any key to put it into a 'Pause' mode. It has happened way too many times and I am sure I would have caught myself doing it. I think you did just what I did...you found a key that would bring it out of the freezed-up mode. In my case, it was the right mouse key that sometimes worked. I just tried several time starting the "Preview from current slide" and hitting the space bar, but it would not cause the freeze-up. So maybe it was not your hitting the space bar that caused the 'Pause'??? But thanks for recreating the problem.... Thanks, Gary

==================== Lin, Thanks for your explanation and offer. But I don't think I would want to go this route. I am currently working on a slideshow with about 170 slides. If I understand you method, I would have to include this mask 170 as an object in each slide. And if I change my mind in size, color or gradient, I would have to do it 170 times again. I would prefer to be able to do it within PTE so I can see the changes right there. It would be nice if Igor could come up with a mask within PTE to do this, that works just like the Screen but is effectively like the mask you discuss. Thanks... Gary Jean-Claude, Thanks for that video tutorial. My French is zero, but I will get my wife to translate it. But it looks like you are using a mask created as a PNG and inserted as a copyright logo. That, I think, would help in making it easier to insert the mask into all slides with one click. Thanks for the help. Thanks...Gary P.S. Just had a thought. What would happen if the slideshow was viewed at a different display resolution than what you had created it as???

Greetings, When I make some of my slideshows, I like to have the Screen set around 95% so that a boarder surrounds the images as they play. However, when I zoom in an image, and the image gets larger, the image will cover the boarder. Is there a way to keep the boarder that I created in Screen so that it does not get covered by the image when I zoom in? Also, this problem comes up when I reposition an image so that it covers the boarder created with Screen. Say I move them way to the left or right to put on several image in one slide. It would be nice if I could control the 'Order' of the boarder to tell it to 'Bring to Front'. Is there a way to do this now or should this be a request to Igor??? (I am sure there is a way to make a frame in Photoshop and bring it into the show for each slide but want the flexibility that we have now within the PTE program to make the adjustments to the boarder as to size, color and gradient.) Thanks... Gary

Greetings, Ok, Peter. You said you had all weekend and needed another 'special'. Another strange thing has been happening to me. After I make a change in the show, I Right-Click my mouse to 'Start Preview From The Current Slide'. I see it start the 'Running Preview...' but before the Preview starts, the program freezes. It just sits there. The keyboard has no effect on getting it unfrozen. Usually I have to hit the X to close PTE and open it again. Sometimes, hitting the right mouse button gets the Preview to then start. This has happened many, many times with different PTE shows. Any thoughts??? Gary P.S. Now that I have posted this, it will probably never happen again!!!

Peter... I was hoping the problem would reoccur so I could analyze it. But nothing yet. I'll keep checking it out. The PTE show I am working on is getting over 45mb...a bit large for posting it. But if it does happen again, maybe I can pare it down to a reasonable posting size. I'll let you know if/when it happens again. Thanks... Gary

==================================== Peter... Glad you are enjoying my 'specials'! When I saw the 'expanded' images, I just fixed them (changing it from child to parent), not thinking that it would happen again, so I did not pay too much attention to it. But I am pretty sure that, for the images that had 'expanded,' the images were 'parent' and each had a 'child' image attached to it. Hope I got the terminology correct. I didn't do anything beyond defaults. Modes are 'Fit to Slide', no animated keyframes, no unusual parameters, etc. I just plopped in the images and resized them. In each slide that had the problem, only one of the images in the group of images was a child to one other image...by mistake. I try to not do the parent-child thing with images or text, so there are less complications involved. I have another 'special' brewing but I have not had time to post it. Stay tuned... Gary

Greetings, Something strange has been happening with the current slideshow I am working on in 5.52. In a few of the slides, I have put 3 or 4 images. I resized them to fit using the handles on each image. On several occasions, when I went back to look at them in O&A, I found that one of the images 'expanded' to a larger size. I thought at first it was just me doing something I did not catch at the time. However, I have found that this has happened at least 3 times with different slides that I have 3 or 4 resized images. Only one of the resized images in a group would be expanded. I had to resize them down manually again. I don't believe that I have been doing it inadvertently. So I am wondering if anyone else has come across the strange event. Thanks... Gary

