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excellent environmental images .. nicely done.

Hi Lin, although I'm comfortable in Photoshop I will check it out, it is faster then it's the better tool for the job. Regards, Sami

Hi, it did not take 30 years .. today I managed to crash PTE after dissecting DG " strips no mask " style then trying to produce different style. Searching the forum for this error brought me to this old thread, I taken it's not dummy proof yet. I'm not normal either!! Regards, Sami

Hi Lin, I think I got it .. it was aha moment!! also it will not work for irregular shapes unless there is other syntax I'm not aware of. I'll have to use masks then .. Regards, Sami

Lin, thanks for the style .. I am trying to figure out you guys are doing this by dissect this but no luck, it would be very helpful can do a little tutorial of the strips basic. I'm thinking of a project that require irregular shapes .. Sami

Hi, thanks for the explanation and pointing to the complex masks ... got it. regards, Sami

thanks .. much needed specially the splitter I could not wrap my head around why needed, crystal clear now. Sami

thanks Lin for the video tutorial. Sami

Hello, the property tab in objects and animation listed in the help document. http://docs.picturestoexe.com/en-us/9.0/objectsandanimation/main I am curious/confused about and usage particularly: Convert to Alpha Image Animated Image Hide Child Objects Thanks in advance Sami

I was wondering why PTE does not have click and drag to select objects in this panel? a basic window function to select more than one item. It would be helpful to have the ability to turn objects visibility to on-and-off similar to Photoshop layer eye icon, in PTE you have to turn the opacity to " 0 " to turn the object on-and-off. Regards, Sami

Lin, very good and helpful visual tool .. I'm also interested in learning the why and when you use certain object like "masks", "frames" and hidden shortcut not in the document. Maybe in the form of tidbits ... I just discovered in O&A adding the shift key control the Y and X rotation. best regards Sami

Lin, if I understand it right it is better to use JPEG as a mask in the mask not necessarily pure black and white. I'll try to create some with different degrees of tone/color to see how it affect the image. thanks again for your help Sami

Thanks Lin for explaining both .. I'll have to play little with both methods and see what I can come up with. If I understand masking in PTE it can be JPEG or PNG white reveal and black conceal, what about halftone or transparency. Obviously can't have transparency with JPEG

I'm interested in exploring cinemagraph & parallax effect in PTE!! Thanks Sami

thank you Lin .. this was helpful. Sami

Igor I sent support request for my old license to upgrade to v8 then v9, I'm a bit infused between your first and last post? please explain ..

Wow, maybe I should skip V9 and wait for V10!!

Great news .. hopefully everything goes according to plan.

nicely done and informative ..

Sure, count me in .. although I'll have to wait until Version 9 release, I'm still using version 7.0.17 I think.

I could wait for one month!!

Wayland, I suggested grace period since highly unlikely will be any update in the current version which include one-year update! I learned as in question about the new release is iffy sub subject and you get some weird reply!! I grow up in Egypt when someone tell you: one second it means one minute. one minute > check back in 10 minutes. in sha'a allah (God willing) > shot up and don't ask again.

Okay, I had the chance to watch the video and see what you mean, it's interesting. I know this for a fact with the preview you see in the back of your camera when shooting raw, I didn't know Lr generate a JPEG preview! Thanks for sharing

thanks for the clarification I'll definitely take it closer look later, apology if my question came across as questioning your motive. I understand you sharing something you find useful I shoot raw and never embed JPEG it is fair to assume that what I see in Lr is not JPEG. Preview in the back of the camera though is JPEG from the raw file therefore the histogram is not exactly accurate to the raw file.

how is this different from Adobe Lightroom raw conversion?