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Hi, Dom, I commend you on your fine, rainy day photos. However, I agree with Wideangle: the curl is not natural. Here is the reason. Pages naturally curl so that the line along the tightest portion of the curl, parallel to the page plane, is straight, whereas this one is outwardly convex. Your long-time fan, David

Hi, Maureen and Ken, Aptly named site. I can imagine the spiffy slideshow titles. You have both pointed me toward useful resources. Best wishes, David White

Hi, Dom, Thanks for sharing your gorgeous pictures! The excellent mask effect enhances the apparent photo depth. I admire your photography and ingenuity. Best wishes, David

Hi, Bob, Your hike at Escalante pleasantly reminded me of my stop there in 1971. Although that visit seems a long time ago, thirty-seven years is but a mere blink compared to the time since these rocks were deposited and are now so beautifully incised here. The music complimented your photos nicely. Thanks for the show! David

Hi, Peter, I tried your rotating dome and also noticed a rightward rotation near the end. Intrigued, I enabled keyboard control and noticed the same phenomenon during the dome's descent each time that I manually stopped rotation with the shift key. At the risk of presumption, I would guess that our brains are similarly wired. Thanks for the diversion. David

Hi, Bob, Glad that you liked the opening Prokofiev tuba. Too me, it's a bit like Jackie Gleason dancing, just the thing for our thirty-three-foot lawn ornament. :>)) I take your points about the fast-paced slides. I also appreciate the space-bar pause, which allowed me to savor the glowing hoodoo in your "Valentine" show. Thanks for writing. David

Hi, Neil, Thank you for your kind remarks. Regarding the under-tree lighting, I rely upon the bit depth of RAW files to bring out shadowed areas during post processing. Becky and I enjoy our daily morning walks in our woods, and the zooms simulate that. We expect a nice crop of wildflowers following the rains, which might very well inspire another slideshow. :>)) I appreciate your comments. David

Hi, PTE family, After the late January rains, the brown, shriveled landscape has been re-animated. :>)) The Greening, Windmill Pond http://beechbrook.com/pte/index.asp Best wishes, David White

Hi, Igor, Your remedy cured my ATI Radeon x600 full-screen gamma problem. I followed your instructions, installing The new Catalyst 8.1 drivers, then running your ATI Gamma Fix linked at the top of this thread. I wish that I had done this earlier, but I mistakenly believed that my card was too old to benefit. Thank you very much for creating this solution! David White

Hi, André, Thanks for researching the Radeon x600 Omega driver peculiarities. I'll re-install them over the ATI 7.12 drivers and see what happens. :>)) Best wishes, David White

Hi, André, In response to your inquiry, I tried the Omega ATI drivers. They did preserve my gamma settings in full-screen mode, which certainly confirmed your endorsement. Interestingly, my CPU usage in idle mode increased to over 50 percent after the installation. I concluded that this is because some of the Radeon x600 video card's hardware processing has been replaced by that of the Omega software. Thank you so much for the Omega link! David White

Hi, Lin, The times reported above appear to be for mpeg-2 rendering only (menu disabled and no burn). Your Pentium 4's should do quite well. Regards, David

Hi, Patrick, Thank you for sharing your beautiful, comtemplative show. Best wishes, David

Hi, Ron, I was also confronted with the grayed-out "paste slide" option when attempting to move slides between projects. Despite this obstacle, "control-v" still worked. David

Hi, John, Glad that the show played played well for you. I've had some anxiety about it faltering on some systems. Nice to know that the quartet is special to you, too. Best wishes, David

Hi, DaveG, I didn't consider that clipping might occur. Here are the show's screen options: Windowed mode without border (preserves color settings despite ATI cards) 1280x1040 Hardware acceleration (D3D) Solid color (black) 100% of the slide to show main image In retrospect, I realize a couple of ways to reduce the bulk of an overweight file: One of the shots was zoomed to 383%, but the lower magnification of some did not require their high resolution. Of course, you and Jeff are correct that trimming unused perimeters from zoomed images reduces processing overhead. Thanks for your comments. Best wishes, David

Hi, Neil, Sorry about the display problem, and I believe that Lin is correct about the reason. Every image is 3888x2592 in order to allow deep zooms while maintaining screen resolution. The original project was huge, 278 mb. So I compressed the shots to about 2 mb each (Photoshop level 7) and reduced the project to 57 mb. But the graphics hardware is still burdened with the original pixel dimensions. Considering the jerky performance on your machine, I should have cut the resolution as well. Best wishes, David

Hi, Lin, We call the great white stone by his marker "Moby Rock." John, Becky's father, chose it a few months before his death. To me, it's almost as though he now owns the woods. Best wishes, David

Hi, PTE family, "Visiting John" is a virtual hike through our canyon and woods in the foothills of central-coastal California. When we're too old for our morning walk, we can still watch this. Visiting John at Beechbrook Cottage: http://beechbrook.com/pte/index.asp Best wishes, David White

Hi, Bob, This comment about Haydn's "Creation," Part III may be what you remembered. http://www.picturestoexe.com/forums/index....ghlite=trombone Best wishes, David

Hi, Nick, If you want repeatable slideshow formats, check out TheDom's template technique. He uses numbered, dummy slides associated with pan, zoom, and rotate values. The user simply numbers his/her own slides and substitutes them for the dummies. This is an easy way to clone slideshows with repetitive animation characteristics. http://www.thedom.fr/share/links.php Best wishes, David

Hi, Jeff, Your photos are superb, and the music accentuates the raw, inhospitable setting of one of Nature's most splendid art galleries. I am inspired to drop everything and hike through Melting Canyon, to feel the rough and smooth textures of the colorful, iron-rich strata, and to explore the graceful, wind-carved niches for myself (and that's just Part 2 of a fine trio). Congratulations on your beautiful shows. Best wishes, David

Hi, Andrew, Congratulations on your long, seamless zoom! And by the way, while Helicon Focus is a fine product, the freeware focus-stacker, "CombineZ" is effective, too. David

Hi, DaveG, The 1461x2100 image is no. 5 (the purple thistle); it's zoomed to an extreme of 181%. 1461/1.81 = 807 2100/1.81 = 1160 At 181% zoom, the image dimensions are less than that of my monitor. Therefore, the resulting interpolation yeilds a degraded image. In fact, just as you have stated, many of the images are zoomed beyond the criteria for best definition on our monitors. DaveG, thanks for your input; As a result, I'll probably not fail to "do my arithmetic" for subsequent shows. Good guess about "frets3," which alludes to my guitar. Best wishes, David