igoforit

Thanks to all trying to help me - I really appreciate! A quick update on where I am: - I calibrated my XP laptop and ran the exe file on that laptop with XP. Again, these 2 pictures seem to show wrong. Wrong means that the highlight area shows too bright versus how I see it in preview mode or when I look at the image in photoshop. - This afternoon, I ran it on yet another XP computer with nVidia card which I calibrated. Again, the exe file shows these 2 slides too bright. - Then I made a slideshow with just these 2 problem images in and created an exe file. Now this exe file shows both images the way they should! So, for sure, the calibration is now not a problem. Same computer, same images, same version of PTE... So, now I have come to the point that both of my hypotheses were wrong: - The slideshow is replacing the pictures correctly, so that is not the reason why they look different in preview and exe mode. - The reason they look different in preview and exe mode, is probably not due to calibration not working. Taking out both slides is not an option. So, probably this evening, they will be shown too bright in the highlights... So, any further ideas? Thanks. Jos

Peter, Thanks! I guess that almost all of us sooner or later make an error with the color profiles we're using. So, I immediately thought you might have found my problem and I immediately checked the color profile in my images...they are all sRGB... I will try to calibrate another laptop and check how the exe file then loooks on that PC. If the problem has to do with the calibration, then clearly the problem should be there with all scenes, not just these 2. I have only clearly noticed the problem with these 2 scenes....perhaps the problem is less visible in my other slides due to different subjects??? I don't know. It is strange I don't seem to notice the difference with the other slides.... Thanks for your help, Jos

Brain, With animations I meant Pan, Zoom and Rotate effects. I did use the "Save As" before. I used the create button before, but have now also tried the menu option => fact is it looks like the same problem still exists. Fact is that I deleted the pictures and PTE did not find them anymore. I marked them with text, and I could see them appearing where they should. Fact is, it looks different in preview from running the generated exe. Regards, Jos

OK, I see that I have not been clear (actually I was confused myself). The problem I had with 2 pictures was that the face of the model looked too pale. So, I edited the picture and gave it more details in the highlights. So difference in the picture was in the appearance only, not about the content of the picture as such. When I previewed the slideshow, the adjusted pictures in no way were still too pale, but in the executable, they were still too pale. So, I thought I was still looking at the old version of the picture instead of the new version. That was until I simply put a text on the new picture. Now I could clearly see that I effectively was looking at the same picture in preview and in the executable. Except, the appearance of the highlight area was different, and in these 2 images, this is disturbing. My monitor is calibrated using the Spyder Elite3 equipment, but clearly, the slideshow in preview mode and in executable mode do look different. So, probably in one of both cases, the profile is used and in the other case not. My guess is that calibration is working during preview, not during the actual executable. I hope I now clarified a bit better my problem. Jos

Thedom: Thanks I tried, but it didn't solve the problem. I am quite sure now the problem is not the reference to the correct image but the calibration that doesn't seem to work the same way in preview as when playing the executable. Jos

To Ken and others trying to help me: Yes I did try the "Create As" with a different name. In the mean time however, I learned that the problem is not exactly as I described it. I put a text on the new picture to make sure I would recognize the new picture. Well, the preview and the Create both show the correct picture actually, they just don't show it with the same gamma. It looks like my calibration is not in effect when viewing the created executable but that it is in effect during the preview. Any chance that this is possible? This is on a Dell Vista with an Nvidia card calibrated with Spyder Elite 3. I had noticed before that the calibration did not work on my Medion PC with XP and an ATI card, but I had read on these forums that that was a known problem. Thanks in advance for further ideas... Jos

Thanks to all of you for your help. Unfortunately, it is still not resolved. "Save As" did not solve it (I tried it once more but without result). Then I moved the slides I want to use to a different folder. I openend PTE => error for missing files I pressed the "create" button => error for missing files I saved PTE under different name in the status with the missing files. The I moved the files back in the folder where they belong. I open the PTE project that was saved with the missing files. It now opens correctly. I look at the preview : everything OK. I press "create" and check the result....I see the old version of the pictures again. It drives me crazy... Is it possible that the images are verified against some exif data and if the exif data is not changed, that it keeps working with images in the cache???? Thanks in advance for further suggestions, Jos

I urgently need a solution for the following problem: For a slideshow I need to present on Friday I still have one problem with 2 slides in the show. Problem is that I was not happy with the images, so I edited them to make them better. When I now look at the show in preview mode, both slides show the adjusted picture. When I then create the slideshow again, the result still shows the old picture, even though I deleted that picture from the folder! So, it seems that somewhere there is a cache of pictures and replacing the image does not always update the cache, but it will show correctly in the preview mode which probably doesn't get its picture from the same cache but gets it from disk directly. The show was prepared with v5.1, but I just downloaded the v5.5 beta 8 version, and it has the exact same problem. It shows the old version of the picture, not the new one. One of both slides is a rather complex one, with 6 images layered and with complex animations, so I would like to avoid to completely delete the whole slide and to start all over again. I have tried to replace the main image in the timeline view, but that only replaces the thumbnail I believe. I also went in the animations screen and deleted the picture of a layer and the added a new picture to it. In preview this works perfectly....but I can't compile the executable to show the same. Any suggestion how I can overcome this problem? Many thanks in advance, Jos

Special thanks to Jean-Pierre and Al! You are artists and you clearly know all about PTE. For me, I am still trying to grasp how exactly you did it all -even with the projects shared - but eventually, I will. I am still completely new to PTE, so I still have a lot to learn. I can see and understand the value of having the ability to control the transparency using a separate alpha layer and I would greatly appreciate such a feature. In a way, it is my search for this capability that brought me to this forum. Thanks again to all people who are educating me here! Jos

Ralph, Thanks and it looks quite interesting. However, I am looking for the effect without the images moving. Thanks anyway for the effort and for my education. Jos Al, Many thanks and congratulations! This comes closest indeed to the effect I am looking for. Could you share with me the actual project, such that I can study (and try to understand) how you did this? Thanks in advance, Jos Dear Ian, Thanks for the nice effect. I may use it one day, but it is not based on mixing 2 images as far as I can see. Maybe I should not have used a sepia and color slide to illustrate the effect, I should have used to completely different pictures. Still, you achieve a very nice effect that I really like. Thanks again, Jos

I am impressed with the speed of your replies and the effort you put in it. My working day has been terrible (just finished a presentation for tomorrow - it is now 1.30 am in Belgium). I hope tomorrow will be better and I will surely give all the suggestions you made a close look. Thanks already! Jos

Some time ago, I launched the question already on dpreview, but I was kindly recommended to launch my question on this forum - which I am doing with this topic. Here is a picture of the result that I want to achieve: http://jos-echelpoels.smugmug.com/photos/130462540-O.jpg In fact, this is a case where 2 similar images are layered on top of each other. The top one is "opening" by 2 lines, one shifting left, the other shifting right. Even if I could achieve the effect without the (in this case white) line, I would be happy, although I like the white line effect very much. I have seen the effect even with 3 layers on top of each other, but I guess (at least hope) that if I know how to do it with 2, I can also manage with 3. Some of you have been very helpful already in adressing the topic on dpreview. Here is the link to the original topic: http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/readflat...thread=21504091 The easiest for me to understand how to do it would be if someone could share with me a project with the effect included. You may use the pictures below to demonstrate me the effect in PTE if you want. http://jos-echelpoels.smugmug.com/photos/130462544-O.jpg http://jos-echelpoels.smugmug.com/photos/130462548-O.jpg Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help me with this! Jos Echelpoels http://jos-echelpoels.smugmug.com/