jerrykr

I'm pretty new around here, and this site may already be known, but in case it's not: http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/music-blog/ I found it today, and have not used it, but it looks promising. Dig down for the Free Personal Use Area. Cheers, -=- Jerry -=- /*

Ken, Thank you so much for your kind reply. -=- Jerry -=- /*

Thanks Al, That's a good tip, I will file it away in the grey matter --- somewhere! As you say, the blending is extremely good, and everything is automatic. Your images don't even have to be in order. One of the keys to a good pano, tho, is to get a good consistant set of images out of camera. Autostitch can deal pretty well with full auto shots, taken handheld, but as always, good input = good output. I just have a feeling that Autostitch's capabilities are judged on the default settings, and folks move on to other software based on what they see from those settings. Cheers, -=- Jerry -=- /*

A couple of months ago, I registered PTE, and just have not had time to dive into it. Yesterday I printed out Lin's tutorial about getting started with Ver. 5. Thanks for a great tutorial Lin! I was able to make a basic slideshow, and even learned a bit about using Ken Burns type motion. Still a ways to go on the learning curve, but the timeline and keypoints are starting to make sense. Now to the question: I remember from browsing this forum earlier, that there were a couple of recommendations given for software to edit mp3 music files to fade in and out, and set the length to match the length of the slideshow. I have looked around here, and can't seem to find the threads that I saw earlier. Would anyone mind posting a link to a favorite editor? Free would be preferred, of course. Thanks so much, and I look forward to starting to hang around here, and make some good slideshows. Cheers, -=- Jerry -=- /*

Autostitch is a really good pano stitcher, but you have to realize a few things about the free version. It has a fairly primitive interface, as from what I can read from the students, it was meant as a demo of the stitch engine for the purpose of selling the engine to someone who would integrate it into a better UI. This seems to have happened, but luckily the free demo is still available. You can't specify the output file name, it always outputs, "pano.exe". So create a new folder for each pano picture set, put your images in that folder, and your output files will land there and won't overlay each other. Running Autostitch at default values will very quickly create a first blush version pano, useful to decide if you are going to get a decent stitch from you input file set. You will be disappointed in the quality of the pano if you stop there. After you have decided that your pano is going to look good, and crop out well later in your PS editor, go into "Options" and bump 3 quality settings up from the default numbers to 100%. Start the stitch up, and go get coffee. It will take much, much longer to do this stitch than the default value run. The time spent is well worth it. The detail in the resulting stitch will be stunning. If you have not tried Autostitch at 100%, give it another try. -=- Jerry -=- /*