Barry Beckham

BB Yes, you are missing something. Make your slide shows at a higher resolution than 720. The two formats you may want to look at are 1920*1080 (HD size) or 1920*1200 (many moderm monitors run at this format) The reason is that you can always reduce the size of your slide show for any other projects, but once you make a slide show at 720 pixels your stuck with that rather small size. Its like setting the quality option on your camera low because you only need low res images for a particular project. Once shot, your stuck with low res images. Shoot the images as high a resultion as you can, because you can always downsize but not upsize..Same with slide shows For example, If you made your show at 1920*1080 and a little later started dabbling in Blue Ray disks or DVD's for modern TV's. Then you will be well set for all eventualities. I have a tutorial slide show on my web site, that might help a little. Its the 6th one down on the page below, called image size http://www.beckhamdi...digslidesw4.htm

Purchase PicturesToExe and you can install it on both your desktop and Laptop. Most of us already do that, so you should have no concern.

Douglas This isn't an idea I would ever recommend to anyone wanting to learn any new software. If you already have tutorials, why not use what you have then? Are they PicturesToExe tutorials? Is there something wrong with them that makes you want to look at disecting an already made slide show?

Eric. Why would I bite your head off because you give me the answer I am looking for. I'm not from Yorkshire........ If I don't know something and a kind person points it out to me, I don't get annoyed I am gratefull. Its only arrogant people who believe they know everything. However, its not that setting I was asking for. In your screen grab you can hardly see the outside area I meant. See the two screen grabs enclosed. Igor. Did you try "Save and Use by Default" funtion in the Properties tab of Image object? This will automatically add border to all new images. Thanks Igor, that is a setting that got in well under my radar, thanks for pointing that out. Thanks also for the advice with the sound. I'll take a look at another way of feeding sound to my amplifier.

I was using the border option in the Objects and Animation screen to add a one pixel line in gray to various images, but I became frustrated that every time I went into the controls it went back to the default setting. Is it possible to make this option stay on the last settings used. It would be so much more convenient. In the Objects and animation screen and also the mini player, I would like an option (like Photoshop) to change the colour of the backgrounds. (the area oustide the picture area). There are some effects that I can only see clearly in a full screen preview. I would love to be able to change those background colours so I can see them in the mini player. I also use Headphones a lot, while working in PTE and there lots of noises that seem to be caused by PTE. Is that just my system and if not, is that necessary?

Bert That was an interesting slide show. What a place, I would love to be let loose in there for a few hours. Quite a shame to see it going to rack and ruin, but on the other hand as a pristine building it wouldn't have half the appeal. There looks to be lots of salvagable stuff still in place. I enjoyed the show, but do have a couple of comments, the first of which is that you won't please all the people all the time:rolleyes:. I thought the HDR worked very well with this subject, but the colours were a little overpowering for me at times. I always take my Photomatix HDR images into Photoshop via Camera Raw. I find that helps me to temper some of the worst effects of HDR, like excessive colour, noise and sharpness. I thought the animation was measured and was just about right for my tastes. I like animation delicate and I havn't seen any fast zooms they add anything to a slide show. They also don't always work so well with images this size. By the way it was nice to see full screen images filling my Dell monitor too. The show looks impressive at that size. I thought the music worked very well with the haunting appearance of the place. I would loved to have seen a few close ups of the super textures inside the building, rust, flaking paint etc and the white line around the edge is a bit powerful for me. I am a supported of a thin line, but not too thick or too bright. Have you thought of making it a dull grey. It will still do the job, but without causeing any distractions. Lastly, if I ever come to NY, will you take me there?

Edwin I hope I have your question right here, but there is a blue icon down at the extreme bottom right of the main PTE window. That will take you into a lightbox where you can drag and drop images and change the order at any time.

