SilverSurfer

Hello, I have found image quality to be good on a comp using JPEG compression at 95% quality. You may also consider making the image have a lower DPI (dots per sqaure inch). This will reduce the dimension size of your image. 72 or 96 DPI should be fine for viewing on a comp. You want 300 DPI for printing. I don't reccemend using TIF or BMP. These formats are large in file size. Only use them if you want the data of every pixel preserved, which you probably don't need. Only use GIF if your image has only 256 colors. You may find PING to be good for what you need. Its sort of an alternative to GIF, but for true color images. It supports 16, 24, and 32 bit color very well. General rule of thumb for me is, I always use JPEG at 95% quality. You can make the image a bit smaller without compromising quality by much using a Progressive JPEG. IrfanView supports all the image formats mentioned. SilverSurfer

Hey all, The suggestions I made are common features in mulitmedia authoring programs, and also used extensively for web pages. They would make a slide show more interactive. I think they could be implemented fairly easily. I love the object editor, but does not have the functionality I have described. You can however, make an image itself a link. But it does not have any image roll over effects. Hotspots give you alot more power. They are used extensively in multimedia applications and web pages. For instance, with hotspots you can make an image map by drawing hotspots on certain parts of an image (such as a picture of the earth and its continents for instance) that are associated with different links. You could have a hotspot on top of each continent, which is linked to a P2E page with pictures of that continent. Such as zebras in africa, or whatever. This form of user navigation is known as a Image Map. You could actually make an image map without hotspots by slicing the image into peices and align all the pieces next to each other, so the image looks like one large image. You could then link each piece of the image with a link to a different P2E page. Website developers use this "old school" method to create an Image Map as well. SilverSurfer

Hey all, One thing you could do, is have your slides in P2E show on a timer. And then use Camtasia to video capture the P2E presentation. Then convert video to MPEG-2 and burn onto DVD. My hunch, is that it would just be best to just insert your single images in a DVD authoring program and make a DVD menu to navigate the pictures. That would probably be the best way to go. SilverSurfer

Hello, I love Pic to Exe! It is a great program! However, here are 4 features that would dramatically improve the navigation of pics within a project. It would really spice up Pic to Exe very much! 1) HOTSPOTS: Have hotspots for linking to other Pic to Exe pages (and websites and external files). For instance, you could create rectangular hotspots around little thumbnail images on a page. The user clicks on a thumbnail image, and the larger image gets displayed on a new page. 2) IMAGE ROLLOVER EFFECTS: For instance, a user drags their mouse over a hotspot that is on top of an image. The image then gets replaced by a different image that looks the same, except it has a glow effect. To the user, the image appears to glow when the mouse is dragged over the image. This feature would also be very useful for picture navigation. I suggest having 3 different possible types of image rollovers that occur on: 1) Mouse Hover, 2) Mouse Click Down 3) Mouse Click Up The actual "link command" in the hotspot could be associated with Mouse Click Up. 3) SOUND EFFECTS FOR HOTSPOTS: Be able to associate a sound file with a hot spot. For instance, when you click down on a hotspot a .mp3 or .wav is played that makes a "click" sound. 4) SHOW & HIDE IMAGE COMMANDS You would use these two different commands in hotspots as little scripts to hide and show images on mouse events (e.g. mouse click down, mouse click up, and mouse hover) For instance, you could create a hotspot over a thumbnail image that triggers the following script on mouse hover: Show("BigImage1") Then create another hotspot that is underneath the smaller hotspot (but still on top of image thumbnail), but is larger, thus making the smaller hotspot surrounded. In this hotspot, you would insert the command: Hide("BigImage1") triggered on mouse hover. The result is everytime you hover your mouse over the image thumbnail, the bigger image gets displayed (on same page). And when you move the mouse away from the thumbnail image, the big image gets hidden. You can do all sorts of neat stuff with this functionality. And if you can apply the "Show" and "Hide" commands to hotspots, you can do even more cool stuff. These features would make a Pic to Exe project much more interactive and exciting! SilverSurfer