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I am so amazed at the wonderful people here! Thank You Al. That is easy and makes sense to me. jk

I am NEVER contentious. But...we enjoy randomized transition effects without tarnishing PTE's professional sophistication, why not some simple quick zoom/pan choices such as templates or randomization of selected zoom or pan effects. I think Google Screensaver accomplishes this quite tastefully with subtle pan/zoom. http://pack.google.com/screensaver.html This may not be so important as some things the programmers are now working on, but if it could really quickly be done by just adding a tiny button or two... Just a thought, jk

Dear Morturn, Merry Christmas! I have never seen in the Vatican like that! Maybe I will some day (but I despise people searching my stuff). Maybe once the world calms down a little... I like the way you see textures and patterns. I spent some time at your website. You have a knack for capturing things that are solid, strong and old. Yet you like ice cream! But, maybe you don't photograph it Thanks again, jk

Merry Christmas to you! Thank you for the slide show. I really like your winter pictures. I think BB has a point about the music. I like both music and pictures a lot, but the music makes me feel expectations different than the winter pictures show. The music does have a "sparkle" quality and inner warmth that makes me feel like I am watching winter with a warm coat on, so I think I know why you liked it for this show. Some of the tree silhouettes are so pretty. My favorite picture is the little bird tracks and scratches. Happy New year! jk

Guido, Merry Christmas to you and your family! May God bless you with strong recovery, and lots of good "usefulness" in the future We need you. I remember you from w=a=y back. Maybe about 1999 or 1899 or 1799, I forget which. Anyway, I discovered PTE and wasn't so sure if I should buy it or something called "Carousel" which also had lovely smooth transitions, high quality images and music. PTE didn't have music capability then, if I recall rightly. Anyway, I waited awhile and pretty soon PTE added music capability and I liked it overall much better. As long as I can remember you were one of the great "guru's " of PTE. jk

I don't know Mr. Evens personally, but in several years of posts I have been impressed at his vast knowledge, sensitivity, clarity and fairness. I have never known him to be either a crackpot or a liar. But he is very nice. That counts for a lot. His clarification regarding PSG doesn't seem to be taking any side--but explains the advantages of both PTE and PSG. He even says he owns and uses it. Nothing about it makes me think less of PSG. In fact everyone can download a free trial version and see for themselves. Which is better, a pickup or a sports car? Depends what you want to do with it. Results are more important to me than what people say, anyway. I have tried many products over the years including Proshow back when I downloaded a trial version from a bulletin board at 2400 baud (remember those days?). It was good then and is undoubtedly much better now, though I haven't used it in a long time. I am more loyal to a result than a product. PTE gives me what I want. But let's leave that behind us for now, OK? This is Christmas. I am enjoying a lovely screen saver of my family based on Mr. Evans Snowglobe template--it is so peaceful. Silent night, Holy Night, All is calm, All is bright... That is the song it plays as the snowflakes fall. jk

Thank you sir, for sharing your amazing talent. I can't imagine how much time you invest in making these things. But some people are just really smart, so maybe it doesn't take as long. Anyway, I accept your gift with deep gratitude and a bow (the leaning over kind of bow). Ok. A big pretty red bow too. A blessed Christmas to all! jk

What if Igor and team made a program in between PixBuilder Studio and Lightroom. It would handle Raw images, have a synchonizable editing, a good lightbox, exif editing, picture rating/tagging, etc. It would NOT require importing images, and would allow a few basic editing functions like ability to make selections and work with layers. It would be a FAST way to mass process a lot of pictures and yet be able to do a few of the really commonly needed functions like cropping, color temp, tint, curves, clone, heal, etc. It would be sold for a fair price. Just a thought. jk

Thank you for the lovely card (with the cutest little white bears) and the thought and heart behind it. Blessings to you all this Christmas and a happy new year! jk

I have been experimenting by attaching a picture to the corner of rotating rectangles to create a smooth bezier-type path. (I want to use this for a reverse-waterfall type diminishing perspective text effect) So far, not too satisfactory. But I think that concept could be applied to z-axis distortion with some really cool results. If someone smarter than me wants an idea to try....? jk

