Barry Beckham

I never picked it up at all, now I feel a plonker

Dave, so you started all this . Dam and blast

Glenn There isn't an easy way with version 5 of PicturesToExe. It would require a work around and would start to get complicated. As JEB has already been said, you're being a little ambitious as a newcomer to PicturesToExe with 500 images. That is not a great way to go, except in some really special cases. No-one on this forum would recommend making a slide show as a newcomer to the software with 500 images, its just that some may be reluctant to tell you that. The best answer here is the one above. Invest $35 and get the latest version, then what your asking is easy and you can do exactly what you're asking. Apply your zoom to 1 image, a 100, or all 500 instantly. Update HERE Scroll down for upgrade info

Dave You have summed it up pretty well in that paragraph above

Yes, that is something worthwhile. Add a thin line or even a distressed edge to all or the chosen images in a show.

No, I haven't tried either method, because I am wrapped up in other things at the moment and I would expect the author to have higher resolution images than were posted. So, if anyone is going to have the best success, it may be him. Having said that, if he doesn't have PS then its rather a waste of time anyway

Then a manual align via the distort tools in Photoshop may offer a second best option

Craig I think Jean-Cyprien has a point. Photoshop, if you use that program, has a powerful tool called auto align and while I have used it and been amazed by it, that was generally with two pictures taken in quick succession. However, Jean-Cyprien's suggestion made me think. There doesn't seem to be a good reason why Photoshop and auto align cannot work its magic on two pictures taken years apart, worth a try. Place the two pictures as a layered stack, select them both and choose auto align, then ok.

I think the two images will probably do that almost on their own given that one looks older. The older one already has a sepia tone and that should work well to convey age. Try a page transition from bottom to top and see how that looks, but check out the page options in other directions too.

Vulnerable to what?

Steven I think that ain't a bad idea and I have always done that in the past myself. This time I broke my rule out of curiosity and it's cost me a lot of time so far. 1. Upgrading to W10 and finding only generic graphics card drivers are installed. The originals are too old to be upgraded by Radeon. This impacts on Photoshop and filters and probably other stuff I never got to discover. 2. After talking to Radeon tech guys over a number of days and being certain there was no help there, I took the laptop back to W7 as Microsoft says we can. 3. Windows 7 installed, but now NONE of the USB's work, so no graphics tablet, no mobile internet while we are away. 4. So, now another factory re-set from the backup built into the laptop by HP. That is underway as I type Later: That seems to have got all systems functioning again, USB's all OK, graphics cards back in play.

Basically the same reason I tried it, but with better success than me. My laptop must be just old enough to slip outside the timescale where Radeon will upgrade the two graphics cards. They have an upgrade for one, but not the other and the machine needs both. Apart from this it works OK and I found my way around easy enough

Tom Surely there is a lot of difference when you upgrade to a software you actually use to produce something, like PS or PTE. The incentive is new tools, better ways of doing things and sometimes ways that change your workflow and even your ability to create images more effectively. I am thinking of how PS now deals with contrast and PTE animation An OP doesn't have any impact at all, unless they claim its much faster, which they always do anyway. There is always some risk when updating Windows. So, when you only use W7 just to run PTE, I am interested to know what Jeb felt he would gain. He could have said that he realises there is no measurable gain, but wanted to see what W10 was like while it was free, but he started to worry about life being short. I recently did much the same thing and broke my own ideas of only upgrading when a new computer was built, but W10 said my laptop was compatible and it was free. I had a bit of time on my hands and decided to take a look because I felt i could not ignore it forever. it installed OK, but after a few days i realised no graphics card software had been installed and that impacts my ability to use the laptop to demo photoshop. Some things will not run. Sadly, the laptop, which doesnt seem really old to me is not destined to have drivers written for one of the two cards in the laptop. The upshot is I either live with the upgrade and genetic drivers for the ATI Radeon cards, but that prevents the laptop from being used for the main purpose is was originally bought, or return to Windows 7 So, back to Jebs question and mine. When your only using W7 to drive PTE on a Mac, where is the gain, apart from curiosity.

I am confused, whose hackles have been raised by such a non controversial question. I hope you don't think it was me because I said why bother. I only asked why bother because I wonder how an upgrade on a mac from W7 to W10 will impact your making of slide shows with PTE?

If you're only using Windows 7 solely to make PTE work on a Mac and it is working ok, what would be the point of upgrading to W10? PTE will work fine on W10, but what is the gain from upgrading an operating system just to run PTE.

I wonder sometimes if you have gone so far with PTE, that you have difficulty looking back to a time when you didn't know A newer user of PTE will think of that option straight away, I'm sure

I don't think it matters what slides have been used in the style, just that a style has been applied. It also has to be remembered that the vast majority of users will have no interest whatsoever in rubic cubes or anything similar. So, I am not sure a rubic cube is a good example to use to suggest the idea has little merit. Presumably, Styles were introduced to speed up the workflow for those who need to repeats things. That's exactly why I use them and I say that being able to know if a slide has a style or is animated wouldn't be a bad thing. Is it vital, especially at this time? No, but nice to think about for later? Yes Anyway, as I have said before, there is only one person we need to convince.

Would it matter though? I have a few slide styles I use each month where graphics are applied to a blank. All the shows in the slide list is a blank and there is no indication that an image will appear and its not a traditional blank. It then makes it difficult to know where a visible slide is in relation to a real blank slide. Having said that we don't have notification in the slide list that animation has been applied either and we all seem to get on OK with that. Is it a big issue? No, would it be nice to have? Probably, but it would also have to show in the Time Line too. I personally rarely use the slide list and do everything in the time line

This could be a suggestion for Igor, because I think you have a point Craig. I can normally tell by looking at the thumbnail, but not always and if you add a slide style to a blank slide it just shows blank. A small S in the corner of the thumbnail would do it

Thinking about it, Content aware crop isn't really new. It's been there for a while now in the form of Content aware fill. Adding it to the crop is a good choice and speeds things up, but it was there.

Your welcome

It does seem a little odd on SSC that you can add a review and a comment and they live in different places

Larger images shouldn't cause that, I have made shows with images directly from a 20mp camera and they work fine. Re Installing is the first step. some years ago I had a pal with a similar sort of issue and it was a jpg image that seemed to be causing the issue. It took us ages to find the one, because it showed up ok everywhere you expected it to.

I think you will find its the usual false positive

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