ContaxMan

I suspect you're correct, Ron. I'm treading water with this.

I've been experimenting with the timeline and seem to have succeeded in merely confusing myself. I set up a 2 slide show, the first slide having fadein/out set at 10 seconds and display for 10 secs. The second slide is set to no transition. I included a blank sound file to let me use the timeline (not sync.) With these settings, the timeline shows the second slide appearing at 15 seconds. My question is - how do I interpret the combination of transition duration and display times to give an overall time before the next slide is due? I hope you can follow this and put and end to this temporary blackspot of mine, please!

I hadn't thought of that - thanks, Alan.

Thanks Brian - I'll have a look at that one.

Ron - Barry and Jim have described very well exactly what I had in mind. And Peter Coles did a very good article about this in AV World (Summer 2004) Thanks, Barry and Jim, for your very helpful replies. The techniques you describe are ones that I've experimented with but need to work at a lot more. I wonder if anyone has any experience of using different combinations of fade duration, image display time and thickness of smoothing line to give the most gradual effect? I've tried using long fades with very short slide display times - this seems to give a good gradual effect. I'm not sure yet what the smoothing line change does and would welcome any comments about this. Please keep the ideas coming - I'm sure lots of forum members can benefit from such advice.

I'm interested in what techniques people use to ensure smooth transitions between slides. Obviously I understand the basics - image size, using fade etc. What I have in mind is the kind of show where each image changes almost imperceptibly into the next. Some folk do this by making intermediate images in Photoshop or similar. How do you do it?

Thanks Brian - this is very useful indeed!

"However we've solved another problem - you will able to place a new slide right after ending of a transition effect of previous slide." Sounds great Igor. I'm looking forward to this.

Excellent news - thanks Bill.

I second Barry's suggestions - this would be very useful.

I'm glad to hear it went well. Your remarks about having to push to check the equipment certainly ring a bell with me. Going around schools to deliver IT training, I lost count of the times I was told everything was in order only to find the contrary to be true! Perhaps you could write up your top tips for other users of this forum?

That's a neat idea - thanks for the tip.

This is almost certainly down to "slow reading" of the cd. Copy the file from the cd to the desktop and I guess you'll find it works fine. I always advise people to whom I give cds to copy the show to their machine first then play it from there.

Good luck with the sorting out, Brian.

I'd be really interested in this too, if you would be prepared to make it available.

Bill - as with other posters here, I'm sorry to hear that you've been hit by those inadequates who seem to have nothing better to do. Such people must be VERY SAD. Please keep your excellent service available.

Thanks Brian - this is excellent advice & I, for one, will be taking it to heart.

Nor had I - very useful, thanks.

Next to the font button in the Comments tab is an offset box - this is what you want. From my experiments, I think the units here are pixels. So if I choose top and then 400 offset, the text is about half-way down my screen.

Thanks Maureen I hope your parents soon feel better and let you get creative again. Tonight I'm going to a show by Peter Coles (part of the Hebden Brdige festival) - having seen and heard Peter before, I'm really looking forward to it.

Here's the link again: PTE tutorial information I don't know why it didn't copy correctly last time.

I've done some more work on this tutorial. The main aim was to speed up the download but I've also clarified a few sections and improved the layout. If anyone tries it, I'd be interested in any feedback you might wish to provide. PTE tutorial There's also help with using actions and batch processes in Photoshop and Elements Photoshop actions and batch processes Elements batch processes NB post edited to correct problems with links.

Thanks for explaining this Igor - very helpful.

I agree with Dave & Ron's comments - I enjoyed the quality of the photographs and thought the show worked nicely although mixed transitions can be distracting (and, for me, the occasional sloping horizon was really distracting!). It's worth considering alternative ways of using portrait format images so that the change in screen aspect does not clash too much. One technique is to overlay the portrait format images on a related landscape image, keeping this as a canvas for the sequence of portrait images. IMHO the sequence would benefit from a "story" - some background information displayed as text or better a narration added to the sound track. (I kept wondering "where is he, who is he, etc).

OK I give in - I don't know what facility of PTE you mean. Anyway, I was only trying to help!