There is also this. It has a spinning world in 3d. http://www.download.com/3D-World-Map/3000-...1.html?tag=list jk

One of my favorite things about this forum is that you get to peek into other people's lives, imaginations, experiences and things they think are beautiful. What a Christmas gift!. If there was more time, we could travel everywhere on the world and under it and above it. More important is to fully appreciate right where we are. Because we can't go everyone--at least not all at once, we can live vicariously through others sharing. What beautiful creatures are down there! Makes me feel like Dory in Finding Nemo. I would love to dive and see those things--but are you ever afraid they might be poisonous? Or bite you? Or your air hose? Still it would be worth it. I was on an island in South Asia once where we could see all kinds of marvelous bright creatures in the clear water, but I didn't dare put my 30D camera under the water. jk

Guilt and duty call, so here is a comment (this kids will just have to go hungry a few minutes longer): Awesome! I always wanted to see an icestorm--today I got to! The pictures took on a bit of a journey from awe, to humor to pathos to the wonder of being a child again. Awe at the marvels of color and power of nature (Ok, so God actually does it); humor of the poor Rudolph with his bright and freezing nose; pathos of the loss of loved ones in the grave yard, set off by the hope of the living represented by the bright colorful flowers set against the dull gray stones of death; and best of all the wonder of being a child thinking of fairies and sugar plums, nosed pressed to the window, or reaching up with a mittened hand to touch the miracle of a million child-sized icecycles. When I was little my teacher had a piece of amber with a bug inside. That was so amazing! But here in these pictures you captured all kinds of beautiful things (no bugs--thanks!) inside a pure crystal kind of amber. One tiny complaint (please forgive me), but while the music is beautiful, it feels more like 11:00 PM in a large empty grocery store, than a little girl discovering the miracle of leaves and wire barbs frozen in winter ice. Thanks! jk

Thanks you for sharing. Your slide show is a reminder of some of the really neat things P2E can do with subtle zooming and various transition effects combined. My slide shows start by zooming like a mad rabbit all over the screen, then I have to slow them W-A-Y down before sharing them with others. I love to look at the slide shows, and can think of so many things to say--mostly I wish I could sit down by the author and listen to all the stories about each picture--but real life is so busy! Sigh... Still, thank you again for sharing something ELSE you enjoy other than just working hard all the time. The leaves, flowers, textures and colors and music are lovely. jk

You can start music at any slide. Just "Customize" the slide and add music at the "music" tab. You won't be able to see the wave form or "play" from the timeline though you can preview. There are other related limitations in the timeline view, but this is a method that works. You can also just customize the entire sound track in Audacity or some other sound editing program and add silence to the beginning of the soundtrack. Perhaps we will someday be able to move waveforms and multiple sound tracks around by dragging them--like we can drag slides around now. Did I dream it? or did Igor say he was working on something like that? jk

Allow "Customize Slide" Dialog to Stay Open. Right now, every time I customize a slide, I have to close the dialog box and open a new one for the next slide. Just leave the box open and let the user select one slide after another for some fast customization. Thanks! jk

Breathtaking shots and colors. They look so wild and free and beautiful. Makes me want to face the big yellow sun, spread my wings till they ache just a little, and launch out with the warm wind rushing past my face. jk

Wow! Thanks so much! I feel 8 years old again. I remember being at Grandpa's house and fighting with my sisters for the old wood-handled stereo viewer. We managed to break the handle off, but the pictures are still around somewhere... Where I live, I probably can't buy such glasses, but am working on a way to make some. The Internet is chock full of resources. Making your own may be best, because you can make interchangeable lenses red/blue/cyan/blue-green, even Pulfrich (light and dark) lenses Has anyone tried Pulfrich glasses (light and dark lenses) with P2E animation? What speed and motion types work best? jk

