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Fred. The best site I have discovered for high resolution mapping imagery is NASA. There is a huge number of images of all parts of the world to choose from - and they are free. Their Blue Marble imagery includes rotating earth images of several kinds. This link http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002700/a002708/ has a quite long, impressively smooth, rotation in various qualities from 3MB MPEG-1 to 254MB full screen DV. The rotation can be paused (frame by frame if needed) and screen grabs/digicam shots made as desired. Hope this helps. Malcolm

Igor. Thank you for the info on Radeon video cards. I have a Radeon 9200, so guess I will have this Gamma problem with executables produced by PTE Version 5. I use PTE mainly to burn DVDs for showing slideshows on a TV. Please could you advise whether the AVI/Video TS files produced by PTE Version 5 will exhibit this Gamma problem on machines fitted with a Radeon card, or is it just a ".exe" problem. Many thanks in anticipation. Malcolm PS. Well done to you and your team for your superb efforts on Version 5.

This is what works for me in Photoshop Elements 3: 1. In the Editor screen, left mouse click "Window" at the top of the screen and select "Info" from the drop down menu. This will display the Info palette. 2. Select the "Line" tool from the ToolBar (located on left side of screen in my default Elements setup). 3. Left mouse click on the first point on your picture and hold button down. Keep mouse button depressed and drag Line tool to the second point on your picture. 4. DO NOT release the mouse button. As you move the mouse from the first point to the second point watch the Info palette. This will display: the X and Y coordinates of the line; the angle of the line in degrees from the horizontal; the Delta X and Delta Y values; and the length of the line between the 2 points in your photo. Make a note of this information because, once you release the mouse button, the information is lost Hope this helps: Malcolm.

One of my interests is video and video editing (using Adobe Premiere Elements software). As a new PTE user I have been struck by how similar the issues and techniques relating to the new features in Version 5 are to the issues faced by video editors. In particular, the question of the optimum size of an image to enable Ken Burns effects (PZR in PicturesToExe) has been debated extensively in the Adobe Premiere Elements Forum and solved for TV display. The following link Adobe PE Forum is to the FAQ on the Forum which explains in detail why, for TV display, high resolution is not necessarily a good thing and can be positively bad. It also advises what the essential minima are. To access the web page click the "Login as Guest" button. As an example. In the UK PAL system, standard TV displays have 720x576 non-square video image pixels. This is equivalent to a digital photo image of 788x576 square pixels (453k). For PAL 16:9 widescreen the equivalent digital photo image is 1050x576 square pixels (605k). At first sight these seem very small image sizes, they are even smaller for NTSC video, but any more pixels simply will not be visible on a TV display. The video rule of thumb for zooming into still images is that to scale the image to 2 or 3 times the TV screen size the still image needs to be about 1.5 times each linear dimension; scaling the image to 4 times the size of the TV display needs about 2 times each linear dimension etc. Hope this helps. Malcolm

Ron. Thank you for sharing your excellent tutorial. The project approach, with lots illustrations, worked really well for me, as a PTE novice. Regards: Malcolm