Barry Beckham

Our screens have difficulty in showing fine detail sometimes and you will not see those divisions when the slide show is viewed at 1920*1080, but as you point out they may show if someone plays the show back on lower resolution. Nothing much can be done about that I fear apart from make them at a resolution where there is little chance of that happening. You could make your show 1023*768 so the 1023 is divisible by 3 and as long as that size is reflected in PTE, it should be fine. Alternatively make the centre three shapes 1 pixel larger. Do the shapes really need to be exactly the same size to the pixel? Regarding screen printing. In this scenario I have no wishes to deprive anyone of the ability to do that. Its simply that I use a template to make slide shows and it is a part of the template that I just forget about. If it helps I can pass you a link to a show where the print restriction has been removed, but I am not sure how that will help you. Sorry about the file size, but there are 4 images and quite a bit going on in two of them and they are fairly big. With regard only one Executable file, you can make as many copies as you like or download another from the link I posted. I am not sure what the issue is here and it is nothing I have done, I wouldn't know how. In addition, and if the technique demonstrated was something like what you are aiming for I will give you a link to a tutorial, but you never said what you wanted to do with the 9 oblong shapes. However, the creation of them may be useful to you

Greg Yes, that is nothing new, but someone did ask recently about making artwork in Photoshop with 9 equal oblongs. I had time on my hands and well, this is it. Creating the artwork isn't difficult or timeconsuming, but it does demand a reasonable knowledge of layers.

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caperucitaroja My apologies, I seemed to have asked the wrong question about screen resolution, which I now regret asking. Please forget I ever asked.

What features do you mean Eric? I see they have made a few good improvements to Elements 10 apart from one. In earlier versions you could collapse the palette well on the right hand side and it cleared the screen for the image. Now they don't allow us to do that and a whopping great palette well sits there all the time. I don't know, but suspect they are taking advantage of the fact that most people are working on larger wide screen monitors and they must feel that its OK to have the palettes there all the time. Shame, but a small point I suppose. They now have content aware built into the Spot Healing brush and it and the standard Healing Brush are extremely good, as good as Photoshop. If you havn't found them yet, the Healing brushes are like an automatic clone to some degree and blend in the pixels you paint, very clever and make dust spots able to be dealt with at 2 per second. You will enjoy Elements 10, its pretty good

Lin It think it was a reasonably assumption to make based on my gut feeling that most people are using higher resolutions. That seems to be backed up by one or two surveys I have seen that quote 80+% of users are using a resolutions above 1024*768. I think its also reasonable to assume that if the same survey was carried out among photographers the figure would be at least 80% and probably higher. I don't mean to insult anyones choice, just thought the task that was asked may have been a little easier at a higher resolution.

Judy. Generally software defaults to what is likely to be the most used, which is common sense really. I don't have any figures to prove it, but my gut reaction is that more people turn this feature off than leave it on. Hence my view that its currently set the wrong way around. This has been compounded by about 3 people contacting me for ways to turn it off and one posted on this forum. Being able to set your own default or make templates is OK for the initiated, but not a great deal of help for the newer user.

Can I ask why the need to create your artwork at 1024*768, I am sure your not using a monitor of that resolution. What is your monitor resolution?

This is the point I made with almost the first beta of v7. That nav bar should be off by default.

OK, I understand, can't think of any reasons at all can you Over and out, jack plug pulled

Dave A club can't encourage new work by banning anything over a 1/3 years old. People produce new work because they are inspired to do so by their interest in what they are doing. You can't legislate for the old guy still using slides, you have to accommodate him. If you try to cast your net of rules under those circumstances far too many innocents get caught in the net. A club doesn't need rules for the one odd person. Rules is rules. But the AGM is sometimes a good place to change this if you have the backing of sufficient numbers of members. We should never have foolish rules like that in the first place. How can you justify such daft rules by saying rules is rules. Do you really think that a rule like that is going to radically improve the standard of a camera club. I just fought against another stupid rule recently regarding AV and mainly PTE and I lost. Here is it word for word from the motion that was passed.“FullMotion video capture (above 8 frames/sec) must not be includedunchanged from video cameras, however simulated motion (eg stopmotion animation) by manually sequencing a succession of stillcaptures may be used for effect.” This is the typical response of camera club committees to anything new, I have seen it so many times Ban it !!! Its the last thing we should do, but plenty do and enough people rolled over and accepted this one. How will the organisors know if the video is above 8fps for sure. How would competition secretaries be sure images were less than a year old? Its not hard to sidestep is it. A quiet word in the ear of anyone who abuses good sense is a far better way to deal with issues rather than rules which are just unjust and wrong. Take the scenario of the member who spends a fortune on a once in a lifetime holiday, being told after 12 months that he can't use any images from the trip. Just not reasonable is it.