Such a silly question, but do you wear special glasses? How do you see the 3d effect? I have squinted and turned my head really fast and peeked with one eye and then two, hid behind the door and peeked really fast, swayed side to side like a snake charmer, turned my head to the side and looked sideways. Sometimes I think I can see it and then it is gone. jk

Just press Tab or whatever and a tiny slider bar appears at the bottom of the screen for 3 seconds. It allows you to navigate quickly to a new location in the slide show. Kinda like a video or audio player. It may as well include a time estimate for teh slide show as well. jk

I hope I am not too bad for posting this message here, but can't help myself. Happy Thanksgiving to all! Even to my British friends. My British friends say they celebrate Thanksgiving on the 4th of July because they are so thankful to be rid of us rebellious Americans who only dump perfectly good tea into the ocean! All such "rubs" aside, I am truly thankful for each of you, my friends. I am thankful for so many things I can't begin to say here, but I am really thankful for P2E! Most of of all I am thankful to God. jk

We can copy and paste objects on the screen from one position to another. Good Presently we can copy and paste objects with child objects to another location in the same picture or even another picture. Good! It would be helpful to drag and drop one object onto another object within the Objects window. Example: button could be dropped onto three different picture objects within a window. Example: I quickly make a button and realize I accidentally made it the child of another object. I just drag it back to be the child of the object I intended. Options to include in this feature: 1. Ability to choose to Copy or Move the object 2. Ability to choose whether to keep the original size of the copied object or have it resized to fit the scale of the target object. 3. Ability to choose which (if any) child objects to copy. jk

If what you want is to have the same arrangements of buttons and text on another picture, then you can just control+click on the objects you want on the screen, and then copy and paste them onto the next picture. Everything is all lined up exactly the same. Now that is =F=A=S=T! Another trick (follow this closely): 1. Arrange some objects (text, buttons or even animations) like you want them. 2. In the Objects windows, select an object with all of its child objects that you want to copy to another picture 3. In the Objects window of the new picture, Select the Object (usually the main picture) where you want to copy the objects and paste them there. 4. Note: If the object you are pasting to is a different size or orientation than the object you pasted from, then you get different-sized pasted results. Hope that is more clear than muddy. Maybe someone can make it simpler with an animation or something? Yes, a click on/off grid would be helpful! The grid should should be scalable. When fading from one picture to another which contains the same objects, the objects should be perfectly aligned. jk

1. Filenames with Chinese characters are not recognized by PTE. The file is displayed with question marks in the character locations, and the file is not recognized as a picture image. I use Lupus Rename for batch file renaming, but it also does not recognize Chinese characters. So...unless someone has a working idea--I guess I just can't use Chinese characters in filenames for now. 2. PTE does not allow Chinese characters in Comments or text Box objects. What you can do is create a PS image using the symbols you like and use that. 3. PTE does everything else I can think of, so we can live with that for now jk

My equipment may have not helped much to make this prettier--but it didn't need to. Those fall pictures are sooo lovely. I really liked the blue blue sky and the water reflections. What I really like is that you used a iphone to get them. I am not anti-professional, but I am a little bit anti "I am a professional" mentality if people let that limit their photography. What I mean is this: Life is more than a camera; photography is more than a photograph; a walk in the park really is more important than hassling a Hasselblad (it even has too many letters to spell). Recently I was traveling by hard seat (mostly poor village people and students) on a train across China. People were splayed in gruesome positions trying to sleep. One sitting on the floor, head lolling back in a neighbor's lap; another leaning on his neighbor's chest, looking for all the world like the remains of a hanging victim. Mouths gaping open. Sprawled on the floor like war zone aftermath. All I had for taking pictures was my 30D buried in a backpack so it wouldn't get stolen. Besides, how to pull out a $2000 piece of machinery the size of Texas, screw up your face, adjust your zoom and "CLICK" away? Now, the lady beside me had an...you guessed it...iphone. She happily snapped away without an apparent suspecting person. Then we would look at her pictures and giggle, making the hours pass a little more tolerably. Before we de-boarded, she showed me one last appalling picture--one she took of me sleeping. jk