Jerry and Lois Your not going to be able to do what your want here. You cannot have a logo appear in the same place on every image, if some of those images do not fill the frame. Unless you accept the text partly on the image and partly on the border that you mentioned. You would have to do what Peter suggests and apply the logo to every image, but if the images and text are different sizes, that would look pretty awful I would think. It would almost defeat the very reason for using PTE in the first place. I assume you want to use this method of presentation because of the visual benefits, but the logo will destroy that, to a large degree. Do you mind me asking why the logo is so important and then someone may come up with an alternative idea that might suite your needs

Ray I see you posted this query on the Beckham forum too, but don't seem to be getting many answers. Its unusual for the key not to work, once you have one. That isn't a typical problem for PTE. However. your posts here and on the beckhamforum have tailed off. Sometimes that means a solution has been found. Have you stumbled on an error you were making putting in the key? I have fallen into lots of those traps before, and I was going to ask that you check that you are in fact copying the entire key. Go back to the original email and follow the instructions once again. If your using windows 7 try installing the software again as an administrator. If you have a solution, please let us know you are now up and running

Snapcam Can I ask what you are concerned about, with regard the public saving the show?

I have no idea what an iPod touch is, but you have answered my question. I have never looked at the iPad in any detail, just assumed is was a small mac.

No-one seems to be mentioning the Mac version of a PTE slide show. Am I right in thinking that a slide show made for a Mac, cannot be played on an iPad. It must be converted to video first???

Round the world trip is it

Jeff I am not sure I can find two Av's under 7 minutes combined, if I read it right, so the two entries being from different people will attract the full £20 I expect. What does the entrance fee fund, do you know?

Great photography here. Good seeing eye and lots of variety. It does make you want to visit China, when you see a sequence like this. The music was good, but I agree with someone else who said it could have done with a bit more variety there, but it is a small point. I liked the simplify affects too. I am not so keen on such big text, I think it will be just as easy to read if it were smaller. Smaller seems to be more stylish to me, but again its a small point and more of a personal one.

Well, they certainly bury the entry form well, so you have to seach for ages to find it and then they want £10 per entry. I was thinking of sending one from me and the other half, but that seems rather a lot of money to enter an AV competition.

Now, how would you define ‘Dramatic images’ in your terms? Anything that stands out from the run of the mill photography. and do you have any? Obviously not.

Davy Define good weather in the terms you mean here?

But good weather is no guarrantee of good images, in fact the most dramatic images are often shot in not so good weather.

I think emoticons can have a use in forums because its important sometimes to let people know, what your saying is being said with a smile. Or an attempt at humour can be misread and dummies start flying out of prams.

Greg Why did you have to ask that question. The truth is I havn't seen it.

Davy The humour on this occasion went over my head, sorry. Forums can be a great source of information, but they are also notorious for making life far more complex than it needs to be on accoasions. I was more concerned about others who pick up on the post and think they must create a show above 20MB.

Davy Not sure why, but I'm going along with Barry B's advice, that all AV's should now be above 20mb in size I managed to pad this one out, to tip the scales at just over. Firstly, you seem to have the wrong end of the stick. I have never given advice that a slide show should be over 20 MB. I am in favour of keeping them as small as possible, while retaining quality. The size is determined by the content of the images anyway. Secondly, if you don't know why your doing something, then don't do it. What possible advantage is there to padding out a show to be larger than 20MB. Not sure where you got that from. The 20MB is a limit one member places on slide shows and he will not download any over that limit. That is a personal choice, but he will change his mind or sooner or later he will have precious little to download. The size of our slide shows are generally increasing naturally as we move more towards larger wide screen format images, but it will be greatly affected by the Jpg compression the author chooses and the content of the images. I suspect there is a large size increase on the way when Version 7 is released and video is included. At the moment a slide show ends up the size it ends up, there is no benefit I can see for deliberately making your show larger.

Well, I wouldn't exactly call them rejects, I must have seen some merit in them to produce them, they are just images that havn't yet found their way into an AV

I have no expereience of HDMI and TV, but is this method similer to creating a dvd. For an exe file we normally tick the fixed size of slide option, but for a DVD you need to untick it. Try that, but you will have a black area left and right of course. You will have to live with that while your still with 4:3 or 5:4 format.