Paulo Yes, I think I did use one of them a year or two ago and it did pretty well, but it wasn't until I looked back that I saw I had a few more that could be used. However, a local club to me (not the one I joined) has a rule that images used in competition must not be more than 3 years old and another Australian club I saw in the internet yesterday limits images to be no more than 1 year old. I am not sure what the motive is to ban images that have never seen the light of day or been used in any competitions simply because they were taken a while ago. As far as I can recall, my Canon images don't come with a sell by date Perhaps someone here can suggest what the motive might be for a rule like that. It would rule out any image I shot in the UK because I have been in Australia now 3 years, is that a fair and reasonable rule? I don't think so.

It was the music that inspired the slide show this time rather that the usual route where we need to find music to go with images we have alreay shot. I was just lucky that after several visits to the balloon fiesta I had just enough images to make the show. In fact I think I am right in saying the track never existed when the pictures where taken

I think AVG should be congratulated. They have given you all so much enthusiasm to write reams on this topic Note to self. I wonder who will tell me this is a serious matter doing damage to AVG and PTE? :lol: :lol:

Created in Version 7.03 best viewed at 1920*1200 Top of the page here http://www.beckhamdigital.co.uk/slideshows_3.html

Igor The last Dell monitor I bought would not work correctly untill I removed my previous DVI cable and used the one that came with the screen ? I will get around to it shortly

Igor Yes I have thought about that, but it is such a pain in the but to do it. I have all my wiring neatly in troughs up under the bench so everything is very tidy, but of course swapping things over can be a pain. Both of the Monitors are connected by DVI, the troublesom one is W7 64 bit the other is Vista Pro 32bit. I will get around to swapping them over as soon as possible and will report back what I find.

Igor I am using a Dell 2709W monitor, but I just tried something I had not done before and tried the same slide show on my wife's PC with the same monitor (Dell 2709W ) and the slide show plays without that distortion. (the PC spec and op system is different on her PC and its 32bit) I then tried the slide show on my other Dell monitor, a later model attached to an older PC and the slide show plays fine there too. I had wrongly assumed that the distortion was a feature of flat screen monitors. I cannot find any settings on the Nvidia card on my machine to affect the distortion. My PC is the only one of the three that is 64 bit. Where does one find this turn off of overdrive pixels? The refreshrate is 59hertz, but other settings available don't change the distortion. For those interested the show is posted here http://www.beckhamdigital.co.uk/slideshows_3.html Its called Beautiful Dawn. I went back to a black starting image despite the distortion

I think your right Tom, but if anyone knows how or if we can combat it, perhaps it's Igor. Its the little things like this that make a difference.

Igor I am sure I am not the only one to have noticed this, but on flat screen monitors a fade up from black can display some odd things on screen. I am not sure what to call the effect, but its not very attractive. I think its on par with the moire effect. It seems to be worse fading up onto a monochrome image. Is there anything that can be done about that. I have tried moving away from black to a dark charcoal colour and adding noise, but I would rather stay with black.

Regarding the white background. I felt sort of forced to use that because with the coming of flat screens I am not happy with the fade up from black anymore. Its hit and miss and on the first image in this sequence it was awful. I almost posted a query for Igor to ask if there is anything that could be done about that in the programming of the software. On the old CRT screens the fade up would have been perfect. Tried a charcoal colour, tried adding noise, but I didn't like any of them. I think your right about the white on this occasion and I have now changed it, but I am not totally happy with the slow fade up of the first mono image. Judy Its very hard to sell photographs these days no matter how good they are. Many photographers have had to close shops in the perfect location. Why? I can only guess that everyone sees themselves as an expert and tell themselves that if they really wanted a picture like that, they could take it themselves. A good friend of mine is in this position and has had to start teaching photography as well, or his shop would have to close. Generally speaking, Mr and Mrs Average don't see any value in photographs. How many times have you been told. That's a lovely picture, you must have a good camera !!!

Version 7.02 Anthony I don't disagreeand as I use PTE on my tutorial disks I am not too happy for AVG to be classing them as Viruses, but its been going on for a long while. If there was an easy answer, I guess Igor would have discovered it.

Colin. You say that as though I should be doing something about it? Dump AVG and use something else that you can have some confidence in.Seems to me that AVG has become worse than useless to PTE users, so why tolerate it? Beats me

http://www.beckhamdigital.co.uk/slideshows_3.html

As some of you may know, we do have a number of albums of Music on our web site that is offered to photographers for their digital projects. The muscians have recognised the issues amateur photographers have with copyright and have allowed their music to be used for low level comercial use. Low level use means those who may want to use the music on a commercial venture and a good example may be a wedding photographer who wishes to use music and sell a commercial product. The numbers of products will not be high and therefore the license covers that use. One of the muscians Richard Goldsworthy has just sent us his latest work called Lifted. His music is soft, gentle solo piano. You will find the album and samples of the 15 tracks at the top of the page HERE