================ Peter... Thanks... I have used the method you state that works in PTE: using a black background, dumping the image, inserting another image, adjusting the image's size, leaving the black background as the boarder. However, I was interested in putting black frames around images, when there are 2 or more images together. So when a part of one image rests on the part of the other image, a black boarder shows up on the image that is on top (with a black background). Your Method 1 works for me. However, I have Photoshop V8. I fiddled around and found the steps to be a little different. Here is what I found: Select/All Edit/Stroke/Width:50x/Color:Black/Location:Inside/Mode:Normal/Opacity:100% If there are better steps, please let me know. Thanks... Gary P.S. But I was not successful in getting the black frame to be placed outside the image, only inside. So the image gets cropped a bit. Any way to get the black frame to be placed outside the image??? P.S.S Oooooohhhh... I just discovered another way, using Canvas Size. This is good because it does not crop the image. It places the frame to the outside of the image: In Photoshop v8: Image/Canvas Size/Height:50 pixels/Width:50 pixels/Color:Black This works just perfect. Thanks for getting me to work this out... Gary P.S.S.S..... More Oooooooohhhhhssss... Another discovery... I made the Canvas Size an Action in Photoshop, using 50px. So if I want to make it bigger, I just run the Action a second time, or a third time. Super neat!!!!

===================== Damn, Don...Dramatic!!!! Really nice effect and perfect music! Two questions: 1-What macro lense did you use? 2-The white frame around the images: Can you create that effect with PTE or did you do it in Photoshop? Gary

================= With YouSendIt, you can send an exe file. But be aware that some email programs will automatically reject exe files, so unless you are sure your client will take exe files, it might be best to zip the files. Gary

====================== You can try: http://www.yousendit.com/ It is free and they will host files up to 100mb file, for, I think 7 days. I've used it many time for large files. You upload it and a notice is sent to your client for them to download it at their convenience. Gary

============== Greetings... Are you sure??? I have been working on a large slideshow and today, it happened again. For this show, I had dumped the image in each of the beginning 8 or so slides and just added text objects. And everything has been going along just fine. But today, the Comment's filenames got blurry again and the show stops at slide #117, while the music continued to play. Everything else locked up. I went back to look at these beginning blank slides and, to my amazement, those empty text objects had reappeared. I dumped them and replaced the Comment's filenames with slide numbers for the entire show. The problem disappeared. I noticed that, when I had the Comments display the filenames, the filename did not appear in the blank slides where I had dumped the image (in the past, I could be wrong, but even though the image was dumped, the filename did appear). Since I had added more images, I must have reset the Comments to show filenames, which recreated the problem. So, you might want to go back and look to see if you have any slides where you dumped the image and just put in text objects and have the Comments show filenames. Igor said he found the problem and should be fixed for the next version, but I wonder if you, in fact, had any empty text objects that, maybe, you did not know about. Gary P.S. Just noticed. Even though I 'fixed' the problem where it will run, the last 2 Comment filenames are blurry. Strange. Hope Igor fixes this. Even when I change the filenames to slide numbers, the last few slide numbers are still blurry. Dunno.

=========== Brian... I just gave the program a try and it is pretty neat. Thanks so much for making life a bit easier. The program is extra neat because you can reduce the size of the image so that the subjects fits better into the little 96x96 size. Thanks.... Gary

================ Ronnie... I always like to hear others' opinions. I find it interesting that you think the discussion has been 'done to death' and you want to 'move on'. But then you add your own opinion, which I would want. That brings us up to $1.02? I'd say let the discussion continue, encouraging others to post their thoughts, not suppress them...$1.03... I even learned to use the arrow keys from one of your comments. Thanks again. Gary

=================== Gee whiz. I don't think I was trying to mandate that everyone has to put in some controls in their slideshow for the viewers' sake. It was only a suggestion that I thought, at least for me, gives the viewing of PTE slideshows one more dimension. I think we'd better tell Igor he had better remove the 'control' features and the Navigation Bar from his program before the AV police find out. Gary...

