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Lake Ainsworth is a 12-hectare freshwater, tea-tree lake in Lennox Head, NSW, known for its dark, tannin-stained water from surrounding paperbark trees. It is a popular spot for family-friendly swimming, paddleboarding, kayaking, and canoeing, with amenities like paths, barbecues, and picnic tables. The lake is located at the northern end of Pacific Parade in Lennox Head, NSW. The area has undergone recent improvements and features pathways, picnic tables, barbecues, and toilets. The lake can be affected by blue-green algae, which can be harmful.

Simple backlight frame using two masks and gaussian blur. LED backlight is sometimes known as Ambilight available on certain model Philips HDTVs. https://www.philips.co.uk/c-e/so/tv-buying-guide/what-is-ambilight-tv It is slightly different than the Border Simple Style in PTE AV Studio. Thanks, Tom Update: New version should work with any aspect ratio. LED Backlight Frame.ptestyle

Hi Alex Thanks for commenting, I appreciate you taking the time to reply. I don't see many people fishing in the lake as I think the strong tea tree tanim staining/environment might stop that. The other thing is that the Pacific Ocean is less than 50 metres away, so most people go surf fishing there. This 360-degree image will give you a better idea of the location. https://kuula.co/share/Ngn5m?logo=1&info=0&fs=1&vr=1&sd=1&initload=0&autorotate=0.02&autop=5&thumbs=1 As for the 16:9 aspect ratio, it means cropping some of the top and/or bottom as the width remains the same. For this style of image that I want to show the ground and the trees, I much prefer the 3:2 for this presentation/location. On saying that, I do sometimes crop to 16:9, especially for drone images or where I want to accentuate something in the image, which I did do for one shot below. For me, it did not work as well for the remainder of the images. I was using a wide angle lens 14mm on most and a ND filter to blur the water. Thanks again Mark

Nice, Looks like a fishing also is on attraction list. Why don't you use 16x9 ratio for this kind of pictures? Alex

Affinity 3 (Canva) is now free - I have used affinity since version 1. In Affinity it is possible to create transparent pages in SD, HD, Vertical video, Social Media Portrait post, QHD, UHD (4K) DCI 4K and 5K2K video sizes. While this has been available in many programs over the years, the fact that Affinity is now free will give more people access to its tools. You can then create text, logos, pictures, borders or anything that you would put in any publishing programme and export it complete with transparent backgrounds. If you want to put scrolling text with logo's or whatever, you can stretch theAffinity page's length to anything you want export it as a .png then import it into PTE and scroll it between two points - if you work at it, you can have scrolling from bottom to top (or vice versa) and from left to right. All you need is the imagination!

There is a new feature in Photoshop called "Harmonize" which will do a little more than just colour correction. Not sure if it will work on layers so you might have to merge your two layers, apply harmonize, then extract your object again or something similar, but I think that I would give it a try. (It does work with layers). There are a few YT videos explaining the procedure - try this one to start.

have you updated Photoshop? You may need to re-establish the Link to the new version. Jill

Yes, looks like a surf fishing paradise to me! Immediately see a couple of spots to go... By 16x9 I mean it fits the screen right away. Of course you use whatever better serves you. Thanks Mark Best Alex

Looks like an interesting place Nice production

Un grand Merci Alex !! le père Noel a plus d'un mois d'avance !!!! Henry

Jill--I find that a stationary image that does nothing is kind of boring so I do tend towards using Ken Burns typically but I try to be subtle about it. The old program that I had used would allow for applying an effect (like Ken Burns) to multiple slides without affecting the duration and also there was a "randomize" option. Still I always needed to do some tweaking after the fact which is unavoidable. AleAle--again better feature would be the option to keep the original duration imo.