Yea...but a 4-minute badly produced slideshow can seem like 2 hours.... Gary :P P.S. Ok, I yield!!!!

============================ Ok, you're getting a little silly now. That is not what I am suggesting. Why go to that extreme? I don't want to take away any of the production values of the slide show. I like to see other people's creativity exactly how they want to have it created. I'd just like to be able to use one of the very nice features Igor has put into the program, whether it is the default setting to permit control via the keyboard or the Nav Bar. Next time you rent a DVD movie, you are NOT allowed to pause/resume/go back or advance!!!! If you miss what someone said or did, you have to start the movie all over again and watch from the beginning!!! How about that??? Gary

Gary, well ask yourself why they don't. Maybe it is because it destroys the flow of the show which the author has worked hard to achieve. That is the point of Audio Visual unless we are creating a presentation that demands user control.

================== Thanks... I checked out Morning Glory, too. Yes, a good way to inform viewers how to control the show if they want. I still feel that the Navigation Bar that you can create within PTE is so simple and easy and you can control how long it stays on the screen and its size, color, etc... is the way to go. I just like to have the ability to pause/resume anyway that I can get it. Thanks...Gary

==================== Igor... Thanks, Igor. It was driving me nuts. I see what you are saying. I see that I accidentally put in an empty text object in Slide #1, which was a black slide, and I copied that slide several time to add actual text objects to the copied slides. These empty text objects were very small so I did not see them. I just dumped them and the problem went away. It was an accident but it is good that now it will be fixed so someone else might not have the same problem. Thanks so much... Gary

============= The Pause Key on the keyboard does not always work. Nor does the Spacebar always work, either. Most of the time, nothing works to Pause the show or any way to move around from image to image manually, if you want. And if you give the show to someone who is not familiar with all these keyboard possibilities or tell them to download a show from Beechbrook, I don't think anyone will figure it out. I have been downloading other shows and I rarely am able to control a show. I did not even know that after hitting the Spacebar, that the arrow keys would work until Ronnie mentioned it above. Thanks...Ronnie! I know some don't want a viewer to have any controls but I think it is a big mistake. I would prefer to have the Navigation Bar appear when I move the mouse to be able to Pause, go Back or Forward. Maybe it is just me but that is what I hope more PTE users would put in their shows when the post them on Beechbrook, etc. Thanks... Gary

================== Barry and David... First of all I found the images in the slideshow to be terrific. As an amateur photographer and a fan of travel, I hope David will expand on the hows, whats and whens of this trip. But, I am glad that Barry opened the door a crack for critiques. We don't see much of that but I find it interesting to get opinions on the different shows that are posted. Contrary to Barry's feel for the music that David selected, I found it just right. I thought it matched my sense of what the area is...quiet, serious and thoughtful. I agree that glitch in the middle of the music should not be there. And I do feel that the music selected is really critical to the enjoyment of the show. One thing that I might add about slideshows in general is that I really dislike it when the Navigation Bar is not included--and I think no one does except for me. So many times I would like to pause at a slide, maybe to just start at it, or call my wife to take a look or just to answer the phone, etc. And I would like to go back to a particular image. Most require me to start from scratch. Yes, some allow the Pause or the Mouse to be used but by the time I figure out what the show allows, it is too late, and usually can't go backwards to view an image. I would like to encourage people to put in the Navigation Bar, which can be hidden and appear only when needed. It would make watching the shows so much easier and enjoyable for, at least, me... Great show... Thanks... Gary

=================== Thanks, Igor. I just sent them to you. Gary

==================== Yes, that is exactly what I was doing. But read what I said in my post to Peter. If I am doing this right, it appears that doing the copy/pasting of text will work (if you want to keep the text the same location and size) if you make sure to not have the image selected when you paste the text to the new slide. When you would paste it from a horizontal to a vertical, I would think all you had to do was use the left arrow key to slide it over so that the vertical position would not change (if you wanted the text to be actually in the image). Gary